Vote - Week 16 Run Off

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

A few words from clauderainsrm:

What a crazy week!! How better to cap it off with a run off that involves even more curve balls!

Before the poll, battle_kitten did decide to drop to allow others to go further in the competition. She did let me know that she was planning on sticking around, so it's not "goodbye" so much as it is "Hello Home Game!"

We are still going forward with the poll though, and there will be an elimination since it was a "pre-poll drop".

Which means that the two individuals who missed the deadline will also be leaving us. Farewell to az_starshine and daughterofodhin.

It just goes to show that anything can happen, and often does.

We will still be losing one of the contestants who submitted "Making Fire" entries. It's still a quite a large run off.

So read the entries and cast vote for your favorites. Their fate is in your hands. The contestant with the fewest votes will be eliminated.

The poll will close tomorrow, Monday March 8th at 8pm EST.

Good luck to everyone.

[Poll #1535059]

Comments

[jack-batelin.livejournal.com]

Good luck, everyone. Now that I've finished writing, I'll start reading.

[norda.livejournal.com]

Luck to all!

[mstrobel.livejournal.com]

*hugs battle_kitten* my wonderful partner when we didn't need partners, see you in the Home Game :)

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

So in effect from the last poll we lost 2 people, and then if you count this runoff as an extension of it, 3 more pre-poll and one more from the poll, so a total Round 16 loss of 6 people!

[oneonthefence.livejournal.com]

Which will put us at - 67, yes?

At least according to my records it will...

[beeker121.livejournal.com]

Read and voted, I'm never done this early. I'm sorry to see people go for missing the deadline, I hope all is well.

[oneonthefence.livejournal.com]

Entries read, votes are in. Good luck to all of you!

[callistahogan.livejournal.com]

I've read all the entries and voted. Am sorry to see so many people going this round, in particular. :( Good luck everyone!

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

Well excuse me while I go and pick my jaw off the floor.

We lose three great players and we STILL have another to go? Gary, you are a cruel, cruel man.

[beautyofgrey.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, az_starshine didn't make the deadline?!?! I can't tell you how sad that makes me!!! I remember in early weeks I had pegged her as a force to be reckoned with!

... not to disregard daughterofodhin, either - her latest entry this week was really moving with the simplicity of all that could be read in that "Hail", and in previous weeks she's been so strong, too!

And battle_kitten? She just completed a tale full of two characters who were incredibly real and easy to relate to. The emotion was flying off the page!

AGGGGGGGGGGGGGh. Seriously, this competition is starting to rip my heart out each week.

*sigh*

[oneonthefence.livejournal.com]

I know. I thought the same thing. I even had one of those three contestants pegged in my top 15.

Damn, life is cruel. I wish them all well.

[rattsu.livejournal.com]

I know!

And it will only get worse.

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

Voted. I must say that one of the unexpected benefits of some of my favourite writers in the run off is that there have been some of the most creative takes on this prompt ever. Norda's was so dark and original and hexkitten had probably one of the most inventive links to the prompt I've read.

[imafarmgirl.livejournal.com]

Wow three people I didn't really expect to drop out. I did just read the entries and voted. Good luck to all. I always felt like the run off was the worst nail biter the time I was in one.

[creature-girl08.livejournal.com]

Read and voted.

And blast, one of my top 10 is out of here? Geez!

[lawchicky.livejournal.com]

OK, read and voted!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Not surprisingly, this poll is now behaving almost as ... interestingly as the end of the main poll.

Whirled was way ahead when I looked a few hours ago, now she's in FOURTH, and SG1, previously way back in last, is now within two votes of most of the field (and no longer in last)

This comment contains no implications that any particular person necessarily deserves to be in the place they are or a place they are not, nor implication that anything untoward is going on. It is merely a remark that this is looking to be another exciting horse race.

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

What, you mean like in this week's poll, people are touting for votes and it's going viral as people pass the word on and voting for someone at the bottom without realising that it may well impact on a favourite further up the tree? And these things can happen without any kind of conspiracy necessary?

Well I never.

[joeymichaels.livejournal.com]

Read and voted. Strong writing. Super lame about daugtherofodin, az and battle-kitten.

[foxdiva9.livejournal.com]

NOOOO. Daughterofodin, and Az were my FAVORITES!

[joeymichaels.livejournal.com]

Also, I would like to once again offer this visual representation of LJI as both a street fighting and fish related contest:

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah that's pretty much what it's like. (;

[norda.livejournal.com]

Read all. [But I do read all the entries every week.]

Commented on all. [Nothing sinister or devious about the suspicious timing on that; I just happen to have more at-the-computer time at present. I can't say that every week, and I've been regretting that I cannot always comment.]

Votes are in. [With no pimping on my part to my admittedly-large friendslist; if there are efforts being made by others to promote my post, I haven't been the instigator of such. I actually have not once requested any assistance from my friendslist this season.]

Anything else that anyone in or out of the contest wishes to address to me regarding this current round of voting and the consequent runoff may contact me via e-mail.

[cross-posting to my own journal]

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

"nnnnnnNo, nnnnnnnnnnNo!"

::points at the two people coming up below Whirled, scolding as if they are cats::

I love you guys but if you get any closer to Ange I'm going to remove the vote I may or may not have caste for one or the other of you.

::attempts to chase off with a squirt bottle::

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Okay who else is refreshing EVERY THIRTY SECONDS at this point? :D

[kittymichaels.livejournal.com]

I'm always refreshing, like a cool drink of water from a unwashed bowl.

[joeymichaels.livejournal.com]

And... scene!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Zomg zomg!

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

At 5 pm. PST, the poll is closed at 50/50. At this point I recommend hand to hand combat!

[joeymichaels.livejournal.com]

I've already proposed a format (http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/312647.html?thread=32197959#t32197959).