Roll up, roll up.... jbworldwide's RSQ

[jbworldwide]

did you write question 13 like that on purpose?

so that a ridiculous answer scored the best score possible?

seems to defeat the purpose of an RSQ for me. That's why i went on the nose, thinking "he can't possibly want us to simply intentionally fail spectacularly"

obviously I was wrong 

Not at all, I was banking on people actually having a reasonable guess at the answer, some well over the top answers... I can go the other way and add the score and it would come out as follows;

moonar   22
ruud   27
MintTrav   29
Tighty   35
Ant040689   36
dwh103   43
Longines   51
david3103   116
Waz1892   127
Ironside   132
stribling   132
cf   159
kinboshi   179

[ruud]

You're the QM. Up to you.

Tina Maze - costs me the gold that way round!!!

Second way round does mean that Dave doesn't have to do 2 in 2 weeks! But he might fancy it I dunno?!?!

[jbworldwide]

You're the QM. Up to you.

Tina Maze - costs me the gold that way round!!!

Second way round does mean that Dave doesn't have to do 2 in 2 weeks! But he might fancy it I dunno?!?!

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I'm sticking with my first scores as that is the way i wrote the question Unlucky 13, everyone had a chance to get it right (by delaying the entry if they read the question) and also I was trying to punish ridiculous answers. Perhaps the end was a farce, but then this is my first one and I wanted to put a bit of a different spin in it.

[ruud]

You're the QM. Up to you.

Tina Maze - costs me the gold that way round!!!

Second way round does mean that Dave doesn't have to do 2 in 2 weeks! But he might fancy it I dunno?!?!

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I'm sticking with my first scores as that is the way i wrote the question Unlucky 13, everyone had a chance to get it right (by delaying the entry if they read the question) and also I was trying to punish ridiculous answers. Perhaps the end was a farce, but then this is my first one and I wanted to put a bit of a different spin in it.

ok, well done JB - great first attempt - look forward to the next one!

[Cf]

Erm

[Cf]

Can the QM please explain how he came to -100 points for me and others please?

To quote the question:

Unlucky 13... how many entries (total) will there be in the Sky Poker UK Championships Main Event. Percentage difference either over or under (rounded to the nearest percent; 0.49 down 0.50 up) will form your score to be SUBTRACTED from your total. So an exact answer will get you a zero score, 1% away is -1 point etc. The closer you are the less points you lose.

At no point does the question state that points will be capped at -100.

Therefore please redo the scores.

[Cf]

Also...

Thank you for running the quiz

Though you do win the title of worst ever question in an rsq! And that includes sharplea's Avenged Sevenfold question!

[Ironside]

Can the QM please explain how he came to -100 points for me and others please?

To quote the question:

Unlucky 13... how many entries (total) will there be in the Sky Poker UK Championships Main Event. Percentage difference either over or under (rounded to the nearest percent; 0.49 down 0.50 up) will form your score to be SUBTRACTED from your total. So an exact answer will get you a zero score, 1% away is -1 point etc. The closer you are the less points you lose.

At no point does the question state that points will be capped at -100.

Therefore please redo the scores.

it was a percentage 0-100%

[MintTrav]

Bizarre.

[Cf]

Can the QM please explain how he came to -100 points for me and others please?

To quote the question:

Unlucky 13... how many entries (total) will there be in the Sky Poker UK Championships Main Event. Percentage difference either over or under (rounded to the nearest percent; 0.49 down 0.50 up) will form your score to be SUBTRACTED from your total. So an exact answer will get you a zero score, 1% away is -1 point etc. The closer you are the less points you lose.

At no point does the question state that points will be capped at -100.

Therefore please redo the scores.

it was a percentage 0-100%

Percentages don't range from 0-100...

[david3103]

I guess i have to set another one

watch out for a back to basics RSQ later on

[Redsgirl]

This whole quiz managed to slip by me, good thing too as even after reading the questions and the answers I still don't know what's going on!

I really must get clevererer.

Preferably before David's quiz.

[kinboshi]

Ridiculous. 

Ruud, you're a maths teacher.  Can you explain why my answer for Q13 scores 100?


I won this quiz, and therefore the QM and the marking is an utter FARCE.

[kinboshi]

FARCE

[kinboshi]

Erm

THIS