I think the voting thing is that big of a deal. Furthermore, I think it's fair to question other factors motivating the format of this freeroll.
By making it a guild freeroll, it obviously gives a certain type a person an advantage: people who own their own guilds. Who owns guilds? people who already have lots of fg and people with friends. If you're a basement dweller, you dont have friends, and your relatives probably don't like you if/when you visit. If you don't have fg, you're probably not buying a guild. If you actually left a guild before the 24th, you miss out on the freeroll. So it's a pretty narrow group who gets to participate.
In addition, why did he ask in
this thread for ideas regarding who was #1 the freeroll if he wasn't going to listen to what anyone had to suggest? Nearly everyone wanted to make a betting game freeroll of some sort. Yet, instead, he sprung this idea without even asking the users of this forum if they wanted this freeroll. So who is this freeroll really for: the users of jsp or terps? I think it's worth pointing out that terps has fg and owns a guild, so he probably already has a pretty nice guild with points already --this gives him a nice advantage. Plus he got pretty excited in post 146 over the prospect of splitting 300 between proint and himself lol. Seems like he's setting up for himself a freeroll in which he has a pretty good shot at winning a lot of fg.
I also question what Tx6 really wanted done with this big donate. He said in his pm that he wanted terps to host "a sports freeroll," yet here we are with a guild freeroll. Seems like it would make more sense to do something related to betting and sports, considering that's where this fg came from, that's what most people use this forum for, and that's what most people said they wanted in the suggestion thread. Plus it creates a freeroll with an even playing field: all you need to participate is jsp, not a guild.
Anyway, that's just my cynical outlook on this thing. Inb4 a stream of cliche counterarguments that entirely miss the point of this scrutiny.