Games of the IX Olympiad: OOC

by **Schutzenphalia and West Ruhntuhnkuhnland** » Wed Sep 17, 2014 1:48 pm

Scheiße! >_< That 800 m run was possibly the worst choke in the history of heptathlon...

by **The Kytler Peninsulae** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 9:49 am

Tonight's cutoff will be delayed until at least 1901 UTC (2001 BST, 1501 ET), and potentially later. Frankly, I need enough of a nap to make sure I don't make horrific scorination errors this go-around.

by **Britonisea** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 10:00 am

The Kytler Peninsulae wrote:Tonight's cutoff will be delayed until at least 1901 UTC (2001 BST, 1501 ET), and potentially later. Frankly, I need enough of a nap to make sure I don't make horrific scorination errors this go-around.

Why is it 1901 or 18:59 but not 1900

by **The Kytler Peninsulae** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 2:38 pm

Britonisea wrote:
The Kytler Peninsulae wrote:Tonight's cutoff will be delayed until at least 1901 UTC (2001 BST, 1501 ET), and potentially later. Frankly, I need enough of a nap to make sure I don't make horrific scorination errors this go-around.

Why is it 1901 or 18:59 but not 1900

Arbitary really, lol - I don't like saying a time is exactly on the hour because if it's midnight it's ambiguous what day it is

by **Gregoryisgodistan** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 4:06 pm

The Kytler Peninsulae wrote:
Britonisea wrote:
Why is it 1901 or 18:59 but not 1900

Arbitary really, lol - I don't like saying a time is exactly on the hour because if it's midnight it's ambiguous what day it is

I'm tempted to schedule cutoff for really weird times, like 8:17 PM. If it's a more memorable time, people are less likely to miss it or forget it. But then I'd get impatient when the clock struck 8 and it would annoy me. So it's not worth it.

by **The Kytler Peninsulae** » Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:13 am

Same drill again tonight - full day scorination, cutoff at 1930 UTC/2030 BST/1530 ET.

by **Britonisea** » Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:56 am

Gregoryisgodistan wrote:
The Kytler Peninsulae wrote:
Arbitary really, lol - I don't like saying a time is exactly on the hour because if it's midnight it's ambiguous what day it is

I'm tempted to schedule cutoff for really weird times, like 8:17 PM. If it's a more memorable time, people are less likely to miss it or forget it. But then I'd get impatient when the clock struck 8 and it would annoy me. So it's not worth it.

Ahhh I see! And the 1200 midnight is a great example.

by **Eura** » Sat Sep 20, 2014 6:26 pm

I have a curious question; what areas of people's delegations have done best and worst, based on your expectations? Best for me has been shooting with one particularly incredible streak of golds, but athletics has been an utter disaster - so many 70-100's mauled in heats, including virtually all of my sprinters.

by **Electrum** » Sat Sep 20, 2014 6:44 pm

Eura wrote:I have a curious question; what areas of people's delegations have done best and worst, based on your expectations? Best for me has been shooting with one particularly incredible streak of golds, but athletics has been an utter disaster - so many 70-100's mauled in heats, including virtually all of my sprinters.

http://iiwiki.com/wiki/Sports_in_Electr ... r_Olympiad

Definitely a mixed bag, but Aquatics seems to be in the lead 3G/2S/2B. Really would liked to have done better in the Archery, Sailing and Rowing. Gymnastics was a surprise, but came 4th in both team events! Too cruel

by **Costa de Ouro** » Sat Sep 20, 2014 7:22 pm

Eura wrote:I have a curious question; what areas of people's delegations have done best and worst, based on your expectations? Best for me has been shooting with one particularly incredible streak of golds, but athletics has been an utter disaster - so many 70-100's mauled in heats, including virtually all of my sprinters.

