User blog comment:LuisAngel01/Fandom Customers Tournament/@comment-6268337-20170823205157

I wanted to update you on the situation regarding this tournament.

Earlier this month, I did contact Fandom Staff to determine if the number of new accounts that were created and the inflated vote totals on some of the polls here were coincidental.

According to Kirkburn, a member of Fandom's Staff:

Unfortunately, it looks like they've used a bunch of different IPs and email addresses, which makes them a bit harder to track.

This does not count as sockpuppetry as these accounts have not made any contributions to this site at all, other than vote on the polls of this tournament. Also, Kirkburn did also say that:

That (the influx of new members) does seem quite odd, especially given how similar some of those names are to each other - from some initial checks, it does look like they may be related.

So he does believe that someone, or a group, that may have been involved in the tournament from the beginning may have been involved in this.

At this point, I have no choice but to ask that this tournament be postponed permanently on this site. You can move it to any of your individual sites as it looks like it's a healthy competition (and bragging rights to which site had the best fan-made customer). However, I am not about to allow the petty actions from someone to ruin the integrity of this site.

Understand that I am not accusing anyone here of any wrong doing, nor will I be blocking anyone from contributing to this site because of what happened here. I would have loved to see how this would have turned out in the spirit of fair play. But as it stands now, I am calling an end to this tournament.