On the more serious question of the Main Scores for this Seasonal Challenge and how they work.<br><br>As each individual challenge between two archers might be scored in vastly different ways with the only similarity being that the lower score is the winner, a simple "average" is not feasible. So the score within each challenge only determines who wins that individual challenge. For each archer who has shot a challenge, they will get two points (on the main Standings page) for winning a challenge, or one point for entering a challenge. <br>
<br>For Example: <br>- Cog won the challenge between him and me but has no other challenges to his name. Therefore he has 2 points on the Standings page. <br>- Lorelei has challenged me twice, she won the first and I won the second. So she has 3 points on the standings page, two for the win and one for the loss.<br>
<br>Meanwhile I am sitting at the top of the heap, not for great shooting but because I've been here egging everyone on and trying to get challenges win or loose. It doesn't so much matter as long as it was fun. I have a Standings score of 15, that is with five wins (10 points) and five losses (5 points) a perfect .500 meaning I've done a good job of balancing the challenges so either side might win. I'm only in the lead due to the number of challenges I've egged everyone into. :P<br>
<br>Yes, someone could game this system and win only 8 challenges to take the lead, but that means they would need to find eight people who would willingly take the lose. I'd hope that most archers would only accept/answer challenges which are fair enough that they have an even chance of wining or loosing. It isn't hard to weight a challenge to the underdog, then the better archer has to step up their game to pull out a win. (which makes it fun for both sides)<br>
<br>Of course NOW there is Serena's challenge out there to beat me.... I don't think she meant shoot a challenge with me and win (cause then I still get a point too), but rather get out and challenge others so maybe someone will steal the win from me at the end. (and I'm ok with that as long as you had fun with the shooting to get there!)<br>
<br>Get shoot'n (cause I ain't stopp'n)<br>Jonathas<br>:D<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:07 PM, John Atkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cogworks@triad.rr.com">cogworks@triad.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Jonathas,</font></span></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><font color="#0000ff"><span>OK, color me confused, but I won, I think.
Looking at the Seasonal Challenge scores I see that even though I consider
myself a REAL archer using REAL equipment that requires skill and technique, I
had to shoot your challenge with a weapon I have not scored an RR with.
Thus I was relegated to going to a neighbor's house, who has children, and
stealing their son's toys. You would call it a crossbow. Breaking 6
of Achbar's new arrows in half so they would be short enough to shoot on this
child's toy - let us recall that the crossbow was invented because it took years
for an English bowman to become proficient with a real weapon while it took only
weeks to become proficient, if you could all it that, with a crossbow.- it
appears that my total score is LESS than your total score for the shoot.
As this challenge was for HOW FEW SHAFTS it took to accomplish I believe that
means I won. However, here comes the question after all my crossbow
insults :), what do the scores on the main page mean? How are they
tallied? Does it mean you have sustained 15 challenges and I only 2?
if so, it is incorrect, even though I won this challenge using the devil's
instrument.</span></font></font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><font color="#0000ff"><span>Have I mentioned how glad I am to be back using a REAL
bow?</span></font></font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><font color="#0000ff"><span>cog the boastful...........................and fearing
the wrath of the crossbow
community!</span></font></font></font></div></div>
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