{"id":12102,"date":"2012-02-09T09:21:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T14:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=12102"},"modified":"2012-02-10T09:43:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T14:43:44","slug":"semifinals-legacy-conference-rocks-greatest-backing-band-tournament-pits-the-crickets-vs-the-texas-playboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/semifinals-legacy-conference-rocks-greatest-backing-band-tournament-pits-the-crickets-vs-the-texas-playboys\/","title":{"rendered":"Semifinals, Legacy Conference: Rock\u2019s Greatest Backing Band Tournament Pits The Crickets vs The Texas Playboys!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12105\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/texasplayboyscrickets.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12105\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12105\" title=\"texasplayboyscrickets\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/texasplayboyscrickets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/texasplayboyscrickets.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/texasplayboyscrickets-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Semifinals, Legacy Conference: The Crickets vs The Texas Playboys<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Finally, we enter the Semifinals round of our tournament to determine\u2014<em>once and for all<\/em>\u2014rock&#8217;s greatest backing band ever! The first three rounds have been completed. The attached grid shows where we stand entering the Semifinals:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/backingband-tournament-64_SEMIS.pdf\">backingband-tournament-64_SEMIS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The final two backing bands in the Legacy Conference battling to move forward are <strong>The Crickets<\/strong> and <strong>The Texas Playboys<\/strong>.\u00a0The winner of this match will play the winner of the upcoming Expansion Conference match.<\/p>\n<p>Through the long, painstaking course of this tournament adequate arguments have been made on behalf of all the semifinalists. That doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re not encouraged to continue arguing for your selection in this round, but you are welcome to cast your vote <em>now<\/em>. Voting in this match will run through 11:59 pm on <strong>Friday, February February 10, 2012<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-226\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Semifinals, Legacy Conference: The Crickets vs The Texas Playboys<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-226-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li>The Crickets <small>(57%, 16 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 57%;\" title=\"The Crickets (57% | 16 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>The Texas Playboys <small>(43%, 12 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 43%;\" title=\"The Texas Playboys (43% | 12 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Total Voters: <strong>28<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_226_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"719afbaa34\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-226-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>Finally, we enter the Semifinals round of our tournament to determine\u2014once and for all\u2014rock&#8217;s greatest backing band ever! The first three rounds have been completed. The attached grid shows where we stand entering the Semifinals:\u00a0backingband-tournament-64_SEMIS The final two backing bands in the Legacy Conference battling to move forward are The Crickets and The Texas Playboys.\u00a0The <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/semifinals-legacy-conference-rocks-greatest-backing-band-tournament-pits-the-crickets-vs-the-texas-playboys\/' 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\/12102"}],"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=12102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}