I was about to chalk up the winner for the Best City to Travel Tournament 2009 last Friday when Negril (Jamaica) stormed from behind to tie with Sydney (Australia) at the last moment.
To determine the winner once and for all, I’m going to open up the polls for today only. It’s the same poll so you won’t be able to vote if you already have – it’s up to all of you who’ve been watching to break the tie.
The poll will be open until 10:00pm EST and the winner will be announced tomorrow.
[photo by: oobrien]
Anil,
Got your mail. Since I’ve already voted last time, I’ll just watch. 🙂
And I have updated my list ‘Places to visit’. Added Negril. Must see now. 🙂
@ Cuckoo:
I’ll be watching it unfold too. Negril has popped up on my radar too…and Australia is beginning to fascinate me as well. I’m reading a book right now about the outback. Another post for another day!
This fun poll is interesting for many reasons:
– Everyone has different definition for ‘best’
– Democracy doesn’t mean the best option but simply the most popular option
– We often vote for some candidate we have no clue about
Result of this is somewhat similar to contests like American Idol and therefore should be taken in the right spirit, i.e. not seriously!
I’m sure that statistics such as # of tourists per year are in complete disagreement with the poll. But it was fun to watch the tournament. 🙂
@ Final:
I completely agree, that why I (especially for this contest) to go with the polls. It’s easy to vote and fun to watch the results. I don’t think that a contest like this could have an objective winner, or any of the contests I’ve run for that matter.
Number of tourists doesn’t necessarily mean ‘best’ either!
I’ll be cooking up the next contest for May shortly, if you have any suggestions let me know.
Congratulations to Cuckoo and all supporters of Sydney. 🙂
After all the tough competition through out the rounds and an extremely exhausting final, you have finally sneaked through by one vote.
Hard Luck Negril.
@ Abhi:
I’m glad that the final had one small city represented. Almost all of Sydney’s rounds were close though, a vote or two in each round. Next year I hope to expand the contest, I hope you’ll enter too!