[prof1515]

You really shouldn't make ignorant comments when you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. The title was rescinded after it was discovered that massive cheating in the voting had been going on. Hundreds of bogus accounts had been created since the site's start. They were easily identified because the culprits weren't that bright and often used the same email address when registering them or used bogus emails that were easy to spot (bigdog0(at), bigdog00(at), bigdog000(at), etc. all created on the same day, one after another). When those bogus accounts were deleted several games took hits in their vote totals, none so large as Accursed Lands which dropped by 75% in their vote totals the following week.

After a few weeks, some of these games had partially recovered their vote totals (though nowhere near as high as before the bogus account purge) and a second sweep through the accounts discovered dozens of new bogus accounts had been recently created. These accounts were purged and once more the following week vote totals dipped. Hardest hit again was Accursed Lands which once more dropped pretty much all the ground they'd regained since the first cleanup. While AL had "won" the voting for years, the difference between their totals before the purge and their totals after the cleanup was so huge that they couldn't even make it into the top five (they dropped to sixth or seventh). Since these bogus accounts mostly dated back to the site's start, it put great doubt as to whether or not AL had indeed won fairly or that any of the games' totals were reflective of honest voting.

At the same time, a bug was discovered that could allow a single account to vote an infinite number of times. This potential bug was tested and confirmed and as a result of this bug and the clear impact of the bogus accounts, the committee unanimously decided that voting should be discontinued and that and previous results were unverifiable. Hence the title was rescinded though we stopped short of directly accusing AL, any of its staff or its players of cheating. Months later, the identity of one of the cheaters was ascertained and it turned out to be one of AL's staff though by that point voting had long been discontinued and the titles rescinded.