Why not restart the side of the pool that NYU/Michigan rigged? They probably cheated in other rounds as well.

Why don't you re-run a UT-Columbia semifinal, or Boalt-UT and Columbia-Northwestern quarterfinals?

Yeah, why not rerun a UT-Columbia semifinal. If Michigan and NYU were cheating now, what makes you think they weren't earlier?

Agreed - a UT-Columbia semifinal is the only way to go....

Are you reading this Mort Zuckerman?

Wait, instead of a UVA/Georgetown rematch, shouldn't we do a run off between Northwestern/Columbia and UT/Boalt?

So, you're saying that if I want Loyola to win, all I need to do is set up a worm to cause the disqualification of all the other schools?

Bwah, ha, ha, bwah, ha, ha ...

Ha! Our plan worked! That's right, we (UVA and GTown) conspired to get U of M and NYU booted. We cheated on their behalf, knowing they would be DQ'ed, leaving one of us lessers to take the prize. Ha ha ha! Suckers.

The truth: UMich did not start cheating up until they went against NYU. Due to comments from NYU students and suspecting that NYU had cheated first (which they did - they kept jumping several percentage points everytime we tied), someone sent to the entire UMich law community a link to vote multiple times on the same computer. This was the first time that anyone at UMich thought of cheating on such a grand scale. It went too far and I wish that instead of sending out that link that UMich student would've just reported NYU to abovethelaw first.

How long before the "better firms" withdraw those job offers to Michigan & NYU students?

Schools that did not figure out how to cheat an online popularity contest should get an automatic DQ. NYU and Michigan win by default!

I go to Michigan, and I thought of cheating all along; unfortunately I couldn't because I'm too stupid. Sorry burgerman.

I don't remember cheating on ridiculous polls being on the MPRE.

You should post more details on the cheating. If NYU was cheating, why was Michigan at 70-something percent and NYU at 20-something percent? NYU must be incredibly bad cheaters. You should also differentiate between initiating the cheating and doing so in response.

NYU is the coolest school (although law school is inherently dorky and UVA Law Revue videos are better) and obviously would have won in a fair contest.

You're right that UMich did not start cheating until Sat. morning...but was my e-mail really such a bad thing, burgerking? (it rhymes)

If ATL were going to do anything about the cheating, NYU would have been knocked out by Friday night or Saturday afternoon. But every click and every vote brought ATL some more revenue. It wasn't until Vizu intervened and shut down the poll that ATL decided (or had) to "do" something about it.

I thought the heights of ridiculousness to which this weekend climbed were hilarious--and I think getting disqualified from this poll was the "coolest" thing any two schools could do. I for one would like to have NYU over for a board game party or karaoke, maybe even to dance.

Nobody got hurt and I'll tell my grandchildren stories about the great Vizu poll battle of 2007.

It is a shame that the great expression of love for our school up through Friday was drowned out by the cacophony of Sunday's clashing, clicking bots, but we know what happened on Friday. We have this amazing community here, and it doesn't need to be validated by a poorly secured flash-based online poll on a gossip blog.

It was truly amazing and gratifying to watch the entire campus, within and beyond Hutchins, rally in support of the law school. I wish I didn't have to leave in May. So, for the next month, let's enjoy this community, enjoy our midwestern good will, and have a chuckle about the weekend (and panic over the use of computers for actual national and local elections).

People, people...let's all remember what's really important. NYU is cooler than Columbia. That's all that really matters.

P.S. Columbia can't hang.

why are michigan kids still whining? who cares who cheated first? the point is you also cheated, and thus deserve disqualification. now stop the excuses and the whining already.

Where does it state that clickbots aren't allowed? Where's the ToS? Rules? I mean, not saying it's right or anything, but then again, I'm not saying it's WRONG, either...

It also generates a lot of hits to Vizu...

Umm, Lat, what rule did NYU and/or Michigan break? You didn't say anything about how or how many times people could vote.

Yes, and Lat, you didn't say that I "couldn't" hack into your website and alter the results myself! There was no "rule" on that!!

This is so fucking stupid.