Round 3 Investigation Resolved
Hi everyone, We discovered an attempt to stuff the ballot boxes and have removed the fraudulent votes. These votes only were significant enough to impact one contest: Bub & Bob vs. Samus Aran. As we mentioned, we wanted to make absolutely sure the results for round 3 were above the board, and as...
Hi everyone,
We discovered an attempt to stuff the ballot boxes and have removed the fraudulent votes. These votes only were significant enough to impact one contest: Bub & Bob vs. Samus Aran. As we mentioned, we wanted to make absolutely sure the results for round 3 were above the board, and as it happens, we caught close to 16,000 fraudulent votes from five specific people. Subtracting these votes from the total means that Samus is the winner (by a healthy margin) of the contest and advances to Round 4. We apologize for letting these five people inspire and then dash the hopes of Bub & Bob fans everywhere.
We know there are a lot of Sonic and Master Chief fans, but as we've mentioned, we didn't find evidence of ballot-stuffing during those rounds.
Let's tip our hats to Bub & Bob, the Cinderella Story of this contest. They gave it their all and did more than anyone thought two lovable dinosaur dragons could, and they should exit the arena with their heads held high.
We are now down to eight contestants. Round 4 voting will start momentarily!
- GameSpot Staff
We discovered an attempt to stuff the ballot boxes and have removed the fraudulent votes. These votes only were significant enough to impact one contest: Bub & Bob vs. Samus Aran. As we mentioned, we wanted to make absolutely sure the results for round 3 were above the board, and as it happens, we caught close to 16,000 fraudulent votes from five specific people. Subtracting these votes from the total means that Samus is the winner (by a healthy margin) of the contest and advances to Round 4. We apologize for letting these five people inspire and then dash the hopes of Bub & Bob fans everywhere.
We know there are a lot of Sonic and Master Chief fans, but as we've mentioned, we didn't find evidence of ballot-stuffing during those rounds.
Let's tip our hats to Bub & Bob, the Cinderella Story of this contest. They gave it their all and did more than anyone thought two lovable dinosaur dragons could, and they should exit the arena with their heads held high.
We are now down to eight contestants. Round 4 voting will start momentarily!
- GameSpot Staff
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