Then I'd have to say your program seems to start off with a bias, after all, you are saying you "wanted them to have a chance to win within their region." And to do so seems to indicate you would have to purposely delist others from the opportunity. In the Freddies, it wasn't about volume, but value and open to all who serve the area ... not who just have a headquarters there. Delta likely won it because for those members living and/or voting from the european sector felt that the value of the program to their individual needs was better served by that airline program vs. the others. Fact is that hundreds of thousands of Americans likely did not decide that win for Delta since in doing so they delisted their own ability to vote in the North America sector (you could only vote from one sector). More likely europeans voted it along as well as perhaps any expats, but expats exist heavily in all markets and all programs.

I hope you're not setting this up with your own winners as a comparison and if so, then you better get ready for when winners don't exactly look like your own choices. For the Freddies, the masses always decided and while i may have scratched my own head from time to time, I never put in harms way anything regarding a winners honor.

My comments are intended only to defend the voters of the Freddies. The public is not to be dammed.