Here's the update on Bracket 1 scoring and what happened.First off, here's what I put in the rules:
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Scores will be averaged by total number of points divided by total number of reviews and approval voters for each particular entry.
When planning for the tournament, there was a discussion on scoring, with several methods and calculation methods trying to make this as fair as possible, while allowing a wide variety of reviewing options depending on how much time someone had to play the files and give feedback.
My goals for the first round in every tournament I run has been focused around thorough reviews and deep feedback for the files, so everyone who entered could get feedback on their files. That did not change this time around, although the formula first published did not reflect that.
I did not properly communicate to will-i-am about the formula change, which was intended from the start of the tournament, and which is as follows:
will-i-am's formula wrote:sum of all points
BLueSS's intended formula wrote:(sum of reviews / # of reviews) + (sum approval / # of total approval voters)
My intended formula change does make approval voting worth very little early on at this point in the contest. The reviews should be the majority (and they are) of what determines which files move on.
That said, I have updated the scoring sheets.
Even with the intended update, the results did not change.There are 42 files moving on to the semi-finals, where files will be grouped into 4 file packs (as stated in the rules).
Due to 42 being 2 short of an even 4 in each bracket, it was intended from the start of the tournament to have the last 2 slots be reserved for any two files from B1 and B2 that didn't make it (via a simple vote for which songs get the wildcard). That was not announced yet, but I feel like this is the best time to bring this up.
Here's the link to the updated scores.Edit:
hellrazor's review of Gangnam style and the lack of people voting for it in approval votes caused it to narrowly miss 3rd in its tough bracket. As you can see from the scores, 4th place was narrow in other brackets as well, so it wasn't the only one that narrowly missed moving on!