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You asked me wich will be preferred on fanart.tv if the votes are equal or not voted yet. random?
It took 1 week to get fanart.tv maintainer Kode on the line, the answer "probably the one that was uploaded first"

That means he does not know exactly.
But with Artwork Beef and my Media Manager, i always get on the fanart.tv stuff the same equal sorting.
That means it's definitely not random but a system behind it. Probably the date.

to finish this statement i asked a second time Kode (fanart.tv maintainer):

But you don't know exactly? I use Artwork Beef (Kodi API artwork scraper) and use Media Companion (Media Manager with same artwork features), both implemented the fanart.tv API nice, and on both there is everytime the equal sorting if votes are equal or no votes yet. So there is definitively a system behind.

Answer:

The order will be whatever mysql spits out, so if there are no votes it will probably be by id, which is incremental, so by order of upload
Regardless though, they are using the same api, so they will get the same results, so I'm not sure why its surprising they are the same?

Kode's answer is not that strange. Unless you don't do something yourself about the sorting, it's whatever SQL returns first.