Many thanks to all who submitted essays for the SBIX "contest." It was indeed a contest in the sense we wanted to generate participation and provide a little extra motivation for folks to share. Bags-o-phish.net schwag will be passed out to those that generated the most votes, and as promised, essays that the site team found best captured the essence of the event will be featured on the blog for the next week.

The point of this endeavor had little to do with a contest, voting, or prizes, however. We simply wanted to capture the raw emotions and stories of fans who enjoyed the event and bottle the immediate reactions of the experience for posterity. There are no winners or (especially) losers with this project. We'll be archiving the essay thread in an upcoming FAQ page on SB icks.

That said, we do have the results of the top vote-getters.

There was actually a multi-way tie for 10th place, plus one judges "save" that resulted in 14 finalists. We will be featuring several of these essays on our blog over the coming week. The people's choices were:

@757phan

@HARRYHOOD213

@fatness1

@CaptainPookie

@ivy_light

@Autoo

@FlockingInside

@terrapin9614

@tripsforjoeg

@douvy

@jdisk

@forbins0218

@JohnManBand

@BostonParadise89

Thanks to everyone wrote wrote, read, and voted. And thanks to Phish for throwing the Best Party of the Summer for 20+ years!

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