OK, a little belated, but in case you want to know:
1) I made up to #103...thanks for those who voted! I was interested to see that in my range of the rankings, it seemed like every 2 or 3 people pushed me up one step in the ranks. I suspish the curve is not at all constant, and the top 25 were actually WAY above me in daily vote totals. The press release issued by Adrianna Pappell says 55000 "new friends" voted in the contest, and there were 675 or so dresses. Some at the bottom appeared not to even garner votes from their own designers.
2) Scroll back on the Adrianna Pappell Wall to December 6, and you can see individual posts of the top 5 sketches, I think without "liking"....and select bitchy comments like "Got to say some of the "Top 5" in a word SUCK!!! There were 25 . .and this is what you came up with. . . Really? ♥ LEON!" Some contestants posted thank-you-for-the-opportunity. They are also in an album:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.252309658166443.64428.128567653873978&type=14) If you're still a fan of the contest, you can see the top 5 dresses there, too (
http://eandadriannapapellpromotion.com/contest/top5.aspx): what the professionals felt was original, in-line with the brand, and commercially viable (their judging criteria for winnowing the fan-picked faves). If I were running the contest, I would not make it seem mandatory to "like" the contest to get to see the dresses--and especially not the top 25 (couple weeks ago) and top 5...but that's what they've chosen.
5) There's another round of voting coming up, to whittle down to the best of the five. Voting for that round is January 16-22.
http://www.techzone360.com/news/2011/12/19/6004353.htm is the official press release.