Clock ticking on Channel Awards entries

No extensions on today's 5pm deadline

There are just five hours to go before entries close for this year's Channel Awards.

With the channel's answer to the Oscars celebrating its 20th anniversary in Battersea on 14 November, this year's shindig promises to be the biggest in its history.

To keep it fair for all those who have adhere to today's 5pm deadline, no extensions are being granted so get those last-minute entries in this afternoon to avoid missing out.

Before you press ‘submit', we recommend pursuing the full criteria and top tips for entering at www.channelweb.co.uk/awards. This should provide some last-minute guidance on how to craft an entry that will grab the judges' attention.

To reflect recent shifts in the industry, CRN has added three new categories this year for cloud vendors, mobility vendors and service distributors.

A full list of the awards categories can be found below.

AWARDS CATEGORIES

■ Vendor categories

Mobility vendor of the year - New for 2013!

Cloud services vendor of the year - New for 2013!

Channel services provider of the year (open to specialist channel services agencies as well as vendors - including marketing, finance providers, training suppliers etc)

Storage vendor of the year

Networking vendor of the year

Software vendor of the year

Systems vendor of the year

Security vendor of the year

Specialist vendor of the year

Vendor of the year

■ Distributor categories to enter

Services distributor of the year - New for 2013!

Storage distributor of the year

Security distributor of the year

Software distributor of the year

Systems distributor of the year

Specialist distributor of the year

Networking distributor of the year

Distributor of the year

■ Reseller categories

SMB reseller of the year

Mid-market reseller of the year

Enterprise reseller of the year

Managed services provider of the year

Specialist reseller of the year

Reseller of the year