It’s not too late to pick your Key West favorites in the Bubbas: Key West People’s Choice Awards.
Submit your ballots at keysweekly.com until 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, July 7.
Already over a quarter-million votes have been cast by nearly 10,000 different people for their favorite foods, drinks, bars, boats, businesses, events, schools and more. And that doesn’t even include the additional quarter-million or so nominations we received from all over the world that determined the final ballot candidates, representing the top three nominees in each category.
As usual, the majority of votes and nominations came from the Florida Keys and the Sunshine State overall, but once again the Bubbas are a global phenomenon.
This year, the Keys Weekly received nominations and votes from all 50 states — up from last year’s total of 34 states. And once again, we’ve enjoyed participation from all continents except Antarctica (so if anyone’s planning a research trip to the bottom of the world — talk about “southernmost” — next summer, remind them to log onto keysweekly.com.)
Western Europe — including the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands — drew the most international attention, while we also drew plenty of participation from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The northernmost votes came from Finland, and the southernmost from Australia, while our warm-weather friends in the islands weren’t left out, either, with votes and nominations coming once again from Hawaii, the British Virgin Islands and Cozumel, Mexico.
Back home here at the Keys Weekly, we’re already winners, as the participation for the Bubbas has grown every year of the contest’s 11-year existence. Because of this, winners continue to change, with many new first-time plaques to be handed out on July 20 at the Bubbas Awards show at Key West Theater.
And while the Keys Weekly does not share or use any voter information for purposes outside of the contest, we do offer the option for voters to opt-in to the Keys Weekly’s daily e-blast, the largest daily news feed in the Keys with over 30,000 subscribers.
Most of all, we remain humbled to serve Key West and the Florida Keys, while providing free print and digital news from the only locally owned source of news media across all of Monroe County.
Here’s to another great 11 years of the Bubbas. See you at keysweekly.com through Sunday, July 7.
