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Thanks Amy for doing all this. One suggestion, I think the final round points scoring should be 8 points ( matches regular points scored in the other rounds except semis) . But even a better idea would be the points awarded be the winners vote total from the judges. Lets say LCA wins 13-4, people who picked LCA would get 13 points.
Brock wrote: "Thanks Amy for doing all this. One suggestion, I think the final round points scoring should be 8 points ( matches regular points scored in the other rounds except semis) . But even a better idea w..."That's fun :)
Also, WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED THESE FINALISTS? Oh right, basically no one. :)
and now no one is going to catch Heidi! Heidi, your predictive skills are amazing! Congratulations!
Thank you, Amy! I have never participated in anything like this and I am so unbelievably pleased. What a weird and wonderful distraction and joy this has been these past few weeks. I couldn’t be more surprised or delighted by the ascendancy of Optic Nerve! (Does GR support emoji usage? Imagine lots of emojis throughout this comment, especially this one: 😂.)
Heidi wrote: "Thank you, Amy! I have never participated in anything like this and I am so unbelievably pleased. What a weird and wonderful distraction and joy this has been these past few weeks. I couldn’t be mo..."Hooray Heidi!!!
Congrats, Heidi! I'll start looking into which book to send you. :)
Books books books! Amy asked if I was happy with surprises by shelf-stalking and I totally am. Because I’ve been an on-and-off user over the past, I don’t know, decade? (Time is hard.) I’ll give some extra caveats/notes:I care a lot more about the quality of the language than what kind of plot a book has. I like literary fiction, hard sci fi, non-erotic romance, and really scary thrillers. And the queerer the book, the happier I am. I read a lot of debut novels and favor women/non-binary authors.
The most accurate place to find my taste is my “favorites” shelf.
I’ll give people my address by DM. So just message me when you’re ready for it! And if this is a hardship/impossibility for you during this pandemic, please don’t worry. I’ve got plenty of reading material.
Can’t wait for the finale tomorrow!!! Thanks for making this all so fun, everyone.
I'm kind of shocked no one picked Normal People to win (not as shocked there are no predictors for ON), but that means today's scores are the final ones!1st place by a huge margin: Heidi
2nd place (comfortably): Karissa
3rd: Susan S
4th: Aaron
5th: Jayme
6th: Elizabeth
7th: C
8th-10th tie: Amy S, Bob Lopez, Lauren O
Thanks for playing everyone, this was really fun!
also noticed Bob & Kip both picked the zombies correctly (nice job!) Hopefully that's some bragging rights to assuage the rest of your bracket upsets!
To celebrate I will finally read Zone One which I have owned for like 6 years.
Congratulations Heidi! You were able to capture the predictable unpredictability of the TOB. Lol.
Thanks Amy for creating the spreadsheet. I work in spreadsheets most of my day and I’m impressed with your mad skills!
Congrats Heidi! PM me your address, I thankfully still have a decent job (surely one of the few in the service industry), so I would LOVE to send you a book. Thank you so much Amy for all your time and effort! I had an absolute blast participating in this (and the GR group overall). I so annoyed my husband with my daily updates about my bracket 😂
@Congrats, Heidi!@Amy - Thanks for organizing a great TOB!
Heidi, you were a formidable contender! As first place loser (lol), I'm looking forward to picking out and sending you a book. Please DM me your address.
Honestly quite a banner year for me, won some swag, came in 10th here. Hope my luck continues into the Summer TOB and the Rooster of the Roosters!
My book is in the mailbox, but we'll see if the mailperson picks it up with my stamps plastered all over it. :) According to usps it looks like I am supposed to take this to a post office, but we'll see...
Yes, my books are in the mail to Heidi from Betterworldbooks.com! I hope you like them Heidi! (Surprise books.) I liked the year Alison won and there was a spreadsheet of what everyone sent. (but this would be more fun after Heidi receives her books -- or if she doesn't want to look at the spreadsheet until later on?)
Thanks everyone! This feels like an embarrassment of riches right now. I’m happy to share what comes when it does, if you all want to claim it when I post?
Hello again everyone and THANK YOU! If you all are interested, I made a shelf called “bracket contest 2020” so you can check out what I’ve gotten. These books look so incredibly good—some new to me and others I’ve wanted to read for a while!! I can’t wait to dig in 😊😍🥰
Ooohhh...I just looked at that shelf--you are lucky indeed! What a lovely selection and wide-ranging too. Happy reading! :)
I’m not gonna lie, I’m pretty jealous of you Heidi. What an incredible slate that is! My fav that I’ve read is The Buried Giant and I don’t even usually like fantasy
Looks like you have some fantastic reading ahead of you. Two by Michelle Tea? Nice. Did you receive any duplicates?
No duplicates! I feel spoiled rotten. You all made such incredible choices!
Heidi wrote: "Hello again everyone and THANK YOU! If you all are interested, I made a shelf called “bracket contest 2020” so you can check out what I’ve gotten. These books look so incredibly good—some new to me..."Yay!
Heidi wrote: "No duplicates! I feel spoiled rotten. You all made such incredible choices!"You are very welcome, Heidi. I hope you enjoy all the books you received. :D
Sure. :) they're still set to whatever the last person to set-up their bracket picks chose. Will fix now.