 | Rhys Benjamin Countries, although it's not as important this year:
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 | Johnny Canuck I like how the list stopped one before Russia. |
 | Eoin Jackson It's boring that we have to be the same countries as last year.
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 | Dan Spinks stop complaining and play Ya Ya Dingdong |
| Eoin Jackson Yeah, Iceland is pretty cool come to think of it! |
 | Andres S. it's a land... of fucking, ICE! that's an awesome place |
| Eoin Jackson Yeah, I get that... but this is about Eurovision not Geography, and their song this year is an utter snoozefest, so I'm not exactly enthusiastic about team Iceland this year.
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| Dan Spinks Iceland are frankly, insane not to just let Daoi Freyr represent them every year |
 | Darren Godfrey Dang it, thought I'd signed up for this :( |
 | John Doherty You might have Darren, there was a bug that kicked a few people out - email Rhys and see if he can slot you back in |
| Rhys Benjamin Lovely. Darren, you're in. You're France. |
| Darren Godfrey Merci, mon ami. |
| Rhys Benjamin Vote 1/27, from J Bartram (AUS):
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| Rhys Benjamin Vote 2/27, from Fiona T (ROU):
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| Rhys Benjamin Vote 3/27, from George Armstrong (ARM):
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| Rhys Benjamin Vote 4/27, from John Doherty (EST):
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| Rhys Benjamin Vote 5/27, from Kieran Bray (AZE):
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| Rhys Benjamin Vote 6/27, from Matt Gould (CYP):
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| Rhys Benjamin Vote 7/27, from Darren Godfrey (FRA):
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 | Anthony Endsor Having been rudely ignored in my attempts to arrange, I now find myself with 4 games unplayed. I do hope my attempts to get these games played will result in a merciful waive of points deductions. |
| Rhys Benjamin Vote 8/27, from Johnny Canuck (BUL):
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| Rhys Benjamin Vote 9/27, from Stu Harkness (CRO):
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| Rhys Benjamin Points deductions (to 1 d.p.):
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| Rhys Benjamin Now, if you didn't play all your games, then your votes won't have been posted as a comment in here.
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 | Adam Latchford cheers for organising rhys. Can unplayed games be removed? |
| Eoin Jackson Playing them is a handy and quick way of removing them... |
| Rhys Benjamin I believe they disappear after 2 weeks anyway Adam. YOu can play them but they won't count. |
| Adam Latchford 2 weeks ill wait then thanks |
Notes from the organizer: RULES OF THE APTEROUS EUROVISION SONG CONTEST:
Objectives:
Each player was assigned to a country. Returning players have kept their countries from 2021. New players have had their country decided by sorting the entrants by Apterous user surname, and then assigning a country based on alphabetical order according to the official Eurovision album track listing, which is according to ISO 3166-1. All stages are a single round robin. Your objective is very simple: to score as many points as you can against your opponent. The top 10 highest-scoring players against you will receive points "from" you: 12-10-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. To score points yourself, therefore, you must come in the top 10 highest scores against a particular opponent. In a case of a tie in an individual vote (e.g. if two people score 50 against you), the higher amount of points will be awarded to the game that was played first. In case of a tie in the overall scoreboard, then the tie will be broken by the following procedure: fewest 0s, most 12s, most 10s, most 8s, most 7s (etc), until most 1s. If the scores are still tied, then whoever had the higher score in an individual game will be awarded the higher position.
With 26 players, I have not gone for semi finals this year and instead we will move straight through to the Grand Final. I know there was a bug where I lost 4 names, so unfortunately unless they manage to contact me within the next 2-3 days I won't be adding them in. If they do manage to contact me, I'll have to add them in.
Penalties and unplayed games:
UNPLAYED GAMES WILL RESULT IN A UNILATERAL POINTS DEDUCTION, measured by % - for example, a player playing 21 out of 25 games will have their score reduced by 16%. These deductions can be waived if one player can demonstrate a meaningful effort to play the game - **so please include me in any Aptomails** - and will be adjudged to win the game 50-0, so may still gain points from you. This is to avoid deliberate evasion of playing stronger players. Any player who does not play a third (33%) of their games (taking into account the waiving process described above) will be disqualified. They will not award points, they will not be able to receive points in the games they have played, and games against them will be null and void.
The deadline is 6 weeks to play 25 games - should be enough, right? The date therefore is **19 JUN 2022**.
Ran from: 8 May – 19 June 2022. Format: 9 Rounder. Matches: One-off. Level scores: Drawn. Approved.
Fixtures: 351. Completed: 312.
Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Grey: tie. Bold: max game. A struck-out individual score is an excluded performance.
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