Thursday, January 18, 2007

Proposal: When in doubt, use brute force

Timed out (6-1 with 4 unresolved deferential)
Enacted by Hix

Adminned at 20 Jan 2007 18:27:02 UTC

The nation of Rand McNally engaged in a brutal civil war.  Brother was pitted against brother.  The two sides remain divided to this day…
Part 1:
Amend Rule 2.2 so that the text:

Rand McNally (Considered by most bookmakers to be our fiercest competition. In Rand McNally, they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people!)

is revised to read:

Rand. In Rand , they wear hats on their feet.!)  Rand can never compete in an event in which McNally competes.
McNally.  In McNally, hamburgers eat people!) McNally can never compete in an event in which Rand competes.

Part 2: Upon the adoption of this proposal, the GNDT will be appropriately revised to delete the entry for Rand McNally and to add separate entries for Rand and McNally.  Upon the adoption of this proposal, half of Rand McNally’s medals of each category (gold, silver, bronze), rounding down to the nearest whole number of medals, will be transferred to the new team of Rand, and all of Rand McNally’s remaining medals will be transferred to the new team of McNally.  Rand McNally will cease to be a rival or a team.

 

posted by spikebrennan at 18 Jan 2007 23:53:00 UTC Comments (17)

Comments

Elias IX:

19-01-2007 00:25:52 UTC

for

Combustable:

19-01-2007 00:58:28 UTC

imperial

Clucky: he/him

19-01-2007 01:02:27 UTC

Next are you going to want to split the other countries into Klod and Stan or Exalabur and Homeland? =P

ChinDoGu:

19-01-2007 02:21:06 UTC

against I don’t see any upside of having more compeditors, 3 is a good number imho.

Elias IX:

19-01-2007 03:08:47 UTC

This makes it easier for us to win, because medals are split.

Also, because Rand and McNally will never compete in the same event, the number of competitors virtually remains three.

ChinDoGu:

19-01-2007 03:18:21 UTC

imperial cov

pie-is-square:

19-01-2007 13:54:26 UTC

against

spikebrennan:

19-01-2007 14:52:58 UTC

Let me argue for my proposal.  The current ruleset is stacked against the Blognomic team in a number of ways: for now, whenever there is an event in which individual Olympians (as opposed to teams) are eligible to compete, any Medal that is not won by an Olympian is won by a rival _team_.  Likewise, whenever there is an event in which the Blognomic team as a whole is eligible to compete, any Medal that is not won by the Blognomic team is won by a rival team.  So the rival teams have many more chances to win medals than either individual Olympians or the Blognomic team.

Secondly, the attributes of rival competitors on rival teams are made up by Clucky, pretty much arbitrarily.  Clucky has as much as admitted that on some occasions in the past, the rival teams or competitors were overpowered.

This proposal remedies some of the past harm and dilutes the rivals by a little bit going forward, to try to balance things a little better.

Hix:

19-01-2007 16:18:42 UTC

for

Rodney:

19-01-2007 17:00:45 UTC

for

Scaramouche:

19-01-2007 17:28:10 UTC

for

ChronosPhaenon:

19-01-2007 19:16:19 UTC

for

alethiophile:

19-01-2007 20:02:39 UTC

imperial  I think it’s funny, but that’s not the only consideration.

Clucky: he/him

19-01-2007 21:26:57 UTC

I create events expecting others to sign up for them. Of course when no one but one person signs up for an event, rivals are going to win events. I try to keep rival stats balanced with the current stats held by you guys. If its that easy, why don’t you guys suggest some events, or balanced rivals when I post ideas. <_<

Doremi:

20-01-2007 17:37:56 UTC

imperial Nothing wrong with it, but it doesn’t solve anything by itself, either.

alethiophile:

21-01-2007 01:26:03 UTC

Is clucky going to actually vote so that all those imperial  votes don’t go uncounted?

Hix:

21-01-2007 02:26:07 UTC

That’s okay, it just barely passes at time out. (6-1-4)