10-11-06 – Power

I got caught up with other stuff and couldn’t focus enough to come up with anything.

You mean ideawise? ‘Cuz I was only quarter-kidding with that stapler orgy thingie. 😥

Anyway, looking at the vote results page, I’m hearin’ the tune in my head: Runaway runaway / Runaway runaway / [can’t remember the words] tomorrow…

have we ever had a back to back win like this before?

If we’re basing it on wins, period, then technically yes, via Encyclopedia Galactica with Staplers and Staples / The Written Word. But never was there such a repeat like what’s going on here — the runaway victory margins with both current contests are incredible. So, I’d say no.

And some of us have already had a sneak peek of what will make it a runaway three-peat next week. Perhaps chaka‘s kept the HTML (if not, he can always view source in that one thread) so he can save Imageshack some hard-drive space…

Not exactly a list of “runaway entries”, but here’s a list of the top-10 entries that captured the biggest percentage of total votes per contest…evar (except for the first three contests (I don’t really trust those stats (I’ve been meaning to do something about that sometime))):

percent  contestid    farktographer        posting_ts

7.9675	2345209     chakalakasp          2006-10-11 20:01:17.0

7.6132	1876648     Kepora_Gebora     2006-01-26 02:46:40.0

7.0258	1656999     auspicious             2005-09-07 21:53:11.0

6.6562	2235397     wickedfish             2006-08-16 20:31:11.0

6.5753	2083563     Encyclopedia Galactica	2006-05-24 21:58:33.0

6.1728	1876648     Blhack                  2006-01-26 02:52:44.0

6.0665	1573289     CaptainJim            2005-07-13 20:05:10.0

5.7948	2235397     HornyDingo           2006-08-16 23:18:07.0

5.5556	1876648     clustersnarf           2006-01-26 07:56:54.0

5.4795	2083563     schnee                  2006-05-24 23:25:28.0

Looks like chakalakasp takes another top-spot. I’ll probably have to deploy this report someday.

Why is this not a “runaway entries” list? I think that a runaway need to stand out from all other entries. By looking at the percentage of total votes, we don’t quite get a single runaway (ref EC‘s and schnee‘s entries (for one example) in the above table – same contestid).

(and farkit on trying to nicely align the farking tables in farking bbCode)