Team Suck Challenge Results Strike Back

01/02/2008 12:09:28 PM · #101

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by BAMartin:
Yes Bear, they are all gathered together for your convenience. Looking forward to your comment.

OK, All 3 challenges, or just the one I got the 6.5 in? Incidentally, oddly enough, the 6.5 made top-20 but the Textures 6.3 made top 10... Major lapse of suckage this week for sure, but I got a couple 4+ images working now so back to normal for me :-)

R.

It's just for the challenge where you have the top score, but if you (or anyone else) gets the weekly top score a few times in a row, we might have to bring back the special punishment of commenting on all of the Team Suck entries for that week..

JuliBoc

Apple iPhone 6s+

01/02/2008 12:09:57 PM · #102

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Yep, all Team Suck entries for the week. Oh boy, I'm looking forward to reading them.

JuliBoc

Apple iPhone 6s+

01/02/2008 12:12:41 PM · #103

Originally posted by BAMartin:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

OK, All 3 challenges, or just the one I got the 6.5 in? Incidentally, oddly enough, the 6.5 made top-20 but the Textures 6.3 made top 10... Major lapse of suckage this week for sure, but I got a couple 4+ images working now so back to normal for me :-)

R.

Just the one you got the non-suckage award for, although feel free to do more if you feel motivated ;-)

I don't think that is the rule -- not for "Momentary Lapse of Sucking". For the individual challenge high score, that's true, but for the biggest weekly lapse you have to comment on the whole week's collection. That's why it is particularly severe when a Free Study is included in the lot.

Message edited by author 2008-01-02 12:14:34.

BAMartin

Apple iPhone 5

01/02/2008 12:13:59 PM · #104

Originally posted by JuliBoc:

Originally posted by BAMartin:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

OK, All 3 challenges, or just the one I got the 6.5 in? Incidentally, oddly enough, the 6.5 made top-20 but the Textures 6.3 made top 10... Major lapse of suckage this week for sure, but I got a couple 4+ images working now so back to normal for me :-)

R.

Just the one you got the non-suckage award for, although feel free to do more if you feel motivated ;-)

I don't think that is the rule -- not for "Momentary Lapse of Sucking". For the individual challenge high score, that's true, but for the biggest weekly lapse you have to comment on the whole week's collection.

I stand corrected. You can tell I have never won one of these.

01/02/2008 12:27:38 PM · #105

Originally posted by meyers:

I'm about to come in with a 6.3+ in "Stupid Gifts", giving me 3 finishes over 6.3 in a single week. Are you gonna stick me with one of these major penalties? (I need to be prepared).

R.

01/02/2008 01:08:45 PM · #106

Get those commenting fingers ready, Bear. You're in serious doo-doo. :-)

01/02/2008 01:46:07 PM · #107

Originally posted by BAMartin:

Originally posted by JuliBoc:

Originally posted by BAMartin:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

OK, All 3 challenges, or just the one I got the 6.5 in? Incidentally, oddly enough, the 6.5 made top-20 but the Textures 6.3 made top 10... Major lapse of suckage this week for sure, but I got a couple 4+ images working now so back to normal for me :-)

R.

Just the one you got the non-suckage award for, although feel free to do more if you feel motivated ;-)

I don't think that is the rule -- not for "Momentary Lapse of Sucking". For the individual challenge high score, that's true, but for the biggest weekly lapse you have to comment on the whole week's collection.

I stand corrected. You can tell I have never won one of these.

Let me recorrect.. It used to be that the weekly top score had to leave comments for everyone, but this group grew so quickly that this punishment was deemed too harsh. To lighten the load (and not discourage challenge entries), the top scorer for a challenge comments on the rest of the entries in that challenge, and the top score for the week is for bragging rights.

~~Outside of Melethia and Bear_Music, there aren't many of us in that "top score of the week" group.~~ Let me re-recorrect myself here. The last 5 weekly top scores have been won by 5 different people.

I think it's fair if one person gets that award 3 weeks in a row, they should share their photographic insight with the rest of us by commenting on the Team Suck images for that week.

Thoughts?

Message edited by author 2008-01-02 13:47:36.

01/02/2008 10:29:27 PM · #108

Highest scorer of each challenge has the awesome privilege of commenting on all fellow Suckee entries in that challenge.

Highest scorer of the week (three challenges, usually) has Bragging Rights (whatever that may entail) and is encouraged to comment on fellow Suckee entries in contests other than the one they got their high score in (since they'd have already done that one.)

If the highest scorer repeats the feat and takes the honors more than two weeks in a row, he or she is not allowed to enter an in-focus shot in the next challenge. :-)

OK, maybe not that last one.

