Submit your votes before Wednesday, March 6th at 2pm US EST in each of the 10 match ups below. Those votes will determine the 64 cities that will compete in the Second Round later this week. Those of you reading through email and RSS will have to click-through to this page to vote.
During last Thursday’s Preliminary voting, 54 cities gathered enough votes to skip the First Round and take a comfortable seat in the Second Round of The Best City To Visit Travel Tournament 2013. (The cities with the most votes were matched up with those with the least in the preliminaries.) You can see those cities in the tournament bracket below, yet there are 20 more cities waiting to compete. Today we’ll begin the month long process of elimination. If your favorite city is already on a bracket line and not in the polls below, it’s safe until this coming Thursday. Vote below to choose the 10 cities out of this group of 20 that will complete the next round of 64.
- Keep in mind this is a very quick round – I’ve got to get the Second Round prepared before taking a transatlantic flight to Mexico so don’t put off your vote and click!
Please keep in mind the final votes for any poll arenโt final until theyโre verified by my diligent verification team. Those of you who were able to skip the First Round, be prepared, everyone is up for elimination on Thursday, March 7th in the Second Round.
Love this round robin idea, but having to type in a captcha every single vote is a real pain (especially since it usually takes me a few tries before I get it right…!). Is there any way to do this in batches?
I wish there were and know it’s a pain but a necessary one unfortunately.
Is it me or are captcha codes getting more difficult? Got there in the end. ๐ Some interesting cities in your competition this year, quite a few that we don’t know, but that doesn’t matter as we know who we want to win, anyway. ๐
It’s not just you, I have trouble getting them too. The problem is, computers are getting better at it ๐
Hi Anil,
My workplace uses a firewall. If I convince 4 coworkers to vote, do you see 5 different computers voting from the same location, or does it look like the same computer voted 5 times? Is it just better if I tell coworkers to vote from their homes so it’s clear?
Thanks!
It depends on how your office network is set up – it may not count/allow multiple votes from there. I would recommend asking they vote from home to be sure.
The captcha codes are definitely deterring me from voting.
I understand that, but they also deter fraud in the polls. What I can do is have it so every round, the number of cities and polls are halved, so there are less captachas ๐