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Voting Opens In 'Event Of The Year' Semifinals
It's down to the South Side Irish Parade, Papa Hops Softball Tournament, Beverly Breast Cancer Walk and Beverly Hills Cycling Classic.
CHICAGO - Voting is now open in the second round of the Beverly-Mt. Greenwood Patch "Event of the Year" competition. The semifinal round pits No. 1 seed South Side Irish Parade against No. 5 Papa Hops 16'' Softball Tournament and No. 3 Beverly Breast Cancer Walk against No. 7 Beverly Hills Cycling Classic/Bikes & Brews.
Vote by finding the tweets below on the @BeverlyMTGPatch Twitter account. The tweets were posted around 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 7 and voting will remain open until 5 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 8.
Better neighborhood event?
— Beverly-MtG Patch (@BeverlyMtGPatch) August 7, 2019
Better neighborhood event?
— Beverly-MtG Patch (@BeverlyMtGPatch) August 7, 2019
Hundreds of Twitter users helped decide the first round of the competition, a bracket-style tournament seeking to find the most popular yearly event held in Beverly, Mount Greenwood or Morgan Park. After a 24-hour voting period from Monday afternoon until Tuesday afternoon, eight possibilities were widdled down to four.
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And we had some interesting results, with two of the top four seeds already out of the running after round one.
First, we saw the top-seeded South Side Irish Parade coast to a victory over No. 8 seeded Y-Me Softball Tournament, 86% to 14%. 201 votes were cast in this poll.
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Better neighborhood event?
— Beverly-MtG Patch (@BeverlyMtGPatch) August 5, 2019
The No. 3 seeded Beverly Breast Cancer Walk was another strong winner, getting 77% of the vote to No. 6 seeded Ridge Run/Memorial Day Parade, which had 23%. 158 votes were cast in this poll.
Better neighborhood event?
— Beverly-MtG Patch (@BeverlyMtGPatch) August 5, 2019
We saw a significant upset in the first round, with the No. 7 seed Beverly Hills Cycling Classic/Bikes & Brews event getting 53% to the No. 2 seed Beverly Art Walk's 47%. 150 votes were cast in this poll.
Better neighborhood event?
— Beverly-MtG Patch (@BeverlyMtGPatch) August 5, 2019
But the strongest showing in the first round came from the No. 5 seed Papa Hops 16'' Softball Tournament, which brought out the numbers with 89% of the votes cast. The No. 4 seed BAPA Home Tour got 11% of the 386 votes cast in the most shared first-round match-up by far.
Better neighborhood event?
— Beverly-MtG Patch (@BeverlyMtGPatch) August 5, 2019
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