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BumpIt by Simon - Sun 26th Feb 2006, 8:34am
It's cool, well done people. Just alarmed that it apeared between midnight Saturday night and 7am Sunday morning - it's bad enought that I have to work over the weekend (and thus engage work avoidance tactics like looking at the website) - hope you managed to get some sleep!
by Simon - Sun 26th Feb 2006, 8:35am
Why can't I put in results for division 4 on Tuesday on the predict a day at a time version?
by Martin - Sun 26th Feb 2006, 8:53am
We've chosen to restrict the number of divisions in the game to 3 mens and 2 womens. It just got too big and cumbersome to enter with everyone. 5th men and 2nd women - I'm sorry. Need to expand the information to include this, and details of the scoring. Anything else people want to know?

My plan for the Mays is to have it so that you can select which divisions (min of 2) you want to predict. Unfortunately I only had this idea yesterday morning, so there's simply not been time.... :-(

Any feedback in terms of usability or bugs will be extremely welcome - it's not been tested as much as I'd like - please post below or email webmaster@firstandthird.org.

(Also Simon, I'm afraid your guesses this morning have been wiped - I made a mess of the database and had to reinstate the automatic 3am backup.)
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by My mistake - Tue 28th Feb 2006, 12:20pm
Sorry to be picky, but... said: What about crews that row over all 4 days, so are simultaneously worth maximum and zero points? Does any incorrect guess score minus infinity?!
Oops, I get it better now... The areas are all added together first... It would still go wrong if every crew rowed over, but that seems unlikely.
by jpd - Tue 28th Feb 2006, 1:04pm
The top line on the aggregate chart looks wrong for FaT M3. I know it's silly, but I still think it's wrong.
by Partisan - Tue 28th Feb 2006, 2:11pm
Ok, folks. Your last chance to enter the full-on 4-day contests. I'm diving off to the river now and as soon as the first results are here, that's it!

JPD, I'm going to need you to find the errors in my scoring algorithm! As you will see, haven't quite finished it, but it's a good enough stop-gap for today. I believe the area figures are right. Fingers crossed it works at all!
by Martin - Tue 28th Feb 2006, 5:46pm
Well, not quite the smooth first day I'd hoped for....

The Bumpit leaderboard is supposed to update with results as new results come in. Also I'm not sure why there are no men's results! Also, we need to find out the result of the rerow between Fitz II and Peterhouse II before tomorrow's competition can kick off!

Hopefully tomorrow will be better!

Racing was great though. Good rows from M3 and M2 which I saw.
by ScoreIt - Tue 28th Feb 2006, 6:15pm
Wednesday's competition is now open

And we're working to get the leaderboard running smoothly...
by bum tit - Tue 28th Feb 2006, 8:02pm
ScoreIt said: And we're working to get the leaderboard running smoothly...
Yep... there are a couple of really annoying little problems which are causing small errors in a few cases. I need to get these sorted before setting up the full scoring.

Have to say, some pretty fine preliminary scores have been posted! Will be v. interesting to see how the week pans out!!!! :-)
by Martin - Wed 1st Mar 2006, 11:16pm
I have fixed the aggregate charts. 84% of people think that Downing are going down tomorrow.
by BumpIT fan - Wed 1st Mar 2006, 11:17pm
I like the new goldness of the aggregate lines (I was playing with it when you changed it!) - much easier to see what's (supposedly) happening. :)
by Mighty seven girl - Wed 1st Mar 2006, 11:21pm
It took a good few minutes of thought before we hit on gold as the colour for the new lines.... Martin can't really see them though, cos he is colourblind. Hence the rest of the charts are in greyish.
by wee dabble - Wed 1st Mar 2006, 11:39pm
Does that mean that the message boards are hard to read? Because they are in gold. Gold is a good sort of a colour.
by gf - Thu 2nd Mar 2006, 9:00am
wee dabble said: Does that mean that the message boards are hard to read? Because they are in gold. Gold is a good sort of a colour.
Not if you're in the website's safer-for-work mode... critical during any bumps week.
by Simon - Thu 2nd Mar 2006, 9:17am
Mighty seven girl said: It took a good few minutes of thought before we hit on gold as the colour for the new lines.... Martin can't really see them though, cos he is colourblind. Hence the rest of the charts are in greyish.
How is he coping with the new kit? (For those out of Cambridge, it's actually blue and gold rather than blue and orange/yellow.)
by Martin - Thu 2nd Mar 2006, 10:43am
Another fix to the aggregate charts - this one just affecting sandwich crews. It now properly shows Fitz with a 73% chance of bumping New Hall into division 1.
by Martin - Thu 2nd Mar 2006, 10:44am
wee dabble said: Does that mean that the message boards are hard to read? Because they are in gold. Gold is a good sort of a colour.
I think the site must look rather more mellow to me than most. My eyes have about 50% efficiency in detecting the red component. This must mean that gold looks rather darker and greener than it's supposed to.
by Martin - Thu 2nd Mar 2006, 12:13pm
Just uploaded new predictions charts - which show the actual results underlaid as thicker lines. I hope this will also pick up actual results through the day (incl on 1-day charts) - if someone could keep an eye on this and confirm I'd be grateful!

