Round Five Twist Chosen
After weeks of brutal campaigning and two rounds of voting, a result has been chosen in a closely-fought final round.
In the second round of voting, 10-5 won out the winner with 47% of the vote, only 6% ahead of the "incumbent" 8-7. Rhys Benjamin, a crucial member of the 10-5 campaign, hailed it as a "landmark victory" for the 10-5 campaign. The 6-9 campaign lost out in the vote, only picking up 6% of the vote. The 7-8 campaign flopped completely as it received no votes at all.
One of the key successes of the 10-5 campaign was that the 10-5 camp urged would-be 9-6 voters to vote for 10-5. They managed to swing a crucial 7% of the vote towards them, as the 9-6 count became deserted and only 6% remained. The 10-5 campaign also did a lot of canvassing, managing to attract another 6% of the vote towards them.
BERC Matthew Scrivin expressed displeasure with the result but declared it valid, meaning that the round can now go ahead. He offered his congratulations to the mastermind behind the 10-5 campaign, Andrew Chilcraft, but maintained it would be "too much of a lottery".
The second-placed 8-7 campaign was never directly involved in the campaign, its only leaflet a simple "vote 8 and 7". There then engaged a hot debate between Damian "Nozza" Cook of the 8-7 campaign and Chilcraft. Cook maintained that 10-5 would lead to forced finishing positions, but this was downplayed by Chilcraft as "unlikely" as he believed that people would be more spread out at the start of the second half and the voters agreed with him.
In the second round of voting, 10-5 won out the winner with 47% of the vote, only 6% ahead of the "incumbent" 8-7. Rhys Benjamin, a crucial member of the 10-5 campaign, hailed it as a "landmark victory" for the 10-5 campaign. The 6-9 campaign lost out in the vote, only picking up 6% of the vote. The 7-8 campaign flopped completely as it received no votes at all.
One of the key successes of the 10-5 campaign was that the 10-5 camp urged would-be 9-6 voters to vote for 10-5. They managed to swing a crucial 7% of the vote towards them, as the 9-6 count became deserted and only 6% remained. The 10-5 campaign also did a lot of canvassing, managing to attract another 6% of the vote towards them.
BERC Matthew Scrivin expressed displeasure with the result but declared it valid, meaning that the round can now go ahead. He offered his congratulations to the mastermind behind the 10-5 campaign, Andrew Chilcraft, but maintained it would be "too much of a lottery".
The second-placed 8-7 campaign was never directly involved in the campaign, its only leaflet a simple "vote 8 and 7". There then engaged a hot debate between Damian "Nozza" Cook of the 8-7 campaign and Chilcraft. Cook maintained that 10-5 would lead to forced finishing positions, but this was downplayed by Chilcraft as "unlikely" as he believed that people would be more spread out at the start of the second half and the voters agreed with him.