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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 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.
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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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