"How do you consider this to be an "acheivement? What did he win? was it presented fairly? no." Well, we're never going to agree here, but to me it's an achievement for a guy who (a) won AOM and (b) was actually in the lead when the AOY voting was pulled, to be given the title. It's not as if he'd previously had no chance and his name was picked out of a hat. There would have been just the same amount of uproar (if not more) if Legume had won, amongst allegations of vote fixing, etc, so would his victory have been equally scorned? If utter fairness were a criterion for acceptance of the validity for a title (lot of long words, there) then how many presidents or prime ministers or councillors would there be whose positions were respected and recognised? (Hint, the answer is none). "he himself said he did not want to win this way?" Of course he didn't, who would? But because the way AOY works he'll never get another chance at it and to tarnish this unique achievement because of the failings of others is, in my eyes, plain mean.