Voting - Week 29 Round 1

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

A few words from clauderainsrmme:

The Final Four.

People thought the task impossible. They proved them wrong.

They not only got in all the entries - got in some incredible entries, they blew the time frame I gave them out of the water. Not for one or two rounds, BUT ALL 4 ROUNDS!!!!

Anyone who thought they weren't up for this challenge clearly wasn't paying attention this season - and they have no idea what they are in for - fortunately for those people, they get a second chance to meet them... because here we have 16 entries a piece from 4 contestants.

*64 entries* for you to read! Which is why I kept stressing for you to keep up with your reading!!!

I was thinking about this on my way home from the dentist and running errands - about how people tend to get out what experiences what they put in. I'm not just talking about Idol, I'm talking about everything... but at this moment in Idol I'm really hoping the Final Four were able to get something out of this last round - not only accomplishing "the impossible" but shattering the idea of deadlines that the outside world might put on them to accomplish it... (ok, getting a little misty eyed about them here...sorry...)

I gave the Final Four a challenge, and now that challenge is coming home to the rest of you.

Each topic has it's own poll. So it's *16 polls of 4 entries each*.

Before anyone asks, yes, you can (AND SHOULD) vote in all 16 polls.

I strongly urge you to sit down and read these entries and vote for your favorites. Because they all have written their hearts out for you, and deserve to be read.

16 polls? What is going to happen????? (*sits and waits for the giggling to die down* *looks over at Charlie, waits some more*)

Well, Final Four - Sixteen SWEET entries (as I've called them), and I asked if [anyone knew how we would handle this]. Yes, that's right - we're doing brackets!!!

Week 29's voting is going to be handled like this:

Vote for your favorites for each topic. Each Topic is marked on the top line.

The top TWO vote getters for each topic will advance to the next round.
(The top two finishers of Topic A.1. will face the top two finishers of Topic A.2...and so on...)
And so it goes until one contestant has been eliminated *COMPLETELY* from the polls.
This could, in theory, last one round of voting. It could last *5*.

The person eliminated will, of course, be the one eliminated this week.

None of these contestants are anything less than kick ass. So I don't envy this decision at all.
The person who leaves us will be going out as *4th out of 155* and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that whatsoever... (sorry, they really do rock don't they???)

So it's really important to get your vote in for the entries you want to see go forward.

The deadline for this Round of Voting is Sunday June 8th at 8am EDT. So you best get reading (if you haven't all ready - NOW!)

[Poll #1200697]

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[Poll #1200699]

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[Poll #1200702]

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[Poll #1200704]

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[Poll #1200705]

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[Poll #1200706]

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[Poll #1200707]

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Comments

[desert-rose.livejournal.com]

I hope it does, as I'm still very very lost! :-)

What happens to the bottom two contestants?

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

I *think* nothing, if they are in the top two of any of the other 15 polls in this round.

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

Now that (I think) I finally understand it, lemme see if I can 'splain.

We vote. At the end of voting, the top two entries in each topic go forward. As long as a contestant has a surviving entry in ANY of the topics, she is still in the game.

If all four contestants are still in the game (have one of the top two entries in any of the sixteen topics), we vote again.

On the second vote, the top two entries for "Home" are grouped with the top two entries for "My Greatest Achievement." The top two entries for "Fire" are grouped with the top two entries for "Memorial," etc. The second vote will have eight polls instead of sixteen, and in each poll (four entries) the top two will advance.

As long as a contestant still has at least one surviving post, that contestant is still in the game. If all four contestants are still with us after the second vote, we vote again. This time there will be four polls ( see the graphic (http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/168086.html?thread=12731542#t12731542) dabhug made that I posted last night.

It's possible for someone to be eliminated on this first vote. The longest it will go is five votes, because the polls will go from 16 to 8 to 4 to 2 to 1. Eventually someone will not have a surviving entry, and that person will be eliminated.

Did that help?