Andrew Lok, a.k.a. contestant #28, won the Thursday round of the TTAC Future Writers Week by a wide margin. His epos on stolen GPS machines, and his pilgrimage to the Valhalla of Speed, the Nürburgring der Niebelongen, received 45 percent of all votes on Thursday. In the following week, when the full results of TTAC's Future Writers Week were published, Lok was gone. Instead of Lok, William Simonsick found himself standing on the podium. His treatise on the demographic stereotypes for Subaru buyers, with a focus on the People's Republic of Boulder, originally had deposited him far back in the pile on place 5 when all the votes were counted. A few days later, Simonsick suddenly was the cat's meow. Scandal! "Statistical abuse at its worst," barked TTAC watchdog Pch101, who called for a public hanging of the responsible. "Toad" APaGttH said this is "undoubtedly a case of severe bias." Actually, nobody had noticed. Except Wild Bill Simonsick, perhaps, but he kept his own counsel, a retired professor of the Marquette Law School. Today, we received an email. "I got hosed!" writes Trevor Lok, "I won the Wednesday round and didn't make it to the final assignment. What happened?" We immediately started an investigation, and determined that due to Having already crowned Simonsick, we don't want to send him back to the ranks of the unloved. Therefore, William Simonsick becomes Editor's Chocie #2. He will cover demographics in Boulder for TTAC. Here is the corrected and hopefully definitive listing:
PS: Trevor nearly caused me a heart attack. After his email, I immediately raced to the Wednesday round which Trevor said he had won. Neither Trevor 's nor Bill's names could be found. I feared total data corruption, Chinese hackers, or worse. Turned out that good Trevor also isn't perfect either. It was the Thursday round. from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Friday, February 1, 2013
TTAC Future Writers Scandal: TTAC Crowns Loser, Hoses Winner
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