Capital One Bowl

[bub94]

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Last week, there were over 70K votes cast. So far this week, not even 20K. BUT, I was able to get the code right of the first try today.

[JackFan96]

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Well, I honestly think the system had been hacked for a week or two. That's why we were down 4,000 in a matter of hours the past couple of times. It also accounts for losing by 15,000 votes...which is almost impossible given the way the system is set up. I can see us losing by maybe 4,000 or even a bit more, but never could a vote be as lopsided as 15,000. My theory also accounts for how much more difficult it is to see and enter your code. I think somebody found a way to flood the system when we were at the top of the standing. That has not been addressed. I'm not trying to sound like a nut...and there's no way we were going to go undefeated...but things seem to be working much better now...vote totals across the board are much more reasonable.

[JackrabbitGuy]

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Since they went to the verifier with the colored background, I've been having troubles with casting votes. That must have been when they added the case sensitivity.

Yep, I had same trouble. The case sensitivity is definately in play now.

[bub94]

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Anyone else have problems voting today? The captcha started require case and then it kept saying it couldn't verify it. I guess I voted because it won't let me back to cast my vote.

www.capitalonebowl.com

Since they went to the verifier with the colored background, I've been having troubles with casting votes. That must have been when they added the case sensitivity.

[JimmieTuba]

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Anyone else have problems voting today? The captcha started require case and then it kept saying it couldn't verify it. I guess I voted because it won't let me back to cast my vote.

www.capitalonebowl.com

[GopherHole]

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Looks like the tide has turned again. After 3 weeks of the big dogs getting the massive votes, all of the smaller schools have the early lead this week. This includes Jack by 440 votes. Time to get back in the win column.

[Evolution Prime]

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Well, I don't want to be Conspiracy Theory Guy. But I'm not sure how to account for this week's wild swings. Would a number of schools actually work together? Don't know. But we won some close ones, then lost some by a couple or few thousands. Now this? Could a lot more people be getting involved at the bigger schools at this point? Could it be as simple as that? I don't know.

Something is going on. Everything seemed to be fine the first couple three weeks and then all of a sudden mascots getting blown out like this for the past couple. Last yeah was never this bad.

[Jacks#1Fan]

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We got off to a fast start, when most voters were just getting into the game, and didn't have any records to go by. We won that third match by a hair, and so we have been one of the top teams voted against by all of the voters. That could turn around in the second half, when we become one of the "also rans" and start picking up big votes. Having said that, I'm not sure we have the voting power to make it in the end, as our total votes are way behind. Only one thing to do...vote and find out!

[JackFan96]

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The voting is rigged?

Well, I don't want to be Conspiracy Theory Guy. But I'm not sure how to account for this week's wild swings. Would a number of schools actually work together? Don't know. But we won some close ones, then lost some by a couple or few thousands. Now this? Could a lot more people be getting involved at the bigger schools at this point? Could it be as simple as that? I don't know.

[filbert]

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Something's not adding up. The bigger schools are sending into to students? How can it be some schools are doing so well after everything was so close before? It just doesn't make sense.

The voting is rigged?

[JackFan96]

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We're losing this week pretty bad (about 15,000 votes), but two mascots are losing by 19,000 votes.

Something's not adding up. The bigger schools are sending into to students? How can it be some schools are doing so well after everything was so close before? It just doesn't make sense.

[JimmieTuba]

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http://www.capitalonebowl.com/

Seems to me that NDSU's mascot isn't doing as well either? Anyone over there talking about voting?

[bub94]

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We're losing this week pretty bad (about 15,000 votes), but two mascots are losing by 19,000 votes.

[bub94]

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Pretty sad voter turnout.

[GopherHole]

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It has been depressing watching the votes since week #3. There has been a big push by the major schools to get out the vote and/or vote against the top schools. We are in danger of not making the playoffs despite our record. We are in sixth place, but have the least votes. We will likely be on the outside looking in if we don't start getting out the vote again.
Down by 3,900 votes this morning and we have not been competitive the last three weeks.