Thank you to all the Grovers who voted for Willow’s Grove in Round 1 of the Tournament! Now we move on to Round 2, so please continue voting so we can make it through to Round 3! The link is here. You can still vote every day this week, so let’s get out there and win one for the Grover! LOL…Many thanks in advance!

Hey, a big thanks to all of you who voted for Willow’s Grove in Round 2 of the TGT Webcomics Tournament! With your awesome voting skills, we’ve made it to the next round! Now, in Round 3, we are up against some tougher competition and I need your voting skills to kick into top gear! So starting at 1am, August 16th, get out there and please, please vote for Willow’s Grove again, every day through August 21st (you can vote once a day up to 12:59am ET) and help us get through to the next round!

The link is the same to get your voting pointers a’clickin’: TGT Webcomics Tournament – http://tgtwebcomics.com/projects/events/tournament2/ .

I thank you so very much in advance!

Vote vote vote vote, tell your friends, your family, your friends family, your coworkers, your coworkers family, strangers on the street, strangers in a Starbucks, Snakes on a Plane, Snakes in a Starbucks, Snakes on the street or in a field or in your back yard (if it has wi-fi and if those snakes in your backyard have access to a wifi capable computing device…you know, they may not be able to type fast with their tail, but they can surf the internet with the touchpad mouse real well! That’s why snakes went out and bought iPads), vote, vote, vote! Then vote some more!

Hey there Grovers! I am sure you are wondering where the Willow’s Grove entry in Round 3 has gone to. Well, I received word from Kurt Sasso of TGT Webcomics that there was possibly something out of sorts happening with the voting for WG and he wanted to let me know. I told him that even though I had been campaigning on twitter (yes, I know, rather obnoxiously), Facebook, as well as via email to groups I belong to (which number in the hundreds), that if he felt the votes I was receiving were suspect, that I would rather pull out of the tournament than to have a win because some fan decided to “help” us win instead of us having an honest win. I truly do not know if this was the case or if it was just a coincidence, but I would rather err on the side of caution for the integrity of the tournament than to win unfairly because of unsavory means.

I would like to thank all of you who voted for Willow’s Grove (we did reach about 403 votes) and wish Michelle Van Zandt of Ginpu luck in the semi-finals. Although I am disappointed that it had to come to this as it was a very exciting round, I would rather take a bow than to have a possible tainted victory. If this was indeed the act of one of you Grovers, I would just like to say that although I appreciate your loyalty, I do NOT approve of your methods. If this was indeed the case, (and I don’t know if I ever will know or not) I just wanted to let that fan know what their actions led to. Let Willow’s Grove stand on its own merits and if we lose, we lose, it’s not the end of the world. Integrity, honesty and reputation is far more important to me than winning a competition.

Also, thank you to Kurt for having me in this tournament, bringing this incident to my attention, and having me on the show back in July of 2009. Good luck to the rest of the webcomics still in the tournament! Get out there and vote (fairly)!