Q-Seattle Events: Tacky Tourist Clubs

As promised, we now offer you a chance to vote for your favorite bars and clubs in our Tacky Tourist Clubs Gay Bar Tourney.

Vote now for your favorite gay bars in Seattle.

This time around, we've slavishly copied Capitol Hill Seattle's popular polls by using the same web-based service that they've been using. This one lets anyone vote (at least) once a day, thereby doing what all bad good web polls should: Reflect enthusiasm along with popularity.

One bored cubicle worker checking in each day (or more often for cookie-mod geeks) could drastically affect the results. And that's what it's all about. That's enthusiasm for you. But another bored cubicle worker with a big address list could email this post or a copy of his preferred poll to all friends, acquaintances and tricks, thereby turning it into a battle of enthusiasms.

How the tourney works
We start with the regular season. Bars and clubs compete in eleven conferences. The conferences were determined by the tags we've used for months and sometimes over a year on our bars page.

During this, the regular season, each bar is competing in a conference that rates it for a single feature. Admittedly, it's confusing right now, but that's how it should be in regular season match ups when there are too many teams competing in too many conferences.

(Please, please, post a comment below if something seems unfair about the conference alignment. We'll fix the bars map right away, but we won't be able to change the tourney teams.)

Since we can only include seven options on any of the polls, some of the conferences are divided into two divisions.

In the second round, winners of each division in a conference will face off against each other and at least one other club chosen by vote totals of the non-winners in the conference.

We'll probably also set up at least one wild-card poll during the second round based on some bizarre criteria that we haven't fully figured out yet.

In the third round, winners of each conference (that gets some kind of reasonable number of votes) and of the wild-card poll will face off against one another. Stronger conferences based on vote totals will face weaker conferences.

After that, the winners of each poll will face off against each other. It's possible (even likely) that one bar might face off against itself. For instance, Bar-Q (dancing) might compete against Bar-Q (patio).

Confused? Don't worry about it. Just vote. If you'd like to do some research this weekend, get directions from our Seattle gay bars map.

We don't expect a huge number of votes in this silly little tourney, so that means that your vote will be even more important. Tell your friends. Copy one or several of the polls and add it to an email or your own blog.

We'll let the regular season run through January and then run the playoff rounds. If it weren't too similar to a term that's copyrighted by a litigious outfit, we might call it something like the Madness of March. But we won't.

So get out your Fighting Poodles pom-poms and VOTE often for your favorite in each conference.

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