Green Room - Week 37 - Day 7

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It’s the day we will find out who is in our Top 3! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/599276.html -( I don’t know who your favorite(s) is in that race (unless you’ve voted, and then I know! :D) but make sure to get out there and support them!) Community membership numbers are higher than ever, and of course, the Green Room is doing its best impression of a ghost town.

Which is a shame, because it’s not like we will be having very many more of them this season. I hope people will come out for the ones that we do have!

This week marks the first day of school for at least kids in the US. When do schools start “elsewhere”? Do they really have “schools” there? Why? It’s not like foreigners need an education! For that matter, considering that foreign extends to everything outside of my apartment, and there are no schools located in my apartment – do we really need them? Or can we just skip to the part where I have taken over the world and am crushing the rest of you under my iron boot????

Hmmm – maybe not iron. That would be impractical to walk around in, unless “you people” are carrying me. Then, I guess it would be OK.

Results - Week 37

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What an amazing turnout!

People have been asking if this was “some sort of record” for number of votes, and the answer is “yes and no”.

It’s a record for how many people showed up to vote, however the record for how many votes a single contestant received still stands. And yes, you guessed it, it was in Season 4. :)

I’ve taken a look at the votes, and before I say anything else, let me just say that I was shocked at what I saw.

Why? Because, with numbers like that, you expect to see a whole lot more hijnks than actually occurred.

There were a couple people who double-dipped with Twitter and/or Google Plus accounts. (Oddly enough, facebook didn’t seem to have a problem. Or at least an obvious one.)

I think it’s an example of how most people, when given the chance, are going to side with their better angels. However, there’s always going to be one or two... and in this case, those one or two did end up affecting things.

It wasn’t major, and I’m absolutely certain that no one set out to do anything wrong/encouraged it, etc... but there is enough of a question mark that I want a run-off.

notodette and whipchick - you are through to the next round. Congratulations.

n3m3sis42 and pixie117 - You will be in a run-off. It was close enough to almost be a tie anyway. So, it’s close enough that I’m sure neither of you want this decided by someone who just got a little too “supportive”. You’ve done too much, and worked too hard for that.

Your topic is Making Fire, an appropriate tie-breaker! I’ll post a topic thread here in a moment, link your entries there by Tomorrow, Wednesday August 22 at 9pm EDT.

Good luck to you both!

Topic - Week 38

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Our Top 3, the two we know, and the one who we don’t know quite yet - have a new day and a new topic in front of them.

I’m sure everyone knows what it is. After all, isn’t the finale topic always the same???

It’s a shame that this isn’t the finale!

One more round to go, and only one way to get there - by choosing your own destiny.

It’s OPEN TOPIC time!

You have until Thursday, August 23rd at 9pm EDT to link back here!

Have fun!