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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figures are figures :\ (sorry for eng)
poll is rigged and everybody know that, so stop flame any teams because they don't have anything to do in that history.
and for information, mine is bigger than yours.
turn off the bulbs, light 'em candles and close the stores.... they're coming for you....
Sorry but you seem to be such narrow-minded, it's a pity to see that. I hope eStar will keep the 3 teams which were in the top3 before this "vote attack".
(Dictionary.com: racism = hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.)
I guess narrow minded points out to me saying already a week ago that the votes are fake, and while almost every French person here kept saying they were for real, now even most of them have admitted they were all cheated (as this news proves). So I'm narrow minded for not believing in the ridiculous excuse of a 3 day French holiday and news posts on French CS websites?
Admit it at least instead of arguing on other points.
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Look at their last results, they won WCG since Roccat couldn't even go trough the group stage in DTS (Ukrainian) Cup ...
There are their LAST awards :
1st at Digitalasace & Gamers-Assembly
1st at EPS.fr
1st WCG World Finals
1st at Kode5.Germany
3rd at GameGune
3rd at Dreamhack
3rd at SEC
emL has been doing realy well recently ... isn't it ?
And now saying than Roccat's votes have been cheated by the french guys to discredit roccat is STUPID... You also can say that some finish people cheated the french results to hide their next cheat... That's stupid but can't be proved :)
(and JiKAKAmo u should rather stop to be a dumbass)
I definetly agree that a news about this problem was needed, but not in this subjective way... That's not professional :) Tough SK was...
roccat: 4th SEC, 1st NGL season 2, 5th ESWC, 5th WCG, 1st ASUSs 2007, 1st WSVG Louisville 2007, 3rd ESL EM LA, 2nd NGL season 4, 5th ESL EM 2
Choo Choo?
emuLate 33.17% 50779
I'm thanksful for the discredit about our community, FUCKER §
We had fair ways to support our national team... That's so sad.
But i think you are just jealous to see us in the top of the vote.
http://www.sk-gaming.com/video/8651-CS_vote_faking_proof_of_concept
and the evidence that u can cheat is right there:
http://www.sk-gaming.com/video/8651-CS_vote_faking_proof_of_concept
and i wanted to say that this system of votin is the worst shit ive ever seen,i don't care who is going even if i like eml but just stop whining
Well, apart from SK, a journalist job is to learn the truth and express their opinion towards something that is not right. That's what Carmac and the other journalists trying to do.
And yeah, this voting system is messed up. eSTARS organization should have reviewed this issue soon.