01/03/2008 12:01:42 AM · #109

Stupid Gifts

Team Novice

Team Minus

Team Hoover

Out of Focusers

Chasing Butterflies

The Golden Brigade

The highest score belongs to

Bear_Music with 6.3887!

01/03/2008 12:37:54 AM · #110

Dang, I got a lot of commenting to do. But my streak is at an end, both images in voting now are in the 4's :-)

R.

JuliBoc

Apple iPhone 6s+

01/06/2008 07:08:56 PM · #111

Hey Bear, where are my comments?

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

01/07/2008 12:09:25 AM · #112

Object Isolation by Contrast

Team Novice

Team Minus

Team Hoover

Out of Focusers

Team Entropy

Chasing Butterflies

Top 5 result for

wildcard!

The Golden Brigade

Top 5 result for

Gnarf!

The highest score belongs to

wildcard with 6.6129!

raish

Olympus C-2500L

01/07/2008 08:48:28 AM · #113

Originally posted by meyers:

I think it's fair if one person gets that award 3 weeks in a row, they should share their photographic insight with the rest of us by commenting on the Team Suck images for that week.
Thoughts?

I think the alarms have quietened down since we jerked back into suck mode, but I was wondering about team novice being OOBIE jury three weeks in a row. Should there be a max. there? Maybe with the offending non-suckers being obliged to sit out and/or a random or rotated other team sharing/assuming the honours. ?

01/07/2008 08:52:36 AM · #114

I don't know. For awhile there, the Butterflys won week after week. Goes in cycles, I think.

01/07/2008 09:08:32 AM · #115

Novice does get a good share of the voting privileges, it's true, even without this current streak, but as Deb says, it does cycle out eventually.

01/07/2008 09:17:19 AM · #116

Also, that's why when we changed Yappies to monthly, I made the voters for it come from a random selection of Team Suckers - gives some people a chance to vote that are on teams that don't often "win" the week. (or at least, they get a chance when I don't forget the voting due date and post the winner ahead of time - geez, I feel bad about that, Mary! :) )

01/07/2008 11:06:02 AM · #117

Maybe the OOBIE vote can be the winning team plus a random member from each of the other teams. I know that makes Karen's job harder, though. Or, and it would make Karen's job easier but kinda defeat the "winning team" part a bit, but anyone on Team Suck who wishes to vote on the OOBIEs could email Karen their choice?

01/07/2008 11:32:34 AM · #118

I was thinking the same thing, re: voting. Since I joined, I have voted every week, seems "wrong" to me. I recognize I'm a newbie sucker, but I'd be in favor of voting going to the runnerup team if the same team wins 2x in a row.

R.

And yes, I need to make time to go comment on all those challenges...

Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G

01/07/2008 11:37:14 AM · #119

well, I don't know - it could be a fun "lottery"-style addition: the winning team still "wins" and gets to vote the OOBIE, but then there's an additional member of TS that "wins" the drawing for the week and gets picked to be a participant. That's an interesting idea - after the winning team is announced, I can throw the other members' names (not on the winning team) in a randomizer and see who "wins" and then send a ballot to them, too. Probably should make it voluntary, though - maybe have an initial call to ask people if they want to sign on for the "random drawing" and then use only those names. I'll think about it some more.

But as I said, it might be a nice addition, something that doesn't detract from the winning team's real "win".

bmartuch

Nikon D7200

01/07/2008 12:07:51 PM · #120

Originally posted by raish:

[quote=meyers]

... but I was wondering about team novice being OOBIE jury three weeks in a row. Should there be a max. there? Maybe with the offending non-suckers being obliged to sit out and/or a random or rotated other team sharing/assuming the honours. ?

Team Novice certainly isn't winning because of me! I'm the one that holds them down.

SaraR

Sony Alpha a7R III

Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM

01/07/2008 12:13:16 PM · #121

Originally posted by bmartuch:

Team Novice certainly isn't winning because of me! I'm the one that holds them down.

I think that applies to me - since joining I have entered few challenges, and when i do I truly suck! That said, I have one in Free Study (that is doing suprisingly well) and one in Fire that is certainly sucking!

01/07/2008 12:43:13 PM · #122

Okay, one down and two to go: all suckage perspectives have been commented to :-)

R.

posthumous

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

01/07/2008 12:56:49 PM · #123

a simpler way to shake things up is to never let a team vote OOBIEs twice in a row. So the team that votes OOBIEs is the highest scoring team that did not vote last week.

Another solution is to gather votes on the highest *and* lowest scoring teams.

Karen is the Decider on this, in case there was any doubt.