MouseAdventure Wrap-up, Results, and Everything Else

[Alex]

1st, 2nd, 3rd, is not necessarily the tradition in certain types of competition (for example, at the Walt Disney World marathon, over 100 "place" prizes are given out). In all the races I've participated in as well as the academic competitions I used to do, awarding places beyond 3rd were common. Now that we're almost four times as large as the first MouseAdventures, going down one more place seemed logical

No, there was not a 5th place awarded.

I don't see illogic where you're seeing it. To me, the way we did it is the only logical way to do it. If we had 150 teams get perfect scores and the 151st had zero points, would you be arguing that they came in second place? I suppose you would, but that makes absolutely no sense to me. Did Ralph Nader come in second in the 2000 presidential election because Bush and Gore essentially tied? But maybe I'm just not seeing something that is obvious (see the discussion on MousePad about whether next-to-last and second-to-last are synonyms) to others.

It may be irrelevant semantics, but earlier the way we did it was, as you termed it, bull****. So my apologies for thinking you felt stronger about this than you do.