KittCatS! Halloween Custom Collar Contest - results!

[Eleanor8 Resident]

The final votes – going by Callie’s explanation – public vote ranked 9 – 1 points (there were 9 entries), ditto panel vote, add together = final score only makes sense if you admit that the entries with the two highest public votes have been disqualified.

If you look at the votes for the winners no entrant has a higher public vote than 7 points - ergo - the entrants with 8 and 9 points - the two entries with the highest public votes aren't there.

Mathematically it is impossible if you top the public vote (9 points) and even if the panel hated your design and placed you last (1 point) to get less than a total of 10 points. Which would have placed you in third place. Ditto, second place public vote (8 points), you couldn’t come last in the panel vote – the least score you could get would be 2 points – so also a total score of 10 points. Or I suppose you could have an 11 and a 9 overall – but it would make no difference to the places overall – those overall scores would put you in third place – not nowhere to be seen.

This isn’t the first contest that this has happened in – there have been plenty of previous contests where the entries topping the public vote haven’t been ranked in the final placing.

And this is in no way a criticism of any of the entries (great collars) or the individuals who entered. But it does appear that you have to enter a great display, collar, whatever and hope that the pubic like it – but not too much. Or else you will be disqualified – well, disappeared – under a cloud of suspicion that the only way you got those votes is by tping people in – even if you did nothing of the kind.

If you are going to invite public votes then you have to trust the public and the entrants – or else scrap the public vote all together.