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The only explanation for this is the shift of times before the downtime and after
There was a hour and a half between
Many new people can show up in the internet during this time and vote for Draven
But
Link actually beat Draven pretty hard when the site was down,and after it returned Draven started rising slowely..and then went crazy mode with 100-130 votes more than before
I can't explain it

Kibago posted...

I'd be curious to see what would happen to Sonic in the finals if he kills Draven for us. does he get a "gratitude bandwagon" past Snake and Samus? do revenge votes crush him? both?

Samus and Sonic overlap hard. Snake wins easily.
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You guys realize this has partially spread into the League of Legends game itself? I saw some people talk about this while I was watching my brother play LoL on the computer.

Guys, guys.

Link failed us. the greatest contest performance in history failed us. If we want to discuss the remaining non-Draven matches, that's fine. I'll be sticking it out for those probably.

But let's not re-argue Link being the best shot at Draven. That kind of performance... we're not getting it ever again!
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65535bit posted...

You guys realize this has partially spread into the League of Legends game itself? I saw some people talk about this while I was watching my brother play LoL on the computer.

Nothing will beat the rumor that Korean television was airing commercials asking people to vote for Starcraft in our 2004 Best Game Ever contest.
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Link was always the best shot at Draven. And he nearly did it! I wouldn't say Sonic is a non-zero chance, though. Link's chances were minimal as well.
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Guys, just stop. It's done. If Link fails everybody fails. Simple as that.
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Oh no, the guy who thrives on rallies is getting his second wind from being rallied! This must be cheating!
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Yeah, let's tone down the crying over this. LoL will always be unstoppable. There are other, at least 10 more fun matches to look forward to without Draven. They get a few matches to rally in and we get the rest of them.

Welp I'm just about ready to throw in the towel. Link needed a miracle and he got it when that first rally was deleted (I bet the guy didn't know this was a 24 hour match). But then the site goes down during Link's primetime and then LoL goes down and people are offering actual money to Draven voters and there's probably quite a bit of stuffing in there too.

Seriously, just LoL going down is ridiculous. This is the equivalent of a new Pokemon game being released in all of Charizard's matches or something. Nothing should be that lucky but LoL beats the odds in every way possible.
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swirIdude posted...

65535bit posted...

You guys realize this has partially spread into the League of Legends game itself? I saw some people talk about this while I was watching my brother play LoL on the computer.

Nothing will beat the rumor that Korean television was airing commercials asking people to vote for Starcraft in our 2004 Best Game Ever contest.

The greatest update of all time. That reaction. That reaction.
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Karma Hunter posted...

Link was always the best shot at Draven. And he nearly did it! I wouldn't say Sonic is a non-zero chance, though. Link's chances were minimal as well.

I said Link had a chance at Draven when everyone said he didn't.

Sonic? Please. With Allen doing nothing about the cheating, there is nothing that can possibly cause Draven to lose except for the cheater changing his mind or losing his interest. And what are the odds of that? If he's willing to do a f***ing DDOS, he's not going to quit here.

This is over.
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I'd like to note that there's a post by a Riot employee in that rally thread. There's a tracker on the site that lets you see the recent posts by Riot employees. So, I can see that causing a spike in votes.
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Unless Snake gets thrashed by Squirtle, then we get to see it replaced with the Karma Magical Disappearing Act.
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Looking at the way the board is reacting, all I can think is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRifKEf0xr8
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SubDeity posted...

Guys, just stop. It's done. If Link fails everybody fails. Simple as that.

doesn't everyone fail no matter who wins? draven is the worse of the two evils imo
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trolls and fanboys are the same just working on different ends of the spectrum.

If Draven advances from this match without a re-poll, I'm done with this site forever.

I'm feeling sick to my stomach.

286 vote, 60% of the total votes update for Draven.
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Link has utterly collapsed now.
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Figgy20000 posted...

If Draven advances from this match without a re-poll, I'm done with this site forever.

LOL
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Yeah, this is so over. This is like Bleach where it looks like someone is winning a tough match but then the bad guy reveals that he's been holding back and unleashes a new level of ridiculous. I just don't know what anything can do about this when pretty much all of LoL is banding against us now and SBAllen doesn't care.
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60% update for Draven
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What's the current view count on the LoL forums rally?

Because it would have to be PRETTY HIGH INDEED to explain this.

