There is no need for anyone to feel bad. Users sometimes get carried away just how important it is for their favourite app to win a competition, especially if the results are visible as they are in forum polls. It's neither allowed nor nice, but the good thing is that the vast majority of apps were barely affected (wait until you see that N900-vs-whoever championship site results !) and, the bottom line remains - many new apps were created and devs got introduced or gained extra exposure to the community. Considering it was a grassroots effort, I think it did pretty well, not that kojacker can't organize another competition that will be done even better As I said to kojacker, next time we can/should use the token-based mechanism we use for council elections (every eligible voter gets a token and mail invitation at the start of the voting, the vote count is not visible until results, etc).

In any case congrats to every contestant who submitted an app - you did something great, and I wish to express my special thanks to those who submitted their very first apps as part of this initiative !