Voting over for Round 1 of Aviva contest.

[Sasha]

I made vote 231. Unfortunately it was my first vote and it is the second day.
I have put it in my signature.

Better late than never, and you'll still have voted 14 days out of 15 so you're well ahead of the game!

 

[Little Bluestem]

@rosie26, you can sign out by clicking on your username at the upper right of the page.

@Sasha, how do I see the current ranking? Are they competing only against others in the $50,000 - 100,000 group?

 

[Sasha]

@Sasha, how do I see the current ranking? Are they competing only against others in the $50,000 - 100,000 group?

Excellent question! I had a little look yesterday and couldn't fathom how to find it.

But yes, I think we're only competing in that $100k category.

@frenchtulip?

 

[Sean]

I have put it in my signature.

Copy that.

 

[Tuha]

done

 

[Nielk]

Just voted today. Where can we see how we stand so far?

 

[Sasha]

I think maybe ranks will be shown here, a day in retrospect ("yesterday's rank") - just next to where it gives the number of votes.

 

[frenchtulip]

Voters did a great job yesterday! If we can keep up the great voting, we should qualify in this first Qualifying Round! Thanks, everyone!

 

[rosie26]

Voted. Votes 352.

 

[Tuha]

how many charities will get qualified in the first round?

 

[daisybell]

Voted!

 

[snowathlete]

I voted and send out a reminder on the list.

 

[JoanDublin]

Voted - day two for me

 

[frenchtulip]

Votes now at 435! Great work, everyone!

 

[frenchtulip]

53 votes so far - we're already behind some animal charities (we're animals too! ) but from my memory of Aviva contests, I think at this stage we're voting to get into the next stage.

Is that right, @frenchtulip?

Get voting, everybody, and tell all your friends! You don't need Facebook and this will be FREE RESEARCH MONEY!!!

Yes, Sasha, we are in the first Qualifying Round trying to make it into the Semi-Finals (some time in Dec.). It will be great if we can qualify in this round and not have to compete in the second or third Qualifying Round. Aviva will take 20 from the large prize division and 20 from the small prize in each Qualifying Round. For each of the two divisions, they take the highest vote getter in each of the five categories (e.g., Health, Education, At Risk Youth) and then the 15 highest vote-getters regardless of category in each division. We are currently the 14th highest in the large-prize division. But an At Risk project, which is far behind us, will take precedence over us and bump us down one place. So we are in qualifying position if we can maintain it until Oct. 13th.

 

[Sasha]

Thanks, @frenchtulip - so we need to do better because other charities' support tends to pick up over the voting period in these contests. So must ours!

Get voting, folks, and get your friends voting!

I just made my Day 3 vote.

 

[JoanDublin]

505 now

 

[Keela Too]

Voted... and about to add details to my signature line... Great idea @Sean

 

[Undisclosed]

Voted again.

 

[Battery Muncher]

Voted! 580 votes.

Also, I say this every time we have a competition like this, but we should think about cross posting these threads to "general news and discussion", "general me/cfs discussion", and writing an article on it. It doesn't need to be long, just copy Sasha's initial post (which was excellent and informative) into the articles section.

It would be good if it was made a 'headliner' on the forum banner for a couple of days as well. I think that would help raise awareness.