May Madness V - List of guaranteed contenders, as well as place to NOMINATE contenders

May Madness will begin soon, but before it does we will need some contenders.

With the 6th annual Best Of TV Awards just having wrapped up the awards recently, theres a perfect place to start, as each eligible award winner will be guaranteed a spot in the tournament, along with each eligible former May Madness Winner & Runner up, and all eligible former BOTVA winners. To be eligible those actors characters have to have been in 1 episode on or after May 1, 2015 and before closing of this nomination thread. TV shows have aired at least 1 episode since May 1, 2015.

So heres the list of guaranteed challengers

TV Characters
(33 of 64 spots guaranteed)

- Amy Farrah Fowler
"The Big Bang Theory"
(BOTVA 2014, 12)
- Arya Stark
"Game Of Thrones"
(BOTVA 2013)
- Bo Dennis
"Lost Girl"
(BOTVA 2013, 2011)
- Bobby Singer
"Supernatural"
(BOTVA 2012)
- Bran Stark
"Game Of Thrones"
(BOTVA 2014)
- Carl Elias
"Person Of Interest"
(BOTVA 2015)
- Carl Grimes
"The Walking Dead"
(BOTVA 2015)
- Castiel
"Supernatural"
(MM 2014 RU)
- Catherine Dillman
"Gortimer Gibbons Life On Normal Street"
(BOTVA 2015)
- Charlie Bradbury
"Supernatural"
(BOTVA 2013)
- Clara Oswald
"Doctor Who"
(BOTVA 2014)
- Crowley
"Supernatural"
(BOTVA 2011)
- Daryl Dixon
"The Walking Dead"
(BOTVA 2012)
- Dean Winchester
"Supernatural"
(BOTVA 2014, 13, 12, 11, 10, MM 2012)
- Emma Swan
"Once Upon A Time"
(BOTVA 2012)
- Felicity Smoak
"Arrow"
(BOTVA 2014)
- Henry Morgan
"Forever"
(BOTVA 2015)
- Jane Rizzoli
"Rizzoli And Isles"
(Nominated)
- Kate Beckett
"Castle"
(BOTVA 2013)
- Lauren Lewis
"Lost Girl"
(MM 2014, 2012, BOTVA 2013,11)
- Lexa The Commander
"The 100"
(BOTVA 2015)
- Lowell Tracey
"iZombie"
(BOTVA 2015)
- Lucifer
"Supernatural"
(BOTVA 2012)
- Malcolm Merlyn
"Arrow"
(BOTVA 2013)
- Oliver Queen
"Arrow"
(BOTVA 2015, 2014)
- Penny
"The Big Bang Theory"
(BOTVA 2013, 11)
- Peter Pan
"Once Upon A Time"
(BOTVA 2013)
- Richard Castle
"Castle"
(BOTVA 2015, 12,11)
- Rowena
"Supernatural"
(BOTVA 2015)
- Sam Winchester
"Supernatural"
(Nominated)
- Samantha Groves/Root
"Person of Interest"
(BOTVA 2015, MM 2014)
- Sameen Shaw
"Person Of Interest"
(BOTVA 2015)
- Sheldon Cooper
"The Big Bang Theory"
(BOTVA 2014)

TV Programs
(16 of 64 spots guaranteed)

- Arrow
(BOTVA 2014, 13)
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine
(MM 2015 runner up)
- Castle
(BOTVA 12, 11)
- Forever
(BOTVA 2015)
- iZombie
(BOTVA 2015)
- Lost Girl
(MM 2014)
- Once Upon A Time
(BOTVA 2011)
- Orphan Black
(BOTVA 2013)
- Person of Interest
(BOTVA 2015)
- Supernatural
(BOTVA 2014, 13, 11, 10)
- The Big Bang Theory
(BOTVA 2014, 13, 12, 11, 10)
- The Flash
(BOTVA 2014)
- The Magicians
(nominated)
- The Simpsons
(BOTVA 2015, 14, 11)
- The Walking Dead
(BOTVA 2012, 2010)
- Z Nation
(nominated)

The Rules to nominate a candidate.

TV Characters
- Maximum Eight (8) spots will be given to any specific show.
- Character must have been in an episode on or after May 1, 2015 and before April 18, 2016
- You must provide TV Character name, and program for nomination to be eligible.
- You can nominate someone thru here, twitter, facebook, tumblr or tsu through the valid rules stated below.

TV Programs
- Maximum Sixteen (16) spots will be given to any specific Network
- Programs must have aired at least 1 new episode on or after May 1, 2015 & before April 18, 2015
- You must provide the shows Complete title, acronyms will not be accepted (ex - "How I Met Your Mother" - correct, "HIMYM" - Incorrect)
- You can nominate someone thru here, twitter, facebook, tumblr or tsu through the valid rules stated below.
- Reality TV shows are not eligible. Talk/news shows ARE eligible.

UNLIKE the BOTVAs, the amount of nominations may be the difference between getting in and not, so feel free to nominate someone already chosen, but
DO NOT nominate candidates already guaranteed spots. DO NOT judge comments on this post as the be all end all of total nominations stated. Nominations will also be counted thru facebook, twitter, tumblr and tsu as well.

To nominate on
- Twitter. Reply to this post for TV Characters, Reply to this post for TV Programs. You can add more than 1 nomination to a tweet.... long as you follow the rules about proper character/program names/titles fitting into it.
- Facebook. Reply to this post for TV Characters, and Reply to this post for TV Programs. You can put more than 1 nomination in your post, long as you follow the rules about proper character/program names/titles on them.

Nominations end April 18th, 2015 (may be extended due to schedule on/around that date).