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RE: KittCatS! Halloween Custom Collar Contest - results!
The fallacy is assuming the scores for public voting are added to the scores for the judges BEFORE sorting.
FIRST you sort by the judges score ALONE.
THEN you segment the data set into First, Second and Third place using the total of judges + public to determine if there should be shared prizes due to higher scores.
You do NOT sort by the public + judge total score.
As I said, the problem isn't the results. The problem is they published some data without a full explanation of the algorithm.
What is upsetting to me is there seems to be some expectation that this should have been a popularity contest, first, and a judged competition, second.
Sure, they can state they didn't stand around and solicit votes. And I'll accept that. But if they popular votes was to have the weight y'all expect, overriding the judges, then someone ELSE would have gamed it and they'd still be complaining. Not that it was somehow "unfair" because the public vote was not the determining factor, but that it was "unfair" because cheaters took over.
KittyCatS has a fair system for this sort of contest. They may have forgotten to fully explain the scoring system, or they may have made a mistake in failing to share Third Place.
It was clear from the initial call for entrants that the popular vote would not be the sole determining factor. Guess what, it wasn't. So stop complaining it wasn't.
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