Less than 24 hours Left in the Top Affiliate Challenge Auditions!

It’s been a crazy ride that lasted over 3 months, and it’s finally coming to an end. I ended up submitting two videos which were very different in style. The last one caused a little bit of controversy since many people thought I really ate my own sh*t. Fortunately, it was good enough for me to get a base score of 7 which is huge.

Now the final hours are here, and the drama is hitting a high point.

It has mainly to do with Super Votes since anyone can almost buy themselves onto the show if they have a good enough video. The contestant at #1, Ty Hurd, has strongly come out and voiced against the act of buying your way on the show, but then Jason Henderson has strongly voiced as well that he’s just being a smart marketer.

I can definitely see both perspectives and I personally think it isn’t that big of a deal. For one, it is a great way to generate money for the actual show. Every dollar will make the show an even better or at least make the prize pot for the winning contestant worth writing about.

However, the interesting thing is that deeper pockets will be able to beat out other contestants with highly rated videos. This is because the Super Votes are heavily outweighing the number of open votes contestants are getting. As long as you made a video the producers liked and you have the money, you’re in.

This means that contestants who have a base score of 7 or above will be able to get on the show if they are willing to buy enough Super Votes. This means they could beat weak base score 8 contestants and achieve score in high sixties.

For myself with a base score of 7 and currently in the top 10, this means I will need to defend myself from a last minute Super Vote buying spree by a lurking 7.

Thor, the producer of Top Affiliate Challenge, mentions that the Super Votes will be credited in real time, but I have no verified this. It will be interesting to see how much money gets spend in the finals hours. Maybe many of the base score 7 people have given up or maybe they are planning to most clever coup.

We shall see! If you’re not auditioning, it’s probably not a big deal, but for me, it’s got my stomach churning, so help me out by voting 10 and getting your friends to do the same!!!

Click here to vote 10 on my audition video.

P.S. I have a feeling the auditions were supposed to get a lot more votes which would have reduced the effectiveness of buying your way in unless you were willing a crazy amount of money.  So in the end, the producers are essentially almost picking the contestants in the top 10 with a base score which is fine since all reality shows are done like this. I guess the voting part was to generate more traffic and make things exciting.