Evil thoughts
I've just been reading that the BBC is going to have an extra element to the Sports Personality of the Year award this year - because it's the 50th anniversary, viewers are going to be given a chance to choose a Golden Sports Personality from the previous winners.
Now, in past years there have been various attempts to, ahem, influence the final result, especially since they've allowed voting online and via email - I can remember a campaign one year for Justin Fashanu and anglers regularly find that their multitude of votes for Bob Nudd have been discounted.
However, this time around the BBC can't easily remove any of the contenders from the running as they're all the past winners of the award. They want viewers to choose the best of them, so they can't stop anyone from, say, organising an internet campaign to get one of the more obscure winners the title. Or, to subvert the process from within, people could always vote for one of the previous winners who is notably devoid of a personality.
Of course, I'm not actively suggesting that you should go out and do this, but it'd make for good telly seeing Steve Rider opening the envelope to say '...and the winner is...who!?' I just wonder who would achieve that best - is it better to go for someone dead, someone obscure or someone boring?
Now, in past years there have been various attempts to, ahem, influence the final result, especially since they've allowed voting online and via email - I can remember a campaign one year for Justin Fashanu and anglers regularly find that their multitude of votes for Bob Nudd have been discounted.
However, this time around the BBC can't easily remove any of the contenders from the running as they're all the past winners of the award. They want viewers to choose the best of them, so they can't stop anyone from, say, organising an internet campaign to get one of the more obscure winners the title. Or, to subvert the process from within, people could always vote for one of the previous winners who is notably devoid of a personality.
Of course, I'm not actively suggesting that you should go out and do this, but it'd make for good telly seeing Steve Rider opening the envelope to say '...and the winner is...who!?' I just wonder who would achieve that best - is it better to go for someone dead, someone obscure or someone boring?
Nick got away with this at 9:27 PM
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