I have gone through a few submission in the meta and find it hard sometimes why people have picked this member or that member. In few categories, I think linking would be great.
I'm trying to find everything from bitcointalk. Since it's "Bitcointalk Community Awards", I think "event of the year", "fail of the year" or some more categories in which people are picking something outside of bitcointalk, should be taken from the forum.
But how did you choose which is the "event of the year" within the forum? I don't think there are big events in a specific way on the forum, that can be recognized.
I believe that in the local tabs there were some events that may be relevant in these tabs, but this is overlooked by most forum users. So it is difficult to vote only on events that occurred within the forum.