I'm on a relatively fast connection (16mb down) and it took a significant amount of time to load for me (Macbook Pro using Safari). Perhaps enabling caching on your server will help speed things up some. The site looks good otherwise. Good luck!
Thanks. I've left the optimizing to later...oops. Just out of curiosity, did you see the basic UI, then a "loading..." title with an ad rotating? If so, that was because the influx of votes made all the current matches pretty much end within 3 seconds. Yikes! I'll probably use Amazon CloudFront at some point.
Yep. That was what I saw. Great work. Best of success to you both.