2007 Reader’s Choice Awards cancelled
We regret to inform you that due to suspicions of cheating and vote fraud in regards to the voting in both rounds of the 2007 TGN Reader’s Choice Awards that the staff of Tabletop Gaming News no longer feel comfortable with putting the TGN name to the results of these votes.
As such we are not going to be awarding any Reader’s Choice Awards this year. We are still working on the 2007 Editor’s Choice Award and will also be working on an article outlining some of our favourite releases from this year.
We’d like to thank all those people who submitted nominations and comments. And also those who only voted once. To those of you bragging about using an entire lab worth of computers to rig the voting, well thanks for screwing it all up for everyone. Hope you’re satisfied with the results of your actions.
Right on Brother Joseph!
My understanding of this vote is that the polling system was checked and tested against “all” types of cheating. Zac has said this. No evidence exists that people beat the system.
A perception was created by people that were not happy their game system wasn’t on top of the list. The rumor mill started turning because someone watching this poll (from the outside) couldn’t compute why their system wasn’t winning. That just sad…
@Zac, you guys rock. I just registered but I’ve been around here a while now. Thanks for all your hard work and dedication to gaming.
No evidence exists that people beat the system.
I was not able to duplicate a second vote from a machine using the “recipes” that were posted online.
But people reporting that there were voting from multiple machines and urging others to do so was problematic and ultimately the impression if cheating is just as important as real evidence of cheating.
ultimately the impression if cheating is just as important as real evidence of cheating.
“Slander, slander, there will always be something left” will unfortunately always be true.