Ditched from DJ Mags top 100. Cheating bastards :D

Ditched from DJ Mags top 100. Cheating bastards

This year we’ve been appalled and disgusted to discover suspicious voting irregularities in our Top 100 DJs poll.

For the first time ever, now that DJmag is wholly independent again, the votes in this year’s poll have been collated in-house, and while in previous years we’ve relied on technology to weed out suspect votes, this year it’s been proved that there’s nothing more effective than the naked eye.

With 345,000 votes cast by email, publisher James Robertson has spent a ridiculous number of man-hours going through each vote. His discoveries have resulted in several DJs being disqualified from this year’s poll.

Roberston explained: “This year, I made a decision to investigate votes where the same IP address appeared over 50 times for the same person. The chances of the same person getting voted for by 50 different computers each having been allocated the same IP address within a week would be billions to one.”

The biggest DJs at the centre of our investigation were US stars Christopher Lawrence and DJ Dan. Both shared the same marketing manager.

“In both their cases, a script was used to bypass our security system,” said Roberston. “Not only did we get multiple votes from the same IP address, but we got multiple votes from multiple IP addresses — in other words, we received in excess of 50 votes from the same IP address on over 20 occasions.

Both Lawrence and Dan vehemently denied any involvement in vote rigging. “I take this matter very seriously,” said DJ Dan. “My assistant and I confronted my former marketing manager via telephone. He strongly denied any wrongdoing, but had no credible explanation for the improper voting. Christopher Lawrence, who used the same marketing person this year, reported similar voting problems.

When I discovered the common link was our marketing person, I immediately terminated him.”

Lawrence’s lawyer Kent Liu said: “My clients are willing to declare under oath that they themselves did not purchase or use a script, nor did they instruct any person in their employ to do so.”

Chinese cheat DJ Tiesmi admitted paying cash for votes. “Tiesmi explained to me that it cost 4000 Yuan (£260) for 100,000 votes. He had paid a software engineer to create a script to by-pass our security code,” said Roberston. “However, it became apparent very quickly that Tiesmi was cheating when he raced to the No.1 spot within hours of the voting starting.

“His friend Yutise, who seemed to appear on the same bill as Tiesmi, as the second DJ, was also investigated. He explained that it was not him cheating, but his crazed fans who he had no control over,” said Robertson. “It’s funny though that the world’s biggest DJs, like PvD and Tiësto, don’t seem to have such problems.”

More voting irregularities surround the Flash Brothers from Israel — we detected over 1300 votes from the same IP address. They blamed “friends and family”.

In a statement to DJmag, they said: “It appears that some of our friends and family simply wanted to surprise us at all costs and help our cause. We certainly do not condone such behaviour. We feel very distraught about this whole affair. We accept full responsibility for this affair but are quite adamant it boils down to sheer stupidity and oversight.”

Hong Kong DJ Erick Junior has been dubbed “the fastest cheat in the East” after a four-day avalanche of votes saw him shoot to third position in the poll. Like the others, he has been disqualified. DJmag Editor Lesley Wright commented: “It’s outrageous that DJs should attempt to cheat. It shows a blatant disregard for the Top 100 poll, for DJ Magazine and, most importantly, for their fellow DJs. Shame on them.”

After the revelations earlier this week from Ferox about a potential vote rigging clubbing scam, I was expecting to read that DJ Static was chucked out of this years poll because he had received a lot votes from “friends and family "

spence,

the conversation that ferox was privy to was when I was picking mikes brain as to how on earth liverpool club kubik managed to win best small club of the year at the hard dance awards when like no one had hardly heard of them.

I then asked him if he fancied promoting us on the net as he had a fair bit of disposable time, but nowt came of it.

it doesnt surprise me this info, you look at the dj mag top 100 and theres like people at positions that seem way above where they should be

to people who are seriously making a living from this game I guess the dj mag top 100 is that important that you need to try and get into it , but isnt it just a load of bollocks at the end of the day unless you are van dyk tiesto or armin

I love it when you give a full explanation to someone using cheap bait

Cheap!!! Charming

haha sorry

I didnt think he was baiting

spence is alright

i BET HE WASNT AS COOL AS THIS BACK AT / IN SCHOOL THO

sundays is much more chilled on here

:angel2:

to be fair it would take me 3 weeks persuasion to get static to even think about registering for any kind of poll

do you think he got to play promise by writing his own resume' and compiling his own highlights dvd / promo cds etc...

I wasn't baiting

I was at school, people who were tall & could get the drink in were always respected

one of my mates wife would disagree

I think I know who you mean

I cant remember seeing her at any of the Friday night drinking hangouts The Burn/The Park/ Wallsend Sports Centre Bowling Green:spangled:

You have got me mixed up with Spunta man!!! Older or the younger one both mocked & laughed at from High Farm to Burnside.

aye but from 94 spunta became a legend

shouted out on judgement day old skool mixes

" he died of an overdose but now he's back"

and fountain of knowledge at coast road BP post clubbing chill out zone

he is a hero



altho his bro's isues are well documented

Does he still work there? Everytime I do late night shopping I get served by one half of the creepy twins that used to live in Bristol Drive, Battle Hill.

last I heard he was working at morrisons on late shift

I aint seen him since dec / xmas 06 after the newcastle watford match, if that was 05 then apologies

I saw one of them on the 305 two weeks ago dressed like a Wigga

spence, were you at the game in the gallowgate last weekend?

did i speak to you?

i was with mark and he said he thought it may of been you but was not sure? i didnt want to say 'are you spence off the internet'

I was at the game last week & yes I sit in the Gallowgate. Where do you sit?

I sit in seat 85 row K

no idea what seat or row i was in

i was second right from the stairs and if it was you, you were on the very end?