SA Wins Monopoly!

[Howie]

We did it guys!

Barossa got Mayfair, and Adelaide got Parklane!


Alternative link :
http://users.on.net/~mtd/Monopoly.SA.Wins.XViD.HDTV.avi

[Redback20]

And Sydney didnt even make Old Kent Road, who'd have predicted that!

[stelaras]

woo hoo!!!

thats a great plug for SA!

[Cruise]

Whens the availble instore to buy?

[crawf]

Haha well done SA!!

[Pistol]

I thought that this thread was good reading.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=482148

Seems like no one likes the fact that we got the top two spots.

[crawf]

Haha theres a few people on SSC that are pretty much pissed at the results. Though the voting system was screwed

Very dumb idea to let the public vote 100% towards it

[Cruise]

I thought that this thread was good reading.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=482148

Seems like no one likes the fact that we got the top two spots.

and theyed all be cheering if the results were opposite

[Norman]

They're just jealous

[sam]

Kmart have got an advertisement on page 23 of Today's Advertiser for the new Monopoly for $25.99 for TODAY ONLY! (don't know what the normal price will be after that.)

Funny thing is this ad has Sydney all over it - but Sydney isn't even on the board

[Howie]

today only hey? hmm shame i can't get to a kmart today being in city.

[Al]

Has anyone noticed how much press this is getting? It's been on the news, online, papers, even on Today. I don't care if the vote seems screw or not, at least it's giving us heaps of coverage. Like the say, you can't buy this sort of publicity.

For all those in Sydney that didn't make the board, it's pretty f'ing appalling in my opinion. They've got the biggest state and can't even be bothered to vote for their own city... they don't deserve a position on the board. I heard that Sydney got approx. 100,000 votes over the voting period. If they couldn't even manage to get enough people to vote to register on the board then the results are their problem.

Well done SA.

[Howie]

Dammit we got ousted!

http://www.valhalla.net.au/forum/viewto ... highlight=

Okay, it'll be on the advertiser tomorrow. As some of you may know, some ingenious south aussie (*cough phx from valhalla*) came up with an idea to use a vote-o-matic program to get a head up on some cheating victorians and wa guys. Both S-Adl and Valhalla we're involved to some rather large extent. So yeah we rigged it And now it'll be in the tiser tomorrow.


Image courtesy of TheWedgie

[sam]

HAHA!!!

[Howie]

How the Barossa beat the Barrier Reef
MATT WILLIAMS
June 07, 2007 02:15am

A GROUP of computer hackers has admitted rigging an online voting competition which allowed the Barossa Valley and Adelaide to clinch the top two spots on the new Australian version of Monopoly.

On Tuesday, it was announced the Barossa had won the coveted Mayfair position in the Australia Here & Now Monopoly board game, while Adelaide had won the Park Lane spot.

A reader yesterday informed the AdelaideNow website about a program scam which was able to submit tens of thousands of votes an hour through the Monopoly website.

South Australia received 7.6 million votes - nearly half the 17 million total - of which the Barossa won 2,046,136 votes and Adelaide 1.75 million.

SA received more votes than the combined total of Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory and Queensland.

Australia's most populous state, NSW, only managed around 400,000 votes.

The hoax voting was advertised in three forums between members of SA website Valhalla in January and February.

One forum, titled "monopoly.com.au", was first posted on January 22 as votes were being taken for which regions deserved their spot on the Monopoly board game.

A member on one of the forums wrote: "Overnight, my six screens combined pulled in around 110,000 votes according to the screens."

Another wrote: "lol (laugh out loud) I just heard on the radio Adelaide's winning, keep up the spamming."

When news of the Barossa and Adelaide's quinella was made public, another forum was posted on the Valhalla website, stating: "Monopoly Board - We Did It!".

One member wrote: "Nice one. I bet the eastern states are p . . . .d."

Despite the huge discrepancy in votes between SA and the other states, Hasbro Australia's Monopoly marketing manager Amanda Blackhall denied the voting was rigged.

"There were allegations early on that people could be rigging the voting system but we had been tracking it very closely all the way through with our IT people," she said.

Valhalla LAN Parties president Trent Hill said "the actions of these individuals was/is not in any way sanctioned by Valhalla (the organisation), however it is my belief that the individuals were not acting with malice".

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