TTAC Future Writers Scandal: TTAC Crowns Loser, Hoses Winner

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 my stupidity a computer error, Lok was falsely dropped, and Simonsick was falsely named as a winner, along with a general jumble of the Thursday results. 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: TTAC's Future Writers Name Contestant Ranked Day Michael Trainor 4 1 Monday George William Herbert 7 2 Monday Grant Tillery 1 3 Monday Matthias Dean-Carpentier 20 1 Wednesday Andrew Nevick 16 2 Wednesday Evan Reisner 19 3 Wednesday Andrew Lok 28 1 Thursday Matt Oppen 22 2 Thursday Sean Scoggins 24 3 Thursday Jeremiah Cayce 32 1 Friday Jeff Snavely 35 2 Friday Thomas M Kreutzer 29 3 Friday Keith Kostecke 39 1 Saturday Derek Young 41 2 Saturday Michael Stephenson 36 3 Saturday Billy Pollock 49 1 Sunday Dan Reitman 46 2 Sunday Matt Horsfield 48 3 Sunday Editors' Choice David Hester 31 3 Friday William Simonsick 23 5 Thursday 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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