Absolutely - took me over a year to actually stumble over and
discover the boards.
Yup, the non-declared votes and non-Member votes will make a big difference here. Though Miss H did pick up momentum towards the end of Round 2 in the Main Category, so the Round 2 placings are not necessarily carried over into the Finals, with less available votes to the single-voter etc.
Interesting to notice - In Mr. Wallaby's
Highly Inaccurate FreeOnes-Only Final Round Vote Counter, in the Best Adult Model Category, Ariel Rebel takes the Top-Placement. Throughout all of Round 2, Ariel had been trailing Andi Land in that Category for Top-Spot. Now in this vote counter Andi is not even present. This lets us understand that the mass of outside votes has a huge weight.
It really was a lot of fun, and I miss writing my posts as well, trying everyday to write something different, even though my votes had been substantially the same throughout most of the Contest. - I totally get the "withdrawal symptoms" - though I'm also glad, 'cause a lot of
pressure is gone
Personally I found that Round 2 was tons of fun, and perhaps even the best of all the Rounds.
Round 1 there were so many Babes, and it was hard to follow them all. Though already there could be seen that some of them were very present (on the board) and others were nowhere to be seen.
Round 2 then, the Babes were down to a more managable number, and the interaction with a lot of the OCSMs was just awesome. We were treated to pics, gifs and vids and felt really happy, even though we were limited in the loads of appreciation we were able to shoot out. It was hard, oh G was it ever hard, but it was wonderful. The only upsetting thing was seeing some Babes, OCSMs who had hardly ever posted during their account-life - or not posted during the Contest, proceeded on to the Finals, whereas Babes who did care about the FreeOnes Community were left out.
Round 3 somewhat lost that light-heartedness and appeal that had characterized the previous Round. Some Babes who did not make it into the Finals, disappeared either completely - or retreated from the MFC threads into their personal threads.
(Posting-)Members Votes were relatively decided upon, and having hopes of rallying Swing-Votes were slim. The possibilites upwards were only by trying to rally those who had lost their Faves in some categories, and off-site. Also with the number of Babes reduced, the showering of treats had been reduced to mainly the most active of the Babes still in the running. Some had never even been present on the Boards ever since the Start of the Contest - and continued to shine through their absence. What did disappoint me though, was that some - who had rallied for votes heavily here on the boards during Round 2, and had made substantial jumps to make it into the Finals, had not (or hardly) posted during Round 3 (I will not mention names, but it's not so hard to find them).
Of course, the fact that there were only 15 Babes in the running per category, and with some Faves out of the race / not qualified in certain categories, could have also helped some (while harmed others).
Example: Though I learned to really like Miss H, I had not been planning on voting for her in the Main Category - as I already had my 3 Faves for Round 3. (Un)fortunately though, 1 of my Faves did not make it through in the planned category and so I was able to change my voting pattern and include some thrusts for Miss H.
I think that also some other voters (not so much those who did post on the boards) had to rethink their votes for the Finals.
impdaddy
