Public Voting is Open!

[Nick Plante]

After much deliberation, our expert panelists have made their
selections. We’ve tallied the results, sprinkled some magic dust
about, and are now ready to announce the list of finalists for the
2009 Rails Rumble championship. Woo!

We were originally going to select only 15 applications to go through
to the final round, but the entries this year were simply
unbelievable; a real testament to what can be done in a tiny amount of
time with some sick talented designers / developer pairings, ample
caffeine, and a modern set of agile tools like Ruby and Rails. It took
a lot of work just to narrow it down to the list of 22 that you can
view on the leaderboard.

http://railsrumble.com/entries

Just because an entry isn’t in this list doesn’t mean that it doesn’t
deserve to be. In fact, a couple of my personal favorite applications
didn’t make the final list, which is a bummer (such as How I Really
Feel, Rakugoka and a.ppend.to whom I really hope continue to work on
their apps), but so it goes! The expert judges have spoken, and our
final list is, I think, more impressive than ever before. It’s going
to be a real difficult task to decide which of these applications
takes home all the loot this year.

And that’s exactly why we need your help! In case you haven’t already,
we invite you to register for an account, visit the leaderboard at
railsrumble.com/entries, and get your vote on (ballots are located on
your profile page). You’ll not only be helping us decide which team
gets the top spot, but you’ll also be also entering yourself to win
one of a number of randomly selected judging prizes. Do it! Now!

http://railsrumble.com/login

Thanks to everyone for their hard work. Spread the word and check out
these awesome micro-apps. Public judging will close end of day
Saturday.

Best,

-- The Rumble Organizers (@zapnap, @Sutto, @jeffrafter, @eshine)