Rachael Rage takes back the top spot with 16 points. The Unkempt One and Hal Briston share second with 17 points. Drain Bead and The SDMB Mean remain in fourth with 18 points.
Sixth place goes to Dudley Garrett and Sam Stone with 19 points. accidentalyuppie and Kolak of Twilo share eighth place with 20 points. Reloy3’s 21 points drops him down to tenth place. Mahaloth moves up to eleventh place with 22 points.
23 points puts Blue Mood by himself in twelfth place. Liberal, Rachel Christine and yellowval share thirteenth place with 24 points. Gorgonzola goes into sixteenth place with 25 points. gonzoron and Pleonast take 17th place with 26 points. Biggirl takes nineteenth place with 29 points. Sternvogel holds firm with still brings up the rear with 38 points.
Hmm…just realized that I had an error last week when I said Sternvogel had 26 points – he actually had 36.
[deep exhale]Oh my gosh…thank you. [look like I’m about to cry]
I missed the view up here, love being back.
Curse me for dismissing the “emo poseur guy” back in those early days. :smack: Well, much as I’d hate to lose this game, I’d hate it more if Cook didn’t win!
You may want to check your math Hal, because with that finishing order I get
The Unkempt One, Hal Briston, Rachael Rage - tied for first with 22.
If it ends up with Syesha 3, Cook 2 and Archuleta 1 then it would be
You and Rachael Rage in a tie for 1st with 20 and The Unkempt One and myself tied at 2nd with 22.
I’m not going to calculate some crazy ending like Archuleta 3, Cook 2 and Syesha 1.
After the Top Three gets whittled down to the Final Two*:
Rachael Rage holds on the top spot with 17 points. Hal Briston takes over second with 18 points. The Unkempt One and Kolak of Twilo take fourth with 20 points.
Fifth place goes to DudleyGarrett, Sam Stone and The SDMB Mean with 21 points.
24 points gives Drain Bead and Reloy3 a spot in eighth place. Liberal and Blue Mood take tenth place with 25 points. accidental yuppie and Rachel Christine’s 27 points give them twelfth place. Gorgonzola, Mahaloth, Pleonast and yellowval split a four-way tie for seventeenth place with 28 points each. gonzoron takes eighteenth place with 32 points. Biggirl’s 33 points gives her nineteenth place.
And Sternvogel hits the Ultimate Answer with 42 points.
*The chart hasn’t been updated yet, so I’m relying on my math skills to do this. Corrections are sure to follow.
I think this is my last chance to claim #1 all on my own. No matter which way the finale goes I’m going to end up tying with someone for first or second or whatever. So, I’m gonna gloat for a minute:
I’m #1! I’m #1! I’m #1!
I’d like to thank all the little people…
OK, that was fun. I think this is the first time I’ve done this well on any sort of SD game. Or, like, any game at all.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming.
It is worth noting that Drain Bead is the only player who correctly picked the top two. Several others had David C. in third place, but nobody picked him to win.
ETA: Also, nobody had the top three in their top three.
Ok, next year I’m gonna get it right. That contestant with the unbelieveably smooth tone that who is a shoo-in for the win is going to become mind-numbingly boring by the end, so I’m not picking them to win next time! Melinda, Archie, the lesson has been learned.
Congratulations to my co-firsties: Hal Briston and The Unkempt One (next time, there shall be only one! bwahaha).
And many, MANY thanks to Hal Briston for starting a game I could manage to co-win, and to Pleonast for the most excellent spreadsheet, which I spent a really embarassing amount of time staring at.
First I should say that luck had as much to do with it as any “strategy.”
Rather than trying to predict each person’s individual place, I divided the list of 12 into four categories of three each:
great
ok
blah
dead weight
Then, within each category I tried to figure out who would beat whom. Therefore, I figured even if I didn’t get the exact placements right, as long as I was in the general ballpark, I wouldn’t gain more than 1 or 2 points with any given elimination.
There obviously were flaws, most notably that I wasn’t impressed with David C. and figured the public would get sick of this Daughtry retread around the time they got sick of the real Daughtry. Also I failed to predict David H. failing so spectacularly in his top 12 performance, or that Carly’s awesome rocker chick thing was going to be the same rocker chick thing week after week after week.
So it’s not much more than guessing, really. I just had a method to my guessing.
