Last year over 78,000 cars entered the Toyota Sponsafier contest. Our Lyme Disease Awareness car came in 15th place (with almost 8,000 votes) and remained on display for a couple of months where it was seen by countless people!
Cars with the highest numbers of votes in the first round this year will be featured again in the final round where they will be displayed even more prominently.
Our theme this year is ``Get it Right, Treat the Bite!'' We want to encourage people to think about Lyme disease when they are bitten by a tick and to seek medical care immediately.
Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Ehrlichia, Bartonella and a host of infectious organism can be found in ticks, so why wait? After all, prevention is the best medicine!
This year our driver is Michael Waltrip- two time winner of the Daytona 500. With him behind the wheel and you at the voting pole each day, we should do quite well!
Be sure to click on the 3-D view of the car and see the tribute to Dr. Charles Ray Jones (on the roof).
Our Lyme Disease Awareness efforts this year are dedicated to Dr. Jones and his wonderful staff for all they do to help the children who suffer with chronic Lyme and tick borne diseases.
We are also celebrating Dr. Jones 82nd birthday this month- March 14, 2011. If you don't know Dr. Jones' story please visit the site dedicated to him, his staff and his precious kids.
Aside from raising Lyme awareness across the internet, the winning car (grand prize) will be featured at the 2011 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race this summer where it can be seen by millions of fans via television coverage and news reports.
The winner will also receive a prize package of Toyota Racing Gear and be honored with a visit from a (real) NASCAR driver.
Should our car win, all prizes will be donated to individual(s) dealing with chronic Lyme disease.
For more information check out the ``Racing Awareness'' page at www.DrJonesKids.com
Please feel free to share this announcement with your email, twitter and face book friends (see sample posts below). Encourage them to vote for our Racing Lyme Disease Awareness Car!
Boogity, boogity, boogity... Let's go racing, boys!
** Facebook post- Lyme Disease Awareness Race Car! You can get the word out about Lyme disease by voting for the Lyme Disease Awareness Race Car. We have 15 days to get as many votes as possible. You can vote once a day- it is easy, free and no registering required. Last year over 78,000 cars entered the contest. Our Lyme car came in 15th place and was seen by tons of people! See the Racing Awareness page at: www.DrJonesKids.com
**Twitter post- Gentlemen... START YOUR ENGINES!!! Vote for the Lyme Disease Awareness Race Car. See the Racing Awareness page- www.DrJonesKids.com
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Sweet - nice to see this back - you did a great job - I'll pass the word - it helps to get folks notified early on -
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Hey j-liz...
THANK YOU! That's great!
You are right, more traffic there. I tried to get it in the medical section and it was promptly moved to General by the moderators. They are needing a chocolate bar I believe- we can usually bribe some of them with that.
Here is the latest news....
You are doing wonderful racing Lyme Disease Awareness! In 4 days we have almost 1,000 votes!
If you go to page 4 and look under "Most Votes", we are there in 17th place! To vote click here
BUT... If we are going to have a chance to win, each person voting daily now needs to find at least 5 more people to cast their votes. And that is a minimum!
Can you do it?
Can you keep voting and share the original announcement below with others? Facebook, Twitter, friends at school and work?
The more who know, the faster we go toward Racing Lyme Disease Awareness!!!
UPDATE
There are 6,891 votes for the top car- so far. We are almost at 1,000 votes and have 10 more days to vote.
2 cars have total votes in the 6,000- 7,000 range (voting closed)
2 cars in the 5,000 range (voting closed)
1 car in 3,000 range (voting open)
4 in the 2,000 range (2 still have voting open)
5 in the 1,000 range (1 still has voting open)
Zac Attack and Faith & Hope are HOT on our bumpers.
Don't forget to cast your vote!!!!
Help Raise Lyme Disease Awareness. Vote for the Lyme Disease Awareness Race Car. Free, easy and no registration required.
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vroom...reporting for race car duty! I've have been voting every day, but couldn't get here til now.
