Around 10:15 p.m. tonight, we were starting to think about maybe going to sleep, but my writing partner and I were both on a roll so we decided to power through. w00t! i wound up at 75,406 ... and am now ready for bed.
Thanks ladysheishou and everybody else here for all the support, advice, and cheerleading over the last month!
Pretty much everybody online thought g0ddesses.net had won. At first it looked like the voting came out that way too. The three women judges and moot all put us way ahead of our competitors, raving about "Ask the g0ddesses" and the marketing agreement with Trampssss and the deals with FaceSpace and MegaCorp. And since Hesperie was casting votes on behalf of Hades, Poseidon, and the secret squirrel, that would have seemed like it wrapped it up.
But somehow in all the excitement we had missed that Apollo had been added to the panel. He voted for his buddy Jason's company ladzzz.com, and Ajax and Kevin Johnson both went for Qu&aBabe$. After some discussion Ajax reminded us that moot's vote only counted for half a point because he was the youngest, the three women together only counted for 1/3 of a vote, and rather than transferring Poseidon, Hades, and the secret squirrel's vote they just wouldn't count them.
Which made the final score
Qu&aBabe$ 2.00 ladzzz.com 1.00 g0ddesses.com .63
So we had finished third. Oh well. But as Ajax rather condescendingly pointed out, it was a lot closer than anybody had expected, so that was something to be proud of.
We did kind of feel like we had been robbed, to be honest. But we were laughing too hard to be properly outraged.
Finished!
Thanks ladysheishou and everybody else here for all the support, advice, and cheerleading over the last month!
Pretty much everybody online thought g0ddesses.net had won. At first it looked like the voting came out that way too. The three women judges and moot all put us way ahead of our competitors, raving about "Ask the g0ddesses" and the marketing agreement with Trampssss and the deals with FaceSpace and MegaCorp. And since Hesperie was casting votes on behalf of Hades, Poseidon, and the secret squirrel, that would have seemed like it wrapped it up.
But somehow in all the excitement we had missed that Apollo had been added to the panel. He voted for his buddy Jason's company ladzzz.com, and Ajax and Kevin Johnson both went for Qu&aBabe$. After some discussion Ajax reminded us that moot's vote only counted for half a point because he was the youngest, the three women together only counted for 1/3 of a vote, and rather than transferring Poseidon, Hades, and the secret squirrel's vote they just wouldn't count them.
Which made the final score
Qu&aBabe$ 2.00
ladzzz.com 1.00
g0ddesses.com .63
So we had finished third. Oh well. But as Ajax rather condescendingly pointed out, it was a lot closer than anybody had expected, so that was something to be proud of.
We did kind of feel like we had been robbed, to be honest. But we were laughing too hard to be properly outraged.