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Just curious - how were these matchups created? Seems an odd way to do it. You potentially put through a weaker entry if two strong entries are posted against each other.

it's a horrible voting format and i will not vote during this competition because of it.

I agree, I went through the different homes earlier and there were a few match-ups where both homes were superior to other homes in other match-ups.

Can't we all vote and then the top x amount make it through to the next round?

Especially since this whole voting round turned out broken. Just pitch it and think of something else.

I too am opting out on participating in the voting. As much as I love seeing all the entries, this is too cumbersome and time consuming for me. Pitting two entrants against each other seems unfairly random.

KTG, can you explain why you believe this voting round is broken? Are you having a specific problem voting? If so, please use the contact form to give us the details. We haven't received any error reports this morning. Thanks, Scott.

i was looking at the matchups and some feel like two weaker homes against another and some were so good it wasn't easy on which to pick. I thought voting would be like rating each home by points. :\

I submitted an error report! Here is a thorough run-down of the history of this problem.

I have been having trouble staying logged in as I navigate the site. I cannot make a comment without logging in again. If it appears I can add a comment again without logging in, I get an error message (forgot which number). I wrote an email on Friday about it.

This morning when I opened the page to begin voting, it said I had to register or log in to vote. When I click the link - in ANY city's platform, THAT LINK redirects me to the bottom of East #1 Kris' Winter in Paris, where my fields are filled in (because I made it that way once upon a time I guess). I click the log in button where I am now free to comment at that post. I navigate -any way I can- (everything is opened up in different tabs now for some strange reason) to the post where I'm asked to vote on a pair of entries (again, any 2 entries), RELOAD as instructed, and see there is now a bar under each main pic that says VOTE. I click on either one, and I get redirected to a page with only a box on it.

Inside that box, it says in red and bold:
"The change you wanted was rejected."

and in gray but not bold:
"Maybe you tried to change something you didn't have access to."

There is nothing else on that page.

B0rked! I also went to the contact site link to report the issue earlier, as you had requested in the East matchup post. I don't know why that's not going through either.

Hope you can resolve it. I have tried not to air my frustration too much, but I'm curious if anyone else gets the same thing or why they aren't and I am. Please figure it out if you can! Thanks.

Right now my screen says I am logged in as farnsworthglass. I am not farnsworthglass. How is this possible?

Hi KTG and farnsworthglass,

The first thing to try, if you haven't already, is to visit:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/superlogout

... which should clear out any bugs that may have persisted from an old version of our community code. After logging in again on the comment form, you should be able to vote.

It didn't allow me to vote and posting is still messed up. I also forgot to mention that I did try that superlogout earlier when you posted it in the first East matchup. It hadn't worked then either and I continued to have problems. (This comment box was open to post as I had described above, but I get an error box instead of submitting the post initially. The Submit Comment button is now grayed out. Internal 500 something or other error popup dialog box, FYI. I now have to copy the text, reload, re-login, paste and submit to get this through).

I also want to say - in the actual head picture of the post, the VS should stand out better from the pictures. It is white against white and hard to distinguish the posts on a quick scroll from other posts, especially from the weekend where there are blocks of several pictures together (including color contest pics) and house tours where everything starts to look the same. Just a simple outline on the text or a 3-d effect, some contrast that's not going to clash with the pictures or accidentally blend in with some of them.

I tried to superlogout again and login back on the comment page (what you said to do to the letter), not the community page (where it was directing me), and then tried a test post and still had problems. It's just me? Everyone else is having a smooth time of it?

test

So how were the top 16 chosen?? I disagree that these two were the strongest out of the field! There's no real color in either of them so I won't be voting either way...I think some that got left out were better.

i kinda agree... honestly 80% of these "finalists" have white walls. Not that their accessories and furnishings aren't colorful, but... I dunno, doesn't seem like my favorites made the cut.

This contest really needs to be revamped next year- maybe a "judges pick" or something. NW Shelby's contemporary vs Inger's bright and bold is a perfect example. Somehow Inger, with all white walls, is winning a color contest...it makes no sense and ends up being a contest of "who has the most email friends" instead of an actual color contest....a bit of a letdown!

I guess I'll have to live with the problems of logging in and not being able to vote!

I think the voting should just start over with a better format...there is a lot of money involved this year and someone with white walls, wood tones, and one red pillow shouldn't be winning $2500 in a color contest.

While I could be accused of being a sore loser (I lost in the 1st round!), I've gotten multiple emails from friends who said they couldn't vote; they tried to log on & got sent to the original postings for comments. Some made comments & thought that was a vote. One said today she tried 5 times yesterday & TODAY was the 1st time she linked to the voting page. Even my sister, an experienced AT user, couldn't get to the voting page after logging on. I saw that today there was a bar graph with vote totals, but not yesterday. I could have seen that as a reference to know if I had a chance at all.
But I love the site & the contest, & I am excited for some of my favorites--that use color well & uniquely--to go on in the brackets!

I will echo the login issues. I spent my lunch hour walking friends through how to log in to vote for me. Many others just gave up. Sigh.