This long and exciting week has come to a close, and I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2020 Official Manacube Elections.
RESULTS
6. Laney- 1 vote
T4. Caseyclosed - 12 votes
T4. Jacon - 12 votes
3. Dadcon - 20 votes
2. Dacon - 30 votes
1. TTuller - 49 votes
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* Even after my warning, there was continued suspicious behaviour - see 30 consecutive votes for Jacon, within the space of 20 minutes, all from non-ranked users, continuing even after I removed the link from the forums. Due to this, I removed a huge amount of votes from Jacon's results. Without these measures, he would have won with 65% of the vote.
EXTRAPOLATIONS
The ELITE rank was very represented in the polls, owning 48.4% of all votes. Second was no rank, with 22.6%.
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Olympus really showed its support for the election, responsible for 39.5% of all votes. Second was Parkour, with 21.8%.
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Dacon was the furthest-reaching candidate, whose best-performing server only represented
23.3% of his votes.
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And
Casey stayed closest to home - take a look at this graph!
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Dadcon appealed to the widest group of people. He was all across the ranks board.
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Jacon, however, did not.
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All data is uploaded in the following post.
THANK YOU!
It's a hard time for all of us. We're stuck at home, most of us trying to adapt to a new school/work routine, and we have a lot of time on our hands. It's easy to be distracted by all the terrible news we see on in the news and on social media. It's been a few weeks now that Jacon and Dadcon have been bantering back and forth about the election, but I saw this as an excellent opportunity to take it a step further. My intention was to use this election as a means to bring the community together, if in a detached and slightly confusing way, and I think that it was a success. I hope that it was fun for people to vote, and I hope it was fun for the candidates. Even though there were a few blips along the way, I had a ton of fun collecting the data and setting up the polls.
Thank you to Dacon for solidifying this and making it a little more "official" then I ever could have. Thanks to Jacon and Dadcon for starting all this, largely at their own expense, and thank you to the other candidates - Laney, Casey, Cher, and Tuller - for participating! Thanks to the staff for letting us get away with all these spammy threads and not intervening (which you certainly could've!). And thanks to the 124 real people -
one hundred and twenty four! - who actually voted! That's so damn cool!
Sorry for being so sappy, but I'm really happy this worked out. I hope no one is disappointed by anything - where they placed, what the data showed, or if they missed a chance to vote.