Diving has far exceeded my expectations - two gold medals with a mod of 50 and 48, and silver with a 48. On the other hand, in swimming I had only a bronze to show for an 80 skill modifier and a few silvers - but only one gold.

by **Nova Anglicana** » Sat Sep 20, 2014 7:31 pm

Eura wrote:I have a curious question; what areas of people's delegations have done best and worst, based on your expectations? Best for me has been shooting with one particularly incredible streak of golds, but athletics has been an utter disaster - so many 70-100's mauled in heats, including virtually all of my sprinters.

So far my 10 medals have come from:

Aquatics: 42 overall in 1,500m, 38 overall in 200m butterfly, 54 overall 4 x 100 freestyle, 54 overall 4 x 100 medley

Athletics: 75 overall long jump

Cycling: 42 overall road race

Equestrian: 38 overall dressage

Field Hockey: 39 overall

Triathlon: 50 overall

Freestyle Wrestling: 45 overall

So yeah. Swimming has been my best showing, but pretty much nobody that has won a medal was expected to win one, except for maybe an outside shot at the long jump. My 70+s have flopped more often than not.

by **Patistan** » Sat Sep 20, 2014 8:08 pm

Eura wrote:I have a curious question; what areas of people's delegations have done best and worst, based on your expectations? Best for me has been shooting with one particularly incredible streak of golds, but athletics has been an utter disaster - so many 70-100's mauled in heats, including virtually all of my sprinters.

All of my medal winner have been....

Judo: Overall 13 Womens 48 KG bronze,overall 75 Mens 100 + KG Gold

Handball: Overall 100,Gold Men

Weightlifting: Overall 95,Mens 105+ KG Gold...Also Record

Wrestling: Overall 99,Mens 120 KG Gold

Field Hockey: Overall 100, Bronze Mens

Tennis: Overall 100,Bronze Mens

So yeah i've won some of the medals i was hoping/expecting to win. Their were disappointments in Badminton,Table tennis,Athletics and one athlete in Judo. I am hoping to win atleast one medal in Boxing and Taekwondo and if luck plays one more in Wrestling

by **Sargossa** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 12:29 am

Eura wrote:I have a curious question; what areas of people's delegations have done best and worst, based on your expectations? Best for me has been shooting with one particularly incredible streak of golds, but athletics has been an utter disaster - so many 70-100's mauled in heats, including virtually all of my sprinters.

Athletics, while not an utter disaster, has certainly been a struggle. I too have noticed how poorly a lot of my top ranked athletes are doing. Take the recent scorination as an example. Men's 400m Hurdles, the 100 rated Cristian Morante finishes 68th. Women's 200m, the 100 rated Alanis Valenín finishes 89th. Yet the 50 rated Jerrely Almeda is the fastest qualifier for the Women's 5,000m final. Keeps it interesting though.

by **Electrum** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 12:44 am

Eura wrote:I have a curious question; what areas of people's delegations have done best and worst, based on your expectations? Best for me has been shooting with one particularly incredible streak of golds, but athletics has been an utter disaster - so many 70-100's mauled in heats, including virtually all of my sprinters.

Alright, I decided to look over the statistics of the medal winners and see what modifier I gave them;

Bronze - 85 70 90 90 30 80 20 Average: 66.42
Silver - (80/75/60) 90 85 85 (=OR) 20 70 50 85 80 Average: 70.74
Gold - 30 (OR) 95 40 40 75 90 80 100 100 Average: 72.22

by **Schutzenphalia and West Ruhntuhnkuhnland** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 1:29 am

Eura wrote:I have a curious question; what areas of people's delegations have done best and worst, based on your expectations? Best for me has been shooting with one particularly incredible streak of golds, but athletics has been an utter disaster - so many 70-100's mauled in heats, including virtually all of my sprinters.

