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Hi all,
I’m sure most of you know that the Lego Factory contest ended on Monday and the
winners have been announced. My son’s design (car dealer) was in the running and
it looked as if he was going to be one of the winners until early Monday
morning. We had been tracking his totals and it looked like he would end up with
about 360-370 votes, which would have been enough. To our dismay we noticed that
when the winners were announced he wasn’t one of them. My assumption is that he
got disqualified, but I don’t know why. All I know is that between Monday at
around 9 am EST and the end of the contest he ended up with another 130 or so
votes and we have no idea where they came from.
Needless to say my son was very disappointed because he knows that all of his
votes (the 360 or so we thought he would get) are legit. I can’t say the same
for the other 130 and the only thing that I can think of is that maybe somebody
went in and posted a bunch of votes to get him disqualified (along with about 5
others in the junior category). Of course I can’t prove this but it is a
concern, because there are no safeguards for something like this to happen.
At this point I don’t know what to tell my son or what message the course of
events is sending him. All he knows is that he competed and went by the rules,
and got taken out for no apparent reason. If have repeatedly called and emailed
the Lego Company, but haven’t gotten a response (so Jake, if you’re reading
this.....). All I’d like to get is an explanation from Lego as to why my son’s
entry got taken out.
Obviously the results won’t be changed and my son knows that. He’d just like to
know what happened and with as much time as he and I spent on this contest and
as much $ as we spent on the plastic brick I think the company owes us at least
an explanation (and the others who got disqualified as well).
All in all, I think the contest was a lot of fun, and I spent way too much time
on it, as my brickshelf folder will tell
(http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=107738). However, as several
people have pointed out on various forums, there is definitely room for
improvement, especially in the online voting process, as the final round seems
to indicate, as well as the fact that one person ended up winning four of eight
prizes in the junior category (nothing against the builder, but I think Lego
should have dealt with this in the rules, e.g. only one winning entry per
builder to give more kids a chance to win), and that some of the designs that
ended up winning are really kind of boring and don’t have much play value. I for
one won’t probably buy any of the winning designs, other than maybe the
racetrack. Another thing to point out here is that the wildcard winnners that
were picked by the Lego designers didn’t fare too well in the final round.
Anyway, these are just some of my thoughts. Please let me know if you have any
info regarding the disqualifications, or what you think about all this. Contests
like these are good, but lets help Lego make it better by pointing out where
improvements can be made.
Thanks,
Mark
Lugnet member #485
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| Crossposted to .lego to make sure Jake can see this. If this is true, this is very disturbing and we need an answer about this. -Lenny In lugnet.build.microscale, Mark van 't Hooft wrote: Hi all, I'm sure most of you know that the Lego Factory (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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