Best Damn Sports Blog In Canada Period

It's official!

                      
                     Votes     %
The Joy of Sox         685   36%
The Battle of Alberta  673   35%
James Mirtle           213   11%
RaptorBlog             193   10%
Nascar Ranting and
   Raving Blog         146    8%

Thank you to Jere, Red, Sam, Empy, and Laura (we move to canada) for getting out the vote -- especially Jere, who seemed as obsessed with this thing as I was. Scary.

Thanks to everyone who voted, especially those who went back every day, and a very special thanks to the 19 readers who cast their critical votes in the last 30 minutes.

I like numbers, so here are the running totals at various points, as posted by either myself or Jere here.

                 JoS  BoA    Adv
11/25 11:47 pm    52   47   +  5
 
11/26  8:00 am    82   53   + 29
11/26  4:13 pm   129   56   + 73
 
11/27 10:44 am   181   80   +101
11/27  3:04 pm   201  116   + 85
 
11/28  4:50 pm   280  180   +100
 
11/29 12:55 pm   327  221   +106
11/29  5:00 pm   348  271   + 77
 
11/30  8:44 am   386  327   + 59
11/30  1:36 pm   401  361   + 40
  
12/01  8:58 am   534  459   + 75
12/01 10:14 am   537  461   + 76
12/01  1:41 pm   580  480   +100
12/01  3:24 pm   600  494   +106
12/01  5:26 pm   614  529   + 85
12/01  6:52 pm   624  573   + 51
12/01  9:00 pm   644  621   + 23
12/01  9:39 pm   650  635   + 15
12/01 11:01 pm   663  654   +  9
12/01 11:18 pm   665  659   +  6
12/01 11:25 pm   665  663   +  2
12/01 11:30 pm   666  665   +  1
12/01 11:32 pm   668  665   +  3
12/01 11:34 pm   671  666   +  5
12/01 11:36 pm   674  667   +  7
12/01 11:37 pm   676  667   +  9
12/01 11:41 pm   678  667   + 11
12/01 11:46 pm   681  667   + 14
12/01 11:50 pm   682  669   + 13
12/01 11:51 pm   682  671   + 11
12/01 11:53 pm   684  672   + 12
12/01 11:55 pm   684  672   + 12
12/01 11:56 pm   685  673   + 12
12/01 11:57 pm   685  673   + 12
12/01 11:58 pm   685  673   + 12
12/01 11:59 pm   685  673   + 12
12/02 12:00 am   685  673   + 12

Raptor Blog won the first round, but then did not post for 7 days (11/23 to 12/1), which hurt his chances (I'm assuming that Battle of Alberta was always in 2nd place). The first big run was due to a mention at SoSH. Surviving Grady posted voting info on the morning of the final day. In the evening, Alberta started getting huge amounts of votes. The lead shrank from 106 to 15 in only six hours. It got down to one vote before I posted a plea here. Amazingly, it worked immediately. Within 10 minutes, the lead was back up to 11. (After all that drama, there were no votes for either blog in the last four minutes.)