The finalists for the 2016 Cycling Media Awards have been announced, with Sportive.com again shortlisted for 'website of the year'.

We're up against stiff competition as usual, with past winners road.cc and BikeRadar joined by RCUK, Factory Jackson and Total Women's Cycling among others.

Sportive.com editor Oisin (hi!) has been shortlisted in the 'Specialist Writer' category, alongside a select bunch that includes the Guardian's Peter Walker and James Spender of Cyclist magazine. I'll let them do the hard work at the front and take my chances in the sprint.

Cyclist and Rouleur are in the shakedown for 'best magazine', while the mainstream print category sees the Guardian, Times and Telegraph joined rather unexpectedly by Vice magazine - sample article title, 'Photos of Romanians cycling in the Countryside'. Actually, that's a pretty interesting read.

This year's awards night will return to the Islington Metalworks on November 10th. Cycle Guard are footing the bar tab for the night, and the BIKE Channel will be filming everything with sanitised highlights broadcast afterwards.

Honestly we're just happy to be taking part.
Honestly we're just happy to be taking part.

Sportive.com went along to the CMA party last year with a hatful of finalists and had an excellent night. We may have gone home empty-handed, but the sight of Eurosport's Felix 'The Octopus' Lowe battling the Cyclist team on the fussball table was better than any prize.

If you fancy joining us and a bunch of other two-wheeled journalists for beers and, probably, tears, tickets are available priced £89 from www.cyclingmediaawards.com.

The full list of finalists is as follows:

Magazine of the Year

Rouleur
Cyclist
Singletrack
MBUK
Bikes ETC
InCycle
Velorution
Cycling Plus

Website of the Year

Road.cc
Cycling News
Bike Radar
Road Cycling UK
Cyclist
sportive.com
Total Women's Cycling
Factory Jackson

Specialist Writer

Jessica Strange - VeloMe
David Gould - Singletrack
Aoife Glass - BikeRadar
Andrew Dodd - Factory Jackson
Peter Walker - The Guardian
James Spender - Cyclist
David Arthur - road.cc
Oisin Sands - sportive.com

Best coverage by a Mainstream - Print

Times
Telegraph
Vice
The Guardian
Women's Fitness
Coach

Best coverage by a Mainstream - Online

Sky Sports
BBC Sport Online
The Observer
The Times
Guardian

Best Broadcast Coverage

BBC Sport
The Bike Channel
The Voxwomen Show
ITV
Eurosport
Red Bull TV

Best Cycling Podcast

The Cycling Podcast
Cycling News Podcast
The Velocast.cc
Prowomenscycling
The Rouleur Podcast

Blogger of the Year

Matt Willey
Mark Treasure
Chipps Chippendale
Victoria Bowskill
Beth Bryn-Hodge
Laura Winter - VoxWomen

Photographer of the Year

Balint Hamvas - cyclephotos.co.uk
Marshal Kappel - Rouleur
Simon Wilkinson - Swpics.com
Saskia Dugon - Saskia Dugon Photography
Bryn Lennon - Getty Images
Chris Keller Jackson - Freelance

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