2012 YA Crush Tourney Round 1 FTW!

Team Kilt brought home the win for Zachary in Round One of the YA Sisterhood’s Crush Tournament on Friday, July 6!  It was an incredibly fun day and like all Team Kilt events, silliness ensued. Your votes brought love to Nessie and Bigfoot, $170 to the Tartan Army Children’s Charity, a writing of the Logan and Aura’s first kiss scene in Logan’s POV,  Martin to Twitter and a bit of sunshine on a dark day for Jeri.  You guys were BUSY.

A HUGE shout out to Emily at Falling for YA! She was a fantastic advocate and totally reminded me of the crush worthiness of Alex from the Delirium series. Thanks for a fun and exciting match, Emily!

THERE REALLY IS A TEAM IN “AYE”!

Many thanks to each and every one of you who spread the word about Zachary’s run in the YA Crush Tourney.  This is truly a “grassroots” effort and EVERY SINGLE VOTE COUNTS.  We know you all work hard to get the votes for Zachary and we appreciate it.  A MILLION THANKS.

If YOU want to join Team Kilt, fill out the hilarious sign-up sheet found at the bottom of this post.

GIVEAWAY WINNERS

The lucky winner of signed paperback copies of SHADE, SHIFT and SHINE is Heather G. Congratulations, Heather!  Thank you, Jeri, for donating the books for this giveaway!   

We had a spontaneous keychain giveaway late in the afternoon of our round and just now got to picking out three winners who commented on our defense post.  The winners are:

• Ashe
• Wilda
• Jen

Please send your mailing address to amyojens at gmail dot com so we can get your Team Kilt key chain sent to you.  Amy made them herself and they are pure perfection.

Kilt & Keeley, a SHADE series fansite, is giving away a SHADE BOYS key chain to the first twenty people who make a $10 or more donation to Greyhound Welfare, Inc. in memory of Meadow. (See "A VERY SAD NOTE" in this post by Jeri.) Greyhound Welfare, Inc. is the official Team Kilt charity for Round 2.

ROUND TWO

We are already busy preparing for Round 2.  While we’re not ready to announce all the fun we’ve got planned, we do want to let you know that the marvelous Karen at For What it’s Worth will be hosting a Team Kilt blog hop beginning Tuesday, July 24.  Bloggers, make plans to participate in this hop by giving away something pertaining to the SHADE series.  You can email Karen with any questions you may have or visit her blog over the weekend for more details. (fwiw.kea at gmail dot com)

We’re going to need all hands on deck to take on our next opponent, the #1 seeded Will Herondale.  Team Will has two of the biggest blogs in the book community backing him and a fandom that has a willzillion members. But, you know what they DON’T have?  

TEAM KILT.  

Team Kilt has accomplished the seemingly impossible before and we're gearing up to do it again.

Now is the time to start spreading the word about Zachary's next round set for Wednesday, July 25. Visit the Team Kilt Pinterest boards for avis, videos, photos and blog posts you can use to inspire others to help us get through this tough match. Tell your Twitter followers, your Facebook friends, your Tumblr followers, and your real life friends about the awesomeness that is Zachary Moore and ask for their vote on July 25.

Team Kilt is in it to win it and with your help...WE CAN DO IT.