And the votes are in…. Here are our top 30 bands/artists advancing on to Round 2:
Flashback BAND 954
The Repeating Arms 855
The Scotty Bratcher Band – Official 680
Curse of Cassandra 523
Menace 2 Sobriety 409
Higgins Madewell 371
Cinder Home 369
Grace Revival 331
DIDDLEY 263
Legbone 237
Witness 198
Ashley Martin 170
“Good English” 170
Lost on Iddings 168
SPLATTERTUDE 166
The Werks 163
Black Cloud Syndrome 159
Scott Lee & The Whiskey River Boys 154
DUMBELL 142
Free Fall Theory 133
Wheels 114
Village fam 111
Blue Moon Soup 103
Cricketbows 103
Redneck Rebelz 101
Kings Landing 100
Paradijm Shift 100
Emily & the Lost Cat Ramblers 94
DC Connection 84
The Loveless 77
Final vote tallies, including “other category” votes are listed after each band/artist name. Total votes achieved will not affect the outcome of Round 2 reviews, but we thank everyone for voting and helping support their favorite bands and artists! There were a total of 10,779 votes in all during the contest period!
Each of these bands and artists will now be reviewed based upon the following criteria:
1.) availability and quality of online recordings
2.) overall skill level of music
3.) quality of page(s) content
4.) personal taste of Music Connection- Dayton, OH
We will announce our top 5 in about a week and our winner will be officially announced on January 1st, 2014, so stay tuned!
Music Connection Dayton 
I dont understand this contest and the outcome,why make people vote, and the ones that won the over all vote are not included, you said in one of your comments when someone was complaining about the mix of original and cover bands that you wanted to make it fair, but in the end you choose your 5 favorite bands, we were really dedicated and support the band that got the most of the votes, but there again it was kind of unfair..really dissapointed
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Hi Pattie! We stated from the beginning of the contest that this was based upon a number of factors, one of which was the voting. I hope you’ll stop over to my latest posting and check it out for additional details about how we are choosing our winner. That posting is located here: https://musicconnectiondayton.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/the-2013-bandartist-has-been-decided-how-did-we-do-it
Additionally, here is the link to our initial contest posting stating the different areas we would be considering:
We tried our best to make this as fair of a contest as possible and apologize that we weren’t clear enough about the deciding factors. We hope to remedy that in the future.
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