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hey, i noticed that you're making a concerted effort to get better at team rating. if this is the case, i'd recommend sending a rate to the rating practice team project, where you can get personalized feedback from one of the badged team raters working with me!
Begging people to vote for you isn't really in the spirit of the competition to be honest. Anyways, the poll end time is set at the creation of the poll. The competition should be weekly by the way, but it depends on the activity of the host.