Prior experience with the hivemind suggests that this is something I need to explicitly state:
The most important parts of the scoring were in place before all this discussion ever happened. The rest were done as fairly and simulationistly as possible with no agenda in mind, considering each event in isolation without looking at what it did to final scores or rankings until everything was complete. Nothing was fudged
[1] although in some of the less important cases I didn't bother checking on the person's stats before deciding, e.g. how many seals they got in round 2.
I am fully aware that the hivemind has a particular set of beliefs about who should and shouldn't be in the exams -- not just Kurenai, but other people as well. I am confident that, if my current proposal is agreed to by
@Velorien and
@OliWhail, there will be some subset of the players that disagrees with some subset of the rankings. Unless the other QMs strongly object, I will release the full scores for all events for the top people, so you will be able to see the logic.
When the rankings and/or scores are finally released, the only acceptable response is: "Good, that's settled." If you feel a need to throw salt
step away from your keyboard until you don't.
[1] The one exception is that we jumped Team Kurenai's score in round 2 by a moderate amount in order to match what Shikamaru said. This did not significantly change their final ranking.
