Vote Online Jan. 1 for Rose Parade Viewer's Choice Float: In 2010 A Weenie Cal Poly Float Won

By Jill Stewart Sun., Jan. 2 2011 at 3:14 PM

Weenie winner: Cal Poly's 2010 Rose Float

Update Sunday afternoon: The students at Poly win again, clever things. See Viewer's Choice 2011 float on jump.

You've got less than two hours to online vote or text vote for the best 2011 Rose Parade float. The Viewer's Choice has gone for two years to the Cal Poly University float thanks to a highly dedicated effort by students from the Poly campuses in Pomona and San Luis Obispo.

But the Cal Poly float is kind of weenie.

Vote here online before 2:10 pm today, Pacific time. Or choose a float's ID number from that Web site, and then text "FLOAT" followed by the Float I.D. to 50649.

According to the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association:

For the last two years, parade fans chose Cal Poly University as the winner of the Viewers' Choice Award. Cal Poly's 2010 float, themed "Jungle Cuts," received 20,788 votes out of a total of 50,535 votes submitted.
The float featured wild animals receiving haircuts and makeovers from monkey barbers performing high above the tree tops. "Jungle Cuts," received 20,788 votes out of a total of 50,535 votes submitted.

2011 Rose Parade Viewer's Choice winner, not weiner.

Here's the winning 2011 Viewer's Choice float. This year's effort was much more interesting than the 2010 winner, but still you have to hand it to the students for being the best vote-gatherers.

Some Poly students should maybe go into politics.

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l wish you the best during this holiday season and in the New Year.

Tous mes meilleurs voeux pour un heureux Noël et une nouvelle année sensationnelle.

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Juan Venkman

The Cal Poly Universities Rose Float is a 63-year-old tradition, and winner of 47 trophies and 3 Viewers' Choice Awards. Not bad for a handful of over-worked, under-funded, cup-of-noodle-soup-fueled weenies!

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Klovstew

A weenie?? Wow. I'm disappointed you chose to be disrrespectful to a hard working group of students who keep a fifty-year, cooperative, grass-roots effort alive and exciting. They design, raise funds, and create it all themselves unlike the giant corporations who farm the work out to others and simply write a check for the process. Let's celebrate some collegiate pride all yell, "Weenie, weenie, we-need more schools like Cal Poly!"