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Subject: Re: The most stupid contest of the year? :-)

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 00:20:59 12/15/01

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On December 14, 2001 at 16:57:53, Torstein Hall wrote:

>On December 14, 2001 at 15:25:39, J. C. Boco wrote:
>
>>On December 14, 2001 at 15:11:50, Torstein Hall wrote:
>>
>>>At the Rebel homepage you can enter a contest in connection with the Rebel -
>>>Loek Van Wely match. Do not predict the outcome, instead you predict how many
>>>moves the games are going to last! I find the idea rather stupid, but the prize
>>>is great! A brand new $400 IDG board! I want it, so I guess I should not have
>>>mentioned the contest here!
>>>
>>>Torstein
>>
>>It sounds like fun, why is it stupid?
>
>I tried to be funny.... Anyway, how are you going to apply any knowledge or
>skill to such a question? You could just say that the Rebel team would flip a
>coin 1000 times. You guess how many head and tails that would come up!

I guess with only 4 games, a lot of people will predict the same result and the
Rebel team has to do a lottery for who has won.

This way you can do the lottery yourself, you're even allowed to pick your own
number.

Tony

>
>Torstein



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