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6305 e-Star votes - where are they?
Written by stormm in scene 7 months ago (283 comments) | Tagged in: e-star seoul vote
The e-Stars Seoul voting saga continues to deliver drama. The numbers from the time of the Voting Tsunami when emuLate noted a huge jump clearly do not add up.

After it was found that the e-Stars poll allows you to vote for two teams, it seemed that no mischief could be proven. Despite that, the e-Stars fan vote still seems suspect as new evidence was found.

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
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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)

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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.



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