It's meant to be a way to deter mass vote drops, like voter id.

Essentially so. It is a practical solution to the problem of vote botting. But the pay to vote implementation makes it impossible to tell from the outside if the intent is a fair award show, or just a grift to make some quick money. You have to base it on how much you trust the integrity of the show runners.

So in this particular case, the ridiculous price to vote ($1 is enough to verify ID through CC registration address and cover admin costs) and the fact I have never heard of these guys before makes the probability it's a scam way too high for me to consider supporting.

If you wanna do something like this right, you have to build a reputation as someone with integrity and history in the gaming community first, and if they can't be bothered to do that it's probably because they're just a grifter.

[Edit] finally dug through the about us section long enough to find out he's an old ScrewAttack contributor. So I have, in fact, heard of this guy before at least.

It's meant to be a way to deter mass vote drops, like voter id.

Essentially so. It is a practical solution to the problem of vote botting. But the pay to vote implementation makes it impossible to tell from the outside if the intent is a fair award show, or just a grift to make some quick money. You have to base it on how much you trust the integrity of the show runners.

So in this particular case, the ridiculous price to vote ($1 is enough to verify ID through CC registration address and cover admin costs) and the fact I have never heard of these guys before makes the probability it's a scam way too high for me to consider supporting.

If you wanna do something like this right, you have to build a reputation as someone with integrity and history in the gaming community first, and if they can't be bothered to do that it's probably because they're just a grifter.