nole99

The poll results did update momentarily before the poll page was changed to include the 'technical difficulties' paragraph. There were just under 83M votes, and FSU was up 61-39%. But, as you said, this can be attributed to Noles continuing to run. We didn't distribute until shortly after 11pm EST so the bulk of our DL's came in the morning after the results had stalled. Since we weren't sure if the entire poll was truly broken or if it was just the flash-based results graph that broke we encouraged everyone to press on. Apparently the vote collection server continued to function. After the announcment, it finally quit responding to GET requests. Obviously, some number of Michigan fans and allies also continued as they added another 21M to the 11M they had at the stall. I would agree that our two bots were probably about the same in performance and it boiled down to the number of instances running for each side. I have no idea what Michigan had but I think you guys would have easily caught them if you'd gotten your windows version out earlier (although I'm don't fully understand why they stopped and gave you time for a comeback) and I'd like to think we would've handled them easily without you helping them. But who knows. I know when I went to bed about an hour after our distribution, the voting rate was about 1000/sec which was significantly more than I saw in any earlier matchups. Also, you alluded to someone giving out an FSU bot. I know it wasn't mine at the time you posted that statement, so I am curious as to what you saw. I am not aware of any other bots on our side.

You did not need the 3rd GET. Still, very effective.