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Fortnightly Spelling Challenge #7 - Good or Evil

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Hoshimegu Mio
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ROUND 6 RESULTS

A total of 19 responses have been made, and first-timer Burger King has taken the win! With  Bridget Enjoyer and cr0w taking 2nd and 3rd respectively. burgernfat misspelled their name (possibly) deliberately. 8 players in total participated for the first time.

Here is the full leaderboard:

Burger King - 109.444 pts - 1st
Bridget Enjoyer - 100.923 pts - 2nd
cr0w - 98.249 pts - 3rd
anatharax - 86.442 pts - 4th
Bei - 78.983 pts - 5th
fanioisanidiot - 78.115 pts - 6th
rynxelia_ - 70.371 pts - 7th
SilentWuffer - 68.361 pts - 8th
Light_Palette - 62.296 pts - 9th
legitify - 61.558 pts - 10th
Silicosis 2 - 59.563 pts - 11th
burgernfat - 58.843 pts - 12th
Karmine - 58.038 pts - 13th
GloxSM_J962 - 56.271 pts - 14th
nominomu - 49.883 pts - 15th
Wimpy Cursed - 49.505 pts - 16th
B0ii - 48.087 pts - 17th
MusicRitman - 43.955 pts - 18th
TomisNotGood - 32.235 pts - 19th


(Past victors get fancy italics now, if you want a custom color or design please inform me)

The full spreadsheet:



List of currently unspent tokens (in fractions)
Kobold84 - 49/12
Karmine - 163/108
Dementedduck - 5/4
Bridget Enjoyer - 5/4
Blushing - 1
Burger King - 1
rynxelia_ - 23/24
Farfocele - 5/6
sadave - 2/3
Reihynn - 5/8
lenpai - 3/8
Lapizote - 1/3
cr0w - 1/3
anatharax - 1/4
Bei - 1/6
Corne2Plum3 - 7/72
McEndu - 19/216
burgernfat - 19/216
abraker - 1/12
fanioisanidiot - 1/12
Silicosis 2 - 2/27
nominomu - 2/27
legitify - 5/72
Light_Palette - 1/18
TomisNotGood - 5/108
Manishh - 1/24
SilentWuffer - 1/24
MusicRitman - 1/27
Nuuskamiikkunen - 1/36
GloxSM_J962 - 1/216
Wimpy Cursed - 1/216
B0ii - 1/216




Information (Skim through if you haven't)

How to Play

A lot of you have probably viewed the Week 1 thread, but just as a refresher and to make some changes, here it is again.

From Week 2 forth, 15 words will be provided with their respective audios, each containing an example sentence. The audio will be read by either a General American Male TTS, or a British Female TTS.

Players then guess how each word is spelled and submit them in a Google Form. A few extra instructions are included there as well. If you guess incorrectly, I then manually check your guess and calculate your guess accuracy syllable-by-syllable. More information on that in §Scoring.

Regarding alternative spellings: If an alternative spelling is not due to the differences in NaME and BrE and is used way less frequently than the conventional, it will be considered erroneous. Take this in mind when dealing with possible alternative spellings.

After every fortnight (literally, 14 nights) has passed, the form will close at around Friday 4PM GMT, and the scores will be tallied up in a spreadsheet, where the winners are determined.

A new round starts at around Saturday 4AM GMT.

Please don’t discuss your answers with people who haven’t guessed, or in public. Don’t post your answers here either. Please don’t deliberately try to cheat, in ways such as Googling, speech to text, etc. It makes it unfair for other people, and highly against the spirit of the challenge, or anything in that matter.


Prizes

The top users of each round will receive some amount of tokens.

1st - 1 token.
2nd - 2/3 tokens.
3rd - 1/3 tokens.
4th - 1/4 tokens.
5th - 1/6 tokens.
6th - 1/12 tokens.
7th&8th - 1/24 tokens.
9th&10th - 1/36 tokens.
>10th - 1/216 tokens.

Tokens can be redeemed for supporter tags, or a bunch of other random useless stuff. You can also gift other people tokens by DMing or posting below. Listed below. Post what else you’d like to see!

Supporter tag - 1 token per USD.



Scoring


Each word has a point value ranging from 5 to 10, calculated with this formula:

wordValue = 10 - 5 * correctGuess / totalGuess

If you guess correctly, you get that amount of points. Simple. But if you don’t, then no worries, because you can still get some points for guessing as accurately as possible. The maximum value for incorrect guesses is calculated as follows:

wrongValue = wordValue * (1 - 0.5*averageAccuracy)

How many points you get is determined separately.

wrongPoints = wrongValue * accuracy

Accuracy calculation can be best explained with an example.

Word #10 of week #1’s event was ebullience.

If you guess something like “eboliance”, you won’t just get a flat 0 any more. Instead, you’ll get an accuracy score.

Comparing your guess and the answer per syllable, we get:

Syllable 1: e | e - Correct.
Syllable 2: bul | bo - 1/3 correct.
Syllable 3: lience | liance - 5/6 correct.

2 letters are incorrect, and 1 letter is missing.

In the end, your accuracy will be 5.5/10, or 0.55. All the extra syllables will be omitted, but please keep your guesses within reasonable length. In addition, extra, missing, or incorrect letters in a syllable count as -0.5 correct letters.


Winners' Hall of Fame

Week 1 - Kobold84 & Farfocele
Week 2 - Kobold84
Week 3 - Karmine
Week 4 - Kobold84
Week 5 - Kobold84
Round 6 - Burger King
vi_xlt
3rd place? I'll take it.
Karmine
I think I did my worse score so far.
Topic Starter
Hoshimegu Mio

cr0w wrote:

3rd place? I'll take it.
Actually huge.
burgernfat
oh fuck off i did not misspell my name
Topic Starter
Hoshimegu Mio

burgernfat wrote:

oh fuck off i did not misspell my name
Bridget Enjoyer

burgernfat wrote:

oh fuck off i did not misspell my name
loud incorrrect buzzer sound
vi_xlt

YyottaCat wrote:

cr0w wrote:

3rd place? I'll take it.
Actually huge.
this is an honor
Topic Starter
Hoshimegu Mio
Ok this would be the last round probably. There's only 1 submission currently and honestly I feel it very much a waste of effort to continue it like this.
Karmine

YyottaCat wrote:

Ok this would be the last round probably. There's only 1 submission currently and honestly I feel it very much a waste of effort to continue it like this.
Well it was good while it lasted.
vi_xlt

YyottaCat wrote:

Ok this would be the last round probably. There's only 1 submission currently and honestly I feel it very much a waste of effort to continue it like this.
if you decide to end it I will look forward to new games from you. I always find them fun and refreshing
Utiba
LETS GOOOOO

this is fun, def gonna try this again :3
Silicosis 2
this quiz makes me feel like idk how to speak english
Bridget Enjoyer
Well that was painful :/
Light_Palette

YyottaCat wrote:

Ok this would be the last round probably. There's only 1 submission currently and honestly I feel it very much a waste of effort to continue it like this.
Yeah fair, rip

but this one's just brutal lmao, I heard the first one and instantly just closed the tab and kinda forgot about it until now
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