A Cut Below

Tonight marks Ignite Boulder V, an event so enormously popular that they’ve moved to the Boulder Theater and begun charging for tickets. Despite purchasing my ticket well in advance, I’m not attending in protest to the way in which my presentation was treated.

Several weeks ago, when submission and voting began, I was confident I would end up having enough of the popular vote to present. I began growing a thick beard and Jew fro to coincide with my presentation and even ordered a Hasidim-style wide-brimmed hat. My excitement was palpable.

Countdown, Ignition, Failure…

Not two weeks ago, as I crawled into bed after getting a speeding ticket, exhausted from an early morning, a long day, and unfortunate turn of events, I received a text from Andrew Hyde, the primary organizer of Ignite Boulder. Voting had closed and, despite finishing somewhere in the top 10 (I had been 5th or 6th when I had checked earlier in the day), I was disqualified. Andrew cited 3 reasons:

• 50% of my votes came from the same IP address.
• I had 19 votes for inappropriate content.
• I was the only presentation to be marked inappropriate.

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