Cam Has Slight Lead In Madden Cover Vote

[fieryprophet]

http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/tech/post/_/id/274/madden-cover-vote-up-for-grabs

Johnson and Newton are neck-and-neck as of Monday morning, with Newton holding a small but vulnerable lead. Johnson led by a decent margin last week, but Newton swung the vote on Friday when he released a video telling fans why he should be on the cover.

Now it appears the vote will go down to the wire.

The "SportsNation" announcement show starts at 5 p.m. on Wednesday on ESPN2, with polls closing at 5:45.

That means each player will get a chance to plead his case live on the air. With the vote so close, what those players say on the show could be the difference between winning and losing.

It’s safe to assume both guys are busy preparing their speeches as we speak.

[fieryprophet]

On a side note, my vote system obviously has had no effect, so they are doing much better checks on the backend than the Pepsi voting systems did. This annoys me greatly, but I really don't have the time to put in to get a working rig going so we'll just have to vote him in the old-fashioned way.

Also, inb4maddencurseohnoes!

[Donald LaFell]

Newton can play all the madden he wants when he's on IR!!!(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

[Growl]

Why would you say it isn't working? You don't think there aren't Lions fans doing the same thing?

[Car123]

On a side note, my vote system obviously has had no effect, so they are doing much better checks on the backend than the Pepsi voting systems did. This annoys me greatly, but I really don't have the time to put in to get a working rig going so we'll just have to vote him in the old-fashioned way.

Also, inb4maddencurseohnoes!

You're like the video game version of njpanthers

[fieryprophet]

Why would you say it isn't working? You don't think there aren't Lions fans doing the same thing?

If they were smart, why would they be Lions fans?

But no, I had a suspicion it wasn't working when I checked some of the responses I was getting back later in the session: they were null, which generally occurs when a server is trying to kill what it perceives to be a DDoS attack (which voting a million times over an hour kinda is.)

I may tweak it but I wouldn't count on it.

[fieryprophet]

You're like the video game version of njpanthers

I am not familiar with that implication.

[Kramerica]

I'm surprised, frankly, that the votes are so close that we all need to TUNE INTO SPORTSNATION for the announcement show to see the results!

[fieryprophet]

I'm surprised, frankly, that the votes are so close that we all need to TUNE INTO SPORTSNATION for the announcement show to see the results!

You and me both.

[MechaZain]

Keep fighting the good fight, fieryprophet.

The superstitious fans seems to balance themselves out anyway (Lions boards seem to be just as split with people voting against Johnson), so it should be a fair winner.

[Ivan The Awesome]

He won this in the first round.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

so the panthers have a thin lead to protect?

yeah megatron's got this locked up.

[BEASTfromdaEAST]

If you think Megatron will actually beat out Cam Newton then you need to be wearing a helmet around when you go outside your house.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

If you think Megatron will actually beat out Cam Newton then you need to be wearing a helmet around when you go outside your house.

maybe i should have randomly bolded some letters so you would understand the joke.