Semi-finalist community winners
by C:F Team on 9th March, 2010 at 12:48 PM CEST
Semi-final voting ends:
As of 5:00pm March 8, the voting phase for semi-finalists is officially over. Thanks everyone for your votes and support during the voting phase. During the voting period, our semi-finalists solutions received 9953 votes in total! We have also welcomed almost 5000 new members! If you're new to C:F, don't miss this brief overview about how you can still show support for your school and participate in various challenges.
Here are the top three solutions that have received most votes in the semi-final round:
(Remember these are only community winners as decided by votes, NOT the actual finalists)
IdeeaLab:
IdeaSpot - Connecting the spots;
Yet Another Revolution: IdeeaLab.
Breakthrough Ideas:
CP - Mulitifunctional flexible phone which will reduce users' costs (of time and money);
Moving sidewalks - making it look effortless;
Alleviating poverty through social media and innovation.
IEDC sustainability:
Challenge the Business Schools, Create a Difference "BS=AP +CSR+BC+IYO".
What's next?
Challenge:Future finalist teams will be announced on Friday, March 12 at 5:00pm CET. At the same time, we will also announce the spark winner of this year's competition and the winners of our "Predict the finalists" - win a C:F t-shirt contest. So you definitely should check back in with us on Friday.
Which team deserves the grand prize of 20,000EUR?
From March 15 at 5:00pm CET, you will be able for vote for one team out of nine finalists teams that you believe deserves the grand prize of 20,000EUR. This final voting period ends on April 15 at 5:00pm.
Saad Khan | Youth Advisory Board | Ambassador
i will definitely want to be a youth speaker even if my team qualifies for the final round :) cant wait for the excitement and learning ahead :) thumbs up everyone
9th March, 2010 @ 6:20 PM CEST
Great to hear that, Saad. And we're really looking forward to receiving speaker proposals for the Summit; there is indeed a lot of talent here, and important topics to be discussed. So, don't forget to send your submissions in time! :)
9th March, 2010 @ 7:09 PM CEST
Jatin Kataria | Ambassador
Saad .. I will join u .. :D
we both will sent you the proposals...
right saad.. !!
9th March, 2010 @ 7:32 PM CEST
Concerning voting system.
Not the greatest ideas win, but those which are "sponsored" by many friends, colleagues. In my opinion, these people even do not get close to the idea, understand what it is all about, just mechanically click the blue button. Quite unreliable system. Those 20% should be decreased at least by 10%. On other hand, it helped to attract more people to this project. But...
I hope judges will take this into account. Somehow it reminds me about Eurovision contest :)
9th March, 2010 @ 11:28 PM CEST
Well, no public voting is perfect (not even elections) and that is why we also have a lot of different judges reviewing the solutions as well - unlike at the Eurovision contest :) We can assure you that the judges take the time to carefully evaluate all solutions, so I think that at the end the best solutions will make it to the finals. But at the same time I also think it's fair to give the public some influence over the results and see which solutions can get the most support.
10th March, 2010 @ 12:08 AM CEST
Congrats to teams for qualifying community voting round :)
10th March, 2010 @ 10:01 AM CEST
Is it possible to mention the points given by the judges and those by voting separately..It would really helpful...
12th March, 2010 @ 5:44 PM CEST
Alja Sulčič
Yay, can't wait to see which teams will make it to the finals! :) Big congrats to all the teams that made it so far, it's a pity we only have 9 spots for the finals.
Thanks again for all your votes, and stay tuned for the important announcement on Friday!
9th March, 2010 @ 1:41 PM CEST