Nerdery Overnight Website Challenge teams selected

Yesterday the Vikings moved to within just one more glorious win of the Super Bowl. Separation Sunday was easier than expected for them, but it was tougher than ever imagined for the selection committee tasked with picking a dozen teams of volunteer web pros for the next Nerdery Overnight Website Challenge – the Super Bowl for web nerds.

At stake for the hopefuls is a blind date with a bunch of nonprofits (who’ll bring no money for this date).  With 218 volunteers on 22 teams (an embarrassment of riches) vying for just 12 spots, the sequestered selection committee cleared its calendar, took no calls, spurned incoming bribes and contemplated indecent proposals as they stewed over their decision. Then, they punted.

A bigger boat – hey, that’s it! No, wait, what if we stuffed even more well-meaning nerds and needy nonprofits into our existing boat? Is that even safe? Who cares!

No, a nerdy dozen or even baker’s dozen will not do. Introducing The Sweet 16:

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5 Men, 4 Women and an Animal

ArcStone Super Squad

BIOS – Bold Italic Outline Shadow

Happy Go Lucky Robot Fun Time

MSP-Wordpress

Myths, Mysteries and Legends

Pollywog Stew

Praxis

Rainbow PonyCake

Ratchet

Ruby.mn

Team Placeholder

The JWT Team of Embetterment

The Mighty Polymorphin Power Rangers: Global Warming

Web Mon-keys

So, if your team is on this list, get some rest. If not, please accept a sincere Nerdery thanks for stepping up. It’s gratifying to see so many takers for our ongoing needy-meets-nerdy mad science project.

And, if you’re a nonprofit with an application in, your odds have just improved. On February 1 we’ll announce 15 selected nonprofits (remember, RREAL already has its Golden Ticket).

Good night, and good luck.

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