KidVid Tournament 2010 Semifinal #1: Caspar Babypants vs. Debbie & Friends

The first semi-final matchup of KidVid Tournament 2010 features the Pete Seeger Regional winner Caspar Babypants and his "Itsy Bitsy Spider" video from More Please! -- the video vanquished Dan Zanes in an epic Round 2 matchup. That video's going up against the Ella Jenkins Regional winner Debbie and Friends and "Willy Won't" from the upcoming More Story Songs and Sing-Alongs, who defeated a feisty Johnny Bregar in Round 2.

Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments below, but the official results are based on the poll at the bottom of the page. One vote per person, please. One vote per person! Votes due by 5 pm tomorrow (Friday) East Coast time. And, as I continue to say, play nice -- that means encouraging folks to watch both videos and avoiding trash-talking. Really, folks, it's just a silly internet contest.

Caspar Babypants - "Itsy Bitsy Spider" [YouTube]

Debbie and Friends: Willy Won't [YouTube]

Comments

[Mary Quinlan]

I am very disappointed. I tried to vote for Debbie and Friends: Willy Won't from my computer here at work and my vote wouldn't register. Apparentely someone else from here at work (we have over 250 employees here at my law firm) had previously voted for "Debbie and Friends: Willy Won't" and once one vote is cast from our firm's network of computers, other subsequent votes will not count. How can a fair tally of votes be accounted for with this issue? I know there were at least 30 other voters here that wanted to vote for "Willy Won't".

Mary Quinlan, attorneyTrenam Kemker PA

[Stefan]

OK, I'm not sure why it's not showing as closed, but as of 1 minute past the voting deadline, Caspar Babypants has defeated Debbie and Friends, 228-210.

I will now try to figure out how to actually get the poll to show as closed here as it does in my administrator page.

[Stefan]

Mary, I'm sorry that you ran into that issue. I have the IP protection geared up as far as it can go, and I recognize that it can cause problems like yours.

Having said that, everybody was subject to the same protection and so there could very well have been another law firm with another 30 votes for Caspar Babypants left "on the table," so to speak.

The voting methodology isn't perfect, and for that I'm sorry.

[Mary Quinlan]

To follow up my previous comment, I want to express my appreciation to this website to provide this kidvid forum. I do recognize the value in having this "playful" kidvid video internet contest and that its real purpose is to get viewers to watch the videos here online, and I believe that purpose is being met to a large degree. However, the only way an excellent and entertaining video continues to enjoy this opportunity is by "winning" the internet voting contest and moving on to the "next" round.

As I stated before, I and about 30 of my colleagues here at my firm who follow kidvids, did not get to have our "vote" counted. Apparently once a vote is cast from our firm's network of computers, no further voting from any other computer in this network will be tallied or accounted.

This site states "ONE PERSON ONE VOTE".. it doesn't state "ONE NETWORK OF COMPUTERS, ONE VOTE". I just suggest that it may be helpful to advise voting viewers of this restriction so that they can be better informed of how to cast a "meaningful" vote.

Thanks for providing this excellent forum for the makers and creators of kid vids and children music.

Mary Quinlan

[Dennis]

Perhaps Mary shouldn't be using work computers to vote for non-work issues. I use my home computer.

[Stefan]

Mary, duly noted. The downside of shared IPs not being able to vote, to me, is outweighed by a more stringent anti-spam vote mechanism and the belief that lots of folks have access to secondary IP voting (e.g., iPhones, etc.)

Unlike Dennis, if you're OK using the work computer, so am I. ;-)

[Danny A]

It appears to me that this past round had a 2 day voting window, which to me means that if you wanted to vote badly enough you could have done it at home, or had time to make it to your local library or Kinko's. My only suggestion/reccomendation dor this tournament would be to have it end at 9pm to midnight West coast (Pacific) time to ensure fair voting time opportunities. If a contest ends @ noon on the East coast, West coast fans are just getting going thus giving East coast fans 3 more hours of time where normal people are online a chance to vote. This appears to be an advantage to bands with East coast fan bases. Thanks for the awesome & fun format though!