Analysis - Can We Hold on to Top 10?

There are 5 full days of voting left in this Round and we are again sitting in 5th place at the moment. We have been trading 4th place with the TumbleBus Gymnastics group from BC but they took a fairly sizeable 200+ vote lead over us lastnight, as of this morning, early. We will most likely regain 4th place later today...but for how long? They have been consistently logging about 540 votes per day and we have only been logging 475 daily. It's only a matter of time until they overtake us for good. But this doesn't have to be the case as we have somewhere around 580 registered voters. About a hundred are forgetting to vote everyday.


Here's what the Top 10 look like, as of this writing:

1st place -Labrador SPCA, Goose Bay, NL                      9445 votes to date
2nd place - Second Chance Pet Network, Dryden ON       9181 votes to date
3rd place - Rescue Horses, Sussex, NB                          6620 votes to date
4th place - TumbleBus Gymnastics, Coquitlam, BC         5456 votes to date
5th place - Seats @ Meets, Brockville, ON                      5426 votes to date
6th place - Maison Scout, St.Jean sur Richilieu, QC        5046 votes to date
7th place - Scouts Canada's National, Canada-wide         4958 votes to date
8th place - Kids First Gymnastics, Windsor, ON              4539 votes to date
9th place - Save the Matthew, Bonavista, NL                 4404 votes to date
10th place - Cour de l'ecole Coeur, Montreal, QC            4292 votes to date

The groups we need to worry about are:

• the current 7th place Scouts Canada. They have come out of nowhere recently and are logging about 675 votes daily. It's only a matter of time before they surpass us at our current pace.
• the 10th place Cour de l'ecole Coeur. They have been typically hanging around 15th place and all of a sudden they are in 10th overnight. I haven't been keeping track of their daily scores because they were not a threat before today. They're on my radar now though.
• the 6th place Maison Scout is very consistent with their daily voting. They have about 500 registered voters and will overtake us soon if we continue to leave 100 votes on the table by forgetting to vote everyday.
• any group that has taken the time to go out into the community and recruit lots of voters. We won't know who they are until it's too late.

I know some of us are probably starting to feel voter fatique about now. This process is a long one for a reason. Aviva is not going to give money to groups that are not committed to their cause. And they are giving out a lot of money. The amount of money is definitely worth the time commitment. Remember, the seats will cost in excess of $200,000.

I can't stress how important this Round of voting is. If we make it to the Top 10 then we are in the Semi-Finals and don't have to start voting again until December 5th. The Final Round is also 16 days of voting. But if we miss the Top 10 this time around we have to vote for an extra additional 16 days in Round 3 of Initial Voting. And, as much as I am committed to the very end of this contest, I would appreciate the 3 week break before the Final Round of voting. I'm positive you would too.

Just as important as remembering to vote every day is finding more supporters to vote for the Seats @ Meets cause. There will be 30 Semi-Finalists in each category size. We will have to compete against 30 very committed groups in the large category to be one of the 10 Finalists to have a chance at the money.

The only way we can make Top 10 happen, in this Round and the Final Round, is to recruit more voters now...lots more voters...and remember to vote everyday.

The break that we will have after we reach the Semi-Finals at the end of this round of voting will be a great opportunity to use as a recruiting blitz. Maybe there needs to be a big community bar-b-q/Pep Rally to recruit more voters. Something needs to be done to get more voters. Anybody got any ideas?



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