If a local section is big enough then they can host their local events and nominate some users on behalf of them so that we can consider these selected users in the global event.
Yeah, a few sections could probably pull it off. Potentially, it could then be incorporated in the
main award
ceremony from icopress. It'd be nice to get a little insight into the local sections. I bet there's tons of users that go unnoticed simply because they don't post much outside of it.