Announcing A Better Than Average Side Tourney

08/04/2008 09:57:31 AM · #476

Originally posted by Ecce Signum:

Dennis, this is just cruel....

Note: I've pulled your averages for week 2, and will post them here after all the week 1 results are in.

I'm in the FS and rollover isn't until Friday morning, and only then will you tell us our average that you took? In fact its probably worse for those in cardboard box AND fallen.

Not trying to be cruel ... just tired last night and figured I'd wait so I only would post the survivors (pulled avgs for everyone). I'll post em later today, but I expect it will be pretty close to what your average is if you checked it right this second!

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

So I have two questions for rulings.....

Do I have to pick one of the three challenges before rollover? ... I was planning on doing Morning/Evening anyway......IIRC, it's the first entry, so I shouldn't have to specifiy as long as I enter one of the three and I'm okay with my first entry, right?

Right -- your morning/evening entry will automatically count if you didn't enter Fallen.

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

Secondly.....Can I get a bye for week three?

Nope, sorry -- everyone's gotta play every week or it gets too complicated to work.

Originally posted by SDW:

Is there a list that shows who made it through to the second round?

Check the OP for updates. I should have the Cardboard Box survivors up by this afternoon; then will add the others in after rollover Tuesday and Thursday. From memory when pulling scores last night,

CNovack's list looks pretty accurate but incomplete.

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm f/4G ED VR

08/04/2008 12:01:04 PM · #477

I hate it when I'm right. After 42 votes: 5.5238. Average I have to beat this week: 5.5282. Gonna be a nail biter.

Originally posted by EstimatedEyes:

My fallen entry will either score way above or way below my average, so I'm crossin my fingers and going with that one (which no doubt means it will be nail biter that hangs right around my average all week!)

carofo

Nikon D750

08/04/2008 12:21:12 PM · #478

OK, I just checked the posted average for week 1 and it's higher than I remembered but my Lawn entry is still above by .2. So I guess I survived Week 1.

And my Fallen entry is doing surprisingly well - above 6!! Didn't not expect this at all but will accept gracefully - thank you :D ! Should not last though...

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

08/04/2008 12:38:52 PM · #479

Week 1 Survivors so far:

arron_christensen,

Bogi,

Brat,

bubeltrubel,

CNovack,

colorcarnival,

Dr_Toto,

Ivory,

Judi,

Kelli,

liberty,

LouisaSalazar,

NikonJeb,

raish,

rmezzo,

SDW,

sempermarine,

sfalice,

signal2noise,

tfarrell23,

toddhead,

Trumpeteer4,

whiterook,

wildcard

As previously posted,

Judi and

Dr_Toto creamed their averages, posting scores that were 1.8794 and 1.8274 over their averages respectively.

sempermarine also beat his average by more than a point, coming in at 1.0195 above.

On the other end of the spectrum,

bubeltrubel barely managed to stay alive, besting her healthy 6.1833 starting average by just 0.0167 points.

Congrats to all the Cardboard Box winners!

Message edited by author 2008-08-04 12:39:09.

chesire

Canon EOS-60D

08/04/2008 01:30:11 PM · #480

May I point out that

whiterook managed to both beat his average by a whopping .06 AND runner up for the brown at the same time. Now THAT is talent!

gwe21

Nikon D300

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4.0-5.6G ED

08/04/2008 01:38:45 PM · #481

I am hanging on by a thread with my still life score. I am .0375 above my avg.

DarkRider

Nikon D300

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED

08/04/2008 01:42:42 PM · #482

Originally posted by chesire:

May I point out that whiterook managed to both beat his average by a whopping .06 AND runner up for the brown at the same time. Now THAT is talent!

It must be strategy to not make his avg climb too high...so he can pull in the big bat at the end and hit a home run!!!!

Congrats rook

liberty

Canon EOS-50D

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

08/04/2008 01:56:46 PM · #483

woohoo, I made it!

08/04/2008 02:17:49 PM · #484

With my FS shot now #8 in my portfolio I'm looking at 'fallen' and whilst its early days have a .3215 safety net (based on my current avg thats higher than at rollover). I can see this getting much (much) harder as the week/s go on and reckon Whiterook could have it in the bag ;)

Am feeling semi confident of lasting a few weeks at last but have been known to get the odd 4 this year, not with a bad picture but (apparently) missing the challenge topic.

Melethia

Canon EOS-80D

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

08/04/2008 02:20:29 PM · #485

Nice going Andi. I'd love to be that confident! I never know if I'll even break 5 most of the time. You'd think after all this time and as many challenges as I've entered, I'd have a clue by now, huh? Not so!

levyj413

Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max

08/04/2008 03:25:57 PM · #486

I'm not in fallen, so morning, here I come!

