A closer look at the sudden peak in emuLate's voting numbers shows that it can't all be explained with a successful voting campaign by the French gaming community. Thanks to google caching websites we were able to get a screenshot of the poll right before the mass voting started.
This allowed us to calculate the difference in the number of votes before and after the "Tsunami" - between April 10 and April 11. The French team emuLate received 7884 votes in that period of time. After carefully adding up the tallies of each team, we have found 6305 votes to be... missing.
Each of the poll's participants had to cast a vote for either three or two, as it later turned out, teams. This means that for each vote cast on a team there had to be one or two votes cast for any of the other teams. With the way the poll works, it should be absolutely impossible for emuLate to get more votes than the other teams combined in any period of time.
If the tally for emuLate rose by 7884 votes, then the tally for the other teams combined had to rise by 7884 at the very least. But there were only 1579 votes cast on all the remaining teams in the poll in the same period.
Here are the screenshots and the calculations:
April 10 17:42:51 GMT or 18:42:51 CET
emuLate! - 8195 votes
all other teams - 57405 votes
fnatic - 11474 votes
mym - 12941 votes
mousesports - 6035 votes
mtw - 6245 votes
SK - 7078 votes
Alternate - 6380 votes
Roccat - 7252 votes
April 11 15:04:34 GMT or 16:04:34 CET
emuLate! - 16079 votes (+7884)
all other teams - 58984 (+1579)
fnatic - 11968 votes (+494)
mym - 13345 votes (+404)
Mousesports - 6143 votes (+108)
mtw - 6340 votes (+95)
Sk - 7280 votes (+202)
Alternate - 6461 votes (+81)
Roccat - 7447 votes (+195)
Growth margin:
emuLate!: 16079 - 8195 = 7884
other teams: 58984 - 57405 = 1579
difference: 7884 - 1579 = 6305
Every nominee will be chosen by three different criteria s: 50% from the vote, previous achievements 20%, and committee’s decision 30%.
This issue is not really about emuLate or any other team - clearly, teams cannot be held responsible for something that a fan may have done. But is this poll really to be trusted at all?
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The SK Gaming web crew was unable to reach e-Stars for a comment about this.
http://85.114.130.63/csfaking/html/cs.html
I think i would need about 2 hous to make this with a small java prog and doing this with a root server 24/7 at 5k+ votes a day
Take some bots to it and make 100k+ a day
To the "only vote one thing" - easy just manipulate post data:
http://www.estarsseoul.org/eng/c_sub_02_01_cs_west_post.html?gubun=cs&mode=pollAll&seq%5B%5D=22
here is a directlink to the flv:
http://85.114.130.63/csfaking/flv/faking.flv
The only reason I can see should be the relative big fanbase of SK. Based on the size of the countries, their relative fanbase's and their showings in 2007 I'd say that this was expected. Would've thought Alternate / Mouz had gotten more votes though.
Carmac did a great job writing that article calling out a lot of writers to be honest. So you should really be happy Carmac is here, because if there was a problem at SK he would let you know about it.
You should have it like.
Despite that, the e-Stars fan vote still seems suspect; as new evidence is found"
(comma splice makes it look/flow better while reading)
(it should be IS not was, the investigation so to speak is still on-going. As well, it makes sense that way, considering this is current, not past tense)
P.S: My comments are not edited so if you find a problem, its to be expected :P In a news post or feature of mine, please tell me if there is a spelling/grammar error it is much appreciated.
On another note: Why are all of the french community members getting upset? SK is not attacking or accusing anyone imparticular of this (or even a community for that matter; "emulate fans aside"). For all you know it was Jang Jae Ho that did this....(unlikely but you get the point). So please don't turn this news post into another fiasco like the China VS Westerners news post. I had to intervene there as well and I am sick and tired of you people acting like children towards each other and present day issues. Its sickening, so please stop.
IF you wanna argue about something, argue about the way teams are chosen :)
ps : even if you remove the 6k votes, emL would still be ahead, according to the last poll results
If you would like to see the press release (its poorly written, and has grammatical errors up the wazzoo) as well as the updated/corrected version written by myself, feel free to PM me or e-mail me. Re-Highlander42@hotmail.com
(Or did I misunderstand the post?)
i ask everybody to cheat and vote for sk ok ? would you make 4 news ?
fnatic and MYM are not only clanpage and they dont whine or try to change the poll. when you lose you lose ! only sk whine so much.
I don't think anyone would complain if the votes looked normal - how can you explain the 6000+ missing votes?