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Contest 2011 March Winners

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I know how much time it takes to create a new recipe and so would like to thank everyone who took part in this month’s contest. There were some very good entries and I had a hard time selecting the five best ones. It came very close. There were a couple of very good recipes that I had to disqualify simply because of incomplete recipe instructions. So please make sure next time to submit a detailed method and ingredient list.

Update (2011-02-02): I checked the voting logs and yes there was a huge discrepancy among the top 2 winners (charu and ruma). Additionally the other entries also showed something strange in the logs. So I’ve decided to discredit the votes altogether and select two recipes that I thought were the best out of the five. I set up the voting because I thought it would be fun and interactive for the users (actually many of you requested it), but never expected the abuse as we’ve seen in this month’s contest. In the future, if the voting is reinstated, I will make sure it is robust enough to thwart such abuse.

The winners that I’ve manually selected are the following:

1st Place: Aditi Gupta (Crunchy Bean salad with beetroot and fruits)

2nd Place: Spoorty Prasad (Bean Sprouts Salad Spring Roll)

Congratulations to both of you!


I would like to very much thank the other participants this month:

  • Jaya Rai
  • Vidya Sundararajan
  • Priyanka Gulati
  • Raghunathan And Lakshmi
  • Vijaya Raghunathan
  • Swati Madaan
  • Priyanka Rakhecha
  • Pooja Soni
  • Sita Badrish
  • Sneha sreejith
  • Ranjitha Atyam
  • Mandobi Bagchi
  • Sheetal Purohit
  • Raji Vivekanandan
  • Krithika Rajgopal
  • Gayathri Vignesh
  • Madhulika Dev
  • Shubha Sridhara
  • Cadry Nelson
  • Manasa Nagaraj
  • Sanyukta Gour
  • Jasthi kiranmai
  • Hidemi S
  • Anjali Bapna Shukla
  • Madhuri Vishal
  • Aisha Rafiq
  • Terri Luciana
  • Sugiyarti Jorgenson
  • Hemavathy Velineni
  • Anu Shoj
  • Vineela Siva
  • Swati Bajpai
  • Devi Meyyappan
  • Nayna Kanabar

Comments

19 responses to “Contest 2011 March Winners”

  1. Aditi

    Thank you Manjulaji for selecting me as a winner.

    1. spoorthy

      Congrats Aditi!! You deserved it!!You have done a marvelous job!

      Thanks to Manjula Aunty for selecting my recipe too!!

      1. Aditi

        Thanks spoorty and congrats to you too. You too were a deserving cadidate. I really liked your recipe. Great job!!

  2. Shallu

    Was interesting to watch. Manjula aunty should overrule the voting result and choose winners by her own experience (considering equal opportunity to all five contestants; including the top two).

  3. shreya gupta

    last day i saw 2top contestants got sudden increase in votes by more than 300 votes i think all fake votes

    1. swati

      Look at the zeal to win the contest….. they might have invested loads of hours for monitoring , finding people and ways for voting multiple times!!!

    2. krishanan

      I think the voting system was actually meant to spread the word about the website and to gain publicity. If this is the case, the strategy has failed to serve its purpose as most of the votes are fake.

  4. admin

    Hello everyone, we are checking the voting logs and will be investigating the results. We apologize for any strange results.

  5. rachana

    You are absolutely right Shreay, all votes are fake. I have been monitoring this for days now. As soon as someone start voting the votes of top 2 contestants start increasing by 50-60. All fake

    1. yasmin

      No one can blame the contestants alone.
      From the beginning, the votes have been increasing in bulk for each finalist. It’s only that some gave up and others are still continuing. Now that only two are remaining, it is but natural for them to continue, given the possibilities to deceive such a voting system.

      The system adopted here is itself wrong. All the people who follow Manjulaji’s website would highly appreciate if she herself chooses the winners instead of this vulnerable voting system. That would save the time of everyone and it would be fair enough as well.

      This has been going on since last 4-5 days as I have been closely monitoring this and previous contests as well, why did the administrator not notice it earlier.

      1. Shri

        I think Yasmin is right. The voting system is also a major criteria for this kind of behavior in the contest. Being a contest the judge should be the selector and not the readers. And also I feel if the readers are given a choice to vote they should be a officially logged in person on the website and not anyone as it says one. I hope Manjula ji can correct this from next time.
        Dear Manjula ji
        Pls donot think we all are blaming you. such things are quite viable in websites like this. we need to be careful by not allowing any pranks happening.

  6. shreay

    Really an interesting contest.Are these real votes or manipulated.I see sudden increase in votes by 50 or 80 at once.Really good business

  7. amit Gandhi

    testy & healthy

  8. shruthi

    I thought the meaning of salad is eating raw vegetables and raw beans.Some of the entries including leading one is baked ,boiled…

    1. anna

      There are different kinds of salad. For example potato salad, you don’t expect eating a raw potato,right? The same for beans, they need to be cooked first before you add your vinaigrette.

  9. Dr.sumeet

    Very nice n Hygienic!!!!

  10. Sanyukta

    Delicious n mouthwatering salads….loved participating in this healthy contest….
    Sanyukta
    http://creativesanyukta.blogspot.com/

  11. saisrithamarai

    i like the kidnhyeybeans salad . it looks very mouth watering and it is very healthy

    1. Ruma

      Thanks saisrithamarai!
      Do try it ..it taste as good 🙂

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