Voting for the location of the CIS-2107 tournament.

The principle of differentiation should exist, but not based on money.

And what criteria should be used? If it's based on the number of visits, then it's essentially the same thing (the number of visits indicates that the person is more likely to attend if they vote for a particular option). I agree that if the votes of players and viewers were weighted differently, it would be better, but in the end, the most significant votes in the Volgograd vote belonged to the viewers.

As an example, I initially planned to contribute around 100k as a down payment if Volgograd was chosen. So, imagine I create a poll, and also pay for the necessary votes for Volgograd with that money, which is exactly the 100k I initially wanted to contribute.

Well, that means you paid for the conference hall and the tournament buy-in, etc., in case the people you paid the 100k for didn't show up. In other words, for everyone who came from the CIS, it became 100k cheaper. I don't see a problem.