A barely-active player proposing to discount all of the dynastic play that has led to this moment? Novel, but at this point we might as well pack up the blog and call it a day.

This doesn’t discount all dynastic play - it is a direct response to your own proposal, for example. It just doesn’t account for it the way you might like! Besides, “barely-active” is such a subjective term….

More seriously, I’m pretty sure there’s precedent for ending a dynasty this way, and everyone gets a kick at the can this way. If people like it it will pass and if they don’t it won’t, which is the sole point of the blog.

I don’t think that there is a precedent for doing a straight split in a situation where there was a clear distinction in merit position.

This is a democracy, not a meritocracy!

Hm… weighted vote dynasty where everyone’s vote is multiplied by the number of dynasties they’ve led.

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The dynasty would end in about 3 minutes as Josh and Brendan pooled their votes to deny Kevan the victory, cutting directly to the heart of BlogNomic and saving us all five weeks of our lives.

The History of Victories page lists three past “Pure Random” cases in twenty years. They only make sense when the whole group is genuinely struggling to say who among the players did better than or contributed more than any other. Which can happen, but clearly hasn’t here.

Well there’s a first time for everything. Anyway, I’m not proposing this to be Plan A, but as an improvement over Josh’s proposal. Perhaps the truth lies in the middle.

I look forward to hearing your second thought!

Might as well do this at the beginning of every dynasty then. Why even play?

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I feel left out.

This was a mistake.