VOTING CLOSED
Well done (almost) everyone!
The votes are in and I'm off to double and triple check the results. As I stated previously, the results thread will be posted sometime after 6PM GMT -- around 3 or so hours from the time of this post in Western SYW.
Please Remember
The vote spread was much wider than I anticipated, however, there are some entries which received no votes. If one of these is yours, please remember your entry was up against 40 other people and voters only had a top three to choose. Some entries were bound to be passed over and this shouldn't be seen as a reflection on your writing.
The Final Vote Tally
We didn't quite get a full house of entrant votes. As you are probably aware, J'Dubbe hasn't been on line for a while so didn't get to vote. Hopefully he is OK and I'm sure everyone here will join me in sending out their best wishes to him.
Non entrant turnout was astounding. Excellent work to all who helped promote the contest and all who took the time to read and consider the 60k of words.
67 Votes
Entrants - 39
Non-Entrants - 28
However, we have had three votes disqualified. Bringing the final eligible votes tally to 64.
Two of the ineligible votes were from members who had a join date after 16th Jan 2012. One was from an entrant -- see below.
The Spentastico Situation
Unfortunately for the contest, Spentastico (13 -
New Ideas In The Old West) got himself banned last night. According to the rules he will be disqualified and his votes deemed ineligible.
I apologize on his behalf to the people who voted for him and I also apologize to those he voted for. It's a helluva shame, but that's how it goes sometimes.
His voting did not affect the outcome of the top three places in the contest and I will post who he voted for (but not include it in the final results table) later.
Where To Go Now?
Feel free to discuss and nail-bite some more in this thread. If you want to discuss the entries themselves I've opened the
Entry Discussion thread in Western SYW for you to do so. Results will be posted in Western SYW in three or so hours.
Thank you all for making this a great contest and over-coming any bumps and hiccups we've had along the way.