{"id":11356,"date":"2012-01-10T23:24:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T04:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=11356"},"modified":"2012-01-11T09:57:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T14:57:58","slug":"regionals-expansion-conference-rocks-greatest-backing-band-tournament-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/regionals-expansion-conference-rocks-greatest-backing-band-tournament-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Regionals, Expansion Conference: Rock\u2019s Greatest Backing Band Tournament Continues!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Play has resumed in our tournament to determine\u2014<em>once and for all<\/em>\u2014rock&#8217;s greatest backing band ever.<\/p>\n<p>The first two rounds have been completed. The attached grid shows where we stand as the Regionals round is played out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/backingband-tournament-64_REGIONALS.pdf\">backingband-tournament-64_REGIONALS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Feel free to think ahead to coming Regional battles as you begin work on the present conference match up. Meanwhile, tournament play for the <strong>Expansion Conference<\/strong> has begun. Four backing bands remain: <strong>The TCB Band<\/strong> vs <strong>The Family Stone<\/strong> and <strong>The JBs<\/strong> vs <strong>The Buckaroos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11357\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11357\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11357 \" title=\"EXPANSIONregionals\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/EXPANSIONregionals-1024x791.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/EXPANSIONregionals-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/EXPANSIONregionals-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Expansion Conference Regionals<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Because the selections from this point forward are so crucial to future generations&#8217; understanding of rock history, play will follow a different course of action in this round. Before any voting can take place, Townspeople are encouraged to post comments and YouTube clips of the backing bands you support in this round. You may begin launching your campaigns now. After a day or two of lobbying and counter-lobbying the polls for this conference&#8217;s regional round will open. We don&#8217;t want any rash votes on Day 1 that you may regret on Day 3 of discussion. Dig?<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATED WITH POLLS (open through 11:59 pm on January 15, 2012)!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-213\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Regionals, Expansion Conference: The TCB Band vs The Family Stone<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-213-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li>The Family Stone <small>(79%, 19 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 79%;\" title=\"The Family Stone (79% | 19 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>The TCB Band <small>(21%, 5 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 21%;\" title=\"The TCB Band (21% | 5 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Total Voters: <strong>24<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_213_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"dd289e29d6\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-213-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"polls-214\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Regionals, Expansion Conference: The JBs vs The Buckaroos<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-214-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li>The JBs <small>(76%, 25 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 76%;\" title=\"The JBs (76% | 25 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>The Buckaroos <small>(24%, 8 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 24%;\" title=\"The Buckaroos (24% | 8 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Total Voters: <strong>33<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_214_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"777fca3504\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-214-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play has resumed in our tournament to determine\u2014once and for all\u2014rock&#8217;s greatest backing band ever. The first two rounds have been completed. The attached grid shows where we stand as the Regionals round is played out: backingband-tournament-64_REGIONALS Feel free to think ahead to coming Regional battles as you begin work on the present conference match <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/regionals-expansion-conference-rocks-greatest-backing-band-tournament-continues\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[42,125,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}