If Pedro says this system of voting off your own weakest opponents and saving your strongest ones and posting your votes in the thread isn't corrupt, it isn't corrupt.

EVERYONE has an opinion and you'll have to believe everyone did listen to your song and read your essay, it isn't just because someone voted you off, it is unfair. Even if those opinions are strikingly similar to the opinions of so many others in the thread despite there being 30+ entries.