Vote for 2013 Spintop Photo Contest (merged)

[ta0]

EDIT: These were the voting results:

Name		1st Round		2nd Round
Cosmic Alignment		2
Onlookers		5
Thumb Tip		7		1
Shades of Spin		2
Sponge Tale		5
Top Eats		3
Topiata the Day After		8		4
Japanese Fusion		1
Top Harvest		7		1
Jon, just Jon		0
Airbone Art		4
Three Big Tops		1
Leprechaun over loch		1
Strangled		2
Dizzy Giraffe		9		8
You Are Mine		0
Teacher		7		4
Pile of Rascals		0
Horns of Light		5

Total Members Voted 1st round: 26    Voting closed: January 04, 2014, 07:49:02 PM
Total Members Voted 2nd round: 18    Voting closed: January 07, 2014, 12:02:59 AM

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Here are the 19 photographs for the 2013 contest. The member between brackets is the one who gets the credit (and the prize).  On the first round you can select up to 3 photographs.  There will be a second round with the 3 finalists, unless one photographs gets many more votes than any other. Voting for the first phase will last 3 days.

1 - Cosmic Alignment (Aldebaran, Moon, Jupiter, STB2) [ta0]:



2 - Onlookers  [kevinm]:



3 - Thumb Tip [Nelson]:



4 - Shades of Spin [DrYoYo]



5 - Sponge Tale [Richy]



6 - Top Eats [johnm]



7 - Topiata the Day After [Neff]



8 - Japanese Fusion [MrYo]



9 - Top Harvest [Jay]



10 - Jon, just Jon [Jon]



11 - Airborne Art [mtntop]



12 - Three Big Tops [ta0]



13 - Leprechaun over loch [mtntop]



14 - Strangled [Kirk]



15 - Dizzy Giraffe [Hrosik]



16 - You are mine [Jan]



17 - Teacher [Ludo]



18 - Pile of Rascals [John Buechele]



19 - Horns of Light [Pierre]

[ta0]

Set the topic as sticky while the poll runs. 

It seems like the Giraffe, the Thumb and the Topiata are the front runners.

[Javier]

Los espectadores 

[ta0]

It seems like the Giraffe, the Thumb and the Topiata are the front runners.

Add Harvest and Teacher to those, with Sponge close behind. The race is heating up!

[ta0]

Ok, this is the final vote.  Just one vote per member this time. On the first round we had Dizzy Giraffe with 9 votes, Topiata the Day After with 8 votes, and a 3-way tie for third at 7 votes between Thumb Tip, Top Harvest and Teacher!  Wow!  Voting in the second round will last 2 days.  I will merge all the threads once it is over.

Dizzy Giraffe [Hrosik]



Topiata the Day After [Neff]



Thumb Tip [Nelson]:



Top Harvest [Jay]



Teacher [Ludo]

[Neff]

Aw, man!  I thought "Airborn Art" would have made it to the finals, that' my favorite of the lot.

[ta0]

Aw, man!  I thought "Airborn Art" would have made it to the finals, that' my favorite of the lot.

Airborn art was also one of my favorites.  As is Topiata. But my top pick is Dizzy Giraffe.
Teacher (I should have found a better caption) is a surprise.

Voting ends around midnight CST this Monday!

[ta0]

It is neck and neck to the line.  But many people who voted on the first round haven't voted yet.  And even if you did not vote before, you can still do it now (it has to be TODAY!)

[ta0]

Congratulation to Hrosik (žirafasik ?    ) on the win and to everyone else who contributed to the contest. We had a bunch of wonderful photographs.  This contest is always fun.

Daniel, if I was you I would print that photograph poster-size and put it on the wall of my bedroom! You cannot ask for a better spintop photograph.  I'll probably give you the prize in person in Prague 

We'll start the 2014 contest as soon as anybody posts the first great photo of the year 

[Hrosik]

Thanks to everyone who voted for my girrafe, especially thanks to you ta0, when you posted my photo to the contest, I checked the other photos too and many of them were much better than the photo of me. I didn't check the forum for past few days, so unfortunately I didn't vote for anyone, but my favourite photo would totally be Thumb Tip, but all photos looked very good. I'm going to print it and put it right above my bed See you in Prague