I'll be happy to post a message on my facebook page, and same as last year, will send a request to multiple email lists, including dear hubby's, whose contacts really kicked up some dust last time around.
1,000 is a grand start- let's kick it up a notch!!
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GREAT day in the morning. Look who is here joining us with our racing efforts! The BIG race fan, Daytona Dilly!!!
Got good news too! In a couple of hours we are going to fly past the state police car, and blow their doors off!
UPDATE- The Lyme Awareness Race Car was dedicated to Dr. Jones and his wonderful staff for all of their work with the children, and to celebrate Dr. Jones birthday on March 14, 2011.
The website dedicated to him- where the Race Car information is located- has had over 1,000 new viewers in the past 5 days. This will hopefully help his situation.
Thanks to your efforts, in the past 24 hours we've added about 1,000 more votes to our previous total.
In 24 hours we raced up from a respectable 9th place to an incredible 6th place!
In the process we blew the doors off the state police car, the 911 dispatchers car and several others- we left them in our dust! (tee hee hee hee)
We need about 400 votes to move up to 5th place and be featured on the front page on the website! There are over 30,000 cars entered in the contest at this time.
The race car website gets approximately 300,000 hits per day, or about 1.2 million views every 4 days. (This is free advertising for Lyme Disease Awareness.)
We have about one week to get to the #1 spot, and then we can only hope no one will race up behind us after our voting period ends and pass us.
We need to pass everyone like they were standing still and establish a good lead if we want to get to and stay in the #1 spot.
If we continue to get 1,000 votes per day (or more) for the last week of voting, as it stands now we will be in 1st place!!! (Then comes the voting by the judges to determine the final Top 10 cars.)
So please keep voting and spreading the word to all your Lyme and non-Lyme friends!
Got kids? If so, put them to work sharing the Lyme Awareness Race Car information to help us with our efforts. As one person commented...
"This has got to be written up as the greatest collective Lyme activist activity in awhile..."
Thanks to all of the support groups and people nationwide who are sharing the Racing Lyme Awareness information on their websites, face book and twitters.
Happy Racing Lyme Disease Awareness! Vrrrrrrrooooooommmmm!
~smile~
Help Raise Lyme Disease Awareness. Vote for the Lyme Disease Awareness Race Car. Free, easy and no registration required.
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We are now #5 with 3600+ votes #1 has 6800+ votes.
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yeah, and the number #1 car is so plain looking. only 2400 votes separate 1st and 5th! We can do this!!
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Hey tex,
Thanks for saying that the other car is plain. Once the voting is over the cars are judged for other things. In fact, voting is only 20% of the final judging!
Hope the design is good. Never been a race car designer and have NO talent as an artist of any kind, so I am hoping the others who entered didn't either.
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Click on "back to the gallery" and then on "most votes".
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Our Lyme Groups on Facebook are helping you with the count down on how many more votes to get past each car and soliciting votes galore. I've been voting every day and know that many over there are doing the same. Between all the different networks, hopefully we can keep the enthusiam going strong and not lose our lead. Keep it going!!!!!
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Hey td... good to see you! Thanks for keeping it going!
Thanks jliz for helping out! Hope Blinkie found it!
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CONGRATULATIONS!
Your efforts made the Lyme Disease Awareness Race Car move into 1st place for the most number of votes on Sunday evening!
Our car is also now featured on the "Most Votes" page for everyone to see!
Thank you for voting and for spreading the word to help "race" Lyme disease awareness! (Don't quit voting now, please read on!)
Number of votes currently- 7,522 (voting open 5 more days)
2nd place car, number of votes- 6,891 (voting closed)
Number of times someone clicked on the Lyme Disease Awareness Race Car to get a close up view- 9,600 (+)
Approximate number of visitors to the website where our car is located (since we entered the contest)- 3,000,000 (Yes! 3 MILLION)
In 10 days over 1,500 people visited the website dedicated to Dr. Jones and the children with Lyme, due to the Lyme Disease Awareness Race Car efforts. That is wonderful!
