MouseAdventure Wrap-up, Results, and Everything Else

innerSpaceman · 10-24-2005, 08:45 PM

common practice is not good enough for my friends. It seemed to me as if "and featuring Nirvanaman" was fretting about their placement, and I simply wanted to point out to him and the other folks we love on that team that they did tremendously well ... even better than their official placement title indicates. Like I said, you can call the 13th floor the 14th, but that don't make it so.

They had the third highest score.

Heheh, I actually think M.A. should have tie-breakers. Maybe a really quick mini-quest, or at least a fast round of geek trivia on the spot.

Alex · 10-24-2005, 10:28 PM

You know Steve, sometimes I get the sense you just like to complain. I don't know why that thought pops into my head every once in a while.

If we had a tie breaker they would have come in fourth. Even though we didn't use a tie breaker (because they've been arbitrary in the past this time I decided to take the risk and hope we wouldn't have a 1st place tie) they still had three teams finished in front of them. That is fourth place. There were three scores higher than theirs. That is fourth place. Even though there were only two unique scores higher than theirs, they were still in fourth place.

Now, I hope this doesn't somehow diminish their result (and if they feel it does I hope one of them will contact me) because they still did very well.

As for going down to 4th place, with 150 teams we figured we could expand the prizes (I've been involved in races that go to 10th place with prizes, in 8 different age categories for each gender). If the general preference is that we not, then we'll reexamine the decision next time.

10-24-2005, 08:45 PM	#1
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	common practice is not good enough for my friends. It seemed to me as if "and featuring Nirvanaman" was fretting about their placement, and I simply wanted to point out to him and the other folks we love on that team that they did tremendously well ... even better than their official placement title indicates. Like I said, you can call the 13th floor the 14th, but that don't make it so. They had the third highest score. Heheh, I actually think M.A. should have tie-breakers. Maybe a really quick mini-quest, or at least a fast round of geek trivia on the spot.
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10-24-2005, 10:28 PM	#2
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	You know Steve, sometimes I get the sense you just like to complain. I don't know why that thought pops into my head every once in a while. If we had a tie breaker they would have come in fourth. Even though we didn't use a tie breaker (because they've been arbitrary in the past this time I decided to take the risk and hope we wouldn't have a 1st place tie) they still had three teams finished in front of them. That is fourth place. There were three scores higher than theirs. That is fourth place. Even though there were only two unique scores higher than theirs, they were still in fourth place. Now, I hope this doesn't somehow diminish their result (and if they feel it does I hope one of them will contact me) because they still did very well. As for going down to 4th place, with 150 teams we figured we could expand the prizes (I've been involved in races that go to 10th place with prizes, in 8 different age categories for each gender). If the general preference is that we not, then we'll reexamine the decision next time.
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