From jjweston@kenny.sir-toby.com Fri Jul 26 19:21:13 2002
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 15:47:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sir Toby <jjweston@kenny.sir-toby.com>
To: agora-business@agoranomic.org
Subject: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Life Contest: Notice of Award

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Ian Kelly wrote:

> Sir Toby wrote:
> > Goethe has the most Vials of Primordial Ooze: 36. I note that in the
> > Scorekeepor's Report for May 28, 2002, Steve has the most points at 32
> > making PWIN be 68. PPP is 3.4. I multiply PPP times the number of
> > contestants, 4, and determine that Goethe needs to be awarded 13.6
> > points.
> >
> > Life awards 13.6 points to Goethe.
> 
> PWIN is defined by R1990 and R1929 to be 100; it has nothing to do with
> anybody's Score.  So PPP is 5, and the point award should have been for 20
> points.
> 
> By R1990, this point award was invalid since it did not correctly follow
> the contest's regulations, so you can still try again.

I guess I grossly misread the rules and made life more complicated than it 
should be. After taking a closer look at the rules, your arguments make 
perfect sense.

Life awards 20 points to Goethe.

 -- 
Jeff Weston (Sir Toby)
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