Quick Election FAQ
I'm not familiar with Blaseball elections. What do you mean when you say the blessings will be chosen by raffle?
In Blaseball elections, blessings were done as raffles, so votes basically functioned as raffle tickets. A fan could put in a ton of votes into a blessing so their team had a better chance of winning it, but there was still a chance for teams that hadn't put in as many votes to win those blessings, even if they only put in one vote out of 50,000! The name for this was a "wimdy", which usually referred to a team winning a blessing with 0% of the vote (but no more than 1%), and it was also often used as a verb (as in "This term comes from a tweet referring to when the Dale wimdied a blessing called Wind Sprints.")
Okay, so how are YOU going to do it?
Once the polls closed, I'm going to calculate the number of votes each option has based on percentage and number of votes. Then, each option will be assigned a range accordingly. After that, I'll use a random number generator, and whichever range the result falls in will be the winner!
EXAMPLE: Poll with three options: A (75%), B (20%), and C (5%). The poll ended with 100 votes.
A = 1-75
B = 76-95
C = 96-100 (so 96,97,98,99,100)
Random number between 1 and 100 — RESULT: 89
89 falls in B's range, so B wins!
On the Decree and the Idol Board bonus round, since those results won't be decided by raffle, they'll be revealed just by the poll ending. Why are you making those results part of the election announcement if we'll already know who won?
Blaseball elections were accompanied by flavor text, particularly with decrees. Idol board stuff wasn't technically part of an election usually, but that could also have some aspect of flavor text. I want to recapture the feeling of finding out election results. Tumblr's polls were just the most accessible option for the event's audience.
How were players chosen for the blessing polls?
By hitting the "Random page" button on the Blaseball Wiki until I had enough players to fill a poll. For the Mayoral blessing, I also made sure each of the main 24 teams was represented by at least one player.
What about the Idol Board bonus round? How were those players chosen?
Those are all just popular players from the Discipline Era that for the most part I chose by asking myself, "Is this name a relatively deep cut?"
Why are we voting for BDFF Mayor?
Why not?
What do players get if they win?
Well, bragging rights mostly. I like to imagine that the Mayor of BDFF 2026 will get a fun little mayor's sash and maybe a top hat.
Can I make propaganda?
Go right ahead! That's part of the purpose of including an election as part of this event — I wanted to give people something to make propaganda for!
Who should I vote for?
Who do you want to be mayor? Who do you want to give a hot meal? These are the questions you may want to ask yourself. Then again, this isn't an officially sanctioned league election, so you can probably do whatever you want. In fact, that's also what we often did in officially sanctioned league elections.
I have another question that isn't answered here.
My asks are open!