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why are you like this?
But hey, just go ahead and disqualify teams that double vote for all I care. Might give you a chance of winning something, mate.
There is absolutely no reason why every game needs to have the same amount of votes.
Does anyone else think this is an issue?
The following may not be directly in response to all the above quoted points but they all fall into the same category. It is going to be a long response so deal with it and don't bother with the typical TLR responses, especially a few in particular who are serial offenders at doing this.
Why? WHY? Because I want to run a competition that is fair to everyone where people actually do the right thing and not complain at every little thing and every result is actually decided by people voting the way they should vote rather than changing results (which now has happened) by using a vote that not everyone has to vote for two teams causing a false result. Maybe it is my studies that have included statistics and polling that makes me so critical about this but doing something that is not possible for all who decide to vote causes results to not follow along with all others and can cause results to not meet the actual feelings of the group. This was seen this week with Chicago and Vancouver which should have ended either 8-10 or 9-9 but ended 9-10 because of a single double vote and as I said in the poll thread, the Can-Am has been close in previous years and a single result like this could cost a team a finals spot because of it which I did not want to see happen. And no not every game HAS to have the same number of votes, but logic states that when you are asked to vote in EVERY game (apart from your own) then the number of votes should be the same if everyone who competes votes for every game but their own and everyone else votes in every game.
But apparently again there are only a couple of people on this board who can run competitions where their decisions are not questioned or argued against in every little way, unlike every time I try and make this competition as fair and equitable as possible and give everyone the best opportunity of success. Instead I am questioned and have people attack my choices (even when I have open up the changes and choices to peoples votes and it has been decided that way) as if I have a personal motive to make the competition biased or unfair or too restrictive or any number of other issues.
All I have asked is that people just don't vote multiple times on a poll, it is exactly the same as asking for you to not vote for yourself. But again because I have made this request it is being argued to the point where I really feel like I should just give up on trying, because even though I have never, and I mean NEVER, done anything that is in anyway for myself, and has only ever been for the benefit of the board and the fairness of competitions, I am questioned about every little thing that I say and do. Even to the point of a snide remarks about me winning the comp by forcing people out of the competition which wasn't going to happen anyway.
Now this may be an overreaction to a smart arsed remark, but on that particular point, that is the lowest form of attack in my view Freight Train, and I am seriously close to getting myself carded replying to your comment because you have gone for a low blow and a personal attack which I DO NOT stand for, EVER. I never singled you out as the person who voted twice, people could go and work that out if they wanted to, but I never went out to deliberately single you out, but apparently with your response you think that.
I always want to compete on the fairest level with people, AND I MEAN ALWAYS, you may have not been around here long enough to know this or have seen it, but since 2008 when I joined this board I have tried to hold myself to the highest level of fairness, while respecting my fellow designers and have competed on the premise of trying to do my best without ever undermining others, unless it was done in a knowing way to make fun with rivalries. Andonis1997 and El_Scorcho I am sure can both attest to this as I have contacted them through PM in the past about setting up little jabs at each other and because of this we know we can do this without hurting the other person as it is all done in good fun, also if I may have without knowing slightly overstepped by accident to apologise for doing so without their knowing what I was going to do.
And if that doesn't point to how fair I want to be, maybe look back at the Designathon that I introduced and ran to great success. A competition where you had to use a highly used template (not a personal one that only a single person used) on the board (if it was a uniform being designed) and you could not use your own personal number or present your design with any personalisation to give away who designed the entry. It was and still is the fairest competition ever run on this board, so DO NOT ever make statements about me going to the point of disqualifying someone just so I might have a chance at winning, because I would never go to those lengths, if I win something it is because I deserved it, and not for any other reason.
So again something small has caused an issue during the Can-Am. Sometimes I really wonder why I even bother running this competition sometimes.