Thanks for your patience. The winners are:

**TIED for First Place ... A_ and Tasha! Congrats and a big hand to both of you.

Second Place... Black Rain

Third Place ... NiennaTelemnar

Honorable Mention

Mellygirl
Alzartz**

Ok, here's the deal... Yours truly (me, the guy who always ends up in the corner with JarJar) set a closing date of August 27 at midnight for the vote. That was a 2 day vote. The main rules page says we will have a 3 day vote and I absolutely intended to have a 3 day vote, but alas, I just can't add (and nobody caught it). So, after brief discussion with the PTB's the three day vote is what was used to tally.

Just so you know, there was no practical difference. At the two day mark A_ and Tasha were ONE point apart. Sooo.. they share the next challenge and BOTH are the winners.

A_ and Tasha, you can either collaborate for a theme for September and IM me with it, or you can both submit your individual themes and we'll go from there.

Great work everyone!