IWS#60 - Results
 

Well, the deadline has long passed and the discussion around the NFL offseason seems to drawn the interest away from "off topic" events.
With 27 entries, participation is not on an alltime low, just a little lower then I hoped. Especially after trying to come up with questions not requiring research.
Anyway, the results are in and are following below.

Answers

Question 1: Give the name of the most surprizing Oscar winner last Sunday
10 - Sean Penn
6 - Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
3 - Tim Robbins
2 - Charlize Theron
2 - Renee Zellweger
1 - Sofia Coppola
1 - Annie Lennox
1 - no idea
1 - no surprises

To me, this question was an open question. Sean Penn looks like the sure thing here, but none of the top four mentioned the best male actor. Personally, I would have been staring blank at this question and likely have sent in Charlize Theron.


Question 2: Give or describe your favorite smilie/greamlin/emoticon available at FOFC

10 - :eek:
7 - :)
6 - :rolleyes:
2 - :D
1 - :cool:
1 - :p

This seemed like a funny question to me. Eventually three smilies got a lot of votes. Personally, I had no idea which smilie would win, but I figured it would have been one of the eventual top 3.


Question 3: Give the most important issue in the upcoming presidential elections

12 - economy
6 - gay marriage
4 - Iraq
2 - foreign policy
1 - health care
1 - military
1 - national security

A lot of issues here. Also some weighing of grouping or not grouping answers. Personally, I would have bet on the gay marriages issue, but eventually most people prefer economy. Of the eventual top 7, 6 mentioned economy, making this a clear tiebreaker to finish high or low.


Question 4: Give today's most popular way of communication

16 - phone
11 - email

I immagined more different answers, but in the end only 2 media were mentioned. I like to add one "black" or "white" question and this turned out to be one after all. I decided to group cell phones with (tele)phones and ignored the fact that some of today's cell phones have emial functionality too. This question eventually had little effect on the overall standings, giving the phone people a small advantage.


Question 5: Give the name of a Front Office Football multiplayer league

23 - IHOF
1 - CFL
1 - FOFC
1 - FOFL
1 - WigFL

The single runaway question. The expected hit-or-miss. You mention the International House of Football (IHOF) or you're out. The mixup with FOFL and FOFC had no major impact on the two participants. The four non-IHOF entries all ended up in the bottom 7.


Question 6: Guess how many Dutchmen are playing in the big 4 sports leagues in the USA (MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL)

5 - 10
4 - 0
4 - 1
3 - 5
2 - 25
1 - 2
1 - 3
1 - 4
1 - 6
1 - 19
1 - 24
1 - 85
1 - no idea


A complete crap shoot, or was it? I expected some people to make a real guess and the "smarter" people to come up with weighed guesses like 0, 5 and 10. I also later on realized that some people might see this as an all time question, or a ancestors questions, but the idea was to guess how many are active today. For a correct answer, I have no clue myself, but I know for sure the NFL and NHL are Dutchless, while the NBA has 2 guys playing and 1 on loan to Europe, while several MLB teams have Dutchmen on their farm teams.


Rankings
rk name score %
1 tucker342 1324800 60
2 TRO 637560 28,88
3 Dutch 556416 25,2
4 Kwhit 455400 20,63
5 Anxiety 412160 18,67
6 JeeberD 353280 16
7 General Mike 303600 13,75
8 Alf 247296 11,2
9 MikeVic 220800 10
9 GoSeahawks 220800 10
9 Barkeep49 220800 10
12 wade moore 182160 8,25
13 cartman 151800 6,88
14 Masked 109296 4,95
15 digamma 91080 4,13
16 Cringer 79488 3,6
17 corbes 56672 2,57
18 wbatl1 52992 2,4
19 albionmoonlight 21252 0,96
20 MizzouRah 17664 0,8
21 Sublime 9600 0,43
22 SirFozzie 9216 0,42
23 kingfc22 9108 0,41
24 Shorty3281 7360 0,33
25 ardent enthusiast 7084 0,32
26 AgPete 6400 0,29
27 Sun Tzu 1920 0,09


So Tucker342 walks away victorious with a score of 60% of the maximum, winning for the first time and beating three-times winner TRO and winless Dutch by far.
Sun Tzu had the honourable last place at the absense of the losingest competitor in IWS history...

Crap. I'm never going to win one of these.

9th! Whee!

Don't worry KWhit, I'm in the same boat. Close but no cigar. :)

Bottom half of the standings...feelin' right at home...

Friggin Oscars... :mad:

Almost :(

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D

Anyone else want to run the next one?

I'll host the next one if you don't want to tucker.....

SEAN PENN?!?!?!?!

What the hell is wrong with you people?

I rule. I answered no idea once or twice. Some questions are covering stuff I don't even bother with. Guess I'm just shallow. :)

Well, I don't care about the Oscars either, but I had to come up with 6 questions I thought would be answerable(?) by any participant.