Vote - Week 8

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

A few words from clauderainsrm:

Welcome back from your break! I hope the holidays were nice and that 2011 is treating you nice so far.

The contestants of LJ Idol have come up with some good news, and some bad news, for you.

The bad news is that the holidays are particularly rough, and always involve more than a little re-prioritizing for folks. That means we have some a group of talented people leaving us before this round even starts. They are:

drops
asharose
fortitudehigh
fourzoas
kungfufighting
lilly_rose
oberonia
sileri
sing_itback
xreesex

bye-outs
antianhedonia
astraevirgo
callistahogan
cobycaroline
gildedage
my_palimpsest
n_maranda_coy
trollied_dollie

The GOOD news is that we still have a ton of extremely talented people still around, this week writing about "First World Problems".

One of those just might be deciding who to vote for, but fortunately I have helped solve that by making sure that you can support as many of them as you want! So get out there, read, comment, and vote for your favorites!!

There are special powers in the game, as of the Break entries. The people who have them, and want to use them, need to notify me (and have confirmation that I received it) before the poll closes. The obvious exception to that is anyone who wanted to change tribes. Well, except stormkitty who decided to use her power right away!

She didn't know that they were shifting (for the most part, the old Tribe 7 is still intact, due to numbers, everything else was combined!)

The poll will be closing Tuesday Jan 11th at 9pm EST and the individual with the entry that receives the fewest votes in each tribe will be leaving us.

Good luck to everyone!

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Comments

[sra33.livejournal.com]

Wow! Sorry to see so many go!

*hugs* all around. :)

[fortitudehigh.livejournal.com]

I would just like to say thank you for all the support I received as a n00b and an unknown. I went into the competition wondering whether I'd receive any votes at all, given that no-one knew I'd joined idol, so I couldn't count on votes from friends, and ended up being surprised at how many people took a chance on one of those scary alts that have been so much a topic of conversation over the last few days. So thank you to everyone who voted for me over the weeks I participated and thank you in particular to the people who went beyond that.

I'm bowing out, because the pressure of being in Tribe 7 eroded the fun factor for me, and there are enough other chores in life without making writing a chore! Hopefully I'll homegame it a little once I've recovered from the last few weeks of competition ^_^

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Ooh - that's a lot of folks leaving us! *Hugs to all*

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

I'm very concerned this week. Lots of good entries out there and I feel mine doesn't have the tone I intended...

[sra33.livejournal.com]

Also, I'm showing cobycaroline not having any more byes left? I could be mistaken of course. I show her using her byes on week 4 and 7.

[tigrkittn.livejournal.com]

Well, this year's theme was "take a chance"! ;)

I hope to see you home-gaming - I enjoyed your entries and was looking forward to more. (That said, I know what you mean about Tribe 7 - it's damn near killing me.)

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

Aww, sorry to see you go! Maybe there will be an opportunity for you to come back in later!

Or you still have five minutes to sign up for SCI, which seems a lot lower-pressure.

[vaguelyclear.livejournal.com]

Looking at the new tribes makes me feel like I have so much reading to do, even though I know it would be the same amount of reading across seven tribes. Stupid brain.

Sucks to see so many drops and bye-outs :(

[n-maranda-coy.livejournal.com]

Sorry to see all those who are leaving along with me.

I appreciate those who supported me in the early rounds, and I will keep reading and voting for those who are still in the competition. My head and heart have just been too scattered for me to concentrate on writing this season.

I did come up with a piece after the deadline, if anyone is curious, and if I get the inspiration to Home Game it in the coming weeks, I will do so.

Thanks again, Gary.

[tigrkittn.livejournal.com]

I've got that too. Weird.

[tigrkittn.livejournal.com]

The Bye-outs still have time to sign up for second-chance though...! *is hopeful*

[the-vernacular.livejournal.com]

Yes, I feel the same! Because there's more to read before I can vote for any single tribe.

[sra33.livejournal.com]

Yeah someone might've used their bye from the goodies week, that's why I'm waiting to find out before coby gets X'd off my spreadsheet. XD

[dreamchaser.livejournal.com]

I am sorry to see all those people leave :(

Best of luck to everyone in the polls!!

[tigrkittn.livejournal.com]

Oh, good thought- possibly! Except Gary did make a point of mentioning one person using her "goody" right away, and that was a tribe switch.

Oh well, I'm sure the Official Word shall be declared soon ;)

[nyxocity.livejournal.com]

Wow that's a lot of people. I'm SO sorry to see you all go :(

Does anyone have a count on how many entries there are to read this week, out of curiosity? I'd do it myself but I'm off to my husband's office Christmas party (they always do it after Christmas).

[sra33.livejournal.com]

Gogo home game! :)

[dreamchaser.livejournal.com]

I hope you do homegame it - I loved your entries :)

[serpentpixie.livejournal.com]

I count 112, not including byes (of which there were 14 this week). So 126 contestants remaining, altogether :)

[mstrobel.livejournal.com]

I'm sad to see you go, I really loved your entries!

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

Wow. It might not be long before we get to the top 75, then, if bye outs keep happening!

[vaguelyclear.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I put off reading until voting went up so I could do it tribe by tribe (and thus earn a well-deserved break in between reading each one! ;D), but now that plan has been thrown out the window. I'll have to do it half-tribes at a time, haha.

[vaguelyclear.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking! I'll have to use my byes quicksmart; don't want them to be a waste XD

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

At a rate of losing 21 a week, as we will be this week, we'll be at the cutoff in three weeks. I'm guessing that's not sustainable, so I'm thinking it'll be four, maybe five.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

I don't think we'll lose that many every week. And don't forget there's also second chancers that'll be brought in. I presume that'll happen before the top 75.