CONTEST RULES:
TOPS IN TEXAS, in concert with its sponsors, friends and clients conducts the TOPS IN TEXAS contests.  The winners are those with the most votes as of December 31, 11:59PM, 2010.  Anyone in the bottom two receiving votes can be knocked off the list of nominees should someone nominate another person/company for that particular category.  In other words, this is completely dynamic and fluid, based on the particpation of the masses!  The winners will be sent graphics files to use in their own advertising for all of 2011.  Some winners will be invited to participate in the Tops In Texas advertising which will appear in regional editions of TIME Magazine and/or FOOD & WINE Magazine and others.  Those that appear in the magazine issues will also receive files for posters and other electronic and print usage announcing themselves as winners and "Top WHATEVER in Texas 2010, as seen in Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report, Food & Wine, etc.  Tim will be available for appearances at and/or with any winner to announce the win or to congratulate the winner.  Tops In Texas will release winners to the media to announce to the nation of Texas who the winners of TOPS IN TEXAS are!