Voting is open now through about 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10, to narrow a list of almost 300 pizza makers down to a Saucy 64 that will battle it out in The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com's first Pizza Playoffs.

More than 300 restaurants were nominated; a small number were eliminated because they were too far outside The Plain Dealer's circulation area. (But it sounds like you could find some great pizza out there, like the pies at Coccia House Pizza in Wooster.)

The Playoffs are split into four regions, and -- for this play-in round of voting -- those regions are being split further into two separate lists each. You can vote in each of the eight polls, for up to four restaurants in each poll. And you can vote once every 12 hours.

To vote, choose one of more of the regions below and click to go to that region's voting post:

Northwest: Roughly west of the Cuyahoga River and north of I-480. The north-south dividing line dips a bit going further out west to put Elyria and Oberlin in the same region with Lorain. Vote here for the Northwest region.



Southwest: Roughly west of the Cuyahoga and south of I-480. Besides the jog mentioned above, we shifted a few Akron-area restaurants to join their community neighbors in the Far East region. Vote here for the Southwest region.



Near East: Roughly east of the Cuyahoga and inside I-271. Vote here for the Near East region.



Far East: Roughly east of the Cuyahoga and outside I-271, with the shift noted above to consolidate Akron-area locations. Vote here for the Far East region.



Not sure which region your favorites are in, or having a hard time finding them in the long voting lists? We've got an alphabetical list of every nominee that also tells you which poll to look for.

Playoffs questions

I'm not being allowed to vote in a poll.

The polls are set up to allow you to vote again every 12 hours. If you're sure that time limit doesn't apply, the most common reason for a block is that you're trying to vote from a public computer or one at your job, and someone else has used that computer or has voted from the same location.

My restaurant isn't on the list.

We accepted nominations only online, in the comments on our original post. We specified that nominations had to include both the name of the restaurant and the location. A few places were eliminated for being too far away, as well as those that pointed to locations that are apparently closed or that appeared to be jokes.

If you believe we've made an error, please email us with details.

There's a restaurant on the list that doesn't exist.

We tried to verifiy the existence of all the pizza makers, but with about 300 on the list we weren't able to do that for every location. If you spot a closed place, please let us know in the comments below. We will adjust the voting accordingly.

There are two restaurants listed, but they're really the same location.

We tried to avoid listing these kinds of places separately, but we missed at least a couple. Sainato's/Rivergate Tavern has been combined into one, because we caught it early. We're watching the voting on an Antonio's/Tony Maloney's co-location and we'll make a decision on that if it turns out to be a factor in the results. If you spot any others, please let us know.