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Round Three: the sweet sixteen! Voting will remain open until THURSDAY MORNING.

To log into DW using an open ID (your LJ/google/yahoo/orange/flickr/wordpress/blogger/myspace) click here, and then come back to vote!

( you know you want to! )

COLOR WAR WILL START ON MONDAY!

( so what is color war? )

This year, we're doing things a little differently, thanks to the suggestions of my pals ikyoto and vermilionsun. There will also be a few logistical changes.

Colors are real! That is, the colors you will see will not be the html approximations, but actual photographs, taken and color-corrected by the awesome vermilionsun, of sheets of paper that ali_wildgoose, pts and I hand-colored with actual crayons. You can even see that distinctive crayon texture in the photos. vermilionsun did an amazing job, and I can't thank her enough for the idea and the effort.

Colors do not have names! It's been really fun watching people vote partly on color and partly on name (manatee!) for the past two rounds, especially since the names are part of how we interact with Crayola crayons in particular. This year, per ikyoto's suggestion, we're ditching the names and only identifying the colors via numbers. They're slightly randomized, though I didn't stress about it too much, and if you really wanted to go through all the swatches and figure out which color is which you probably could, though there's no pattern to it . Feel free to speculate in the comments however!

The poll will take place on Dreamwidth! Three reasons:

• Only LJ users can vote in LJ polls, and I have some RL friends on tumblr that I would love to include. On DW, anyone with an open ID can vote—if you have an LJ, google, orange, yahoo, flickr, wordpress, blogger, myspace, or aol account, you already have an open ID and can log into DW using that, and vote in the poll! (I'm anonymizing the results, so even I won't know who votes for what, and won't see your id unless you decide to comment.)
  
• DW is a little more stable lately than LJ. To be fair, LJ has been hit with a lot of DDoS attacks that are politically motivated surrounding the elections in Russia, and they're a bigger target generally. I support their keeping up the good fight for free political speech in Russia, but I also want people to be able to vote reliably in the damn poll.
  
• DW is great! I'd love to have more of you who don't have DW accounts or who do but don't really use them over here on DW, I must admit. Though the first is really the biggest reason I'm moving the poll, and the second a serious consideration, this would be a nice bonus!

Anyway enough of THAT.

( Here's the bracket! )

Voting will start on MONDAY with the first quarter of the bracket. I'll put up another quarter bracket each morning next week, and you'll have at least 48 hours to vote in each poll (though if the results are very close, I reserve the right to leave it open a little longer as I did last year). We'll start the second round the following MONDAY.

I'll be putting links to the DW voting on my LJ, twitter and tumblr. Feel free to spread the word further, and I hope this can bring everyone some fun as we go into the summer!

Vote here!

And thanks to everyone who voted and campaigned and otherwise participated!

I think many of you know as lots of folks have voted but here is the new color wars post!

Round 1(a)

Round 1(b)

Vote manatee.

Almost there!

Click the cut for the long explanation, but basically the browns changed and I would love you guys to revote. You can vote here at the LJ.

( wherein I explain myself )

Friends, it's a gray day and I'm feeling indecisive. I'm getting preparations going for color war and thinking about rain boots and ticky boxes, so of course, a poll! With lots of things going on!

First, the color war. ( prelims and locations )

Also, I'm buying some Hunter boots--the short ones. ( boots and socks! )

Finally, in a previous poll many of you wondered what the whole "your band sucks" thing is about. It's the sarcastic final poll answer used on a music board in Boston that my BFF the rock drummer is on. I like it because there, it's obnoxious, but here, it's kind of surreal. But after all this time, and with the Idol polls retired, should I find a new ticky box answer?

( vote in the poll! )

This poll is at both Dreamwidth and Livejournal, though not precisely crossposted. You can see the other entry here.

Isn't it cool? I found it here, via tumblr.

I started the color war to give everyone a little happy because the fannish alternative bracket things are often so divisive and disappointing for many. I thought having a bracket over something that people cared about but that didn't have a higher significance would be fun. Thanks to all of YOU, it was! So thanks to everyone who voted!

My replies to the comments were delayed because I noticed a trend really early on and didn't want to tip my hand about it. But now that it's over, I'm ready to reveal all!

The secret is: You guys really like the color blue.

( Details, with VISUAL AIDS )

My apologies to all of you who don't really like blue, or like yellow and orange, or like warm colors generally. I think, and this is just a theory, that we were mostly voting for colors that we can wear. But yeah, it's all about cool colors, and really not about warm ones.

So here, for your printing and admiring pleasure, the FINAL BRACKET (click to enlarge), and thanks again to ali_wildgoose for making all of the brackets!

( FINAL BRACKET )

Vote here!

We're down to the wire on this one!

Vote round 2 here!

Revised bracket will be posted once it's updated, but for results of the closed first round: first half (left side) of the bracket, second half (right side) of the bracket.