We’ll start by congratulating the advocate who took her character all the way to the end—Valerie from StuckinBooks! You did an excellent job representing, Clary Fray! Every match was a new surprise! We never knew who we were going to hear from! It was so fun!
Coming in second was Avery from Avery’s Book Nook! Avery did a fantastic job defending Tessa, all the way to the finals! And who can forget that trailer she had in her post! We will not disclose how many times we watched it, only once, I promise! ;)
These other amazing advocates fought long and hard to get their girls into the Extraordinary Eight:
Penelope from Reading Fever (representing Katniss) Penelope was an amazing advocate for Katniss! Just like Katniss, she was lighting twitter and all the Hunger Games fansites on fire promoting her girl!!!
Jen from Unedited (representing Hermione) Jen was seriously the perfect fit for Hermione! Jen really is one of the brightest bloggers of her age! (actually all ages) She even pulled out all the stops with her sexy pics of Ryan Gosling and her debut as a YouTube star!
Momo from Books Over Boys (representing Alex) Holy smokes, Batman! What can we say about Momo! She is a force to be reckoned with. With her and Alex on the same team, not many daimons or heriones for that matter stood a chance! She was a fearless leader of the Half-Blood Legion!
Amanda from Letters Inside Out (representing Izzy) Amanda was another Cassie Clare girl that shared her love of The Mortal Instruments with the world. She lead Izzy who isn't even the main character of her series all the way to the Extraordinary Eight! She was an Extraordinary Advocate!
Anna from The Bursting Bookshelf (representing Meghan) Anna the awesome was representing Meghan! Her post was beautiful and made us want to go reread all the Iron Fey books all over again! Not to mention, having Ash and Puck on her team! Who could refuse?!?!
Julie from My Five Monkeys (representing Tris) Julie was Dauntless in defending Tris! She was on Twitter fighting for her girl all hours of the day and night in all of her matches!!! And she had Four on her side, which makes it a side that we are more than willing to be on!
There were, of course, many fantastic advocates who did not make the top eight. This tournament all the advocates blew us away! Seriously, all of them went above and beyond everything, and there is not possible way for us to pick any extra awards without picking an award for all the advocates! So, because of that...every advocate will receive some token of our appreciation—be it books, ebooks, or some awesome swag.
Many have graciously offered to donate prizes to reward the advocates who took part in the tourney. We've gotten in some great things so far, with more scheduled to come. This is who has donated so far: Spencer Hill Press, HarperCollins, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Amy Plum, Jeri Smith-Ready, Julie Kagawa, Taryn Browning, Myra McEntire, Mindy @ Magical Urban Fantasy Reads, Amber and Stacey @ Pageturners, and Julie @ My 5 Monkeys.
Many have graciously offered to donate prizes to reward the advocates who took part in the tourney. We've gotten in some great things so far, with more scheduled to come. This is who has donated so far: Spencer Hill Press, HarperCollins, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Amy Plum, Jeri Smith-Ready, Julie Kagawa, Taryn Browning, Myra McEntire, Mindy @ Magical Urban Fantasy Reads, Amber and Stacey @ Pageturners, and Julie @ My 5 Monkeys.
We’ll be in touch with our awesome advocates soon to tell you what you’ve won!
Congrats to the awesome advocates!
ReplyDeleteOmg, this tournament was such an amazing event to take part in! It was even funner than last time but with that said, the work and stress was just that much more as well, lol!
ReplyDeleteCongrats to every single advocate, whether you made it pass one round or not to the very end, we're all winners so you know what, *raises glass* CHEERS TO ALL OF US! ;)
And lastly, HUGE THANK YOU to the fabulous YA Sisterhood for all their hard blog work, dedication, and patience with us advocates, haha! Well, me anyway...cause I helluh lagged on my defense posts! ;P
But seriously, thank you guys so much for hosting these tournaments because they really do get the word out about amazing books! You guys rock the hardest! <3333
-Momo
I just want to say "THANK YOU!!" to all of the advocates for your hard work and for introducing me to some pretty hardcore "girls" I'd yet to meet.
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A HUGE THANK YOU to you girlies here at the YA Sisterhood - You all are made of total AWESOMESAUCE! Without you, none of this would be possible. :)
I've only been around the blogblock for a few months but this is one of my favorite stops and I always look forward to what you have coming up. I'll always be grateful for last summers "Tournament of Hot Guys, um, I mean Heroes" because it's where I met Patch & Ash or "Cupcake Boy" as he's known in my house. *sighs* ;)
Blessings to you all,
Jen
http://jenuinecupcakes.blogspot.com/
Thank YOU, ladies! This is a fun and fantastic tourney and I'm so glad to have been able to participate. Thanks to both tourneys, I've picked up WAY too many books for my TBR pile and have met so many amazing authors and advocates and fellow fans (even Jeri S-R's AGENT got in on the tweet-support bandwagon. Awesome agents FTW! And some PUBLISHERS were supporting their girls with tweets! How awesome was that?!?!?)
ReplyDeleteThanks for putting up with the issues, for not sleeping along with us in some of the more heated battles, and for formatting wonky advocate posts for HOURS (sorry!)
Many hugs to all of you!
--Emberchyld/Carli (sorry for the "ME" but, livejournal and openId hate each other at the moment!)
Wonderful post. All of the advocates did such an amazing job, and I can't imagine the work it takes to host an event like this either. All of you deserve cupcakes!! *throws confetti*
ReplyDeleteI loved participating in this tournament even if my heroine didn't make it very far. It was just amazing to see the amount of support I received from everyone. I will definitely be looking forward to future tournaments and possibly sign up to be an advocate again.
ReplyDeleteThank you for hosting it was a lot of fun!
I had a blast advocating for Clary and Casie made it so fun. She was down for whatever crazy idea I came up with.
ReplyDeleteI loved making friends with other advocates, all of you ROCK. I loved the mass tweeting that brought so many people together in support of their favorite heroines. I love the fabulous authors who got involved and offered wonderful incentives. I loved how well organized and fun the YA Sisterhood made the whole event. You guys ROCK hard.
It was a whirlwind that I missed when it was over. Good job everyone.
Valerie
StuckInBooks.com
I had so much fun participating in this tournament! I met a ton of new and amazing people all thanks to the tournament! I cannot wait for next year, I hope to be able to participate again and make even more friends. A massive thanks to the YA Sisterhood for putting so much effort into making a successful event.
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The Bursting Bookshelf
Thanks for having the tournament, it was a lot of fun. Looking forward to future tournaments too. :)
ReplyDeleteI was just catching up on my rss reader and saw this - thanks, ladies!!! I had so much fun and can't wait to see what the next tourney brings!
ReplyDeleteThanks ladies and I was glad to met some great ladies and advocating for Tris. Thanks to all the authors for creating some amazing Heroines. It was fun to participate and see all the ladies represented.
ReplyDeleteThanks again for hosting this awesome tournament! I had a great time advocating & can't wait for the next one!
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