User blog comment:Jenburton/2016 Tournament of Giving/@comment-1187559-20161007150246

I look over the tournament and the issue I already see is regional. A lot of these charities are going to lose out purely because of their location. Wikia is a global company, having offices outside the US, yet many of the list shown are US charities. Many of which only help locally, so already I have no intent of wanting any of them to win, since no matter what it's not going to a cause I have much care about. I mean, I would prefer to give it to a charity like Help for Heroes, RSPB, Red Cross, St. Johns Ambulance or NAS (given I myself have autism, I certainly have a vested interest in an autism charity getting the money, especially if it's local) which are English based charities, but none are on the shortlist.

That in mind, it likely means the more well known charities, such as WWF are going to romp the vote purely because more people know them and because at least that way people are giving to a "worldwide" charity rather than an "American" one. I understand charity should simply be about helping someone, not about who it helps. I mean, even on a more national example, this vote includes a charity that only helps those in "Rio Grande Valley, Texas", so how is that going many votes in a vote that is being help globally? Even to those that live in America, if someone lives in Detroit why would they have as much interest in it?

That being said. The sheer fact we're voting on who to give money to seems completely wrong in the aspect of charity. These are all companies that could benefit greatly from money from a company as rich as Wikia, yet many will lose out purely because random people they don't know, nor can target will not vote for them. Remember what I said above about regions? This whole thing seems completely wrong. Charity should not be left to competition, regardless of how it's done.

Like I stated at the beginning, charities I'd like to see get the money have not been listed, ergo, I have no real care who wins. I'm certain others may be in the same boat, which means that votes will merely be random and in no way accurate on what people actually believe. This whole thing seems like an ill-thought out attempt at a "community charity event" that simply does not work.