ship_manifesto

I will begin logging all claims (that have been submitted since our hiatus announcement) this weekend. I'll carefully go through the entry but errors and/or oversights can and do happen. So if you don't see your claim listed by Sunday night please feel free to send us a private message and we'll try to figure out where we went wrong.

We had a lot of plans for this community during the last half of 2009 that went totally down the drain. We hope, that with your help, 2010 brings us a new beginning, a new sense of commitment, and brand new discoveries to obsess over.

Thank you for your continued support!

Our most sincere apologies to ship_manifesto readers, watchers and current volunteers for our absence. Due to real life obligations including work, school, and families the community will be placed on a brief hiatus. I will log all current claim requests, extension requests, and update all master lists this weekend . The sign-up post will then be closed until our grand re-opening which is tentatively scheduled for February 1st, 2010.

We thank you for your patience and look forward to getting back to business come the new year.

Happy Holidays!

Changing Your Vote: After you vote in a poll, you can change your answers by clicking on the poll number, and then clicking the [ Fill out Poll ] link at the top of the page.

Please feel free to skip over any pairings you're not familiar with or have little interest in.

The following 'ships have already qualified to move on to the final showdown whether they win this round (tourney brackets) or not. This round is to determine the top dog of each individual bracket and maybe get an idea of how the voting will go come finals time. THIS IS FOR BRAGGING RIGHTS! Good Luck.

[Poll #1466114]



Poll will be re-open at 10 AM EST tomorrow and remain open until 10 PM EST Thursday, October 8th.

1- Polling will resume tonight @ 10 PM EST. There will be no do-overs. We are picking up exactly where we left off.

2 - Polls will be set to members/friends only. The community is currently set to moderated membership. If you decide to join we'll be accepting new members once we've had a looksie to make sure that the journal in question isn't a sock. Lurkers are fine. Once we crown our #1 you're more than welcome to pack your bags if you're no longer interested in being a member of this community. No worries.

3- We'll be setting up individual threads for each 'ship so that members or readers who are having trouble loading the entries (because of picspams or wathever) can more easily get to the 'ship they are interested in.

4 - If you have ideas or suggestions on how to make this process a little lot smoother next year, please feel free to drop us a line. I would certainly appreciate any help you guys can offer.


That's all folks! See you at 10.

Update Post
The master list has been updated.

And here is the list of manifestos to come!

( Late but not yet too late )
( Some to (hopefully) look forward to )

Key:
-?- : awaiting confirmation of offered post-by date

If your manifesto is on the *Late* list and you are almost done, or partly done, or you've changed your mind, or whatever, please let us know by leaving a comment here on the claim post, so that we can either arrange a new submission date for you, or free up the pairing so it can be claimed again.

Interested in writing a manifesto of your own? Stake your claim here. (Please read the rules and requirements first.) Thank you. :)

All polls have been closed as of 10 PM EST. We will now take a couple of days to briefly check for obvious socks. We're trusting that you guys would not be so cruel as to put us through another hunt for puppets. *fingers crossed* Have your pimpin' hats ready because our Championship Round (Round 4) begins on Friday.

- We have, IIRC, one more Round 1 and Round 3 to go. We'll be playing catch-up with those two groups all next week. The final showdown should go up on Friday, September 18th, 2009. We will keep that poll up for a week and crown our first ever champion on Saturday, September 26th, 2009.

We now know that the following teams {Tyra voice} are still in the running to become {/Tyra voice} our first ever #1 and reign supreme above all (by virtue of winning their 3rd round match):


( Our motley crew  )


We'll be adding more 'ships as we finish up the rest of our early rounds. Thank you so much for your continued support!

Please feel free to skip over any pairings you're not familiar with or have little interest in. Awesome picspams for some of the 'ships included in this poll can be found here. Or share your own in this entry. Pimp and Share!

( Round 2 - Part V )

Changing Your Vote: After you vote in a poll, you can change your answers by clicking on the poll number, and then clicking the [ Fill out Poll ] link at the top of the page.

Poll will close @ 10 PM EST on Tuesday, September 8th, 2009.

Changing Your Vote: After you vote in a poll, you can change your answers by clicking on the poll number, and then clicking the [ Fill out Poll ] link at the top of the page.

Please feel free to skip over any pairings you're not familiar with or have little interest in.

( Round III - Part IV )


Poll will close @ 10 PM EST on Tuesday, September 8th, 2009.


A couple of things:

- We have decided to proclaim today as 'Do Over Sunday'. After countless hours spent slouched over the computer screen going over each and every username (over hundreds, dude) trying to figure out what and what not to count, we've decided to void out all results for those two or three questionable polls from July. New ones will be going up sometime today and we look forward to crowning our first champions from those particular tourney brackets. Remember that all pairings that reach Round #4 automatically move on regardless of whether they win their tourney bracket. And we'll hopefully get to the ultimate showdown by the end of this month. *fingers crossed*

- During the final showdown you'll have a number of votes to spread around to your favorites. The pairings/threesomes with the top ten scores will become our 1st EVAH TOP TEN OF HOTNESS (sort of like very own homecoming court only... NOT). And the 'ship with the highest score will be our FAIREST AND HOTTEST OF ALL. We're thinking artwork of some kind featuring them will grace our user info and maybe *hint hint* (if a kind fan steps forward) a new community header for the year until we do it all over again. *hands*

- There will be a few matches that we'll need you re-vote on as they were inadvertently set up incorrectly or skipped over in the sea of over 400 'ships. Don't worry! The results of these match-ups will not affect what has already been settled up to now. We don't foresee any problems; just trying to tie up all loose ends before the finals.

Last poll of the night!

Please feel free to skip over any pairings you're not familiar with or have little interest in.

Round 1 w/ tourney brackets for these 'ships can be found here.

( Round 2 - Part IV )


Changing Your Vote: After you vote in a poll, you can change your answers by clicking on the poll number, and then clicking the [ Fill out Poll ] link at the top of the page.

Poll will close @ 10 PM EST on Thursday, September 3rd, 2009.