Looney Labs Icehouse Mailing list Archive

Re: [Icehouse] Publishing only a winner and a runner up

  • From"Jason Spears" <spielboy@xxxxxxxxx>
  • DateWed, 20 Feb 2008 21:37:52 -0500
I agree that it makes sense to just name the winner and the runner-up.
I wasn't a judge in this contest and I'm new to the list, so I'm not
sure my opinion carries any weight, but there it is.

-Jason

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Jorge Arroyo <trozo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>   We should make a decision about this, as if we're going to do it, the
> sooner we change the infoboxes on the wiki, the better. So far from what I
> read on the other threads at least 3 people (including me) agree with this.
> Is there anyone that feels this is a bad decision?
>
>   Basically, I think that with such a low number of votes, and seeing how
> small changes affect the final order a lot, why not just use the votes to
> get a winner and a runner up. This way the rest of the games are not marked
> for life (especially the ones on the bottom) when they might just be really
> good games. I don't think either Martian Gunslingers or Virus Fight deserve
> this stigma when MG was penalized for beign a 1house game and being hard to
> play without a custom deck and Virus Fight was the only game that actually
> beat the winner of the contest in the individual pairings.