Originally posted by Xayma
The way I inteperated that post is that its going to work on equal votes per county. Ie America won't have alot more votes for their idol. Guy is going to automatically get 12 points from Australia (and only 12 points, not 12 points per vote) , so you should vote for Kelly to help get her 10 points, since Guy is automatically going to get 12 points.
yeah that;s right, hence making it fair....
Originally posted by Survivor39
But this voting system is a bit unfair...since the larger population will have more people voting, hence that home idol automatically starts with more points...
no, you see that doesn't happen. it is fair because it doesn't work on populations.
AUSTRALIANS
vote:
usa 5000
canada 7000
uk 10 000
nz 4000
germany 6000
it doesn't matter what guy got, there is no point in aussies voting guy, as he will get 12 points to start:
guy - 12
uk got the 2ndbiggest number of votes, so therefore he gets 10 points
uk - 10
canada - 9 points
etc.
then you can have germany voting:
guy - 1000
uk 50
nz 578
usa 586
canada 902
therefore, germany gets 12 points from it's country
guy gets 10 points as he has the 2nd most votes
canada 9 points
etc.
therefore, even though germany's population was smaller, the same number of points are given. population means nothing.