results and the new sudden death challenge "winner"

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Slim margins is the theme of this week's results. There were some *really* close races. I think we are going to be seeing more and more weeks like this as so many people are stepping up their game.

In the regular, public voting - the two people leaving us are lordrexfear and green_goblin70, two people that I had hoped would manage to pull it out and last a little longer. Alas that was not to happen.

In the Death Match it came down to ONE VOTE - a bunch of people voting for both, and 6 of the contestants not casting votes at all. Which turned out to matter this week.

A change in any one of these elements and the results might be different. But that was not the case, and so this week we are also saying goodbye to techempage who wrote what was probably his best entry of the competition this week, or one of them, but fell by one vote.

The Sudden Death Challenge Winner for this coming week is again the person who came closest to being eliminated, in this case it is oceansedge.

evansmj has been challenged!!!

Comments

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Damn... this whole 'Sudden Death' thing sounds like fun ... until you're the one on the hot seat..

Thanks alot zebrapix *snerk*

Oww Oww Oww.... ya know there really isn't anyone I want to take out... but I don't wanna go out myself ... but ... but... but...

OK.

I challenge...
jenelycam

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

P.S. - thank goodness I was able to find a corner of my Mom's apartment to leach wifi from or I wouldn't have seen this till Tuesday morning.. or something

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

oops. jenelycam is out of town for this week. She has submitted an open topic. Please choose another challenger. That's the one exception I have to make,when someone isn't present to be challenged.

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

You really don't make it easy on a girl...

Ummm OK..

draws another name out of the hat...

evansmj

[evansmj.livejournal.com]

Oh boy, I sure didn't expect this. It should be a challenge, and I'll definitely have to put a lot of effort into making this the best entry possible. Good luck to you!!!

[zebrapix.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm getting some popcorn for this one. I expect some kick ass entries from both of you this week.

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Heh, actually both you and jenelycam were pretty random selections... its tough this 'Death Match' stuff... there's no one I want to take out of the game.

I look forward to reading your entry, I think I got some ideas about mine.

I'm just so sorry one of us has to leave ...

[evansmj.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is tough... do you go for one of the consistent leaders, hoping a great entry will take them out? Or do you go for someone who is struggling to get votes, thinking it'll be easier?

In the death match though, most people will vote for one of us, whereas they might not have voted for either of us in the main pool. (Then again, they might have voted for both, in which case we'll lose a vote we'd otherwise have gotten.)

All very strategic... but really, I'm just going to do the best job possible and let the chips fall where they may. If I'm kicked off, I'll still play the home game, since the goal was to inspire me to write about different subjects.

[zebrapix.livejournal.com]

Hey, you could have picked ME. :)

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

ya know, I really seriously thought about it.

Not because I wanted to 'take you out' - but some people might have thought that and it might have swayed the voting. You're a nice guy and well liked and I'd like to see you stick around a bit.

No I wanted to choose you for the challenge. You set the bar pretty bloody high my friend. It would have been fun and interesting to go manno a manno with you. But I'm not quite ready to go out myself yet.

Damn this strag-e-dy thing hurts my head.... be a lot more fun if someone didn't have to leave at the end of the day. I just don't have the cut-throatedness for this... so.. all I could do is throw a dart and randomly chose a name.

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

clauderainsrm... a thought:

myself and a couple others have kinda been flirting with the dangerous bottom 5 or so for the past couple weeks... conceivably, this could easily mean that the same person might see the 'next to last knocked off' more than once or twice.

Honestly I don't think my nerves could take more than one Death Match (at least until the final).

Can we limit the sudden death write offs to one per customer and ties?

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Actually you *couldn't* be in the bottom two weeks in a row - the Death Match is a seperate poll after all! You *could* conceivably go one week death match, one week normal - and then one week Death Match. . . unless of course someone *choose* you for another Death Match, which is something I've considered restricting.