Welcome to the Headline of the Year contest for 2011! This is for all of the main page headlines for December 2010 through the end of November 2011. The new start/stop dates were decided on this last year so that the awesome December submitters wouldn't get robbed, like in years past. That means that one of the headlines in this year's contest was also in last year's contest, but this is about good headlines and not everybody saw that one last year.

This is fun for us to vote on, but the credit goes to the many submitters that are the only reason we can have this contest every year. You are some funny, funny people. Well done.

Okay, enough with the talk. Without further ado, this is your 2011 Headline of the Year contest:

Many of you have thanked me for this contest, but the truth is that I need a lot of help in a lot of areas setting this up. Some people that have gone above and beyond by pitching in and helping with the earlier contests include:

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener, QueenofDenial, elvisaintdead, Burninate, mitchcumstein1, and also benrwebb, who created a nifty extractor for Headline of the Year candidates that I used for the last two subtab contests. There were also a few people (thinking of vegaswench among others) that offered help that I wasn't able to take them up on for whatever reason. Thanks to all of you for pitching in and even offering, even if I wasn't able to take you up on it due to my own time constraints.

For those of you that missed the quarterfinals threads that led up to this, here they are:

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

GooberMcFly: How long is voting open, unfreakable?

I think that voting typically stays open for about three days, but I'm not sure.