Oh my goodness. Margins like this would demand. recounts in elections. I’m a little awestruck by just how incredibly close it was. Wonder how the outcome would’ve changed if we could have seen results real time
Woo, I’m surprised! Looking forward to the finale.
But this poll really shows a problem. Look at how many voted in the first match and then look at the second. There’s about 400 votes less in the second one.
Yeah, but that’s always going to happen in any bracket-style tournament. Look at the NCAA basketball tourney, for example.
There’s no doubt in my mind that either Metanorn or Star-Crossed would have beaten either LiA or Whiners – but that’s just the way things fell. I don’t think anyone should have issue when Meta wins, because even if you believe SCAB was the toughest opponent, Meta beat them fair and square (by a whisper) in their heads-up match.
I was rooting for Metanorn from the start, but I don’t vote when I don’t have a preference for either blog. Really, the second bracket’s blogs were wildly different and interesting in their own way. If you take into account people who are directed from their favorite blog and don’t care much about the rest, you may partially explain this. And maybe is there a sort of anti-psgel sentiment.
Im fine with the results and all, but the only thing i wonder is why is the vote count so different from usual. Usually there are around 500 votes, but this avereges out to around 1200 o_0
This round seems to be the exception rather than the rule though. The high numbers are likely due to active campaigning at this stage of the tourney more than anything else.
Wait Spiral, don’t you know that every time you contact some external guy to vote the organizers actually toss a 6-face dice and depending on the outcome you may get disqualified or simply investigated?
I would be so sure. Firstly, my feedlist has about 300 blogs in it, and I know that I leave vast sections ‘sphere uncovered. I would not be surprised if we have close to 800 blogs in just the English-speaking ‘sphere. Secondly, let’s ask: are active readers and commenters part of the blog team? And finally, who said that the new voter registration is bullet-proof?
Author you have a point and well, we all know the main problem with this tourney or any online public poll.
What happened in this particular episode is that people can just go around asking votes to unrelated people (friends, family, co-workers, or even random facebook people), gather 300-400-500-1000 votes and then what we should say about these WINNERS?
Also please remember that a single person can vote multiple time from all their network connections (home, phone, work) multiplying the votes and no one can say these votes are not “legit”.
This is of course without counting VPNs (OpenVPN; PP2P, LP2P), Closed proxies and other cheating ways that the system still doesn’t block or limit.
They are really the the most popular blog ever? Or simply the guys who spent more time randomly asking for votes?
Hooooooly shit.
I’m the first to like this post (◕‿◕✿)
I’m the second to like this post (◕‿◕✿)
Haha, too bad, I’m the third to like this post, but there’s no way I’m going to use such a emoticon like this (◕‿◕✿) to emphasize–
AW SH–
I never like posts (◕︵◕✿)
I like you (◕︵◕)(◕‿◕✿)
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I know, right.
WOOT!!! Metanorn made it through!!! XD
Thank you for the support. ^^
Beautiful.
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Thanks for your support, everyone. It’s been a great ride.
Grats for making it this far
Dude, you rock. Keep writing great posts.
Thanks Guys – it’s been a great ride. Thanks for your support!
Wow close matches! Congrats Metanorn!
Thank you Cara!
Good luck, Meta, and congratulations on taking down a giant. You’re getting my vote!
The Enzo gang moves to support Metanorn!
Considering Enzo’s butthurt outburst on his site, I’m not surprised.
Thank you all for the support.
@D_S, everyone gets an opinion just like you. What’s the point of countering everyone?
@Kyokai, isn’t what he posted an opinion as well? What is the problem in it? I don’t understand…
I was commenting about the ‘butthurt’, not their respective posts.
Wow close one right here damn close! Thank you everyone for the support <3
My votes aren’t cursed after all!
Your special song did wonders! Thanks again <3
You’re welcome! I will have to remember for the future that Macross logic really does work!
That song was awesome and golden! <3
Oh my goodness. Margins like this would demand. recounts in elections. I’m a little awestruck by just how incredibly close it was. Wonder how the outcome would’ve changed if we could have seen results real time
Everyone would be pushing harder and harder seeing as the results were so close :O
I have to agree. We would be going even crazier if the numbers were shown.
I’m so happy for Metanorn that it deserves a Ziodberg! (\/)(;..;)(\/)
A poorly spelt Zoidberg, mind!
Rightly spelled or not. The Zoidberg is much appreciated! (\/)(;..;)(\/)
Woo, I’m surprised! Looking forward to the finale.
But this poll really shows a problem. Look at how many voted in the first match and then look at the second. There’s about 400 votes less in the second one.
Yeah, but that’s always going to happen in any bracket-style tournament. Look at the NCAA basketball tourney, for example.
There’s no doubt in my mind that either Metanorn or Star-Crossed would have beaten either LiA or Whiners – but that’s just the way things fell. I don’t think anyone should have issue when Meta wins, because even if you believe SCAB was the toughest opponent, Meta beat them fair and square (by a whisper) in their heads-up match.
I was rooting for Metanorn from the start, but I don’t vote when I don’t have a preference for either blog. Really, the second bracket’s blogs were wildly different and interesting in their own way. If you take into account people who are directed from their favorite blog and don’t care much about the rest, you may partially explain this. And maybe is there a sort of anti-psgel sentiment.
In simple words, things gets intense at world cup. xD
So that’s how many votes it takes to beat SCAB… Unseeded Cinderella story, lol.
Who would have thought, huh? xD
Im fine with the results and all, but the only thing i wonder is why is the vote count so different from usual. Usually there are around 500 votes, but this avereges out to around 1200 o_0
Amazing.. 13 votes difference for both polls.. Can’t wait to see the 2 blogs in the finals.. 8D
I didn’t even need to use my Noble Phantasm army.
Ionioi Spiralio?!
Well, I guess these results dispel the idea of this being a circle-jerk. I don’t think there are 1,400 active anibloggers out there.
This round seems to be the exception rather than the rule though. The high numbers are likely due to active campaigning at this stage of the tourney more than anything else.
This was illegal, remember, only several rounds ago.
Wait Spiral, don’t you know that every time you contact some external guy to vote the organizers actually toss a 6-face dice and depending on the outcome you may get disqualified or simply investigated?
I would be so sure. Firstly, my feedlist has about 300 blogs in it, and I know that I leave vast sections ‘sphere uncovered. I would not be surprised if we have close to 800 blogs in just the English-speaking ‘sphere. Secondly, let’s ask: are active readers and commenters part of the blog team? And finally, who said that the new voter registration is bullet-proof?
Author you have a point and well, we all know the main problem with this tourney or any online public poll.
What happened in this particular episode is that people can just go around asking votes to unrelated people (friends, family, co-workers, or even random facebook people), gather 300-400-500-1000 votes and then what we should say about these WINNERS?
Also please remember that a single person can vote multiple time from all their network connections (home, phone, work) multiplying the votes and no one can say these votes are not “legit”.
This is of course without counting VPNs (OpenVPN; PP2P, LP2P), Closed proxies and other cheating ways that the system still doesn’t block or limit.
They are really the the most popular blog ever? Or simply the guys who spent more time randomly asking for votes?
If Metanorn collects 1000 registrations from the friends and family, that’s definitely not a “circlejerk” that Kritik was discussing.
How should we call it then? Friendjerk?!
They’re still unrelated people to the actual blog and they shouldn’t be voting in the first place…:P
psgels rates this match an 82,5