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Poll number Preference Poll for Third Game Courier Tournament. Sign up for the 3rd Game Courier tournament by voting in this poll.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
no one wrote on Mon, Jul 17, 2006 10:45 PM UTC:
Okay, I went to the site and ran this tally through the calculator twice: M a m b m a M b

Both times it told me that m won, a came in second and M came in third. I confess I do not understand this, as it certainly appears that the votes for M and m were exactly equivalent. Notice the only difference between this vote and the one previously discussed is the addition of a guaranteed loser in b. I am not trying to be a nitpicker. But I still have problems with how the vote turns out, depending on the number of entries, and a random factor. By adding an apparently ignorable loser, the outcome is changed from 'a' winning to one in which apparently either 'm' or 'M' can win, depending on the random factor mentioned in the Eppley calculator.