We with work with influencers and all sorts, got connections because of publishers and YouTubers I've worked with in the past, we could have easily asked those influencers to put tweets out etc. encouraging people to vote, and we purposely chose not to do that, because a Game Jam shouldn't be a popularity contest, and the idea of it felt crappy to do. We want people to judge games on their own merit, and we joined in here to have fun and be creative. We only ranked top 30 in one category and that's fine.
If you made a bunch of dummy accounts you were cheating. If you just asked a lot of people you know to sign up just to vote, I guess it's technically not cheating but it's not exactly good competition is it? These things are supposed to be ranked for creativity and achievement, not how many people you know.
It was awfully kind of one of your commenters who is definitely not you to come and take offence to cheating accusations wasn't it? Ya know, the one who said "I played lots of games and this was the one I liked best" despite not leaving any comments on any other games :D I noticed we had one guy show up and make an account just to vote & comment on ours, so clearly it is a thing that happens. But there was a LOT of them on your game, many all on the same day as well. And it's not just you, there are a few other games with weirdly high number of votes where several comments came from newly created accounts. Whether they are dummy accounts or legit (a bizarrely high number of) friends/family coming in to support them you can't blame people who just submitted a game and voted on others for not being keen on that.
Anyway, I've said my piece. Nothing personal. I think in the future people should have to have submitted their own game to vote because it's too easily messed with, whether they are dummy accounts or not.
Like others here, I'm glad that YYG/Opera will be deciding the final ones.