snowstorm55

I forgot to mention that this is illegal to change the rules midcontest (it's federally regulated) and they are no dummies so how? why? could they do this? If one of the bands NOT in the top 3 wins then it was to place their faves there. If one of the bands i nthe top 3 wins then what was the point? What I mentioned or something else?

I just find this remarkable.

I don't want to start a negative flamethrowing spamming thread here so please stay away if that's all you've got. However, what's up with the Boston open for Coldplay contest? I mean it really is difficult not to jump to the conclusion that the thing is rigged. 1. First they announce the TOP 3 bands on the radio after taking probably 24 hours to do so rather than posting them right away. 2. 3 days later they suddenly ADD TWO BANDS to the list in defiance of the previously posted rules and post on the website the TOP 5 bands saying that because the voting was close (it was not) that they were going to now have TOP 5 instead of TOP 3. (Why doesn't Capitol admit they may have already picked the winner and that winner wasn't in the TOP 3 so they had to make an adjustment)? 3. I'm not even sure the 4rth and 5th bands had the 4rth and 5th highest number of votes, but probably they did - no one would be that bold. While it's ok for Capitol to choose - hey it's ok, no one would have this opportunity if you weren't doing this - it's NOT ok to play on peoples' dreams just to market your radio stations. These are real people with real hearts those hearts can be broken when you set them up like this if it was rigged the whole time. Or maybe the cheating was so rampant that Capitol and Livenation tried to make good by including some extra bands to replace some of the bands with suspicious electronic voting activity. Maybe it would have caused too much of a commotion to disqualify those bands. Or maybe everyone was suspicious. But it does look awfully alot like the "right bands" didn't make the voting count and so some of the "right bands" were added last minute out of nowhere. Can anyone speculate as to why and how this can happen? I'm not really interested in venters. Just in figuring out the balances of motivations. I realize this contest is not about the bands. It's about livenation promoting their radio stations, showing they've got numbers and participation, and being able to collect advertising dollars and other such business matters... under the comfy guise of a contest. But the Boston contest has taken many strange turns, from ending the submission deadline early and beyond. What do y'all think?