Results - Week 20

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Livejournal is a harsh mistress, and not in the way that people are willing to pay a little extra to receive.

In a series of ups and downs through the last week, it is has been rough going just to keep our heads above water and keep track of what is going on.

It's one of the problems with a site like this, sometimes it doesn't work as well as we would like. Sometimes we spend more time hammering our heads against wall than we can spend actually reading and enjoying ourselves.

Which is a shame.

Sometimes you play the course and sometimes you get played by it.

Thank you to everyone who braved the waters and kept trying until they got their votes in, and let their voice be heard over the chaos.

The second tribe was created to try to avoid automatically eliminating anyone caught in LJ's trap. It made things a lot more difficult, but hopefully it helped a little.

However, LJ did seem to aim at one particular household.
Both
diagenou
and
walkertxkitty
were eliminated from the Late Tribe.

In the first tribe, we are losing soprano1790.

At this point any elimination is going to be brutal. Seeing those names just reminds us of that.

There is a tie-breaker among the other folks currently tied for that second spot.
The contestants who will be battling it out?

beldar
joyfulfeather
roina_arwen
tough_doll

You have until tomorrow, Monday April 11th at 9pm EDT to link your new entry to the topic thread below.
The topic? Another Runner in the Night.
Have fun!

We also say goodbye to the Topsy Turvy that has been in play, and Hello to the Top 50 that we have officially passed. Congratulations!

Goodbye TT. For now. ;)

Comments

*sadface*

[cheshire23.livejournal.com]

I really liked walkertxkitty's and diagenou's entries this week. Of course, I usually do every week.

Still very sad to see them out.

[alephz.livejournal.com]

Aw, man. I utterly did not see some of those names coming from the outgoing OR the tiebreaker. I confess to some boggling of my mind.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

Man, brutal indeed! I was watching that second poll and damn it was close the whole way; I had no idea how it was going to end.

And so many people in the tie-breaker! Good luck to you all.

I imagine folks are now breathing a sigh of relief now there's no more topsy turvy. ;)

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

BLINDED BY THE LIIIIIGHT.

[team-jessie.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I was trying to figure out what that lyric was from! :)

*wanders off humming about silicone sisters*

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

Given that I was dead last for most of the voting, I'm thrilled to be in the tie-breaker! Whew!

Very sad to see the ones who were eliminated go. :(

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

When I checked in around 5pm I had stolen dead last from you, so I'm just thrilled to have caught up and be in the tie breaker with you! Phew!

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

Meh! I've been particularly enjoying walkertxkitty and her partner diagenou! This bums me out. But congrats on a long run - I know you both fought hard to make it this far.

[vaguelyclear.livejournal.com]

I should be used to people leaving the comp. by now, but I'm not :( Sorry to see you three leaving, especially those two from the second poll - it was so close the whole way; I thought for sure there would be a tie-breaker for that one.

And good luck to the four in the tie-breaker! Edit: Also, I just realised that this is the first tie-breaker topic that I've seen this season that doesn't have something to do with gambling (e.g. "Calling Your Bluff", "50/50", "Call", "Spin the Wheel", "Full House", etc. etc.). Unless it does and I just don't know the connection... /random observation

[team-jessie.livejournal.com]

That's kind of a Romeo and Juliet ending for walkertxkitty and diagenou :(

Tie-Breaker entries thread

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I posted this further down that I had wanted. But here it is.

Please only post tie-breaker entries in this thread.

Thanks!

Re: Tie-Breaker entries thread

[beldar.livejournal.com]

Time, and a keychain, lost forever, but I still have the souvenir. (http://beldar.livejournal.com/731090.html)

[scriblesnbraile.livejournal.com]

Wow, really surprised to see those names. I've really enjoyed reading all of their entries. soprano1790 is a good friend of mine, and I'm so glad she came out to participate in Idol this year for the first time. I'll nag her to play the home game. Lol.

And good luck to all of those in the tie-breaker.

[2bbilingual.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I can't believe soprano1790 was eliminated. I love her writing.

[similiesslip.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm...surprised. These are good writers. Wow.

[locknkey.livejournal.com]

this just gets tougher and rougher. :(

Good luck to the tie- breakers!

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

OMG I'm still in the running? Wahoo! I was in dead last around 5 pm and thought for sure I was a goner. This is my first run off in four seasons of competing, phew! Thank you to everyone who helped keep me in it for a little longer, and I'm very sad to see the other 3 folks leaving!

[beldar.livejournal.com]

I thought I was for-sure done as well. If we both survive the run-off vote, wanna be intersection partners?

