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Doctor Who Rare Entries contest DWRE4 - New Series only
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Subject: Doctor Who Rare Entries contest DWRE4 - New Series only
Date: 11 Jul 2006 04:57:00 -0700
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This is the fourth Doctor Who Rare Entries contest. There a few minor
rule changes from last time and these have been highlighted below. Note
that this time round, all questions apply only to the new series which
debuted in 2005. Answers relying on information from episodes broadcast
before that date will be marked wrong.
SHORT RULES
The purpose of this game is as follows: for each of the questions, your
objective is to give an answer that
(1) is correct, and
(2) will be duplicated by as FEW other people as possible.
** Answers must be submitted by email only. DO NOT POST ANSWERS HERE **
THE QUESTIONS
0. Name someone who has seen the TARDIS appear or disappear.
1. Name an actor who has appeared in both the new series of Doctor Who
and in any episode or episodes of "The Bill"
2. Name something there were exactly three of in the new series.
3. Name someone who received a credit on at least one episode of the
new series, but who did not in fact work on that episode.
4. Name a piece of Time Lord technology we have seen in the new series.
5. Name something which exists in the world today, which also features
in the fictional world of the new series stories, and which did not
exist in 1989.
6. Name somewhere the TARDIS has landed.
7. Name an alien race which we have seen at least two members of, and
heard at least one speak.
8. Some people who have contributed to Doctor Who episodes have written
other things. Name one such thing first made available to the public
after at least one of that person's Doctor Who episodes was
transmitted.
9. Name someone who has been credited on every single episode of the
new series.
In order to participate in the contest, send your answers to me by
email (tomsalin...@googlemail.com) before noon on Friday 21 July 2006.
It is of course essential that nobody sees the answers given by other
entrants before the deadline, so please do NOT post your answers here!
If there are fewer than 10 entrants, I may not bother working out who's
won, so if this sounds like fun, do encourage others to play.
Make sure you have read the rules before submitting your answers.
YOUR ATTENTION IS SPECIFICALLY DRAWN TO RULE 3. Please supply the
information asked for and only the information asked for. If you supply
two answers, or appear to supply two answers, I will take the first
one.
1. Answers
For each of the questions above, your objective is to give an answer
that (1) is correct, and (2) will be duplicated by as FEW other people
as possible. Feel free to use any reference material you like to
RESEARCH your answers; but when you have found enough possible answers
for your liking, you are expected to choose on your own which one to
submit, WITHOUT mechanical or computer assistance: this is meant to be
a game of wits.
2. Scoring
The scores on the different questions are MULTIPLIED to produce a final
score for each entrant. Low score wins; a perfect score is 1. If your
answer to a question is correct, then your score is the number of
people who gave that answer, or an answer I consider equivalent. A
wrong answer, or a skipped question, gets a high score as a penalty.
This is the median of:
- the number of entrants
- the square root of that number, rounded up to an integer
- double the largest number of entrants giving the same answer (right
or wrong) as each other on the question
2.1 More Specific Variants
On some questions it's possible that one entrant will give an answer
that is a more specific variant of an answer given by someone else. In
that case the more specific variant will usually be scored as if the
two answers are different, but the other, less specific variant will be
scored as if they are the same.
2.2 Scoring Example
Say I ask for someone the Doctor has kissed. There are 27 entrants: 19
say "Rose" or "Rose Tyler", 2 say "Cassandra in the body of Rose
Tyler", 4 say "Captain Jack", 1 says "Daphne Ashbrook" and 1 says
"Lynda Moss". The 4 people who answered "Captain Jack" get 4 points
each. Since "Cassandra in the body of Rose Tyler" is a more specific
variant of "Rose Tyler", those who said "Rose Tyler" get 21 points
each, and those who said "Cassandra in the body of Rose Tyler" get 2
points each. The Doctor never kissed actress Daphne Ashbrook (although
he may have kissed Grace Holloway) nor Lynda Moss, so those answers are
both wrong. The persons who gave them both get the penalty score, which
is the median of:
- number of entrants = 27:
- sqrt(27) = 5.196+, rounded up = 6:
- double the most popular answer's count = 21 x 2 = 42:
or in this case, 27.
