Newsflash: May 9th, 2011

From Yamaha USA:

Yamaha Corporation of America has reason to believe that the integrity of the voting process in the Freestyle Contest has been compromised. Yamaha regrets this and, in the interest of fairness to the entrants, has decided to award the announced prize based on the professional judging scores from the pre-voting phase of the Contest. Based on those scores, the winner is Dmitry Greenberg. Congratulations, Dmitry, on winning the YAMAHA Tyros4 Arranger Workstation Keyboard, TRS-MS04 speakers, L-7S stand and available manufacturer's warranty.

In addition to the originally announced prize, Yamaha has decided to also award each of the seven remaining finalists in the Freestyle Contest a YAMAHA Piaggero NP-V60.

Once again, Yamaha regrets the disruption that has occurred to the Contest. Thank you to everyone for your interest and participation.

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In light of the above statement made by Yamaha USA , and the observations I made in my last posting reply,
I believe Yamaha did the 'honorable thing' to make Dimitry Greenberg the grand prize winner of the Tyros 4 keyboard,
and in addition , award the other 7 finalists a Yamaha Piaggero NP-V60 keyboard.
Congratulations (esp sz members Chony Milecki & Jonathan Shuey.
I didn't enter this contest, but hope to participate next time, if there's ever another arranger contest in the future. - Scott