[soprano1790.livejournal.com]

Sometimes writing an entry is the easiest part. An idea pops into your head, and you run with it. Sometimes, it doesn't turn out the way you want, but what else can you do with an hour until the deadline? You submit it, thanking God it's done and posted. Yes... That's the easy part.

Because then come the poles, or occasionally, the dreaded contestant only votes. In the poles, your entry is only one of many on a long list of great pieces--your writing reduced down to a number of votes. Now, it's time to agonize over the numbers, comparing, analyzing, and, if you're me, calculating. It seems almost random the way the numbers change and jump from hour to hour, but it's not.

At the end, you refresh the poles over and over again, squeeeeeing every time there is a change. You know, that surely, your number will increase. It must. At this point, it doesn't matter anymore, what you have written for the week. The only thing that matters is that fateful number, hoping it will rise, so you can continue on to next week and keep writing.

But sometimes it doesn't...

Thank you guys for all the support. I did this thing on a whim and made it further than I even imagined I could. Just one vote... Good luck tie breaker people! Hard topic. It's been fun! I'll really miss idol.

[dreamchaser.livejournal.com]

I am sorry to see you go. I really liked your entries!

[hosticle-fifer.livejournal.com]

Dangit, I didn't even get to vote. I had the checkmarks lined up, but LJ kept 503'ing on me when I tried to proceed.

I don't know if it would have changed anything, but still. :(

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

That was a harsh poll. I have a feeling things aren't going to get any easier. Good luck to those in the tie breaker.

That small tribe was brutal. I'm not sure things would have worked out the same way if it wasn't set up that way, but it's certainly better than losing all 8 of us for being late I suppose. It's still harsh on all those that are going I bet :(

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

There was, apparently, some confusion as to whether or not Dee and I were two different people. If you haven't figured it out by now --- and you really ought to, considering the difference in writing style and mental 'tone' --- we are.

I'm pretty sure this one was largely political in the manner it ended and that the above played a factor in it. I'm a bit bitter it ended up that way, for my own sake if not for Dee's (he only did this for me in the first place, because I like to see him write).

Neither he nor I, because of our various health issues, have much time to chat in the Green Room or to comment on entries (although they get faithfully read, every one of them, each week). I'm pretty sure that was a factor as well. In this competition, you HAVE to be able to pull in not only the community but your friends as well.

Reality check: I don't exactly HAVE friends any more. The longer I've been ill, the further they pull away. All of my local friends checked out some time last year and very few of my long distance friends have bothered with the connection.

You need friends and connections to play. That's why I'm frankly surprised that either he or I got as far as we did. I don't know that Dee will comment individually, though I'll encourage him to do so. I'm the 'voice' of this family. Those of you who do read our entries will have noticed that. I'm generally the one who puts our decisions, trials, and troubles out after a common consensus has been made.

In this case, it frees him up to concentrate on healing. I know the deadlines were beginning to trouble him; several times in order to get him to meet them, I had to threaten permanent withholding of ice cream and brownies (that's a major offense in this household!) I can't promise I'll keep posting, but I may write the home game if a topic appeals to me.

I also don't know if I'll do this again. You really can't just play the game with your writing and...I simply don't have the friends, influence, or the community connections to compete.

Most of you know where to find me if you choose to do so. I'll be around. To those that do choose --- and there are some that have --- you'll find a good friend here. Ask some of them.

If, however, you are hoping for entertainment, I'm fresh out.

Adding friends?

[creature-girl08.livejournal.com]

Hi, I was sad to see you and diagenou voted out this week.

I wonder if it would be ok to add you both?

Hugs to you both.

[agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com]

That poll was brutal - and I was barely at home this weekend, with LJ hiccuping when I was so I could hardly read even.

I'd have read on my phone like I often do but I've had no service since yesterday -- serious technology fail for me this weekend.

[momebie.livejournal.com]

I'm sort of dumbstruck that walkertxkitty is going, because she's been one of my favorites. And I was enjoy getting to know her diagenou through his posts. I hope everyone who's out at this point sticks around.

And good luck to the tie breaker folks!

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[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

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[creature-girl08.livejournal.com]

Well Damn, these results make me extremely sad. I like both walkertxkitty and diagenou. Wrong just wrong.

Wishing the four tie breakers the best.

[sra33.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness. GL tie breakers!!!

[douchejuice.livejournal.com]

dude. very sad to see walkertxkitty go. that is weak.

Another Runner In The Night

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http://tough-doll.livejournal.com/324010.html?mode=reply

Re: Another Runner In The Night

[snarkerdoodle.livejournal.com]

pssst -- Gary posted a link further up where the tie-breaker entries should be a 'reply' to. (I wouldn't want your on-time entry to get lost in the fray or anything.)

http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/448623.html?thread=44922991#t44922991