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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Marjorie Liu Contest Winner!

It is that time again! We need to know who will win Ms. Liu's insanely cool prize pack!

I saw Chuck the Woodchuck messing around with my computer earlier, so I checked and double-checked to make sure that he wasn't tampering with the voting system. Everything seemed to check out... so away we go!

According to the name count, we had 12 entrants, so I broke it out into three groups of four. Those selected by the first round would then be reconsidered by the virtual committee who would then choose the actual winner.

There's been some kind of flu going around, and I guess some of our virtual committee caught it, but they all assured me that it wouldn't affect their judgements in any way.

Finally, the Marutachi were surprisingly not busy, so a bunch of them volunteered to help cheer on the proceedings... so here we go!

In the first group, we had Cassandra, laurier, Erica, and McPig.

Round 1

Cassandra : 7
laurier : 5
Erica : 4
McPig : 4
Nobody got a majority! The floor is open for debate!
Francois champions Cassandra calling upon voters from the NorthEast to consider Cassandra's worthyness
Maria champions laurier calling upon voters from the NorthEast to consider laurier's greatness
Dale champions Erica calling upon voters from the NorthWest to consider Erica's sweetness
Dick champions McPig calling upon voters from the NorthWest to consider McPig's worthyness


Round 2

Cassandra : 7
McPig : 5
Erica : 4
laurier : 4
Nobody got a majority! The floor is open for debate!
Barbara champions Cassandra calling upon voters from the SouthWest to consider Cassandra's mettle
Melissa champions McPig calling upon Female voters to consider McPig's mettle
Katherine champions Erica calling upon Tenured voters to consider Erica's greatness
Vauhn champions laurier calling upon MiddleAged voters to consider laurier's sweetness

McPig : 11
laurier : 6
Cassandra : 2
Erica : 1
The winner is: McPig in 3 rounds!




It looked like Cassandra went into the voting as the favorite, but shrewd debating on the part of Melissa brought McPig through. Clearly McPig's mettle held serious sway over female voters in the committee!


The second group was made up of Gamma, Kelly M, Tanya1224, and Nikiya. After a quick bathroom break, the committee reconvened to decide the fate of this group. Here is what they decided:

Round 1
Gamma : 6
Kelly M : 5
Tanya1224 : 5
nikiya : 4
Nobody got a majority! The floor is open for debate!
Victoria champions Gamma calling upon Female voters to consider Gamma's sweetness
Vauhn champions Kelly M calling upon Male voters to consider Kelly M's worthyness
John champions Tanya1224 calling upon voters from the NorthEast to consider Tanya1224's mettle
Nick champions nikiya calling upon MiddleAged voters to consider nikiya's greatness


Round 2
Kelly M : 6
nikiya : 6
Tanya1224 : 5
Gamma : 3
Nobody got a majority! The floor is open for debate!
Jennifer champions Kelly M calling upon Female voters to consider Kelly M's mettle
Nick champions nikiya calling upon MiddleAged voters to consider nikiya's worthyness
Chris champions Tanya1224 calling upon Male voters to consider Tanya1224's worthyness
Fortunado champions Gamma calling upon Male voters to consider Gamma's awesomeness


Round 3

nikiya : 11
Tanya1224 : 6
Kelly M : 3
Gamma : 0
The winner is: nikiya in 3 rounds!





Between rounds 1 and 2, it was difficult to tell who was garnering favor within the committee, but Nick rallied the middle aged voters for a swift incontestable win for nikiya! I really wish I had the transcripts from that debate to see just what he said!


The final group was van_pham, jmspettoli, Spav, and ... hey wait a minute... chuck?? Ok. Now I understand what that woodchuck was doing near my computer. grrr. Unfortunately by the time I noticed... it was too late. At least chuck didn't win the popular vote... let's see what happened...


Round 1

van_pham : 7
jmspettoli : 5
Spav : 4
chuck : 4
Nobody got a majority! The floor is open for debate!
Victoria champions van_pham calling upon Young voters to consider van_pham's sweetness
Peter champions jmspettoli calling upon voters from the SouthWest to consider jmspettoli's worthyness
Barbara champions Spav calling upon Female voters to consider Spav's greatness
Maria champions chuck calling upon MiddleAged voters to consider chuck's awesomeness


Round 2
van_pham : 11
jmspettoli : 4
Spav : 4
chuck : 1
The winner is: van_pham in 2 rounds!




Based on the way that the committee voted, you could see that chuck's treachery had no real affect on them. He was quickly marginalized and van_pham won in only a single round of debate.

So with the three groups voted upon, we now had our finalists. McPig, Nikiya, and vam_pham!

The Committee once again took a break, this time to go eat lunch... but returned within an hour to provide their valued input as to who the final winner would be. Let's see what they decided...

Round 1

McPig : 9
nikiya : 6
van_pham : 5
Nobody got a majority! The floor is open for debate!
Katherine champions McPig calling upon voters from the SouthEast to consider McPig's awesomeness
Victoria champions nikiya calling upon Female voters to consider nikiya's mettle
Chris champions van_pham calling upon Male voters to consider van_pham's worthyness


Round 2

McPig : 12
nikiya : 7
van_pham : 1
The winner is: McPig in 2 rounds!



How about that! In only two rounds, McPig was declared the winner! Congratulations McPig! You have a week from the time of this blogpost to contact Katie with instructions on where to ship your prize!

6 comments:

  1. Congrats McPig!!!! :)

    Great job Richard, once again a fun voting system. :)

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  2. What a voting system =)...Lol. Congrats to the winner even though it wasn't me..sigh. I'm now a follower because that was just to funny ;)

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  3. YAy McPig! About time you won! lol. Congrats! Awesome job on the voting Ricky! :)

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  4. Yay!!! That's so cool!
    It's a good thing I got my internet working first thing after our move back to our house or I'd have missed this great news!
    *does little happy dance*
    And I must say I LOVE the little piggy drawing in the demographics pic.

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  5. @McPig *doing happy dance with you* About time you won! lol

    Now you can never enter contests again. hahaha KIDDING! :) I will send out all your goodies tomorrow! woot woot

    xoxoxo

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  6. WOW!!!!
    I am so confused.... I guess that is what I get for asking that damn Woodchuck for help....

    Congrats to McPig!!!!!

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