Gatekeepers

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Putting the results in the hands of someone else is never easy. It's one thing when it's the "general public". Most people have an opinion one way or another about them. ;)

But quality is a subjective beast, and the public can sometimes be fickle. What it likes one moment, it tires of it in the next.

The same goes for any other grouping big or small. Things ultimately come down to "did this connect with the audience?"

So putting it in the hands of *two* different groups this time around, was bound to produce some interesting results.

One of those groups was the CURRENT CONTESTANTS. I don't need to introduce them. I hope you know all of those wackos by now! ;)

The other group, the one with the final cut of the week, were the Gatekeepers.

As always, some people are going to agree with their decisions and some might not. But they did an impossible job and I thank them for stepping up and doing it.

For the record - since I reported what I heard about overall last time around - I will do the same this time. I heard from quite a few of them just what an extremely talented group this was, and although Open Topic has a tendency to trip people up, that overall it ended up being a difficult decision (I gave them the same number to pick from as the contestants, so they also ended up having to pair down their lists.)

Anyway - before I announce the results, I want to announce (and again, thank) the following Gatekeepers:

Winner of Season 1: tinhuviel
Winner of Season 2: tru2myart
Winner of Season 3: welfy

beldar
deza
joeymichaels
liret
mezzominty
oberonia
porcelain72
puppetmaker40
and of course, the one, the only, the soopageek!!

Thank you to all of you - now it's off to look at those votes again!!! :)

Comments

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

joeymichaels! I had a feeling you might've been asked, but all your comments had me thinking you weren't :P

[onda-bianca.livejournal.com]

He's a sneaky man!

[beautyofgrey.livejournal.com]

All of his comments led me to believe that he was, because he seems like the type to try to throw us off track. :D

[joeymichaels.livejournal.com]

Heh. Gary asked me after I'd already made a public thing about finally having time to read this week, so I felt I had to say *something*. I figured a few people would figure it out. :D

[cacophonesque.livejournal.com]

I just don't see how joeymichaels got asked over kittymichaels... Gary better have a LOT of chicken around to offer as a peace offering.

[lyrical-liessss.livejournal.com]

Kittymichaels probably didn't want to read all the bad entries when he submitted the best one of all.

I mean, he did win, right?

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

I presume Kitty turned him down. Or wasn't eligible due to already being declared winner or something.

[connie]

If someone is a Gatekeeper, they have to give up the possibility of being asked (back) into the game for the rest of the season. So my theory is that Kitty wouldn't have wanted to be a Gatekeeper because, after all, he's going to come in first through fifth in this thing!

[cacophonesque.livejournal.com]

Well, clearly there would be an exception to that rule for Kitty.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

All of his votes were for "chicken".

[kittymichaels.livejournal.com]

I'm pleased to report that chicken was not eliminated this week entirely thanks to me.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Which is a shocking twist. Usually you are the one to eliminate chicken.

[joeymichaels.livejournal.com]

I genuinely tried to react the way I would have reacted this week if I hadn't been a gatekeeper. :D

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

I realised that :)