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I for one didn't know when the deadline was so I didn't vote, it didn't even cross my mind. I would imagine there were others here like that as well.

If there had been a thread started that had stated that date and time of the NT vote in the header, it would have been a reminder to everyone in the entire Canadian forum.

the deadline was on the "NT elections" link... vote before midnight of Feb 14.
in hindsight, a reminder may have been useful

but cmon guys, there was practically no question or debate going on, so i personally assumed everyone was settled with all the information and platform that the candidates wanted to run

if you were decided, why didn't you cast a vote early?
if you weren't decided, why didn't you ask a question to solve your dilemma?

its a 2 way street, yes no1 reminded the careless ones of the deadline, but as a voter and if you cared about the NT, you would've looked for the deadline and/or casted a vote and/or asked questions to generate a discussion to help you come to a conclusion as to who to vote for

the results of this election shows that less than 5% of canadians know who the right candidate to vote for was
less than 10% of canadians bothered to vote and/or find out when the deadline was
greerzilla, lots for work for you to do

I guess I could have opened a thread. My bad. At least the right candidate won!

Where would the 'National Elections' link be exactly? I don't see it over to the left so I'm guessing it's not that easy to find.

The deadline date isn't even posted under the 'Election Rules' link which I did look at when I first saw it.

My only point is it wasn't publicized at all so I'm guessing several people missed the deadline because of that.

You have to go to the Canada National Team Page, click on the election link, and then vote. So I see where your problem comes from. I think at the very least we should add a direct link to the main page during elections, so this isn't a problem. I am pretty sure that happened the season that Mogul won the election for U21 and it was the biggest turnout Canada ever had I am pretty sure.

I looked back and one season when I Wor Kun won an election there was well over 100 votes cast.

I did not look at all. But it shows their is potential for a good turnout.

i see.... so its not on the short menu

zmtomako was saying it himself that he doesnt want anyone to vote for him, so that leaves ochocinco, and besides greerzila no1 really did anything and i said it in my last post that he deserved it.... im just saying that it shouldnt be so shocking for people like you that he barely won since a lot of managers dont approve of him

Yeah, I agree with you about the part of not being liked so much, and I'm not knocking Ocho Cinco, he did make it to Naismith so he's a good manager, but he didn't do anything and almost won.

I think it was just the "perfect storm" of poor events, to be honest. I personally didn't vote... I would have voted for Greerzilla, but I had been waiting to see more in the debate thread before I made it official, just in case someone really wowed me. I simply thought the deadline was 24 hours after it actually was, so it's no ones fault but my own.

With that said:

- Managers forgot, couldn't find, or didn't care about the vote... that's a massive reason behind the turnout, and in my opinion the latter is a much greater cause for concern than the other two.

- Greerzilla, as previously mentioned, did not make a ton of fans during his first term. Granted, I feel a lot of the distaste for him is blown out of proportion and unnecessary, but that explains why so many managers shied away from him.

- Ocho Cinco didn't say much, but he also didn't say what amounted to "I don't want to win this election, I'm just here, don't vote for me" as another candidate did. If you didn't want to win, don't get annoyed when people don't vote for you. Why would anyone want to vote for someone that publicly says they don't want the job?

- New managers. They vote, and they vote blindly... a new season just started so we've got new teams completing that "new manager checklist", and one of the things on it is to vote in the election or in a popularity vote... I guarantee none of them had any idea who they were voting for, and that may show some of the skewed numbers.

- Ocho Cinco has friends in this game, I'm sure. I'm also sure that votes like this end up being popularity contests to some extent, and if your friends stuff the ballot boxes you're in good shape.


Now with all of that said, and with a dozen other factors that I don't have the patience or energy to list, I leave you with this:

It doesn't matter. The guy who should have won did, and we can move on with the coach the majority of us wanted. How much he won by, or who placed is irrelevant. We're in the best position that we could have possibly been in post-election, so who cares if it was by 1 vote or 100. Move on.