3. Entries
Entries must be emailed to me personally by email:
tomsalin...@googlemail.com. Do NOT post your answers on the the forum!
In general there is no penalty for errors of spelling, capitalization,
English usage, or other such matters of form. Sometimes a specific
question may imply stricter rules, though. And if you give an answer
that properly refers to a different thing related to the one you
intended, I will normally take it as written. Once you intentionally
submit an answer, no changes will be allowed, unless I decide there was
a problem with the question. Similarly, alternate answers within an
entry will not be accepted. Only the first answer that you
intentionally submit counts. You can expect an acknowledgement when I
read your entry. If this bounces, it won't be sent again.
3.1 Clarifications
Questions are not intended to be hard to understand, but I may fail in
this intent. (For one thing, in many cases clarity could only be
provided by an example which would suggest one or another specific
answer, and I mustn't do that.) In order to be fair to all entrants, I
must insist that requests for clarification must be emailed to me, NOT
POSTED in any mailing list. But if you do ask for clarification, I'll
probably say that the question is clear enough as posted. If I do
decide to clarify or change a question, all entrants will be informed.
3.2 Supporting Information
It is your option whether or not to provide supporting information to
justify your answers. If you don't, I'll email you to ask for it if I
need to. If you provide any explanatory remarks along with your
answers, you are responsible for making it sufficiently clear that they
are not part of the answers. The particular format doesn't matter as
long as you're clear.
4. Scope - TEMPORARY RULE CHANGE FOR DWRE4
Unless a question indicates otherwise, all questions refer to the
transmitted episodes of the BBC television series "Doctor Who" in its
current incarnation which began in 2005. Only episodes transmitted at
the time of posting (in this case 11 July 2006) are included, and all
other Doctor Who related works are excluded. This excludes audio plays,
comic strips, spin-offs, TARDISodes, novelisations and probably more
from the scope of the contest.
4.1 For the purposes of DWRE4 only, the television series "Doctor
Who" is considered to be a collection of discrete episodes, generally
45 minutes in length, some of which can also be thought of as
comprising two parts of one story. The episode titles are those
displayed on the screen at the beginning of the episode and are the
only titles which should be used to identify episodes, regardless of
whether or not they happen to be one part of a two-episode story.
Anything which is seen only in the "Previously on..." or "Next
week on..." segments of the 2005- series is not deemed to be part of
that story. Any other flashbacks, recaps or the like are deemed to be
part of that story.
4.2 "Companion" refers to anyone who travelled with the Doctor for two
or more consecutive stories. For the avoidance of doubt, the following
all have companion status: Adam, Captain Jack, Mickey.
RULE CHANGE 4.3 "Appears" or "Seen" mean seen on-screen, as opposed to
merely referred to in dialogue or implied. If a character is clearly
heard to speak, then they, and the actor who played them, are deemed to
have "appeared" regardless of whether we see them or not.
RULE CHANGE 4.4 "Alien" means not originating from the planet Earth. A
character is considered a member of an alien race if they do not look
entirely human, or if despite looking human, their planet of birth is
not Earth and they are not referred to as human (or it can be shown
that they are not accurately referred to as human).
4.5 "Actor" includes both male and female performers, but excludes
stunt-people, stand-ins doubling for a credited actor etc. unless the
question indicates otherwise. Generally a performer who does not
receive a credit is not regarded as an actor.
5. Judging
As moderator, I will be the sole judge of what answers are correct, and
whether two answers with similar meaning are considered the same,
different, or more/less specific variants. I will do my best to be fair
on all such issues, but sometimes it is necessary to be arbitrary. I
may rescore the contest if I agree that I made a serious error and it
affects the high finishers.
6. Results
Results will normally be posted within a few days of the contest
closing. They may be delayed if I'm unexpectedly busy or for technical
reasons.
Have fun
Cheers
Tom
tomsalin...@googlemail.com
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