Sorry to be a bummer less than a day before the jam launch, but this straw poll has been bothering me all day. I'm not a great programmer, artist, or gifted in any other way... one of my jams, I broke top 100 for humor and I brag to anyone willing to listen. Some categories I do slightly better than 50 percentile, some I do worse. I'm middle of the road, so I don't even care that a select few people are trying to preemptively prepare for the jam 1-2 days early, getting a "leg up on me".

In the U.S., about half of the States have a law that you can't take a photo of how you voted in an election. Even Justin Timberlake was fined for doing so, the fear is it's a way to provide evidence to someone who's bought your vote. While that's obviously not the case here, I think the point is the same, and that is that the event holds a certain integrity, and some people are trying to bring it down.

I know there's other ways to get prepared ahead of time, such as designing a game for every theme in the final round, but somehow this poll, which isn't even statistically significant, has really gotten to me. I wouldn't appreciate being a bad runner and having 5% of the other marathon runners starting a mile ahead though it wouldn't have much of an impact on me, and I also don't appreciate people trying to work around the intention of the jam.