Vote - Week 10

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

A few words from clauderainsrm:

Icarus.

Some people flew with it, some flew right into the sun without hesitating (with their own brand of sun-proofing), and it apparently stumped a few into taking that bye dive into the sea.

But overall it also produced some really cool entries.

Before we get to them, the usual business to attend to of saying farewell to people who will not be making that journey to 100 with us.

Drops
3circledsun
amyawesome
louiement

Bye-out
impoetry
esotericsmile

Goodbye to all of you, and thank you for coming out this season.

As for the business at hand, there were 2 people who came into the competition from Second Chance Idol this week, and some minor tweaking of the tribes. Other than that, most people stayed where they were.

The lowest vote-getter from each tribe will be eliminated. As usual.

So make sure that, if you like the entry, you vote for them! With things are tight as they tend to get around here, every single vote of support counts! So make sure to let other people know if you see something great that isn't getting the response you think it should be receiving!

The poll will be open until Tuesday Jan 25th at 9pm EST.

Good luck to everyone!

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Comments

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

Aww at the drops and bye-outs! I added 3circledsun as a friend and I really like that guy! I didn't get a chance to know the others and that makes me sad. I know and respect impoetry feom last season, but had hoped to get to know him more this season! I hope they all home game it!

I clicked on the poll before Gary voted....seeing all those 0's was weird and depressing. I'm glad he does that :)

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

I'm just writing to you everywhere from my phone for the sake of it now ;)

[robertlyon.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the kind words. Hey, we're friends though so that's cool!!! I just have to do this thing I'm trying to do.

Hey, I have Idol to thank for getting my creative spark going again, so thanks Gary.

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

Ack, down to four tribes!

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

We had 4 tribes last week too. :)

[creature-girl08.livejournal.com]

Definitely a bummer to see people bye out or have to drop. Hope we see ya all around in the home game.

Well, here we go again.

[tigrkittn.livejournal.com]

Five more gone? *sadness*

[angelic-mystic.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness. I just read my tribe. Very ver tight this week.

Hey, Gary, can one enter SCI upon elimination from the main game or is the deadline past for it?

[mrsrachelholmes.livejournal.com]

im wondering the same thing. i hope so because then being eliminated wont be so bad :)

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

Gary's already said not, so the other option would be to have words with one of the people who have a re-enter the game token.

[lawchicky.livejournal.com]

Gary said no, once the deadline passed for SCI sign ups that was it. I think SCI was only meant to run short term, so he had to limit how many people could play.

[kittenboo.livejournal.com]

SCI sign ups are closed. No one else can join. Once eliminated there is achance someone with the power can bring you back

[angelic-mystic.livejournal.com]

Thank you to everyone who clarified that. I should have put a qualifier at the end like "LOL" I wasn't serious. I knew they were closed and if I get eliminated I'm done for this season. I was just saying that cause I am really afraid that I'm going to bite it this time.

[sweeny-todd.livejournal.com]

The votes are being very close aren't they!

[beeker121.livejournal.com]

I hope snarkerdoodle doesn't mind, but I miss his/her (ack, I realized I have no idea!) numbers comment a lot and know s/he can't do it from a plane so I am borrowing it for the week. In case anybody else was curious too...

"The numbers from this week, from just counting up the tribe lists in this post.

This list shows the number of people in the tribe and then the count of 'live' entries and byes within those tribes:

Tribe 1 -- 20 people (17 live entries, 3 byes)
Tribe 2 -- 30 people (26 live entries, 4 byes)
Tribe 3 -- 30 people (25 live entries, 5 byes)
Tribe 4 -- 26 people (21 live entries, 4 byes)


And then, the tribes in ascending order according to number of live entries:

Tribe 1 -- 17 live entries
Tribe 4 -- 21 live entries
Tribe 3 -- 25 live entries
Tribe 2 -- 26 live entries


Total number of participants (from these tribe listings): 106"

All numbers changed to reflect this week, but I copied the verbiage directly over.

[hammaboo.livejournal.com]

So, doing my own estimation math, 106 with -4 (vote outs this week) +2 (SCI) -5 (est. byeouts/drops based on this week)... The tally could be under 100 after the poll closes? EEP!

[snarkerdoodle.livejournal.com]

Don't mind at all! I haven't had a chance to do anything with Idol yesterday or today, as you are right that I am traveling, so thank you for doing that!

And 'she' is appropriate, since you were wondering. ;)

[ellistrae.livejournal.com]

Awww, sorry to see all of the drops and bye-outs, but especially 3circledsun. He's written some really cool stuff I think, and I'll miss reading his entries. :(

But it's sad to see more familiar faces leaving.

[witchdollie.livejournal.com]

I just thought I'd let you know that this will be my final entry in LJ Idol.

The last entry I wrote just... I don't know. I wished I had turned off comments all together because I really don't want to respond to any of them. No matter how heart-felt they are. I know that's probably going to make me look bad.. the not responding to comments, but I just.. it's hard to explain... I don't expect anyone to understand. But it's also why I didn't put up a link in my LJ and ask for votes this go around... I'm starting to feel rather ill for writing it in the first place.

But that's not the reason I am dropping, well not the only one. Schoolwork has been piling up on me and I just have too much on my plate right now with everything else that's going on.

I wish you all the best of luck. ♥

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I'm really sorry to hear that.

Honestly, and I know that there have been people in various threads talking about feedback and how if they leave a comment, that someone saying "thank you" is appreciated - but there are just some times when something is too raw and responding with anything, even to a heart-felt comment just doesn't feel like something you can do.

If people don't understand that, well, then they don't. But it's not something you should overly concern yourself with under the circumstances.


I definitely don't think you should feel bad about writing it. It obviously needed to come out.

[sweeny-todd.livejournal.com]

It isn't so cut and dried the "you should comment to a comment". I am one of the people that have said that I like a response over the green room, but the thing is, I am not going to notice if one comment is responded to. But 3 or 4 or 5? yes. Furthermore... I understand. I understand not being able to go back and comment after writing such a piece.

I am sorry that you feel ill. I hope that you feel better and lighter within yourself, and that school goes well.

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

:nodding: It's difficult responding to a comment to such an entry as yours. Heck, if it were me, I probably couldn't bring myself to reread the entry, never mind reading the comments.

You had to get that out. Plain and simple.

Please take care of yourself and I hope you feel better.

[joeymichaels.livejournal.com]

Got through Tribe 1, 2 and 4. Will try to finish Tribe 3 before closing. Strong week!

[majesticarky.livejournal.com]

Really impressed with Tribe 2 this week. It was the last tribe I read and I wasn't able to give comments, but good job, guys!