Voting for the TopCoder Community Favorite category is now open and will remain open until 4pm EDT on Tuesday July 29th. At that point, all the numbers will be crunched and our 9, $10,000 first prize winners, along with the 20, $500 second prize winners will be announced on August 1st.
We have built a battle-style voting widget for the occasion, which you can see below. It is pretty self-explanatory and should give you the opportunity to browse the applications and actually try them before you vote. While you don't have to try every app, we encourage you to try to make an informed decision when voting. There are links in the widget to get more information and/or download & use every submission.


The widget randomly matches up 2 of the 96 submissions at a time, and all you have to do is choose the one you like better by clicking the "VOTE" button under the submission you choose. Two more apps will load, and you repeat the process as many times as you like. Each time you vote for an app, it gets a "win" and its opponent gets a "lose". At the end of the week, the winners will be determined according to which have the highest winning percentage.

MINOR BUG ALERT:: There is a bug that will actually cast a vote if the user clicks on the headline above a particular submission. We are working on this and it should be fixed shortly. More information on each submission can be found by following the "Link to View or Download" link under the submissions.

So that's about it - if you have any questions feel free to ask them in the forums.

If you are a competitor in this contest, congratulations again for the amazing work and good luck in the voting!

If you didn't compete, please take the time to check out some of the amazing apps built by your fellow TopCoder members. Everyone at TopCoder and everyone at Truveo is extremely excited about the results of this competition, and we can't wait to see which apps you choose as your favorites!

Thanks again - now GO VOTE!