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I think they let people enter over the entire month until the finals start for practical business purposes. It's a free site. They are hoping to recoup to significant cost of running the site via advertising (and in truth, they keep that pretty low key in my opinion which is great). But without continual traffic and a lot of participation all month long, the traffic would be far less and any musician who found the site during the first 3/4ths of the month would likely be impatient to wait around until the start of the next month to see participation results. So they really need to keep it open at least most of the month to increase traffic and participation. Is it perfect? No. But it's reality. We accept music pretty much over the course of a whole year and people will still wait until the last second to enter. And even after that, we get hundreds of emails begging us to extend the deadline, no matter when it was set. Musicians are nothing if not procrastinators. But that fact doesn't help pay the bills when your site is run off advertising.

Ourstage has apparently added some new stuff including live chat. I haven't checked it out, but I am surprised none of you have mentioned it at all. Has anyone used it?

Brian