I’m back! Took a week and UNplugged from anything online to recover from the Small Press Idol madness. But back now and ready to go. The final tally is in on the contest - official results below…

IDOL ROUND 4 RESULTS from Ian Shires
And the Retailer order has landed. To be honest, it’s been at my PO box since Friday and I was just able to get up there and get it yesterday. So it’s a 155 copy order for White Rose - and it counts because the order was placed on the 31st online as a mail in. This places them in Second place…and with enough AVG that even if ALL of the Underground mail-ins come in, they will not be able to beat that. THUSLY: The Final Standings can now be made official! Faction wins the title, $700 cash bonus, and a 4 issue commitment. Let’s hear it for Faction folks!
1.) Copies: 99 - [Mail: 6] DLs: 37 Bulk: 430 [8] People: 87 AVG: 163.25 - Faction
2.) Copies: 209 - [Mail:16] DLs: 32 Bulk: 263 [7] People: 85 AVG: 147.25 - White Rose
3.) Copies: 283 - [Mail:39] DLs: 9 Bulk: 28 [2] People: 186 AVG: 126.50 - The Underground
4.) Copies: 56 - [Mail: 3] DLs: 13 Bulk: 138 [1] People: 43 AVG: 62.50 - Varsity Squad

White Rose and Underground put up a heck of a fight, and the process taught us lots of new things as the new options in ordering and how we calculated the winner were put to the test. Varsity Squad comes in a respectable 4th, and we will follow up on all the runners up, who knows, there may be a place in SPA Comics for them yet. Michael Niziolek has already joined staff to Run Self Publisher! Magazine - watch for our first new issue any minute! We’ll be bringing the new Idol website up soon, and getting all the Idol information everyone wants presented in a really great new way. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is where we’re at today.