Official Press Release
Top Cow Productions announced today that they would be
extending the first round of Pilot Season voting through the end of the year.
The enthusiasm and volume of votes in the first two weeks of voting overwhelmed
the servers at topcow.com and as a result the company’s site was down for
several days last week.
Every year, Pilot Season pits a number of original
concepts and creative teams in a head-to-head battle for fan votes to see which
one title will continue. This year eight single, self-contained “pilot issues”
were released and voting began at topcow.com on December 5th. The competition
quickly became heated and despite Top Cow increasing their bandwidth with their
hosting company, voting overwhelmed the company website and exceeded its
bandwidth.
“This is just another great example of the excitement and
passion fans bring to Pilot Season,” commented Top Cow Publisher Filip Sablik,
“The number and velocity of votes completely exceeded our expectations and this
is the sort of high class problem you don’t mind solving. All of us at Top Cow
are eager to see which Pilot Season competitor emerges victorious.”
The publisher’s website has now been restored and
migrated over to a new more substantial server capable of handling the
additional traffic. In the interest of giving each competitor the full allotted
time, Top Cow has also extended the first round of voting until Saturday,
December 31st at 11:59pm PST. The second round of voting will begin on Sunday,
January 1st at midnight PST. As a reminder, the second round will be narrowed
down to the top four vote-getters and will be limited to one vote per person
per day. The second round of voting will run until Saturday, January 7th at
11:59pm PST and the final round will commence on Sunday, January 8th at midnight
PST (limited to one vote per person per day). The top two vote-getters will
compete until Saturday, January 14th at 11:59pm PST and a winner will be
announced the following week.
Additionally, Top Cow has announced that beginning
January 2nd, the top four vote-getters will be available in their entirety for
free through Top Cow’s digital distribution partners and on topcow.com for fans
to read and make an even more educated voting decision. Top Cow’s distribution
partners include comiXology, Graphicly, iVerse, Wowio, DriveThruComics,
MyDigitalComics, and others. The titles will be free until the end of the
voting period.
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