Help us in our contest

Ok so typically we dont do contests but I ran across this one and I thought...."This is WAY too cool to pass up!" The contest is for a chance to open for Bon Jovi at a select tour stop. We had to pick the tour stop that was closest to us and that we were within a 500 mile radius of. Luckily theres a date in Chicago that is within that range! Here's where we need your help. There are 3 rounds of judging. We have to get into like the top 20 to go on to the second round and then we would need your help again there but lets go one step at a time.
Now voting in this thing is relatively easy.....BUT.....getting it setup to help us in the best and easiest way you can is a little tricky so I'm going to tell you some steps that I've found to take that might help it make it easier for you so please refer back to this as you are helping us. And in advance I would like to thank ALL of you for helping and if you can get all of your friends or anyone you know to help us as well then that would be VERY much appreciated.

Step 1: CLICK HERE to go to the initial website that you need to visit

Step 2: You'll have to set up an account to vote. Im sorry for having to do this because I know it can be a pain BUT this is a fair way to have people vote so that random votes cant be done so I appreciate you jumping through this hoop with me. You can also use your facebook login if you would like and it's WAY easy to do. It's in the bottom left. If you would rather not to do that then you can register normally by clicking the "Register Now" button in the right side section.

Step 3: Click on the "Are you a music lover" button

Step 4: Fill out the information on the form and then click the "finish registration" button

Step 5: Go check the e-mail for the email address that you entered in your registration form to activate your account. (this helps keep it fair)

Step 6: In the email click the link below "To complete your registration click the link below" :-)

Step 7: You will then be launched back to the our stage site. There will be a link that says "Start Judging". You can click it.

Step 8: When the judging page pops up you'll need to go up to the top right cornere where there will be a search field bubble. In that bubble please enter "7eventh Time Down"

Step 9: A page will come up that has our song "What about tonight" on the left side and then a picture of us and our band name on the right side. Please click our band name that is next to the picture of us on the right side. This will take you to our bands "Our Stage" page.

Step 10: Then click the "fans" tab. It will bring up a page where on the right hand side you will see a section that says "Is this your favorite artist? Then please click the "Make this my favorite artist" button. You can read the text above the button which explains why it's helpful to you and us to have us as your favorite artist.

Step 11: Now go back to THIS SITE

Step 12: You have to listen to at least 15 seconds of each artist before you can drag them over into the voting section. Once the 15 seconds is up you can then drag that bands album artwork into the judging section. You will arrange them from what you feel is the best to the worst. So as each person votes the bands that are voted higher by each person will move higher in the rankings and so on and so forth. So you'll go through those first four bands that you are shown. Rank them and then click the "lock in vote" button or the "Submit vote" button depending on what kind of computer you're on.

That's it. Now once you have heard our song and voted for us you would have to continue to vote through all of the bands before it would get back to us again and I know that might be a hassle but if you have extra time it would be very helpful to us to have as many votes as we can. So be sure to pass this on to all of your friends and ask them to help us. The contest. The first round of voting ends April 23rd. We have to make it to the top 20 to move on to the second round.
The second round of voting would start the 24th and move through the 27th to determine the top 10 so we'd then have to make it to the top ten to continue to the third round.
The third round would start april 28th and move through april 30th where the top one would be selected from the top 10. This would conclude the public part of the contest so I know that a month is a long time but if you could please help us through this entire process we would sincerely appreciate it. If you have any questions please let me know. Feel free to e-mail me at

austinjmiller@me.com