uh, yeah.

I came in third in a battle too, and haven't received a prize either. In fact I don't mind so much about it, to me it's all secondary.

Well okay. From what I know: prizes (the ipods for 1st and 2nd place) are pretty expensive. Someone has to pay for it and this site is not generating money by itself. Actually, it only costs a lot of money simply to have it up and running and you can guess who's getting the bill... Well, webdesign etc. is the dude's occupation so it's all part of him being in business anyway, but still... Having to spend $300 a MONTH on prizes while there's really quite some unfair voting going on, PLUS a whole bunch of members who do not vote much at all, such as yourself, mr mjjohnson, you only voted 6 times total on this site, isn't really stimulating to make this kind of investment.

Maybe if the community were any bigger, or there would be more members taking their time to vote to all the songs in the battle, which I think they all should, it would pay off to do this...

Personally I think a "paypal donate" function could be put on the site, members could make a volunatry donation and the winners of the monthly battle would win a share of the pot once it's over. Then we'll see how much "true love" for this site there is. I know I would certainly donate a monthly fee... but not always