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2 minutes ago, SparklePie said:

This can't be real? Are you serious? ALL this fuss over this? 

And now after the fact we have this from the CR's "As to ensuring voters have visited before voting: it's not a requirement, it was a plea and a strong suggestion."

A plea. And a strong suggestion. Just like visiting the base and voting. This is an online poll. Those are not rules. Those are suggestions. And can noooo one really admit to ever voting for your friends base or work or whatever before? Of course not. No. Nooo one would ever doo something so truly evil. 

No no. That's voter fraud. "FUDGING" the vote. Strip them of their win.

And as for a burst of votes at the end. Has no one ever shopped on ebay before? That's called tactics. I saw what HammyFly was talking about. There was always an exact 1 for 1 vote match when Vault Luxe received a vote. They kept a constant 2-3 vote buffer the whole week. I can't blame the Vault Luxe team or their fans for seeing what was going down and planning accordingly.

What a joke this whole thing is. And how utterly unfair. I am not impressed.

I'm not adding much to the conversation by saying this but I felt it needed to be said for the sake of emphasis:

Well. Said.

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The votes were cast. All parties had access to the same methodology and practices. Seeing this delayed to appease a vocal and 'political' group of individuals is disheartening. I visited every base in my limited time and cast my vote. To see that it's effectively not important and that I may possibly have to go through the process again, something I may not have time for, makes me wonder what the point of hosting this contest was.

Vault Luxe won by the criteria put forward. If that's a problem then change the rules to exclude bases like that in future contests. I don't think that's necessarily legitimate because it would possibly be invalidating a potential swath of entrants depending on the criteria you put in place but it is what it is.

Change the rules for the next contest moving forward rather than try to appease what is clearly an already inflamed issue. It's only going to spark more problems as is, at least with a new contest there will be a clean slate and you can refine the rules as you need to prevent this from occurring again.

I for one am disinclined from participating in these community events based on all of this, doubly so for the fact that it has to be 'redone'.

Thank you for the monumental effort and energy that went into this, CR's. It's a shame how it all ended.