Mock Wars Voting

[Mock Wars Admin]

We'd like to revamp the way that voting is done in the Mock Wars, both to speed up the process and to make sure no-one feels 'cheated'. While the latter is more or less impossible, vote for your favorite option and/or let us know how you'd conduct serious i-mockery voting business in this thread.

All registered participants & voters can vote (current system)
This is the way we've been running things and tends to get the most information out of people about why they voted the way they did. However, that's what the Mock Wars Commentary thread is for (although it was barely used this year for some reason), and there's the risk that it makes the tournament into a popularity contest. The number of votes we get is also always an unknown and will probably be far smaller and therefore at risk of inaccurately declaring winners during the Mock Wars Season.

I-Mockery staff votes
This way the voting is based entirely on quality. The risk here is that competitors whose humor 'eludes' the i-mockery cabal but 'jives' with the forum members would be discounted.

Panel of judges - Half I-Mockery staff, Half forum representatives
In this method, half of the votes would go to i-mockery staff, and the other half would go to members of the forum democratically elected by other members of the forum for this purpose. The risk here is that it could overcomplicate things.

Something else
If you've got a better idea or want to expand on an idea here, do so in this thread.