LRC's 1st Gambling/Cheating Scandal - Advice Needed

I think he deserves first place. Just dq his second place entry and move everyone else up one. That is basically the same anyway because the "youth in asia" account started out with exactly the same picks from what I understand. He wasn't trying to cheat the system, he just took over for the guy who had copied his picks originally. Oh what a tangled web!

Heathen wrote:

It clearly depends on whether the second set of picks were made under optimal conditions. He may have cranked up the A/C in the house a little to get better picking condtitions. A very real and unfair advantage.

"Optimal" for HIS house at this time of the year, or for any house at the best time of the year...and do you mean "ideal" instead of "optimal?" Oh, and should we look into humidity or dew point or both?

did he call to tell you about the 2nd entry before the olympics began?

or

did he call to tell you after the events were over and he knew he had a potential problem since he was 1st and 2nd and had violated the rules?

if it's the first case it's your fault for not deleting an entry.

if it's the second case he deserves to be dq'ed since he violated the rules.

awarding him 2nd is not appropriate, the guy cheated.

what is to say he didn't submit 10 other entries to increase his odds of winning?

he has cheated. he increased his odds of winning by submitting more than one entry. he should be totally disqualified. not given first or second. otherwise, you will not discourage anyone from cheating in the future.

if you want your games to end up a joke like the tour de france, you will still let him receive an award.

or you can ask randy cohen, the ethicist, from the new york times (ethicist@nytimes.com) what he thinks.

Give him first and second place prizes but he must run a marathon a month for a year, cheat in each one, use his real name, and ask the board to analyze his splits.

After he is banned from marathoning, he can pick up an extra 50 grand if he race walks drunk in a peter pan outfit.

He called and told you. Keep him.

Wejo,

Do you know the meaning of "scandal"?

Dishonest yes, scandal no.

how many times did he enter? Did he get first, 2nd, 50th 51st 100th 1003rd? did he enter like 100 times?

sounds like he stuffed the ballot box to me... the premise of the prediction contest is to make 1 prediction.

Does letsrun have access to the order in which he entered the contest? i would argue that he should be considered for the contest under his first entry. time to dig out the server log!

furthermore, it\'s nice that he was honest. he could have claimed that a roommate/friend using his computer finished second. due to this honesty i suggest we take his first entry instead of Dairy Queening him

i'd send this predicament to mike and mike. they have their "sheet of integrity" for the basketball tournament. little mike is about having one prediction and big mike is about winning the "cashe"

for me, entering once is too much trouble. i give him props for being motivated to win. give him both prizes. i'm all for double dipping.

This is obviously a well executed hoax by the brojos, just think about it. This did not happen.

Hire the guy.

wejo wrote:

I think we have no choice but to DQ him and pat him on the back at the same time. I don't think the cheating was intentional (he explained how the 2nd account happened) and he called me up out of the blue to tell me. Without the notification I wouldn't have figured it out.

Either that or a public beating.

DQ him, rules are rules. Award him a LRC shirt instead.

This is brilliant. Not only did he win the contest, he started a new contest on whether he will be DQ'd or not.

I say let him keep first place.

Really folks? wrote:

Who gives a s**t. The guy won, I'm impressed and happy for him. Give him the first place prize but not the second, that seems like the best solution.

Agreed.

if you didnt say what consequences were for violating rules, then give him one entry. If you can determine which entry was first submitted, that is the one he should get. If you DQ him, give him a pair of shoes or a gift cert to your online store to honor his "honesty" and sickness.

Rojo,

Very respectable for polling the users on this issue. It shows you do value our input to some extent. With that said, the rules state "one entry per person". He broke the rules and he should be disqualified.

If Wallace Spearman ran up to the booth immediately after his 200 and said "I'm sorry I stepped online, but i wanted to let you know in case you miss it on the replay", he would have still been DQ'd.

Wejo,are you retarded. Pay him his money, he earned it cmon, two entries didnt help him at all. You just dont wanna shell out the cash

Surprise! wrote:

txRUNNERgirl wrote:

Give him the prize only if he agrees to post a photo of himself dressed as a drunk Peter Pan (or Tinkerbell) to put on the front page.

Can you describe what a drunk Peter Pan looks like? I'm thinking he would obviously be carrying a beer. Maybe he could be lying in a pool of vomit?

Scroll down the front page. The winner of the Olympic Trials contest posted a photo of his friend dressed as Peter Pan.

...and if he really were an honest person, he would have reported himself BEFORE he won and withdrawn one of the entries.