HALL OF FAME Discussion Thread

(Today 06:07 )eyres42 Wrote:  Oh dear.

Mistakes happen, made the odd one myself running competitions, the somewhat chaotic nature of the voting format does seems to hinder rather than help however.

We need to simplify the process and quite frankly induct more girls, minimum of 2 per category.

I definitely agree it should be minimum of two inductions in Days and two inductions in Nights. Four total a year.

Even after a night's sleep...

I have decided to stick with my original decision and step down from running the competition and will play no part of future running of it.

Finish this years' competition the way you want.

I am done with it.

I respect your decision LB.
It is sad that you feel a need to walk away but I thank you for your work both in this comp and over the years. I know how difficult running comps can be and the many and varied pitfalls that exist. There was no malice whatever in my score checks. To be honest I was just having a casual mooch around to see how close Beth got only to find she lost by 1 . But obviously once I was aware that Lolly had won I was duty bound to both check my calculations and alert the forum.

This then set in motion a wider curiosity as per a possible 5 way playoff so I thought 'may as well have a mooch at the other scores as well'.

It became apparent that a 5 way playoff was not required and that the semi finals were actually pretty clear cut.
Once again I had little alternative to speak up and say so and the reasons therefore. To have not done so in full knowledge of the situation would have been dereliction of duty and negligence on my part.

I'm sorry this has caused you much upset. But the numbers don't lie and we do now have the semi finals in place with no playoff needed.

Snooks
It has caused so much upset for me after a night's sleep! (even when I am having health problems at present). I always looked forward to doing this competition as it often gave me a focus to take my mind off other things like work and have a proper involvement on the forum.

I wanted this to be something I could be proud of as a forum achievement, and I am proud of it, but I just wish people just did as asked and left it to me do the hard bit and accepted my calculations for what they were.

I thought most people would turn round and offer support and apologise to me for not even noticing the mess they were creating and hurt it was causing.

Now I feel that I have been treated with little respect for all I have done with this over the years, and no one ever really felt comfortable with what I was doing, so that's why I made the decision to step down.

^With the greatest respect LB if the counts are wrong then they are wrong, you can't just plough on regardless.

If you disagree with that principle then it is right that you step down with everyone's best wishes and thanks.

Of all the comps I have seen on this forum it is this one that has provided the most complexity, discussion over format and the strongest opinions. It is a hard task for anyone to undertake. Challenges lie ahead for the forum as a whole to reach a consensus on how to run this in future. I sincerely hope and wish for that consensus to emerge and in the meantime offer my thanks to LB and Charle for their work over the years.