Election Matchups

[Grub (Lenlyvit)]

Here are the matchups for the Senate elections set to start one week from today.

New Boniventure vs. Washing machines
Anceltierre vs. EU-topia
Jesioneka vs. Nulibert
TheSensitiveNewAge vs. Broken Toasters

USG

[Nulibert]

Ok, I see some unintential bias here. Why are some people matched up in 2s and some in 3s? Are those that are matched up in 2s somehow "superior" to those matched up in 3s?

I just want to find out how you came up with this.

[Grub (Lenlyvit)]

I picked the matchups. The two's aren't superior and the order of the names doesn't matter either.

We had 10 candidates for four spots, so two matchups had to be between three candidates.

[Nulibert]

Ok, I was just checking.

[Perugio]

Just think, Nulibert, if you want to win you'll actually have to get fewer votes than if you were in a two horse race.

But one of your opponents looks very strong!

[Fleeb]

Just curious--are we going to require a majority, and if so, will we hold run-off's for the 3-way races?

[oranjeboom]

Best of luck to everyone!

[Grub (Lenlyvit)]

Whomever gets the most votes in their particular matchup wins one a Senate seat.

[Jamzland]

I just want to remind everyone that this is the first time anything like this has happened in the 10K Islands so we should be learning from our mistakes. How about the nations are given numbers and picked out of a hat?
Keeps everyone happy.

[RichfieldMN]

I don't understand why we are having matchups. Why not a straight election and the top 4 candidates becoming senators.

I have seen the pair ups and it means I have to chose between two candidates who I want to see as senators in one pairing.

[Grub (Lenlyvit)]

The reason we are doing it this way is because our forum poll that we'll use for voting only works for one vote per poll. Plus, one poll wouldn't be big enough to list all the candidates.