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RE: KittCatS! Halloween Custom Collar Contest - results!
If you read on, my mistakes were pointed out, and I saw and admitted them.
Here is my position: yes, KittyCats appears to have made an error. Either they mistakenly failed to share the third-place prize with the top vote-getters or they mistakenly failed to state a rule limiting the number of entrants which can share a prize. These are the only two possibilities which fit the data presented.
In their position, especially given the amount of bellyaching in this thread, I'd simply state the rule that no more than two entrants may share a prize and then the results would be correct as posted in the OP.
Whichever error they made in the posted results, the real error was posting the numbers at all. They should have simply named the winners and nothing more.
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ETA. On further thinking:
Nah, there is a third possibility and that is the top two public vote-getters performed so poorly in the judging that the results are correct and the only error was posting a partial dataset.
9 + 6 = 15 Kathy0831
8 + 7 = 15 Jhanelle Bonde
7 + 5 = 12 999ShadowCat999
6 + 2 = 8 Lixy Byron
5 + 3 = 8 Trixie Ravinelli
4 + 1 = 5 4th place
3 + 4 = 7 4th place
2 + 8 = 10 Top public vote 4th place
1 + 9 = 10 Top public vote 4th place
So there is at least one solution to the dataset which does not need any rule changes or changes in the OP results.
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