As I said, studio voting is within the rules, but given how things are,
it shouldn't really surprise you if some folks feel like the contest is rigged
(not my word, but I heard it being thrown around).
Not going to milk this after this but...
"those folks" who think it's "rigged" don't know how the game works or how teamwork works.
And I'm not sure if I should care about the feelings of people with opinions, unhindered by facts.
The logic is easy: have everyone active and have everyone vote a team member if his/her face comes around.
The execution is hard: every producer or team leader can agree on that with me. Keeping everyone active is hard.
So I'm going to pretend not feeling slighted when effective teamwork is made to sound like an unfair advantage.
But whether or not people like it, we do still earn each of those votes.
If not always through quality, at least through solidarity and caring.
The only way you can make the BBAs truly "fair" though in the way you prefer, based purely on quality, is scratching the "from your studio" and the weekend selections altogether, setting back the voting system to how it was over a year ago. Have them all show up anonimously and just as random as they show up through the week. Put your faith in the good taste of your BBA fellow players. Or even have all the covers be completely faceless so there can't be friendly favors. But even then most people might still not even bother to check the cover and just click something.