LJ Idol Presents:

clauderainsrm

Welcome to Week 2!

This week was all about Deconstruction and from the entries over the past weeks I think it's pretty clear that this is an extremely talented group.
This is going to another difficult decision on choosing what entries to support.

Fortunately, you can vote for as many of them as you want!! Make sure that you leave comments as well to the entries that you loved, letting them know!

The contestant with the entry that the fewest votes from each tribe will be eliminated. Given that there is a new tribe this week, that means there will be one more person leaving us this time around.

The poll will be closing Tuesday Nov 16th at 9pm EST

Good luck to everyone!

emo_snal

clauderainsrm

On one hand - you have a difficult decision before you. One of these three writers will be eliminated.

It is one of those weeks when I am extremely glad that I vote for everyone. All of them "deserve to stay". Unfortunately only two of them will.

On the other hand - you have three entries to read. Three distinct voices "making fire".

Read. Enjoy. Vote.

The poll is open until Friday May 21 at 9pm EDT

Good luck to all of you.

clauderainsrm

Unfortunately we start this right off needing to say goodbye to kandigurl, who missed the deadline for the run off. I hope it was hula hoop related, because let's face it, that's pretty damn awesome. If we have to lose you, that is at least to a decent cause.

The remaining 3 are here though, and when this poll closes the contestant with the lowest vote total will be leaving us.

So please remember to read them and support your favorites. There is a *very* small window for the run off. But I think that most people will be able to read and vote on 3 entries. ;)

The poll closes tomorrow Friday Feb 12th at 9pm EST.


Good luck to all of you.

clauderainsrm

Trick or treat?

It's not only the demand disguised as a question that children will be screaming at many of you this weekend, it is the question before the voters: Which treats are they going to indulge and encourage, and which entries struck them as more of a trick? Honestly though I think people are going to be hard pressed to find any tricks. This is another batch of entries that is bound to keep you quite busy this weekend with your eyes glued to the screen.

Different people have different tastes. So there really is no way to find out without putting it out there. Some people like the chocolate and other people like - well, they like other stuff. Whatever is left in the bag after you've eaten all the chocolate I guess!

There are some incredible entries this time around, and quite frankly a lot of early byes. It will be fascinating to see how that impacts the results, both now and in the coming weeks.

Unfortunately, due to RL, fwtallgirl won't be continuing on this journey with us. But hopefully she will be able to make it out for the Home Game!

We will be losing the bottom vote-getter from each tribe. So make sure to support the entries that you love, and maybe, just maybe, their ghosts won't end up haunting you.*

(*OK, they probably will regardless. These folks strike me as the "haunting" type)

The polls will close Monday November 2nd at 8pm EST. (Note the end of day light savings time this weekend)

As always, you can vote for as many entries, in each tribe, as you want to support. Just keep in mind to hit "submit" after each tribe since they are all separate polls!

Good luck to everyone!

animimi

soundscool1

edith_jones

clauderainsrm

tinhuviel
tru2myart
welfy

and one of these writers, these incredible women who have allowed us to share the last 7 1/2 months with them.

That's what we set out to do what sometimes seems like a lifetime ago, and other times an all too brief period of time - to find one more to join the ranks of earning the title of LJ IDOL

These three have certainly done that, they have fought to get here, they have endured - and they have grown.

154 contestants were with us that first day. One more came along to join us from the Home Game.

Now there are three, and we are about to have our final vote of the season. Now it is time for us, as a community and as LJ as a whole, to do our duty one more time. To support our favorites one more time. . .

People have asked me: "How should I vote? Should I vote on the final entry or the entire season?"

That's entirely up to you. However you want to decide it. Only you would know your reasons anyway. If you want to judge the full season - I link is here: http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/169770.html

If you want to judge on this one entry, where they make the case for themselves as well as the others, well that just so happens to be the entry located in the poll.

Want to pull a purple rock to decide? You can do that too.

I've also been asked who *I* want to win. That one was the easy question, because there really is only one answer to that. There's *always* only one answer to that - Idol. Idol wins regardless of the outcome because we get one hell of a winner!!!
We win with every click of the vote, regardless of who you vote for!

So thank you for making this season so great, and on behalf of the Final Three - Thank you for Voting!!!!

The poll opens now and closes on Thursday June 12th at 8pm EDT.
Good luck you three, I'm rooting for you! Let's make this a good one!

clauderainsrm

It's one shake-up after another. But by now, you're pretty much used to that. Anyone who knows where the next step is going to be at this point is either fooling themselves, or well they know me pretty well!*G*

I gave the jury time to deliberate before results started coming in because their decision was going to be a hard one. They didn't realize it was going to be making one of the biggest impacts in the game thus far!

Which is only appropriate considering that this is the last week where the jury is in place.

I gave them the usual instructions. Read the entries and rank your favorites 1-7 (1 being the best). I told them to do this separately with each topic.

Which means, you would think, that we would be handing out TWO IMMUNITIES this week right?

*shakes head* Nope.

Because it's the person with the lowest vote total in the first one, the person with the lowest vote total in the second, and the person (other than those two) with the lowest *COMBINED* vote total.

That's right, in a field of 7, *3* of them are off the hook this week and have a spot in our Top 5. The other four will have to fight for those last two spots!!

Who has immunity? It was *close* in all categories, but in the end the three spots went to:
chite
imafarmgirl
porcelain72

So congratulations to you, and thank you to the jury for your hard work over the last couple of weeks!

As for the poll… voting starts now and will close Sunday May 18th at 9am EDT. That's a really short window for such high stakes! The vote totals for each entry will be combined, the two with the lowest vote totals will be going home.

Good luck to all of you. All of you deserve to be here, and all of you deserve a spot in the Top 5. Unfortunately though people do have to be cut, and it's up to the voters to decide who that is going to be.