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wd mafeking
thanks for the top quiz pos |
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Wd Mafeking and Nirv
Cheers POS great quiz, excellently executed too cheers Gt for scroing til HT |
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Thanks pos wd mafeking
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thanks p4s and gt
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Well played all
great quiz passed a couple of hours at work |
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Tremendous quiz ,wp mafe
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Great effort Pos - especially scoring in the second half.
Thanks also to GT, and vwp Mafeking and Nirv. |
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thanks pos, gt. impressive stuff from mafeking.
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Cheers rob, exc quiz and scoring. Thx to Gt too.
Wp mafe and all. |
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cheers pos, wd the winners and scorers
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lol Liam....your link earlier made me laugh.
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That seemed to be a very good quiz Rob and a massive turn out too.
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Ah, cheers jimmy, second time i posted it and not a fkin comment, boring feckers on here, :)
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This would have been the scoring with 3 2 1
Mafeking 24 Nirvana 22 Rock Monkey 21 Fenway 17 Jimmy69 12 Sixtwosix 12 Dan Chipowski 11 First and goal at one 11 Max and Paddy 11 TwoDoggs 10 Knight of Ni 9 Superbob 9 Andy Murray 8 Bjk 6 I think so 6 Alex69 5 Klauk 5 Royclaytonstash 5 GT 3 Gleeman 3 Dk 2 Muntz Street 2 Dead Pop Stars 1 Huggy 1 Liamcol 1 Panglima 1 Slippy Blue 1 |
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That still only gets you to 5th Jimmy :D
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lol Pumps
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cheers jimmy. yep v.good liam.
1 of the main problems was the scoring method, blatantly encourages copying and I'm sure lots of people were copying. I stand by the Andy Gantaueme question, don't really know why some people (they were the cricket specialists too) took exception to it. Obviously wouldn't be Bradman, was far too easy. The golf question about the non english speaking thing was badly worded admittedly I fekked up the one about countries representing europe in ryder cup. thought i'd put spain in the question but hadn't, looking back i prob should'v just voided the question. I timed up far too quickly on the colin mcrae question too, but once i'd done it i couldn't really go back on it. |
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pos, i posted this before the start,
scoring point for each correct :_| :_| :_| i hate 1pt each correct, it not only encourages copying, it makes you feel guilty if you do get it right, anyway. I didn't see much wrong in the quiz, a couple could have been worded a bit better, but they were still able to be understood, imo. I enjoyed it anyway, well done. |
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The 1 point scoring system is flawed for that very reason Rob.
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i shalln't be using that 1pt method again jimmy, i can assure you.
I had always thought that was the fairest, but in my naievety didn't realise that people would so blatantly copy. Trouble is when there are big fields it is infuriiating when you know the answer type it quick as you like and you're still 8th or 9th in and get nothing for your troubles, can be very demoralising. |
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Pos i think the biggest problem as such for quizzes are the scoring methods...
if its 5-4-3-2-1 or 3-2-1 it favours those that are good with FFF and quick connections. But 1-1-1-1-1 leaves those that know or think they know not wanting to put an answer in early as to let everyone else know in case of copying. I think everyone has a prefered method of scoring i think mine is 5-4-3-2-1 so more people can get on the board and those that genuinely know will get rewarded regardless. Also depends on the level of difficulty, if they are hard Q`s then 5-4-3-2-1 works well as not that many gonna know even when a good quizzer gets it right and is in early. although when they are easy it lets the average quizzers in (like myself) to win alot of FFF purely because of speed and not ability. Not sure whether ive given my opinion of what i think above. But i think it is a tricky area and think 1 for each is a problem. |
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BTW i thought your questions were excellent and some very hard and some very gettable for most.
Great quiz, just the scoring but thats a problem for everyone not you mate |
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One way round it is a point for any of the first six posts that have correct answer, by people waiting for the first couple of posts they will basically miss out on scoring if possible.
also no advantage for very fast posters but you do still have to be pretty quick. only a suggestion |
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That makes sense pumpy. If you wait till the first question is up, read it, remember it, click reply, type it in then click post, there will surely be 5 other answers in by then.
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I'm working on a system for my next quiz.
It will be along the lines of, 1st unique incorrect ok 1st duplicate wrong -1 2nd duplicate wrong - 2 etc. etc. There was one quite recently where a question had the same wrong answer repeated about 10 times, this would make it interesting. |
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blackjackking 15 Nov 23:00
BTW i thought your questions were excellent and some very hard and some very gettable for most. Great quiz, just the scoring but thats a problem for everyone not you mate I was just a bit p.ssed off that max left early. i think he got a real bee in his bonnet about a couple of the qs which surprised me - i've never found him to be like that before. I met him once and he's a decent lad, we've had a bit of banter on the cricket forum before too. |
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just thinking of an idea to stop the copying Ro, plus the fact you want to keep the 1pt for a correct answer.
you could make it all correct answers in first 8 or even 10 replies though probably 8 is top wack to stop most of the copying, that way most people will score points at regular intervals though of course not every time they get a correct answer. |
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can be hardwork keeping up on the scoring with that system liam, but makes sense. goodluck
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The 3 2 1 scoring method produced the same top 3 that you had with the 1 point for each answer Rob.
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think quite a few people might end up with minus scores if that system was adopted :0
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Jimmy, work it out with my system, :)
report back in a month or so, lol. |
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fair enough jimmy
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That's a challenge Liam. What's the scoring method for those who got it right?
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6.175 points each
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Was just wondering what it would be, 54321, minus the points i said for duplicates, looks difficult though.
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OK.I have an hour free in the morning. I will have a look...lol
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tbf there are a lot of duplicate wrong answers on some qs that were defo not copying;
DON bradman springs to mind |
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I will report back....lol
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That was an excellent quiz - I had other things on this evening which is why I had to drop out
Nothing wrong with the Ganteaume question at all. The non-English-speaking countries providing a major golf championship winner could have been worded better, I suppose, but I understood it (not that I knew the answer) and I couldn't provide an alternative wording for it. As for scoring: From a scorer's point of view, 1 point per correct answer is by far the easiest to operate. I'm sad enough to have a spreadsheet ready for scoring quizzes - the only problem I would have had is that loads of rare quizzers enter sports-only quizzes and it would take quite a while to put everyone's name in. I've forgiven you for the Ponsford question! |
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This looks like it was good. sorry I wasn't home to take part :(
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