Vote For SCV For MLG Prizefights!

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This is deeply annoying. It's essentially a contest to see who's the most dedicated/organized/willing to game the system.
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Yup. On the bright side, it probably doesn't matter at all. I mean, I didn't see anywhere on the MLG site a statement confirming that "this poll will determine what the next PrizeFights game will be". In fact, I think I only heard that sentiment on the news posts on TYM and 8wayrun. The poll on MLG seems like it's just one of those pleasant "community features" to make the website more engaging. I'm pretty sure that the results of the poll are insignificant. The poll is structured in a way so as to keep you coming back to the site (god damn you BIC "get real" commercial!) rather than in any way that would encourage an accurate head-count.

There were plenty of people who were surprised that MLG would host such an insecure poll for such an important decision. The people who feel this way are not idiots. They find this surprising because it would be a foolish thing to do (which is why MLG is probably not doing it). MLG makes a lot of big, important decisions, and I doubt that they base any of them off of what one dingy internet poll buried layers past their front-page says.The poll is "insecure" because there is no reason for anybody to put any effort into it because its not a big deal.

Is it possible that the internet has blown something totally out of proportion?
 
Cypher, this vote probably does have a lot of impact on what game is played in the next prizefight. To quote JP from the end of the last sc2 prizefight match:

"the next fight will be going down may 2nd, and you guys can go vote on whether it's going to be MK featuring ?someone's name here? or if it's going to be soul calibur 5 with the best players that the soul calibur community has to offer."

Now, with the votes so close, maybe they'll end up doing both? But anyway, yes, this poll does appear to have some value in who gets to play next.

Also, the poll itself appears to be powered by http://polldaddy.com which is software from http://automattic.com/ - who appear to have something to do with wordpress. So as far as legit goes, if I was some half-knowledgeable half-get-this-poll-system-done-asap guy from mlg trying to figure out what poll system to use, I'd feel comfortable with something associated with wordpress (maybe polldaddy plugs right into wordpress and their site is built on wordpress? who knows, it's not like mlg is known for having a quality website). Or, maybe they just don't care if their poll system is exploitable because it's equally exploitable? (as mentioned before, getting people onto their site and thinking about their product is probably more important than poll integrity)

Anyway, keep it up guys :D
 
Huh. Well then, it appears I was wrong. I didn't know about JP's statement, it definitely lends weight to the poll. Thanks for passing that along! I'll definitely continue to vote until this thing is decided :)

And, yeah, Automattic does a bunch of web development work, they're headquartered in San Francisco and have a number of products, the most famous of which are WordPress and Gravatar. The products are focused around electronic communication and virtual communities (they also got software for forums, RSS aggregators, comments-filtering systems, etc).
 
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