There's only one more day left to go, voting closes today at midnight Pacific time USA.
Update 11:00 p.m. CET/6:00 p.m. EST/3:00 p.m. PDT:
Amtr counterattacked with 107 new votes, vs. only 18 votes for st3. Unfortunately, amtr remained 56 votes behind the leading st3 - 16 votes farther than they were on Sunday, March 15th, when they first generated a huge number of votes in an attempt to take over the lead. See below how they were trying to move up to the first position.
Another observation at this time would be that the number of voters for the best video blog displayed on the Lonely Planet page does not exactly equal a sum of votes for each of the blogs. While it used to. See that if you add the votes, you'll get 2,119. While they are displaying 2,118 voters.
I checked the totals for other contesting groups. They're off for five other categories:
expat - 1,018 more voters than votes (shares add up to 73%, 27% are unaccounted for),
Podcast - 844 more voters than votes (shares add up to 76%, 24% are unaccounted for),
consumer travel - 3 voters less than votes,
travelogue - 2 voters less than votes,
non-English travel blog - 1 voter less than the number of votes.
I am puzzled as to why.
Update 2:00 a.m. CET/9:00 p.m. EST/6:00 p.m. PDT:
I have just discovered that the voting closed at midday today, and will not close at midnight! So I've been looking at the results. Quite unprofessional of the authors to specify the closing time in such a way that it can be interpreted as either midnight or midday. I only noticed now that is has been corrected to "midday". LOL. I guess this saves me a post tomorrow morning.
So.. It's been a pleasure, guys. Apparently, Scenic Boys scored 3 points out of 10 possible from public voting. I hope they will keep everybody updated on the final results of the best video blog contest.
2 comments:
It was enjoyable and entertaining to read your updates as this contest went on. :) You are very gifted with statistics and numbers. Any chance you'd like to hop on over to the casino for a spell? haha.
I don't think they're going to reveal the final points for each blog, just who the winners were. We're flippin amazed we even made into the nominations.
I'll be checkin in on your blog - what will you bring us next!?
Cheers,
Garet & Dusty
I checked the lplabs page. So 2guys won in the best video blog category and also took the big prize, 488 books :-) Wow. The best of 14 contestants. That's a competition you couldn't beat. I liked their blog and I think they deserved it. They had the most votes to begin with, and they've never tried to help the voting results along.
I am glad all the campaigning the other blogs did not distract the judges while deciding which blog they thought was best. While watching st3 and amtr compete to score the most points was fun (well, sort of), all the "extra votes" they received should really be ignored as artificially generated. And therefore you can consider yourself number two or, in the worst case, number three in your category. Over three hundred people liked your blog best.
Congratulations and happy spring, guys ;-)
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