The Election
The alpaca was elected the mascot of DemiDec and the World Scholar's Cup in 2006. Students nominated potential mascots online, and from that pool came the final three: The alpaca, the emu, and the penguin. At the end of the vote, the alpaca was victorious. Theorists speculate that the reason the alpaca won is due to a split among bird-lovers.
However, in 2011, Berdichevsky hinted that the election could be just a legend. During the Scholar's Bowl, in lieu of a history section, the founder of World Scholar's Cup presented a historical analysis, hinting that the results may have been tampered with. Evidence of this has never been found, but Berdichevsky admits that he "may have had a pre-existing relationship with alpacas," and poses the question that perhaps he "was the one tallying the votes."
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