Sunday
Aug122007
Poll: Devils vs Maple Leafs
Sunday · Aug 12 · 2007 | 4:34 AM PDT |  | |
DEVILS | MAPLE LEAFS |
Voting is finally here! This is the first match of the championship tournament. Place your vote and then feel free to leave a comment about how you came to your decision. Then come back tomorrow and vote on the next match. Also, tell everyone you know to drop in and vote. The more voices heard, the more accurate our results will be!
| Poll opening date Aug 12 @ 7:34 AM | Poll closing date Aug 19 @ 11:59 PM |
07CHTRN | #E1A | NJDvTOR
Reader Comments (57)
I was torn making my decision... I bleed blue.. and my girlfriend happens to be a devils fan (nice matchup chris). Aside from that... I am a fan of the devils logo... what with it making an N and J and all... but the Maple Leaf is just too classic to vote against.
A harder matchup than I initially thought. The maple leaf is so mutch a symbol of evething here in Canada. Voting against these six originals seems very hard.
But in terms of design and quality, the New Jersey logo is great also. I'm not revealing my vote, but let's just say that Maple Leafs logo is a neat one.
something is up with the voting..
in the span of 30 seconds, the devils had 52% and the Leafs had 48%.... now it's 64% Devils. Someone is having some fun changing their IP and rigging the vote.
I don't know, I wouldn't be so quick to say that. I think there are just a lot of people voting this morning. I have been promoting the date for quite a while now.
I would hope that people aren't out there trying to ruin the voting, but you never know. I'll keep an eye out.
Just remember, there's going to be a new poll up every day for the next couple of weeks. Everyone can vote in every one of them! (Preferably, once. To some extent, we've got to go on the honor system here.)
Thanks for voting, everybody!
BTW.. your days are one day off in the sidebar.
Aug.13 isn't a tuesday.. etc ;)
I've noticed that if I refresh the page after voting, I can vote again - not that I would of course - just letting you know hjow easy it might be to manipulate!
honor system or not, the voting is rigged. if you refresh the site or use the backspace icon and then return to this site, the voting will be refreshed and the user can cast another vote again thus inflating the number of times someone has voted and more importantly diluting the outcome of the poll. so chris, don't make this the "honor system" as it is not trustworthy.
Thanks for catching my incorrect dates. They've been fixed. Not sure how in the world I managed to do that, but whatever.
As far as the voting. I've done what I can to keep people from voting multiple times. When you refresh the page, it should show the poll again, but even if you click vote it should not count you again. Does that make sense?
If anybody has any suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them. Thanks!
Just a question about the bracket? May have already been addressed, but will the winner of this matchup face the hurricanes? I mean if the devils win, thats #1 vs #2 in the second round. Shouldn't the #8 vs #9 winner face the 'canes?
Yes, the winner of the Devils and Leafs match will face the Hurricanes. It's just the easiest format for me.
Just keep in mind that the seeding doesn't really matter that much. It's based on how they finished in the tournament I wrote — so it might just as well be random. In the future, the brackets will be completely random.
Thanks for reading!
The Devils use of the N and J was good enough for my vote.
both logos are ugly bc the just simple.Devils needs new jerseys maybe with a devil on it and leafs there not much you can do with that.I like blue better but i like the devils logo better just a little better.
Devils. There's more depth there, what with the NJ and the Devil-marks (horns, tail). That being said, while I think the Devils should win, the Leafs logo is classic.
*Devils*
Maybe I'm biased cuz im a huge Habs fan, but i have never like the leafs logo.
Also whats the point of voting more than once its just something for fun to pass the time.
Thanks for your vote, Micky and finding the words I couldn't! It is just something fun to pass the time, so for anyone taking the time to try to "rig" it... what does that say?
I appreciate all the votes. This has way surpassed my expectations. I was hoping for at least 1,000 by the end of the week. We may have it by the end of the first day. At the moment, 660 votes have been cast. You guys are awesome!
Hey, just my opinion but i think its silly to not re seed the teams, like the NHL playoffs.
OR
you could do it like March Madness. Because #1 vs #2 in the second round is weird.
It makes all your work pointless, and while u may think it is, I think you did a good job.
BTW if you want March Madness style it would go:
winner of 2 vs 15 plays winner of 8 vs 9.
winner of 3 vs 14 plays winner of 1 vs 10.
and so on.
So i think you should do
1) nhl playoffs
2) march madness
but thats just me. Any one else agree?
srry to keep posting but 1 last suggestion:
If you could post a big picture of the logos for the vote that would be sweet. It would help for sure i think.
It would be a little extra work on the bracket page, but I could do the March Madness style. Would anybody else be in favor of that over the current format?
As far as using larger graphics in the polls, I don't see why I can't make them a little bigger. I don't want them to be overwhelming but we can go slightly larger. I'll try and have that done tonight. (I'll also upgrade this poll with the new graphics.)
Thanks for the input, guys! If you have any other ideas, don't hesitate to send them my way.
you could just have them the size they are and click on them to make them big... If thats to much work i understand completely.
Also March Madness would be cool... lets see if there is a cinderella.
Thanks for respoding
it's rigged. someone on the Devils side of things has rigged the vote so that there is always a 10% difference between the teams.
its less than 10% now...
Also Leafs are doing so well cuz of all the leaf fans. Canadian teams should all have this advantage, im thinking.
All right, with thanks to Micky for the suggestion, I have updated the poll to now, not only have slightly larger logo graphics, but if you click on a logo in the poll, an enlarged version of it should pop up in a smaller window in your browser. Enjoy!
As for the "rigging" that keeps getting brought up, I wouldn't worry about it. This poll will be up for a week. Plenty of time to even itself out. Not only that, but it's not like it has any real consequence. Just have fun!
And thanks for voting!
it can't be rigged i tried refreshing the page and going back to vote again (to make sure it can't be rigged i wouldn't cheat like that there's no point to it) and u can't do it it doesn't count the second vote
doesn't count anyway u can only vote once
ya this is a little off topic, but how does everyone making concept jerseys get all the same layouts and stuff...... and what do u do to create the jerseys also? is there like a special program for jersey creating or something lol.....please get back to me. and if its easier, email me at westerngoalie2@hotmail.com
thanks