LOL.
I was on the night crew for that whole ordeal. It gave me some productive use of my insomnia for once in my life. I remember sitting there with my iPad and iPhone stopwatch at 3:30 in the morning, hitting refresh, and timing it down to a near surgically perfect 6 votes per minutes coming from the Russian side. And then we are all theorizing about how they had some sort of script, or vote bot, were cheating, dirty commies, all over some stupid coffee cup contest.
To me the payoff was when Spacetag came in to unofficially surrender, and we found out their 'botnet' was a bunch of Russian housewives somehow voting with their TV remotes. Correct me if I am wrong, didn't they join the CP/Wannamaker cause at the very end to try and help drive HaMichael right out of the top 10?
HaMichael.... definitely a where is he now story. Probably one of the most epic backfires in the history of the internet.
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