Interest in the poll has been dying as the week goes on. It's to be expected, which makes this stand out all the more. Both options have been neck and neck, even up to last night. Suddenly 100 votes come out of nowhere, putting one team far in the lead. Favorites/views on both the story and the blog with the poll link have not risen to the same degree, meaning someone is trying to manipulate the results (despite the IP duplication prevention).

Understand that this series takes quite a lot of my time, thanks in no small part to the existence of the polls. Having to cater to a choice outside of my control is a challenge, which makes it frustrating when the poll is so obviously abused. This happened last time to a preventable level, but with this interference I can no longer consider the vote valid.

With that in mind, I'm going to take a page out of hotpocketshogun's playbook and implement a re-vote using comments on this site alone. I expect the response will be much, much smaller, but at least it will be far more accurate.

To vote, comment on this blog post stating your choice to win the tournament - Team 2B or Team Blake. Only votes from accounts created no later than today (April 12th) will be valid. Cut off is April 16th.

UPDATE: POLL CLOSED

Team 2B.

Team 2B

Blake

Team 2B


I don't really understand why someone would do that as last time I checked, 2B was in the lead by 8 points. So inflating the vote in 2B favor was kind of pointless. I would have understood the contrary.

I think there should be a penalty for that team for doing that but that is just my opinion you do what you think is best.

Team Blake all the way baby

Definitely vote for 2B

techtician wrote:I think there should be a penalty for that team for doing that but that is just my opinion you do what you think is best.

Its impossible to punish both teams at the same time as the 100+ votes were the 2 teams combined. It got from 111(2B)-103(Blake)(those number dates from 2days ago) to 176(2B)-135(Blake). Best thing to assume would be that someone in the losing team used a vpn and augmented its vote but then someone from 2B team got mad and also started using a vpn to inflate its vote which could explain why it inflated to a large number that much.

Team Blake all the way

Team 2B
Or is there an option for Bayonetta to just eat everyone haha