More Details- (I am explaining as much as I can here/now because I won't be available to answer questions this week- sorry.)
Currently there are over 32,000 cars entered in the race. The dead line to enter a new car will have passed by the time you get this notice (midnight Sunday, March 20, 2011).
We currently have 5 more days left to vote on our race car (15 days alloted originally). We need to try to bring up the number of votes as high as possible.
It is important to keep voting each day because there are a number of cars with 1- 15 days left to get votes. Some of the race cars are closing on us quickly and could pass us once our voting period ends.
I will send a notice when the voting closes for our car with the results. At that time we will need to wait until April 6, 2011, when voting is closed for all cars, to see how we did in the final vote.
Hopefully few, if any, cars will get more votes than we have and pass us by.
More Details & Quotes From Official Rules
Then the official judging begins. The number of votes we have at the end of our 15 days counts toward 20% of the overall judging.
"The number of votes a Design gains during the Public Voting I Phase will go towards that Design's score in the Public Appeal category of the Judging Criteria as part of the Finalist Selection Phase, as listed below in Section 6(i)."
The other 80% of the judging process examines the actual design and is based on other factors. Needless to say, I am under a bit of pressure here now. Keep in mind I am not a professional race car designer, not even an amateur, but I did try to design our Racing Lyme Disease Awareness Car with the following categories in mind.
"Finalist Selection: During the Finalist Selection Phase, qualified judges selected by Sponsor in its sole discretion (the "Qualified Judges") will review and judge all Designs according to the following criteria (the "Judging Criteria"):
Originality of the Design when compared to other Designs (20%); Feasibility of the Design to be applied to a two-seater NASCAR show car (20%);
Creativity demonstrated by the application of user-uploaded images and/or pre-loaded Sponsafier graphics to the Design to the Design (20%);
Ability of the Design to inspire consumers (20%); and Public Appeal (20%). [YOUR votes]
Subject to the entrant's compliance with these Official Rules, the ten (10) entrants with the highest-scoring Designs will be deemed potential Finalist Prize winners and will advance to the Public Voting II Phase."
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While they are judging all of the cars, we wait. (April 7-14th)
IF we happen to be selected to move forward, we will need to vote again!
That voting period is from April 22 to May 1 (Only 10 days).
I will send you an update if we are selected to move forward and need to put the petal to the metal and vote, vote, vote!
"Public Voting II: During the Public Voting II Phase, Finalist Designs will be posted for public voting on www.sponsafier.com.
Voters will be invited to vote for the Design that they believe has the most public appeal. The number of votes a Design gains during the Public Voting II Phase will go towards that Design's score in the Public Appeal category of the Judging Criteria as part of the Winner Determination Phase, as listed below in Section 6(iv). Limit: Each Voter may vote for only one (1) Design one (1) time per day during this time period."
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The next phase is "Winner Determination". It is based on the car with the highest-scoring design.
"Winner Determination: During the Winner Determination Phase, Qualified Judges will review and judge all Finalist Designs according to the Judging Criteria as listed above in Section 6(ii).
Subject to the entrant's compliance with these Official Rules, the entrant with the highest-scoring Design will be deemed the potential Grand Prize winner.
The top 10 entries receive prizes as follows.
ONE (1) GRAND PRIZE: The opportunity to have your design applied to a Toyota NASCAR Sprint Cup car; a NASCAR driver visit for the winner; and a prize pack consisting of Sponsor selected Toyota Racing Gear (size, type and style of gear selected by Sponsor in its sole discretion).
For the NASCAR driver experience: Details and schedule are to be mutually agreed upon by winner and Sponsor. NASCAR driver experience must be scheduled and agreed upon between Sponsor and winner by December 31, 2011 or will be forfeited in its entirety. Specific NASCAR driver based on winner's preference from those drivers featured on thewww.sponsafier.com site but determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion.
