Quoted from Ball_Shine:I am one of the 20 selected and I think it's become a bit of a joke "untimatesternpinballscam" is the term coined around here.
I live outside the USA so the pinball community is a lot smaller, and less people to vote.
I've been told by tech savvy people that it is pretty easy to scam votes via numerous ways.
I have a friend who has access to 30'000 IP addresses so would that be fair?
It has become a contest to who has the most internet friends, prepared to cheat, best sob story and or access to a larger pinball community to sprook their pic.
I stopped asking friends to vote as I feel like I've been begging or hounding them.
Should have been decided in-house or draw a name from top 20 out of a hat, get the production staff to vote, anything would have been better imo.
The contest is for "THE ULTIMATE STERN PINBALL FAN". So as Stern made a huge deal a bout their 30th anniversary (and rightly so as they made it through some tough times), I wanted to incorporate that and wore a 30th anniversary t-shirt and also show some "Stern love" so gave the boys a group hug. Probably not the cleverest or the best pic but at least I can explain the thought that went into mine here, and give the campaign a nudge lol. Good luck whoever wins as there are some great pics!
Here is my one
Why are you bent over? Oh, I forgot it is Stern.