Hi y'all!

Just to clarify a lil'. There's a one minute delay in voting, so the software can process the votes. So that should slow you guys down just a tad.

And on the different sections. For this contest, since it's the first time we've done it this way, everybody is eligible to win the popular vote and the judged affair. So theoritically speaking, somebody could win both sections, this time. The winner of the popular vote though, will not be eligible again for that section, until Jan 2006. They will however, still be eligible for all future Judged Affairs.

The popular vote is strictly for fun. I want to give everybody a chance to win, if not now, maybe in the future, by not letting the same people win over and over again. The Judged Affair is hopefully going to be the Best Picture that captures the Theme the best. I picked 2 cat people and 1 photography person, with hopes that they're going to be as objective as possible.

So to sum up, the only eligibility restriction is on the popular vote for future contests.

Hope that clears it up.
Les...