For Car Design: All terms set forth in Section 5 and Section 7 of these Official Rules apply to the winning Design. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to modify the winner's Design. Design will be featured at the 2011 NASCAR Sprint� All-Star Race. Sponsor is not responsible if race is delayed, postponed or cancelled, in which event Sponsor may not feature the winner's Design. Approximate Retail Value ("ARV"): $10,000.
TEN (10) FINALIST PRIZES: A customized helmet featuring the Finalist's "Sponsafied" car graphics. Size of helmet and design/layout of graphics selected by Sponsor in its sole discretion. ARV: $1,250.
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Official time chart..
Contest Phase Begins at (12:00 a.m. PT) Ends at (11:59 p.m. PT)
Submission February 14, 2011 March 20, 2011
Public Voting I February 14, 2011 April 6, 2011
Finalist Selection April 7, 2011 April 14, 2011
Public Voting II April 22, 2011 May 1, 2011
Winner Determination May 2, 2011 May 20, 2011
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-------------------- You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
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AlanaS ... I see your 13,274 votes and raise you 13,752!!!
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YO HO LYMENET PIT CREW! THANK YOU!!!
Final Lap Report
On our last lap we barreled past the finish line with a record number of votes! The results are absolutely amazing!
Over 34,000 cars were entered in the race and we are currently in 1st place for the most number of votes!
Thank you for voting to help Race Lyme Disease Awareness! Hope you had a little fun too! Please share this with your contacts and thank them for helping us.
Total numbers
Total number of votes - 14,234
Total votes for current second place car (subject to change as cars advance in the field) - 6,891
Total number of people (rounded off) that clicked on the Race Lyme Disease Awareness car to see it close up - 18,600
Total number of times (rounded off) our car was selected to be "shared" with others - 14,000
Number of new visitors that went to the website dedicated to Dr. Jones, his wonderful staff and their kids during the 15 days of voting - 2,015
Points- for bragging rights only (Rookie is 0-999, then we advanced to Mechanic, Pit Crewman, Crew Chief, and finally got the top ranking, "Driver", for which you must have 40,000 points or above.) Our total- 2,483,440
We are the number one featured car out of a total of 34,605 entries!!!
After the word got out about the contest, thanks to you we had approximately 2,000 (+) people voting each day!
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"Lyme Disease Thanks"- Special Tribute to Dr. Jones
(Click on 3-D and look closely at the trunk and rear of the car)
`````````````````````````````````````````` Voting for all cars that still have time remaining, ends on April 6, 2011. Then the judges select the top 10 cars based on specific design factors.
IF by some miracle we happen to make the top 10 when the judging is completed, we will need to start voting again on April 22, 2011.
At that point we only have TEN days to vote! Each voter is allowed to vote for only ONE car, and they can only vote ONE time per day.
The winning car design will be featured on a real race car at the NASCAR All-Star race, details below, and the winning car designer will have a chance to meet with a NASCAR driver.
The runners-up from the Top 10 will receive a helmet with their design painted on it.
All- Star Race Weekend Events
Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 1 PM on SPEED channel you can watch the All-Star race and watch for the commercials about this contest on TV.
It may also be mentioned on some of the pre-race shows and/or in other media outlets, as well as remain on the website to be seen by millions.
Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, NC
05/20/11 Truck Series N.C. Education Lottery 200 05/21/11 CUP Showdown 05/21/11 CUP All-Star Race
Thanks again for voting to Race Lyme Disease Awareness and congratulations for getting so many votes!
You are "totally awesome"!
~smile~
If anyone would like to continue voting for a few more days, a Lyme patient (PaulMall) was inspired to design some additional Lyme-related cars that people are also voting on.
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Paul's 56859 car has just passed the 12th place car and is in 11th place! It can easily pass the 11th spot to end up in 10th place. Looks like we're coming in with two Lyme cars in the top 10!!
So keep voting for Paul's car too - www/sponsafier.com/#/gallery/view/56859
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Paul is in 10th place... at least his car is! Congratulations on that!
Just checked the original car and we are still in first place for the most votes.
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