Green Room - Week 26 - Day 5

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

"Hey Gary, when is the deadline for the main competition *and* Last Chance Idol?"

That's tonight at 8pm EDT!

http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/797204.html and http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/797508.html

So if you haven't gotten yours in yet, get to it!

On the other hand, if you have, are are just sitting around waiting for something to happen... we haven't done this in a little bit (I honestly can't recall if we did it this season. Maybe really early on...)

Let's make today an AMA (Ask Me Anything).

There are things that I *can't* tell you, for the purposes of the game, but if I can answer, I will! :)

So, what do you want to know?

Comments

[jexia]

Who are your top three favourites to read?

Who do you think will be in the final three?

What do you enjoy most about LJ Idol?

Had you realised that Week 26 means half a year?

[theun4givables.livejournal.com]

It's actually been longer than half a year. We started in March.

MARCH.

I forgot how much of a marathon this really was, hah.

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Wow has it really been 7 months? No wonder I'm so exhausted!

[eternal-ot.livejournal.com]

Wow!...March was so long back..now that I look back..Hoot!

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

1. I was going to change the question to "that are no longer in the competition" because there is absolutely no way that I would answer that about people *in* the competition. Depending how people feel about me, that would either be too big of an advantage (having my 'endorsement') or too big of a target! :D But in light of that earlier "Gatekeeper question" and the fact that my favorites tend to return for something like that, I'd rather not put a spotlight on them either. :)

Everyone should just assume that I secretly enjoy reading them. Either that or I hate all of you equally! :)

2. If I didn't answer that first one, there is no way that I will answer this one! :D

HOWEVER. I was thinking about it on the bus ride in, and I can look at who is left and say "how many contestants" from Week 1 are left that I thought "they have a real shot at winning this" are left.

Of course, this doesn't mean that other people didn't show up in Week 2 with something that impressed me. Or that by Week 25 I didn't think "Damn, they are on fire..." Just my initial gut feelings on the subject.

*checks* There are 10 of them left. Some of them (IMO) don't have the chance that I *thought* they did - and several people that I really didn't know well enough have a *much* better chance of taking this than I would have ever thought during the first week.

3. Seeing the personal growth, not just as writers, but as people. Getting to know folks. (which is one reason why I encourage them to email me. This season there are some that I have gotten to know quite well, and others I've only seen what they put here and in their writing.)

4. As other people have pointed out - it's over that. I advertised the season as being "about a year" long. I also projected a little over 300 contestants and it was under that. So adjustments have been made along the way.