Voting has been ridiculously low and I have to admit this is a bit disappointing to me - so I can only imagine how it must feel to those authors who took the time to spin awesome tales to get so little feedback. With any kind of luck, people will participate a little more in future challenges...

With that being said, I would like to thank those who took the time to read, vote and comment on those great stories. This means a lot to all of us. All votes have been tallied and here are the results. You will notice 2 categories will go into an elimination match since both had 3 stories vying for pole position! Talk about suspense!

So without further ado, here are the winners for the 2005 Levi Independence Day Challenge.

BEST INDEPENDENCE DAY ESSAY: Chocolate Spark by lilsmoochiegirl
BEST CLIFF-HANGER: Mission of Mercy by deaf_like_me
BEST FUZZY MOMENT: Freedom Fest by jbryse
BEST STORY BY A NEW WRITER: Mission of Mercy by deaf_like_me


The best overall story and best funny moment categories will go into another round of voting as I mentioned before. Voting for those 2 categories will only be opened 1 week (voting will end on Sunday at midnight).

Congratulations to everyone! You did a fantastic job!

Congratz Mel, twice!!!

Congratz Jill!!!!

Congrats to everyone !!!

Sand

Congratulations, everyone! Good luck in the face-offs!!

Thaks, Tiff and congrats to you too...

Gd luck to everyone for the elimination votes...

Thanks!

And Congratz in the finals, it seems weird though. Like it's second round...LoLx sry...just pointing it out...

I've noticed...It's like going through the whole process again....

Exactly! And if people tie again then they'll have to go through the process again...weird...

congratulations to everyone I must take my time to read awarded stories

There is one day left to vote - until midnight tomorrow (Sunday), so if you haven't already voted in the elimination round, please do so now. I so don't want to go into a 3rd round on this.

It looks like you might have to...

Can we declare it a tie then!? PLEASE?!

That would be so much easier, huh?

I'm seriously thinking about it! And I'm also thinking something will have to give because I work very hard to come up with those challenges and the authors work very hard at crafting their stories...but if we're gonna get so little feedback, what's the point?

Just a quick note of thanks to all who voted for me...even if I don't win (doesn't look promising) its nice to know people actually read my stories I dream up...better yet, they enjoy them!

laura!


P.S. Good Luck finalists...oh,. thanks to Jacynthe...its hard enough having to do voting once, but twice is worse!

I'm so willing to call it a tie!

@ Jacy: methinks few people actually notice this area, cause its seperate from the normal FanFic area.

Thanks authors for the wonderful stories! And A special thanks to Jayce for the challenge, the really kool awards, the polls, and the sencond-round polls...

Thats an interesting theory web....I have to agree partly...I think

laura

Here are the final winners for the categories that needed to have runner-off elections. There is a tie in there but I am not foreseeing any more people voting this time around so we'll be living with ties. That's it!

BEST FUNNY MOMENT: The chocolate explosion from Chocolate Sparks by lilsmoochiegirl.
BEST OVERALL STORY: tie between Freedom Fest by jbryse and Mission of Mercy by deaf_like_me

Congrats everyone!!

Congratz, Jill and Mel!!!




And a GREAT BIG thanks to Jayce for everything! Dnx Jayce!!!! :group hug:

Congrats everyone !

I really wnder why there had been so few votes. I personnally had a great time reading all your stories !

Sand

Congratulations to everyone who got an award! Thanks to all of my readers and to all who voted for me! It was awesome doing this and cool that I actually won because it was my first challenge! Thanks and great job to everyone who submitted a story! They were fantastic and without you this wouldn't have ever happened! I really do appreciate all of your feedback on my story and the votes! I can't wait for another challenge for me to do! (Thanks Tiff, congrats to you too, and thanks Jacey for all of your hard work)

I just wanted to thank all those who read my story and voted for me, I had a really fun time writing it...Thank you to Jacy for all the hard work you've put in and congrats to all the other winners..Like jbryse, I can't wait for the next challenge...