What's up everybody? This is Scott Yeager here with another edition of Challenge Mania. It is Challenge Mania Award season. What you were about to hear is the fully uncut Challenge Mania Awards nominating committee

Zoom last night on Wednesday, January 7th.

Derek and I convened with about 20 of our trusted challenge maniacs over from

challengemaniacs.com are Diesel and Savage level patrons who make up our nominating committee.

And we got together. We selected the

categories, made some new ones, cut some old ones, consolidated some, made some more appropriate

for a year this year where we had a ton of rookies on new threats, whereas last year we had

zero rookies. It's just the way it shook out. So we even added a tribute category you will hear.

So this is three hours of uncut audio. It's me and Derek and 20 maniacs pow-wowing and kind of brainstorming and things like that. Just fair warning. I'm not going to go ahead and put in ad breaks. There's just going to be ads that are kind of randomly inserted and those will just pop up. Maybe in between somebody talking, maybe not. They'll pop up at regular intervals,

but instead of having music come in, I'm just not going to waste the time putting those ad breaks in. I apologize. So the ads might be a little bit jarring for this one. Apologies in advance. But hey, if you're listening to three hours of us deliberating the Challenge Mania Awards categories, that probably shouldn't bother you too much. And you can always just hit the good old fashioned fast forward button.

If next year you want to take part in this,

go to challengemaniacs.com.

You can sign a video. categories, that probably shouldn't bother you too much, and you can always just hit the good old fashion fast forward button. If next year you want to take part in this, go to challengemaniacs.com.

You can sign up at the diesel or savage level. That's how you can be a part of the nomcom. But this year, we are making voting free, 100% free for you guys. Just go to challengemaniacs.com and sign up as a free member.

That doesn't mean you need to contribute a dollar or $5 or $15 every month,

although we hope that you do to get our bonus content and more.

But all you've got to do is give us your name and email and allow us to spam you and bother you with announcements and stuff all year, which again is good for hearing about pre-sales and things like that as well. By doing that, you'll be able to vote beginning January the 12th, this coming Monday, January the 12th voting will open for everybody at challengemaniacs.com with the following categories. So you're about to hear us coming up with the categories. John Heddles, who is our resident stack guy, was nice enough to take notes. You'll hear him quite frequently as well as Justina Finley and many other of our patrons as well. So shouts to everyone who took part in it. We really appreciate you guys.

Also some announcements. We've got New York City on the 23rd. Still tickets available for that. Still tickets available for Chicago Bowls on March the 1st. And we are coming back to Philly. You know we have the sold-out show on February 1st, but we're also coming back to Philly on March the 3rd, Tuesday, March the 3rd for Challenge Manny Night with the Philadelphia 76ers. They are taking on Wembe and the Spurs.

And here's the best part.

If you come to the game and you buy the tickets... Thursday, March the 3rd for Challenge Mania night with the Philadelphia 76ers. They are taking on Wembe and the Spurs.

And here's the best part. If you come to the game and you buy the tickets from our link at challenge mania. Live, can go right now and grab the special ticket link. It comes with a post game meet and greet with us on the court. That's right. They even give us some basketballs. We can shoot free throws and layups and things like that. You can get pictures with us on the court, with the balls, with the Sixers logo, with the net.

It's super cool.

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