Check out Rich (Sidney Sussex)'s women's prediction so far! Seriously impressive.
by fudgeIT - Thu 2nd Mar 2006, 12:37pm
That's very cool, I like it! At some stage will the exact scoring system be published? I don't think it'll make any difference to my predictions strategy (which is so far yielding results worse than if I'd predicted nothing at all) but could be interesting.
by Bryn - Thu 2nd Mar 2006, 5:31pm
Possibly a big ask, but can we have a leaderboard to see which club is best at predicting results? (Just average scores over all the members from each club or something.)
by Martin - Thu 2nd Mar 2006, 6:25pm
BumpIT Friday is open for business. Will anyone score 100?
Probably easier tomorrow than Saturday, with the number of divisions racing each day increasing......
by Simon - Fri 3rd Mar 2006, 7:16am
My mistake said: It would still go wrong if every crew rowed over, but that seems unlikely.
Nearly happened in M1 yesterday!
I don't think it's going to be relevant this year, but can future Lents have some sort of bonus game for predicting cancellations?
by Martin - Fri 3rd Mar 2006, 10:25am
Simon said: Nearly happened in M1 yesterday!
Although that wouldn't be a problem in this case - because the rejigging of the scores is done on the total within each competition. I want to write this up properly today.
by Martin - Sun 5th Mar 2006, 12:17pm
Unfortunately we are missing results for M2 and one result for W2 from yesterday... BumpIT winners will be announced when CUCBC publish the final set of official results and these are updated!
by BJ - Mon 6th Mar 2006, 11:18pm
How do I go about claiming my prize? This is the greatest achievement of my life so far.
by Blade rower - Thu 9th Mar 2006, 11:01pm
Yeah, any news on winner's t-shirts?
by Webmistress - Fri 10th Mar 2006, 6:43pm
Results for Lent BumpIT 2006 are now confirmed. Congratulations to all our winners...

Men's 4 day - Bryn Garrod
Women's 4 day - Rich

One day competitions

Saturday - Luke Kelly, tied with Tom Rose
Friday - Stoph, again tied with Tom Rose
Thursday - Mercury
Wednesday - Andrew Sugden
Tuesday - Katt Preston
by UK delivery only - Fri 10th Mar 2006, 6:44pm
Prizes will be distributed shortly.
by Martin P - Mon 13th Mar 2006, 7:19pm
Comedy photo, Bryn! :-) We have another size large for you... it'll be arriving in the post!
by Ok, so i've been away long enough not to realise Bryn has a mullet - Mon 13th Mar 2006, 8:19pm
How long has bryn been in a boy band?
by Tom C - Tue 14th Mar 2006, 11:01pm
Ok, so i've been away long enough not to realise Bryn has a mullet said: How long has bryn been in a boy band?
A single word is too long - maximum length 58 characters - last bit is http://www.firstandthird.org/frames/photos/mcppicture.phtml?rowerid=1147&pic=5330
by Tom C - Tue 14th Mar 2006, 11:02pm
that's no way a mullet, try here
by Mullet-wearer - Wed 15th Mar 2006, 2:29pm
I work hard for that look

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