{"id":878298,"date":"2026-09-03T07:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878298\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:02:36","slug":"2026-virgin-australia-afl-mark-of-the-year-finalists-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878298\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Virgin Australia AFL Mark of the Year finalists revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The finalists for the 2026 Virgin Australia AFL Mark of the Year have been confirmed\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Kysaiah Pickett, Shai Bolton and Nick Watson. Pictures: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>THE THREE finalists for the 2026 Virgin Australia AFL Mark of the Year have been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Virgin Australia Mark of the Year winner will receive $50,000 and two million Velocity Points \u2013 enough Points for two people to redeem return Business Class Reward Seats to over 500 destinations around the world*.<\/p>\n<p>The overall winner will be determined by the AFL All Australian selection panel and announced at the 2026 Brownlow Medal on Monday, 21 September.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can now vote for their favourite mark at <a title=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/mark-of-the-year\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/mark-of-the-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-outlook-id=\"3d8b3717-b022-4aab-aa54-2b0735e7f34d\">afl.com.au\/mark-of-the-year<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone who votes for their favourite mark will also have a chance to win $5,000 thanks to Virgin Australia.<\/p>\n<p>First Finalist: Kysaiah Pickett (Melbourne) in Round 7<\/p>\n<p>Second Finalist:\u00a0Shai Bolton (Fremantle) in Round 15<\/p>\n<p>Third Finalist:\u00a0Nick Watson (Hawthorn) in Round 24<\/p>\n<p>* Reward Seats are subject to availability. Taxes, fees, and carrier charges may be applicable and may vary. Velocity membership and redemption terms and conditions apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The finalists for the 2026 Virgin Australia AFL Mark of the Year have been confirmed Kysaiah Pickett, Shai&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-878298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}