Flamesnation Contributor Search - Final Vote
Kent Wilson
August 17 2011 07:52AM
The entries have been received and posted and now it's time to pick the winners. We actually received interest from even more people than appeared here, but I had to limit the number of posts to something managable. When I put out the question of a new contributor on twitter, I had no idea the potential response. Thanks to everyone who applied and all those of you you who took time to not only submit an article but also read, reply and vote on them.
Here is the a list of all the entries once again. I'm going to ask everyone to vote for your favorite hopeful to help guide our ultimate decision.
When voting, consider each author's voice, organization, quality of rhetoric and the supporting evidence for his arguments. The tendency, of course, would be to vote for someone whose views closely match your own or who picked a partisan topic with which you would naturally agree. In truth, the best test of a writer is someone who has the chops to potentially change your mind about something. Ask yourself not if you naturally agree with the writers worldview, but if you think he would be a persistently interesting or entertaining read even when he doesn't march in lockstep with your preconceptions.
Without further ado, here are the entries again:
Derrick Newman - Calgary Flames State of the Union
Al MaGuinness - The Rebuild Begins Sooner Rather than Later
Byron Bader - The New CBA - To Sign or Not to Sign a Player...
Graham Wiswell - Putting the 'M' Back in GM
Kevin Hatch - The Run
Vintage Flame - What Makes an Elite Player...Elite?
Taylor Rocca - Tim Erixon Loves Chantal Kreviazuk
Mike Schmidt - In Defense of Jay Bouwmeester
Jake Travis - More of the Same is Significant Change
Scott Lepp - If it Ain't (is) Broke, Don't (Please) Fix it
Marty Clarke - SWOT-ing the Flames: Sloppy Seconds See Supporters Suffering
The poll below allows multiple votes. Please pick your top three choices.
Thanks again everyone. We will make our final decision by the end of this week.
Given that you joined Flames Nation today... I doubt you are the real McCoy..
I also happen to like the canucks... don't bash my beloved canucks. I like them even more than the flames. Swedish twins for the win.
@Vintage Flames
Haha I hear that a lot
@"Taylor Rocca"
Seriously this is stupid, quit posting pretending to be me you inbred
I am the dolphin from Telus commercials...
We need a new thread... big time
I AM MADDDDDD!!!!
Must convince others I am who I say I am. Vintage Flames I am upset you beleive this other bafoon
RAWR!
Good grief you guys are reminding me of 2 year olds...
Agreed.
I guess the only good thing is that there can't be any riots? ;)
But seriously, it's too bad people are taking what should be a fun, friendly competition and turning it into this bilefest.
@debrogilie
Bilefest aint no word
To all those other Taylor Rocca's- not cool!
Alright all you fake Taylor Rocca's give it up. It's childish and not funny. This is supposed to be a friendly competition and now it's turning into a jokefest.
@Taylo Rocca
Todd is this you?? You sneaky little bugger...
Nah. Legit I am the real Taylor Rocca
Shocking.
But seriously guys, let's keep this polite. I don't know why anyone would pretend to be one of the competitors; I can't imagine what effect this could possibly have. @The Real Taylor Rocca, I don't know why they've picked you to target, but I feel bad. Keep up the good work.
@Debroglie
You think this is good work? I could eat pieces of poop that is better than that article I submitted.
This makes me sad. I know that at this point, I'm not going to be taken serioiusly or likely receive a chance to contribute to FlamesNation, but I would simply like to say that everyone posting (falsely posting, that is) here needs to seriously get a life for trying to sabotage something that was only intended to be a source of entertainment for Flames fans. I'm out.
Out?!? Don't beleive him, don't let him remove me from the competition.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24861453@N02/3672271911/
Alright. That's the end of that.
@Taylo Rocca
I'm officially warning you now. Enough please.
@Vintage Flame
No need to warn him. He's been probated.
You can never take me seriously... I can't spell!
Kent Wilson = best managing editor ever!!!
The pen is mightier than the sword!!! you can break a sword, but the pen lives on forever!!! I don't know what this means but it sounded good.
You may not choose my article, but I will keep on writing!!!
Troll hunting is so much fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy2nAOdBUlw
@The Real Taylor Rocca
Too funny..
Vintage Flame should win. He actually deserves it.
@Flames4Life
Thank you.. Very much appreciated.
@Kent Wilson
Isn't that like when somebody sticks something into you... from behind?
I like dolphins... Just not the Miami kind! #SquishTheFish
YOU WILL NEVER LISTEN TO ME!!!!
I agree. Gotta go with the Packers.. #packattack
Cowboys all the way schevv!!
@Vintage Flame
Sorry Vintage, don't like the Cowboys chances this year, Vick and the Eagles are too good and Tony Romo will not win a Super Bowl, sorry bro! Why am I talking NFL on a Flames blog???
Because it was better than reading Todd disguised as Taylor???
I'll take the Cowboys 5 Super Bowls over Vicks 5 year suspended sentence any day!
@Vintage Flame
Haha agreed on that it's better than the fake Taylor Rocca's. The Cowboys were amazing with Troy Aikman but they haven't found a great QB since. I still like my Packers chances over the Cowboys!
*Sigh*
I spend 3 days moving from Calgary to Kamloops and I login to FN for the first time after getting settled to see all this trolling. Disappointing to say the least.
Anyhow, first off I just want to thank Kent for putting on this little competition. I had a great time reading all the entries. Every article submitted was a quality piece of work, so props to everyone who was a finalist.
Lastly, congrats to Vintage Flame. I'm looking forward to reading your work on a regular basis here at Flames Nation. Congratulations dude!