LogFAQs > #906991710

I don't really mind rallies impacting contests. I think the problem is that Draven has zero strength within GameFAQs, which meant that all of his strength was from the rally. SBAllen said that Link even got something 1/3rd of the off-site votes. All of this means is that Reddit's traffic is so much higher than ours that even just a portion of a Reddit rally eclipses both GameFAQs and the rest of the rally combined. I feel like that sort of invalidates the existing voters who would be interested in a contest that didn't involve meme rallying.

That's to say nothing of the extremely suspicious downtime. It's unfortunate the Link match was so close. If Link had won anyway, no one would care. If Draven had beat Link more decisively, no one would care. But because it was so close, the downtime makes it look like Link would have won otherwise (and maybe he would have, I don't know). I understand why Allen couldn't, but precedent already existed to rerun matches that had technical difficulties. Whether it was a DDoS attack or a true accident almost doesn't matter, I feel sorry for him. There was no right call in that situation.

With all of that said, however, Draven did give us a much more entertaining contest than Link vs Snake would have.
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Started: July 6, 2005