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e-Stars vote faulty but not rigged
Following the news item about the possibility of the e-Stars Counter-Strike poll being rigged, it was brought to our attention that one is able to cast a vote for two, not three teams.
By Michal 'Carmac' Blicharz
Apr 17, 2008 01:47
Following the news item about the possibility of the e-Stars Counter-Strike poll being rigged, it was brought to our attention that one is able to cast a vote for two, not three teams.
After the French team emuLate surprisingly got to first place in the poll in one day, suspicions arose as to whether the results of the voting are legit.
"We only know French esport websites put some advertising to ask people to vote for us," said Ethan, emuLate's CEO. "People asked guys at their work to vote too, even if they were not involved into esport just because we represent the nation and some of them organized MSN chain to ask for voting."
Our news item about the poll suggested that since the total number of votes cast is not divisible by three, someone may have tried to rig the poll.
When you try to vote for just one team here, there is a popup prompt asking you to pick three teams. However, the system accepts votes cast for as few as two teams. This means that the total number of votes will likely not be divisible by three, rendering the suggestion that the poll was rigged invalid.
We apologise for the mistake, especially considering that it aroused unnecessary controversy around team emuLate.
"We only know French esport websites put some advertising to ask people to vote for us," said Ethan, emuLate's CEO. "People asked guys at their work to vote too, even if they were not involved into esport just because we represent the nation and some of them organized MSN chain to ask for voting."
Our news item about the poll suggested that since the total number of votes cast is not divisible by three, someone may have tried to rig the poll.
When you try to vote for just one team here, there is a popup prompt asking you to pick three teams. However, the system accepts votes cast for as few as two teams. This means that the total number of votes will likely not be divisible by three, rendering the suggestion that the poll was rigged invalid.
We apologise for the mistake, especially considering that it aroused unnecessary controversy around team emuLate.
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Cause emuLate! goes to Korea ! Yupp !
btw, don't spam SK-Gaming cause they just done a mistake (we all do mistakes).
The real matter is that no one should vote twice or +. The fault is for estar seoul and no one else.
Poor Sk, don't cry plz :'(. Even if you haven't any vote... 9000 ... emL got 18000.
Sweden population : 9.000.000
French population : 60.000.000
Morover the week french got 3 days holidays, the week of the vote increase.
Maybe you prefer emL beats you in game to be sute not to participate ? :D
"Frenchies modify their config" => HAHA, that s the reason why they won WCG.
What is unfair ? Just because of estar website that's not really usefull and allow anyone to vote ?
For sure that's oen of the reason. If you're sad, request estar before attack frenchies.
sk actually asked ppl to do the same like twice didn't they?
anyway, go eml =)
so you think only swedish people vote for swedish teams?
how stupid....
obviously there was something strange going on... i am not saying illegal or cheating or whatever. but the enormous increase of votes for emulate on one day is just really suspect...
and no, i dont have nothing against emulate nor french people in general. i would have made
the same comment for any other team.
Anyway, estar seoul website allow people to cheat easily.
Anyway 2, vote for a team to compete an event... so sad.
we don't care at all, SK shows some weird attitude, about GTR now about French community... you are getting lower and lower in my esteem.
Even if it was Roccat, mousesports or another team ! I don't care about those votes, cause each team deserves to go there. I'm a fan of emuLate of course, but I love team like mousesports and Roccat too... I was fan of SK too, but not since they've done stupid stuff like this one.
Well, Good Luck TO EVERYONE.
C'est tout.
dntcare, accuse someone of hacking and spamming vote for game ? isn't it childish ?
I hope SK will be qualified, but not by this way. Do you think using the power of the communauty to push down a team is really fair? I don't think so. Moreover, tell that no Swedish has voted twice for Sk at job and at home ?
In france, emulate is more and more popular, maybe above our country cause of the international results.
Thanks for this news... emuLate will get more votes :)
Please go check results, and see that Sk has no more votes, you are just after Alternate and MYM. Maybe you should ask yourself why do you have so poor votes ;x.
Why don't you post about Est Continent ? because wNv.cn & Dragon have many many votes ? Unbelievable... (ironically).
Low attack by SK. I am very disappointed with this community at now.
However, it might be difficult for the organizers to do anything about this. On the other hand emuLate gets an unfair advantage, but what would be then the punishment for these actions when they have absolutely nothing to do with the team itself with 99,9% certainty? It would be harsh to take a certain number of votes away from emuLate unless they have somekind of logging system where they see when all the votes have come.
emL deserves its place in Seoul after WCG and SEC :)
So, India would be placed second in the Biggest esport communities' ranking, "because of Indian population"? oh, please :)
Anyways, it kind of make me laught to see the "emL cheated". Damn, they are guilty of having more fans than the others? Or that the French people are more solidary than any others? Nor SK neither emL are to blame, they aren't responsible of e-Stars' system flaws.
GOGO EML :>
Don't be jealous that we are way smarter than other :D