Patent ID: 8655715

Claim:
A contest system, comprising: a contest server, comprising a processor, and a computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the contest server to: receive first content data and second content data, store the first and second content data in the computer-readable storage medium, access the first and second content data from the computer readable storage medium; sort the first and second content data based on an identifying characteristic of the first content data and the second content data to provide sorted content data based on genre, select the first content data and the second content data from the sorted content data, wherein the first content data and the second content data have a same genre, generate contest data based on the first and second content data, transmit over a network the contest data to serve at least one contest to a user, the contest comprising at least one voting stage, include display data in the transmitted contest data to electronically present during the at least one voting stage representations of the first and second content data on a display having access to the network, receive during the at least one voting stage vote data transmitted over the network, the vote data representing one or more received votes from voters for one or more of the first or second content data concurrently displayed, the vote data comprising at least one vote; and select at least one of the first or second content data based on the vote data.