Congrats Jill & Andrew!
I saw it coming... especially over the last weekend as we went from the quarter to the semi-final rounds. Suddenly on the last day (March 31st) I realized that two of your songs where in the FINALS and "weighted" at the front of the pack in 1st and 2nd place. This was late yesterday afternoon and after my dinner, there was only about 3 hours left for voting.

I had a very long day yesterday so it got late and I figured I'd confirm the final outcome on Tuesday morning; but last I checked shortly after midnight (Boston time zone), it appears that Hajim had reached 1st place! It was a wonderful surprise and I was going to SHOUT about it but I wasn't sure because each time I refreshed the page the songs seemed to get shuffled around, so probaby it was the last few minutes of tabulating the scores before releasing a final outcome.

Anyway, this morning I checked again and found the final results posted on this page:
http://www.ourstage.com/winners/2008/3
You'll see Hajime at top right side of page where the $5,000 Music Grand Prize is announced! smile

Some contest stats:
1st out of 37 music finalist entries!
1st out of 16,481 total song entries!
1st out of a approx. 10,000 (estimated) artists!

Not sure, but that's getting close in size to some of the largest established (traditional) contests in the world such as John Lennon and the USA Songwriting Competition. I think both of those together don't add up to the size of the JPF song awards. I'm sure Brian can confirm this.

Once again, congrats & mega cheers!
Michael



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