Gold: 100, 100, 33, 26, [men's artistic gymnastics team: 88, 87, 70, 68, 65, 63]
Silver: 92, 88, 75, [women's artistic gymnastics team: 100, 94, 92, 92, 86, 76]
Bronze: 95, 59, 31, [mixed equestrian eventing team: 100, 98, 93, 86, 86]

There's definitely been a lot of randomness, which I have enjoyed. My delegation has done a lot better than expected, but not in every sport: rowing and canoeing have been disappointments, gymnastics and hockey obviously not. One observation is there seems to be less randomness the longer the event, which would be expected: thus racket sports and team sports see less randomness than weightlifting or shooting.

by **Patistan** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 6:19 am

I'm the highest nation ranked in the medal table which doesn't have a silver,My Athletes are attracted to the color Bronze and Gold

by **Nova Anglicana** » Wed Sep 24, 2014 3:45 pm

Well, this sucks.

The Kytler Peninsulae wrote:Remaining day 21 events
ATHLETICS - Men's decathlon - day 1/2

100m

— David Zimmerman (NOV) DNF 0

My 84 overall decathlete DNFs on the first event of the decathlon. Presumably he exploded or something, preventing him from participating in the other events. Oh well, at least I get to think up some gruesome sob story.

by **The greater Vakolicci Haven** » Wed Sep 24, 2014 3:49 pm

I must admit, I do hate expending big points on one athlete only to have them not qualify in any of their events (Robert Strong, I'm looking at you here.)

by **Todd McCloud** » Wed Sep 24, 2014 4:11 pm

Nova Anglicana wrote:Well, this sucks.

The Kytler Peninsulae wrote:Remaining day 21 events
ATHLETICS - Men's decathlon - day 1/2

100m

— David Zimmerman (NOV) DNF 0

My 84 overall decathlete DNFs on the first event of the decathlon. Presumably he exploded or something, preventing him from participating in the other events. Oh well, at least I get to think up some gruesome sob story.

I've had a skill modifier 100 swimmer pull a DNF. So it happens. I think I said he pulled a muscle and couldn't compete or something.

by **Kriegiersien** » Wed Sep 24, 2014 7:22 pm

At the 88 Olympics a highly regarded decathlete with hopes for Gold somehow pulled off 3 false starts and was out after the 100 m (rumours were he was doped and wanted to avoid being caught). So, yes, there are plenty of possibilities here and today they even haven't 3 false starts anymore if I'm correct.

by **Hazamaeia** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:46 am

Hazamaeia 				HZA	4	1	3	8
Patistan 				PAT	4	0	4	8

the next day

Hazamaeia 				HZA	4	2	3	9
Patistan 				PAT	4	1	4	9

You can't take my position.

Just kidding, Patistan. I'm bored with only small part of my delegates remaining. But hey, silver!

Hockey, badminton, rowing, swimming, canoeing, archery, fencing, done. Probably only athletics left now.

by **Patistan** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:32 am

Hazamaeia wrote:
Hazamaeia 				HZA	4	1	3	8
Patistan 				PAT	4	0	4	8
the next day
Hazamaeia 				HZA	4	2	3	9
Patistan 				PAT	4	1	4	9
You can't take my position.

Just kidding, Patistan. I'm bored with only small part of my delegates remaining. But hey, silver!

Hockey, badminton, rowing, swimming, canoeing, archery, fencing, done. Probably only athletics left now.

I shall be in the top 20

by **The Kytler Peninsulae** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 12:52 pm

And so we are almost done. Marathon results coming at 2100 UTC, 2200 BST, 1700 ET.

Immense gratitude goes to Liventia for co-scorination duties, to Zwangzug for adding some colour (and getting multi-sport hosting experience) with the demonstration events, to everyone who contributed RP that I enjoyed reading (and there was plenty of that), and above all, to everyone who stood up for me when I was completely incapable of standing up for myself. Given how close I was to "doing a Quak" and walking away, I can say with complete seriousness that you made the Games.

by **Britonisea** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 2:36 pm

What. It is over? No medals? I have to wait for so long!

by **Liventia** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 2:48 pm

Britonisea wrote:What. It is over? No medals? I have to wait for so long!

Christ alive.

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