Our spectacular panel of experts are finished with their duties (thanks for all the hard work, guys and gals!), and the 2010 Rails Rumble finalists have been announced. Go take a look, and if you haven’t already, sign up for an account and help us decide which of these entries will be our winner this year.

Now that public voting has officially begun, teams that didn’t make the final round and who aren’t participating in a sponsor challenge can once again start pushing updates to their live sites. We know that many of you have been waiting for that opportunity, and we can’t wait to see where you take your project from here. Remember: building a successful web property isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon.

Just to be double super extra clear, please note that if you opted in to a special sponsor challenge, we ask that you hold off on further updates even if you didn’t make the top tier. Sponsors will be making their decisions after public voting closes and the main competition winners are announced, and it’d be unfair for some applications to be able to update while others (that did make it into the top tier) are forbidden from doing that. Don’t worry, it’s just a couple more days!

That’s it for now. Go get your vote on and be merry. Thanks again to our experts, event sponsors, and most of all to everyone who spent last weekend hacking with us. You all rock.