Drum Roll Please…..
Amy, Jodie, Trish and I are extremely pleased with the response we’ve gotten from bloggers interested in being judges. We hope everyone is equally excited to find out who they are!
Without further ado, here are the brackets for the Second Annual Nerds Heart YA Tournament. Click the thumbnail image below to see the larger version.
So here’s how it’s going to work — nominations for books to be included in the brackets are ongoing through March 31st. Once that date has past we’ll work with our young adult literature consultants (who we’ll showcase in a separate post soon) will whittle down the list to fit the brackets. After that we’ll get the show on the road and it’ll be all about the judges getting their reviews on.
What does this mean for judges? Well, in the coming weeks, we’ll be contacting you about timelines. We hope to space things out a little bit so that we’re not inundating people’s feed readers with 40 posts about the tournament all at the same time. We also want to be sure that each book gets some good attention even if it isn’t selected to move on in the brackets.
If you’re a judge and you have any questions let us know. If you’ve been selected and you find you can’t commit to participating please let us know right away!
Congratulations all!
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March 17, 2010 at 11:29 pm
Heather
Yay!! I’m so excited! Thanks for selecting me!! 🙂
March 17, 2010 at 11:39 pm
Susan
Thanks so much for picking me! I haven’t got a clue what I’m doing, but I’m excited to be participating.
March 17, 2010 at 11:50 pm
Jen - Devourer of Books
Woo! I’m excited to be a judge!
March 17, 2010 at 11:50 pm
heidenkind
Yay! I’m excited! But how will Pussreboots and I share a bracket? What if we like different books?
March 18, 2010 at 12:00 am
Amanda
This is awesome! Very excited now. 😀
March 18, 2010 at 12:05 am
readwhatyouknow
Yay! I’m super excited to begin this project. 😀
March 18, 2010 at 12:13 am
khy
Whoot! Excited to be a judge. 😀 Can’t wait to see what awesome books I will get to choose between. =0
March 18, 2010 at 12:31 am
Angela
Wow! Thanks for choosing me – I’m excited, too! Though like heidenkind, I’d like to know how the brackets with two judges will work out. Can’t wait to see what comes next!
March 18, 2010 at 1:50 am
Kelly
So excited to be a judge this year! Can’t wait to see what’s in my bracket. 🙂
heidenkind and Angela, last year people who shared a bracket discussed between the two of them which book should win, then made a joint decision. Some people split their discussion/decision into two posts, one on each judge’s site.
Is there a way we can see the books that have already been submitted?
March 18, 2010 at 2:24 am
The1stdaughter
Thank you thank you thank you! I can’t wait to get going on this and I’m so excited to be working with Melissa from BookNut! It’s going to be great!
March 18, 2010 at 3:44 am
Beth F
Wow!! I’m very excited to be part of this!
March 18, 2010 at 3:51 am
Aarti
Yay! I’m so excited to take part 🙂 I’m kind of confused as to how it’s going to work… sorry! I will assume I’ll figure it out along the way! Or I’ll just trust to Valentina!
March 18, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Meg
Woo! Can’t wait to get crackin’! 🙂
March 18, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Melanie
I’m suuuper excited! 😀
March 18, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Lenore
Uh…wow! Looks like I have a lot of responsibility!
March 18, 2010 at 8:26 pm
Darren @ Bart's Bookshelf
Oh my! I’m a semi-final judge! 😯
So, looking forward to this!
March 19, 2010 at 5:27 pm
Heather
Yay!!! I’m so excited! And can’t WAIT to get started. Thank you guys, so much!!!
March 27, 2010 at 12:49 am
Lorin
Yay! I’m really looking forward to taking part!
March 27, 2010 at 3:59 am
Pam
Looking forward to this so much. YA is has a very special place in my heart.
March 27, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Michelle
Thanks so much – this is going to be a lot of fun! Looking forward to getting started 🙂
March 27, 2010 at 1:20 pm
rhapsodyinbooks
Yay! I can’t wait! Thank you!!!!!!
March 27, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Doret
I can’t wait to get started
March 28, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Jodie
Hello just thought I’d drop by with a bit of clarification. Valentina’s right when she explains how co judging works (thanks Val). If you like different books you have to battle to the death, I mean ugh compromise rationally between yourself to produce a winner to move on to the next round.
Aarti here’s what will happen. You’ll get two books to read and you’ll pick one to move on to the next round. Another judge (for you I think it’s Valentina) will pick one book form the two she’s judging to move on to the next match. Then the next judge (for your guys it’s Persnickety Snark) will judge the book you put forward and the book Valentina put forward and decide on a winner to progress to the next round…and so on until two book remain in the final and one wins!
I’m so excited to see you all on board and I think it’s really cool what a big response we’ve had.
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Avri
Hey! Very nice blog! Many interesting informations!