Why isn't Cy in the mascot challenge? And we got DQed from tailgaiting?

**cyclonenate** · 10-25-2009, 04:10 PM

I heard that ESPN DQ'd us from the compition, is that true? And what's up with Cy not being in the Mascot Challenge by Capital One??

**IcSyU** · 10-25-2009, 04:13 PM

1. Yes, we got DQ'd.
2. We don't bank with Capital One so we didn't try to get in the competition.

**joberman1** · 10-25-2009, 04:18 PM

why did we get dq'd?

**cyclonedave25** · 10-25-2009, 04:19 PM

Because they found out we were voting 10393472 times/minute. We weren't the only ones doing it, but we were the best at it.

**SCNCY** · 10-25-2009, 04:20 PM

Originally Posted by joberman1

why did we get dq'd?

We voted in such large numbers (in the millions) and almost all of those votes were for Iowa State. Every other match up was pretty even and it was determined that we 'rigged' the thing.

**joberman1** · 10-25-2009, 04:20 PM

They apparently dont realize the seriousness we take with online voting.

**ornryactor** · 10-25-2009, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by joberman1

why did we get dq'd?

For being too awesome. We voted the living daylights out of the thing and slaughtered our opponents. Despite the fact that ESPN had literally zero rules posted, and you were allowed to vote as many times as you wanted, they decided that we'd broken the rules and voted too much, so they DQ'd us.

**SCNCY** · 10-25-2009, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by cyclonedave25

Because they found out we were voting 10393472 times/minute. We weren't the only ones doing it, but we were the best at it.

Really, that's impressive. Do you know what the ending total was?

**benjay** · 10-25-2009, 04:22 PM

good work boys

**Broodwich** · 10-25-2009, 04:22 PM

From what I can tell, the wheels just came off the whole poll and they quietly buried it.

**alarson** · 10-25-2009, 04:24 PM

yeah, last i saw we had gotten LA Tech 99.5% of the vote in the next round, lol

**cyclonedave25** · 10-25-2009, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by SCNCY

Really, that's impressive. Do you know what the ending total was?

No. Of course that number was made up, though. But, it was well into the tens of millions of total votes.

**Trainer** · 10-25-2009, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by Broodwich

From what I can tell, the wheels just came off the whole poll and they quietly buried it.

Actually the next round started after ISU was DQ'd and we decided to show how much they had thought this poll through and started voting en mass for certain teams and completely derailed the poll