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Pollgate was an incident that occurred during selection of a livestream series in July 2019. The selection was to be done via polling of viewers on Strawpoll.me. The five candidate games were: Cooking Simulator, XCOM 2, Rimworld, This Is The Police, and Dead by Daylight.

Going into the evening of the third day of polling, the three leading contenders were Rimworld, XCOM 2, and This Is The Police, with Rimworld being slightly ahead of the other two. By the morning, however XCOM 2 had received an extra 20 votes, and was now far ahead of the other two. Foul play was immediately suspected, and after debates and lots of thought, XCOM 2 was disqualified from the poll, and as it could not be ascertained if the other two games received extra votes, it was decided to select the winning game via random number generator live on camera. In this contest, Rimworld lost to This Is The Police.

Because of this incident, it is uncertain how selection of the side series and livestream series will happen in the future. Various options have been put forward, including: a Discord vote of all members of the Discord, a vote of all the long-watching members, or Damo just selecting the series himself.

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