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This will apply to the current tournament because we never gave thought to it, and I believe it needs to be applied.
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Per the suggestions of the board, we will break the tie by first-place scores. Most first-place scores gets the win. If that's tied, we'll go to second place scores. Then we'll go to third place scores, then fourth place, etc. all the way down to 31st place scores... if they aren't tied... gosh knows what we'll do... I feel like calling it a tie if they wind up tied after that... it would take forever to do a playoff...

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goldengameboy@yahoo.com

Can't we be happy just to live with a tie.......
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If two people get the same score why not let them both claim joint
1st place..... call it a tie....... call it a draw..... who says
there has to be an outright winner ALL THE TIME.

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BeeJay.

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bjohnstone@cardinal.co.nz

hmm, also what about the example where there's a tie in a 10 person
game with a person with 6 first places, 1 3rd, 1 4th, 1 5th, 1 6th,
6x10+8+7+6+5=86 and a person with 0 first places, 9 second places, and
1 6th place 9x9+5=86.

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Is the winner there really the person who has the most first places?

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churritz@cts.com

As the person currently standing to be the winner should Joustgod and
myself eventually tie for 1st place (due to my current 4 1st place
scores) I would like to state that I see no reason why my 4 good
games plus some really crap ones are any better the JoustGod's on the
average better placings in all games.

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I firmly believe that it would be unfair to me or anyone for that
matter to have someone who did well because they were really good at
some of the games and really crap at some get the win.

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A tie is a tie is a tie. There's no prize money to be shared so who
really cares if we call it a tie.

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BeeJay.

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bjohnstone@cardinal.co.nz

Unless we manage to get a prize finagled, like a joystick maybe, that can't really be shared I don't see what's so important about breaking a tie. With cash prizes (and monkeys might ...) my suggestion would be to split the total award equally ... like if there was a three way tie for second place the three players would split the 2cd, 3rd & 4th place awards.
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Aqua

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aquatarkus@digicron.com

Tie sounds good to me, also. If BeeJay wins by tie-breaker, that's
fine also as he has put up some MASSIVE scores in this tournament
that I can't even begin to touch! But whatever, I honestly don't
think any more new rules need to be drawn up at this time. Let's
learn from this initial tournament and apply new rules to subsequent
tourneys. God knows how many potential players we'll end up scaring
off by giving the impression that rules and others things relating to
future tournaments are subject to change at a moment's notice.

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I, for one, have not particularly enjoyed some of the shenanigans
surrounding this maiden contest. Yes, I'm having a nice time with the
top 5 status (yes, I say top 5 because the players below me are great
players that can change my scenery at any given moment and I know
that) at this point but might have to reconsider participation in
future tournaments if this nonsense keeps up.

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And speaking of last-minute changes, I am assuming that the proposal
of minimum games is now effectively squashed...isn't it? I certainly
hope so.

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JoustGod

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pinballwiz1@msn.com

Hey!! what's going on here? Why did you wait so long to speak up???
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I proposed this idea a week ago and there were hardly any responses.
In fact 1 repsonse in favor and none against. As I said in the
original thread, there wouldn't be a rule change at this time unless
everyone agrees. Since we all can't agree then we won't do it--it's
that simple. The same holds true with the minimum game requirement.

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For the next tourney all the rules WILL BE spelled out up front...

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laffaye@ibm.net