This is not a rally. Even if it was, rallying via bribery is just shameful. The maths do not check out, these votes can't be coming from that source. The Reddit thing was believable, but even that didn't do this.

This is clear and blatant cheating. Even if it wasn't I would say we don't want our contests being decided this way. It totally is though. I cannot believe people are arguing against that, and I can't believe Allen is one of them. No matter how much I should.
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Not suspicious at all.
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Whoops, wrong topic.

so i checked with my DDoS expert source again and he had this to say

me: is what is said here possable? http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/67143451
him: while unlikly, its compleatly plausable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_1965 for example. an entire portion of the country was without power for 13 hours a little relay was misplaced and 1 after another safty switches were fliped off automaticly.
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If Link loses, does anybody else has a change? I heard 4Chan will support Sonic right?
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Lightning Strikes posted...

What's the current view count on the LoL forums rally?

Because it would have to be PRETTY HIGH INDEED to explain this.

The view count has been frozen at 3,600 or so for me for a while. Anyone else?
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If Draven is being stuffed, a re-poll won't matter. The stuffer will stuff again. It might counteract the rallies but it's clear what is actually happening.
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Safer_777 posted...

If Link loses, does anybody else has a change? I heard 4Chan will support Sonic right?

No because the gamefaqs vote will be split between 2 strong characters and 4chan cannot change anything more than like a 54/46 match

Safer_777 posted...

If Link loses, does anybody else has a change? I heard 4Chan will support Sonic right?

I don't think so anymore. If it was just Reddit, Link would've won today, but the rallying is spreading to all sorts of places now. Even with 4chan's full support I don't think there's anything we can do.
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Lightning Strikes posted...

What's the current view count on the LoL forums rally?

Because it would have to be PRETTY HIGH INDEED to explain this.

This is not a rally. Even if it was, rallying via bribery is just shameful. The maths do not check out, these votes can't be coming from that source. The Reddit thing was believable, but even that didn't do this.

This is clear and blatant cheating. Even if it wasn't I would say we don't want our contests being decided this way. It totally is though. I cannot believe people are arguing against that, and I can't believe Allen is one of them. No matter how much I should.

This has spread into the actual League of Legends game now, so who knows how many votes Draven is getting from those users.

It's not Link that has fallen,

It the integrity of this site and the contest that has fallen.

It's a shame :(

Reddit and 4chan F*** up another good internet thing.

Those sites are a freaking cesspool
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People think SONIC!? can do this when the GOAT performance in contest history wasn't enough?

I think this match has caused people to lose their minds.
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Then00bAvenger posted...

Also I don't really think Allen has any reason to lie so whatever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSjK2Oqrgic
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can someone link me to Lopens data on this please
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So now that there's actual money on the line for Draven voters, what's next if this keeps escalating? Seems to me like we're just missing some account suicides from people leaving "forever".
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Draven only .2% away from once again handing Link the worst loss of his contest career.
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Ssliasil posted...

Reddit and 4chan F*** up another good internet thing.

I don't even blame Reddit for this. In all likelihood this is just one person or one small group of people.

Reddit is allowed to rally, nothing wrong with that.

But it's pretty clear their power was vastly overstated and that most of this was stuffing from the start.

If Gamefaqs had one rogue user, is it right to paint everyone their in a negative light? We had George Romero. He was not representative of Gamefaqs.

And I doubt this stuffer is representative of Reddit or LoL in general.
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Draven is making record number per update now.

NOT A THING SUSPICIOUS AT ALL
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you know someone should contact CBS about this. a site they own being attacked and taken down for 90 minutes is something they would be very interested in

also more from my DDoS guy

well, it would be fairly complicated to fake the votes for draven
ddos may have cuased the inital load balence issue
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Draven's not getting vote stuffed. He's got more rallies on different sites.

I don't know why people are so damn surprised that a guy who thrives on rallies is currently thriving thanks to rallies.
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I've got to ask... What's the deal with the George Romero stuff???
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I don't see stuffing here. This is just LoL. You're all seriously underestimating it.

im317 posted...

you know someone should contact CBS about this. a site they own being attacked and taken down for 90 minutes is something they would be very interested in

also more from my DDoS guy

well, it would be fairly complicated to fake the votes for draven
ddos may have cuased the inital load balence issue

We should do one better.

We should complain to their sponsors.

Works for Starcraft