Query Kombat Agents and A Free Pass Opportunity

I know you are all salivating to hear what agents are participating in Query Kombat, but first up is the itinerary. This is an usually long contest and it moves like lightening once it starts. It is hard to keep track of all the activities without a calendar. So here you go, ink this in:


May 13th-17th: Call for submissionsTop 64 revealed: May 24th

Round 1: May 28th-June 3rd, Voting window closes at 8PM32 Winners announced: June 4
Round 2: June 5th-9th, Voting window closes at 8PMSweet 16 Winners announced: June 10th
Email mentors assigned entries: June 10thRevamped query emailed back: June 12th (by 10PM)
Round 3: June 14th-18th, Voting window closes at 8PMElite 8 Winners announced: June 19th
Round 4: June 20th-23rd, Voting window closes at 8PMFinal 4 Winners announced: June 24thAgents browse and make requests: June 24th-June 25th
Round 5: June 26th-27th2 Big Winners announced: June 28th
Final Round: June 29thGrand Champion announced: June 29th
Wrap up: July 1st
One week after the close of the tournament, we will invite agents back to make requests on the top eight...okay, okay fine...the top sixteen queries. Now, since we're talking about agents, why don't we introduce them. I think you'll be happy with the variety of genres they represent. (And no, we didn't invite only agents that start with J. Funny how things turn out.)  
The 10 Query Kombat Agents:Jenny Bent of The Bent Agency
Jennifer Goloboy of Red Sofa Literary
Jessica Sinsheimer of Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency
Jennifer Mishler of Literary Counsel
Jordy Albert of The Booker Albert Literary Agency
Rebecca Scherer of Jane Rotrosen Agency
Juliet Mushens of The Agency Group
Jamie Bodnar Drowley of Inkling Literary Agency
Claire Anderson-Wheeler of Anderson Literary Management
Julia Bannon of L. Perkins


Want to win a FREE PASS into Query Kombat?Okay! Here's whatcha gotta do:
1. Follow my blog.  2. Comment your Query Kombat entry nickname below. (One nickname only. No bombarding the comments with numerous versions.) I'll pick my favorite and announce my winner next Friday, May 3rd, when we show off the mentors and judges.

Some nickname examples from my own queries (They're up above in the tab sections.) might be: The Fighting Hamsters, Extra-Crispy Rabbit Gal, Coughing Princess with Attitude. Yeah, okay, those were really off the top of my head. 
Anyway, that's all ya gotta do. 
Now, you'll have three chances to win if you subscribe and comment on each blog (SCWrite, Writer's Outworld). You may even have a fourth chance to win if you use the QueryKombat hashtag to shout about your nickname. 'Cause if you think about it, 60 is nicely divisible by three...61 is not. Hmmm...

Before I go, I want to thank SC for inviting me to help host this contest. And I want to really give Mike all the credit for coming up with the idea and doing most of the busy work. He got all these great agents! And a super big thanks to the agents for participating!

So good luck! And show me those cute, humorous, scary, fun nicknames!