I'm feeling good about it beating my average (still life's still almost a full point above my avg.).

Sigma 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM

08/04/2008 03:28:14 PM · #487

If this works, you should be able to find your week 2 averages here, along with partial results from week 1.

Message edited by author 2008-08-04 15:37:28.

Alain

Nikon D7100

08/04/2008 03:37:17 PM · #488

Originally posted by EstimatedEyes:

If this works, you should be able to find your week 2 averages here, along with partial results from week 1.

Nice work Dennis

A suggestion - maybe some colors for who's in or out

08/04/2008 03:38:40 PM · #489

Originally posted by Alain:

Nice work Dennis

A suggestion - maybe some colors for who's in or out

my copy actually has those colors, but the conditional formatting doesn't translate into googledocs! I'm working on it though. :>P

Melethia

Canon EOS-80D

08/04/2008 03:39:16 PM · #490

It works! But what do the asterisks mean? Thanks for going to all that trouble!

08/04/2008 03:39:27 PM · #491

Originally posted by EstimatedEyes:

If this works, you should be able to find your week 2 averages here, along with partial results from week 1.

Cheers Dennis, my avg has gone up 0.0138. A couple more weeks like that and I'll be up to my goal of 5.8 and out of the challenge lol.

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR

08/04/2008 03:45:24 PM · #492

Originally posted by Melethia:

It works! But what do the asterisks mean? Thanks for going to all that trouble!

this is just the spreadsheet I use to compile scores. The asterisk just tells me that someone picked the open challenge (or FS) after the member challenge had started, so I can double check to make sure they didn't enter the member challenge (in which case the selection would have come too late).

I was going to make an official (less confusing!) version of the sheet to post here, but haven't had the time yet, so just uploaded my working copy.

NikonJeb

Nikon D850

08/04/2008 04:26:38 PM · #493

Originally posted by EstimatedEyes:

Week 1 Survivors so far:
arron_christensen, Bogi, Brat, bubeltrubel, CNovack, colorcarnival, Dr_Toto, Ivory, Judi, Kelli, liberty, LouisaSalazar, NikonJeb, raish, rmezzo, SDW, sempermarine, sfalice, signal2noise, tfarrell23, toddhead, Trumpeteer4, whiterook, wildcard

As previously posted, Judi and Dr_Toto creamed their averages, posting scores that were 1.8794 and 1.8274 over their averages respectively. sempermarine also beat his average by more than a point, coming in at 1.0195 above.

On the other end of the spectrum, bubeltrubel barely managed to stay alive, besting her healthy 6.1833 starting average by just 0.0167 points.

Congrats to all the Cardboard Box winners!

Umm......

I had stated that I was going to run in FS for week 1......

I'll take the pass, but I wanna be honest, too.

It's at 6.2, so I'm not really sweating it, but.....

08/04/2008 04:53:35 PM · #494

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

I had stated that I was going to run in FS for week 1......

I'll take the pass, but I wanna be honest, too.

It's at 6.2, so I'm not really sweating it, but.....

Thanks for your honesty, but I must have missed that one ...

I just went back (quickly) through the old posts and also checked my PMs and couldn't find anything from you. If you can direct me to your post I'll change it ... like you say, may not matter in the end, but would rather be accurate if we can!

jeger

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

08/04/2008 07:24:37 PM · #495

Just to keep you up to date:

Week 1 - Free Study - Will be higher than my average
Week 2 - Fallen - So far so good. Expecting it to be higher than my average

Lydia

Canon EOS-6D

08/04/2008 07:37:46 PM · #496

What a LOT of work this challenge is for you, Dennis! THANKS bunches for doing it.

I'm out in the first round *sigh* but I'm watching the results.

It's a wonderful challenge that's fair to everyone no matter where they are in the scheme of scores. Well done!

08/04/2008 07:37:59 PM · #497

Originally posted by jeger:

Just to keep you up to date:

Week 1 - Free Study - Will be higher than my average
Week 2 - Fallen - So far so good. Expecting it to be higher than my average

Go for it and, do you have an interesting job or will you cheat like I plan on doing lol.

jeger

Canon EOS-5D

08/04/2008 07:42:25 PM · #498

Originally posted by Ecce Signum:

Originally posted by jeger:
Just to keep you up to date:

Week 1 - Free Study - Will be higher than my average
Week 2 - Fallen - So far so good. Expecting it to be higher than my average

Go for it and, do you have an interesting job or will you cheat like I plan on doing lol.

Ha Ha Ha. Thanks for the laugh.

I will probably avoid that challenge, and hope that the open challenges are somewhere up my alley.