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[Mlong128ir]

It's insulting to the man who works to keep this site and forum. It's insulting to the winner, and to the regular posters.

If you can't loose with dignity, don't try. Especially if you don't enter competitions with the simple chance to win something nice and save yourself some cash, but rather with the fixed intention (almost obsession) to WIN...

First of all, we don't know who the real winner is, I could be the winner, the results were bugged. If that's the case this would all be insulting to me. You're congratulating P-roach on bad math and assumptions at this point. Also nobody has lost yet because the results must be negated because of their inaccuracy, why does it have to be whining and moaning for somebody to request accuracy? I congratulated P-roach when I thought he had won, it wasn't until I discovered the inconsistencies and problems with the results that I seriously began to question anything.

As for the competition itself, what do you think the root word of competition is? It's "compete" which according to dictionary.com means:

–verb (used without object),-pet·ed, -pet·ing. to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.

So how is trying to win it wrong?

[patheticcockroach]

I congratulated P-roach when I thought he had won, it wasn't until I discovered the inconsistencies and problems with the results that I seriously began to question anything.

This is getting tiring, there was nothing to discover: as I posted a while ago:

>>Originally Posted by Aruffell:
>>So who thinks they won then?
Well, actually it mostly depends on when the contest ends: 13 feb @ 00:00, 13 feb @ 12:00, 13 feb @ 23:59, area under curve for the day?

...and it turned out that Andy chose 13 feb @ 00:00 as the first phpMyAdmin screenshot shows. The post count seems accurate for the chosen date and time (at least I'm almost sure I actually had more posts than you at the dawn of Feb 13). Note that the contest description didn't mention the closing time (maybe to prevent a post rush in the last minutes?), so it could have been at any time during Feb 13.

Terms and Conditions

• The draw which will take place on 13th February 2010 where the winner will be chosen as the person with the most posts from now until then.
  [...]
• The judge’s decision is final.
• Competition closing date is 13th February 2010.

[...]

[Mlong128ir]

Posted Sat 13th Feb 2010 04:33pm

13th hasn't ended yet, it's only 4:32pm here.

Andy

Even the judge thought the contest ended the end-of-day of the 13th. Those results and your argument are moot.

[Finbarr]

The judge’s decision is final.

Does this have anything to do with it???

[werty316]

The contest is over so do yourself a favor and quite your whining. Its people like you who ruin it for everyone else. You know who you are and you're lucky you weren't banned.

Aruffell, please close this thread.

[Aruffell]

I don't want to close it, i think it's funny. Carry on....for now

Andy

[killap4oc]

Congrats PatheticCoackRoach for the win, I hope you enjoy the new graphics card. Also I have read over this thread and think a lot of this is funny too, however please do not tempt me to close this thread.

[Mlong128ir]

I don't want to close it, i think it's funny. Carry on....for now

Andy

I'm glad you're not too bent out of shape over this. I've gone in and checked all the posts, and am presenting it here (showing my work like old times in school). The only thing I didn't show is how I got the numbers for non-counted posts after the end date in the competition threads, all I did there was count the ones in competition threads which don't add to the post total after the final posts of the 13th, simple enough. Anyway here it is, I invite everybody to please check it, double check it, and see that I am not incorrect here, especially you Andy. It won't take long to do, and will rectify the situation so the legit winner isn't cheated, make fun of me if my math is wrong, whatever, just check it.

Here's some of the info used:









And here are the totals: