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RE: KittCatS! Halloween Custom Collar Contest - results!
I wondered. I looked at the numbers. I went, "Ah, I see. That makes sense." But, you're right, the mistake was in showing some, but not all, of the numbers.
What I see is a contest rightly dominated by a panel of judges where some weight is given to the public vote. We don't want to give the public too much weight because, all bellyaching to the contrary, cheating is rampant.
So, when factoring in the public vote, the #1 winner (Kathy0831) has the same score as the #2 winner (Jhanelle Bonde) call that a tie for "First place"
The #3 winner (999ShadowCat999) moves up to second place due to that tie.
The #4 winner (Lixy Byron) has the same score as the #5 winner (Trixie Ravinelli) so call that a tie for "Third place"
And y'all are complaining that the best possible placing for the most-popular could get was #6 and all three prizes has been awarded so they lost out.
The alternative would be simply to go with the judges and skip the public vote entirely.
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ETA: Examining just the #2 winner (Jhanelle Bonde). She could have scored 7,8, or 9 and we'd still have a tie for first place. Or she could have scored 0 through 5 (#1, Kathy0831, scored 6), fallen to Second Place and the #4 and #5 winners (Lixy Byron and Trixie Ravinelli) would have failed to place at all.
This is the ONLY other possible outcome from this contest. Y'all are complaining that an impossible outcome should have appeared.
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In future, I hope KittyCatS will remember that and simply state the winners without the numbers.
Their only other choice is to forgo public voting entirely. Y'all are bellyaching that your vote didn't count enough; like you wanted a popularity contest. But this wasn't about who has the most friends or can stand there the longest beggin for votes.
So, their other choice is to drop the public voting and just go with the judges.
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