Patent ID: 7827054

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of conducting a contest for competing entertainment works, the method comprising: providing an electronic system for receiving a plurality of entertainment works from entertainment contributors for an identified contest, wherein the identified contest is for at least four entertainment works; providing a pair of entertainment works to rate; providing an interface for rating the pair of entertainment works, wherein the interface provides a mechanism for receiving a relative rating, from an entertainment reviewer, that indicates how a first presented entertainment work from the pair compares relative to a second presented entertainment work from the pair according to a predetermined rating criterion; maintaining and monitoring a plurality of control entertainment works, mixed among the entertainment works to be rated, wherein the control entertainment works have a known value based on the rating criterion; determining whether a relative rating received from the entertainment reviewer for a control entertainment work is contrary to the known rating value for that control entertainment work; marking relative ratings received from the entertainment reviewer as fraudulent if the relative rating received from the entertainment reviewer for a control entertainment work is contrary to the known rating value for that control entertainment work; excluding all relative ratings received from the entertainment reviewer from consideration if one or more relative ratings from the entertainment reviewer have been marked as fraudulent; calculating a ranked list of all entertainment works in the identified contest based on non-fraudulent relative ratings received from rating pairs of entertainment works; and identifying a winning entertainment work for the identified contest from the ranked list.