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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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 Posted - 11/06/2008 : 06:01:57
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I can now announce that now that all the polls are closed the final tally, using all hanging chads, paper ballots and electronic machines, the results of the Primary Colors Haiku contest are:
Third place - BaftaBabe with 9 of the popular votes
Second place - bife with 11 of the electoral college votes
And the winner is...
going soon to the oval office to pick the next Haiku movie...
counting all electoral college and the popular votes...
the one, the only...
Montgomery with a whopping landslide of 14 votes!
Brava Monty and you may now swear in and choose the next movie to be Haikued.
(Is "Haikued" a word?) |
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bife
"Winners never quit ... fwfr ... "
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Posted - 11/06/2008 : 06:25:38
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Congrats monty, picked up my 3 votes.
CL, just out of curiosity, if I hadn't voted, wouldn't I get deducted 3 "non-voting" points like in the other comps? So I would only have been on 8 (11-3), and monty would have been winning anyway?
I like the 3 point reduction rule, it effectively says that anybody who doesn't vote is treating all the other entries as winners and giving them all 3 points, and nobody can ever gain an advantage by not voting. Not suggesting anybody would, of course, but still it seems to make sense.
Otherwise, say a lurker had come along and picked my entry over monty's, I would have won just because I hadn't voted or given out any points. That wouldn't have been fair (although it might be the only way I'll ever win!!!)
No harm, since Monty won anyway, and maybe i misread the scores, but seems fair to deduct points for not voting.
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 11/06/2008 : 06:39:27
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quote:
Originally posted by bife
Congrats monty, picked up my 3 votes.
CL, just out of curiosity, if I hadn't voted, wouldn't I get deducted 3 "non-voting" points like in the other comps? So I would only have been on 8 (11-3), and monty would have been winning anyway?
I like the 3 point reduction rule, it effectively says that anybody who doesn't vote is treating all the other entries as winners and giving them all 3 points, and nobody can ever gain an advantage by not voting. Not suggesting anybody would, of course, but still it seems to make sense.
Otherwise, say a lurker had come along and picked my entry over monty's, I would have won just because I hadn't voted or given out any points. That wouldn't have been fair (although it might be the only way I'll ever win!!!)
No harm, since Monty won anyway, and maybe i misread the scores, but seems fair to deduct points for not voting.
Well, yes. When I posted that, I was assuming you would send in your vote and so without the reduction of three points from your score, but not knowing who you would give your three points to, at that stage the two of you were tied. |
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Montgomery
"F**k!"
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Posted - 11/06/2008 : 15:24:51
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Wow! Yikes!
I had my concession speech written, but not my acceptance speech.
Who knew?
I'll look through the ever-growing list of movies and find a good candidate for us to Haiku next.
EM :) |
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Movie Haiku Contest #129 - Primary Colors
