(11-03-2017 09:48 AM)Tad Carlucci Wrote: But that's just it. The truth is public voting or no, your entry had no change of winning a prize. Period. Your best possible showing was, given the public voting, 4th Place.
You came in no better than 6th Place in the judging. Had there been no public input, that's the best you could have hoped for.
Had the public voting gone a bit different, I suppose it's possible you'd have come in 3rd Place. But it is impossible for you to have ever come in 1st or 2nd without changing the scoring to nothing more than a popularity contest. If it were that, you'd probably still have not won because someone would have "gamed" the system.
Tad, look at the result numbers. Do you see how Jhanelle and Kathy had a public vote of 7?
Okay let's do the math shall we. Based on Callie's formula here is what SHOULD have happened.
There were 9 entrants. That means the top possible public vote score would be 9.
The #1 publicly voted collar = 9 + 1 vote from judges assuming that the judges only gave you 1 vote. That = 10 points.
If we look at 3rd place their total points equaled to 8. So that means we are missing the #1 public voted collar in the judging.
I am WELL aware of the fact that my collar may have come in 4th place. I'm aware of that. But shouldn't the #1 publicly voted collar have come in 3rd with a total of 10 points? That is what many of us have questions about. That is why this thread is so long.
