48 hours to go and today’s been the busiest of a manic series of days on the voting front. As we expected and warned at the outset, voting is often particularly heavy, requiring more than the number of simultaneous streams our current server arrangement can deal with. So you will sometimes have met a frustrating wait to get through to vote from time to time. Never give up. The contestants need you.
Today has seen particularly heavy voting in the Best Music and Arts Organisation category and pretty fierce action in Best Individual and Group Achievement; Best Blog; Best Community Website; Best Event; Best Heritage Website; Best Potential for 2009; and Best Tourism Website.
Some early hares have slowed up and are either being caught or overtaken. The question is have they a second wind? Some late starters are moving strongly and clearly have legs to go the distance – whether they get there in time … determination is a major factor.
We’ll do as we did last night and take the voting patterns by category in alphabetical order.
- Best Accommodation: some more action today but still a dead tie in the lead between the same two contestants
- Best Individual or Group Achievement: a lot of action here – positions have changed but it’s still too close to call
- Best Arts Website: today’s action now sees a three-way exact tie
- Best Blog: more lively action – one contestant now has a strong lead
- Best Community Event: strong voting today, with one contestant clearly ahead
- Best Community Initiative: late starter action is continuing and a lead has been established
- Best Community Website: more strong action with one contestant now well into the lead
- Best ecommerce Website: one contestant now has a clearer lead
- Best Event: very strong voting today with the early leader now caught in a tie with a late starter
- Best Heritage Website: let no one ever say heritage lacks vitality – late starter getting well into stride but the hare’s still moving
- Best Local Newspaper Website: one contestant moving into a clear lead
- Best Music & Arts Organisation: a whirlwind of activity – late starter now setting the pace
- Best Potential for 2009: another lively day’s voting with one contestant moving into a clear lead
- Best Renewable Energy Initiative: more support for both contestants but the leader is still calling the shots
- Best Restaurant: one contestant still well clear of a strong and level field
- Best Sporting Facility: more to-ing and fro-ing with one contestant establishing a lead
- Best Tourism Website: a lot of activity here with yesterday’s leader pulling further away
- Best Village Hall: support for all contestants but yesterday’s leader has maintained position
- Best Visitor Attraction: very active voting and yesterday’s leader still clear of very tight field
- Best Wildlife Website: continued voting across the contestants sees last two day’s leader still out there
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