[Dr-Mayhem111]

Welcome to Poem of the week #2 where people of the GTAForums Community can show off their creative poetry writing.

POTW #1 Title: Being rehabilitated

Here are the top results from POTW #1:

Author	Votes	Total	Star
Mokrie Dela	1st:6 2nd:2 3rd:0	8	*
kmlwin.1996	1st:0 2nd:6 3rd:2	8	*
cammi	1st:0 2nd:0 3rd:6	6	*
Coat	1st:3 2nd:1 3rd:1	5

Winning poem:

Cold turkey, cold shoulder
I feel my skin growing colder
No worries, they told her,
Rehab; rebuilder.

Cold grey walls and shadows of wolves,
They lurk beyond, teasing all night long
Darkness falls and the hunger pulls,
But there is no relief, the wolves bare their teeth

Night time weighs
Heavy on me,
The creatures of the night
All mocking in their presence.

Dawn grows nigh,
To my anguished pleas,
At the first glimmer or light
Comes my fear's evanescence.

Relief and release, the sun kisses me again
You're cured, that's the slur they say
Reintegration, I return to my shame
Knowing that I shall be back here someday


Congratulations to the top 3 your poem were amazing and I hope to see more.

Next title is:

The greatest day of your life

Deadline for entry is Monday, September 17th 2012

[AceRay]

Uh, shouldn't the winning table go to whoever got the most golds, then silver and then bronze. Cammi got 6 bronze and is in third while Coat has 3 gold and 1 silver, shouldn't he be second or third? Just adding up the totals doesn't really work, if someone had heaps of bronze medals they end up winning the whole thing.

[Dr-Mayhem111]

QUOTE (AceRay @ Sunday, Sep 9 2012, 22:41)

Uh, shouldn't the winning table go to whoever got the most golds, then silver and then bronze. Cammi got 6 bronze and is in third while Coat has 3 gold and 1 silver, shouldn't he be second or third? Just adding up the totals doesn't really work, if someone had heaps of bronze medals they end up winning the whole thing.

The scoring system is different. Mokrie Dela and kmlwin.1996 have the same amount of votes but Mokrie Dela was voted 1st more than everybody else which puts him on first rank (Gold star). As for kmlwin.1996 he did not get any 1st votes but he got more 2nd votes than everybody else which puts him on second rank (Silver star). And it goes on like that.

[Eminence]

QUOTE (Dr-Mayhem111 @ Monday, Sep 10 2012, 04:01)

QUOTE (AceRay @ Sunday, Sep 9 2012, 22:41) Uh, shouldn't the winning table go to whoever got the most golds, then silver and then bronze. Cammi got 6 bronze and is in third while Coat has 3 gold and 1 silver, shouldn't he be second or third? Just adding up the totals doesn't really work, if someone had heaps of bronze medals they end up winning the whole thing. The scoring system is different. Mokrie Dela and kmlwin.1996 have the same amount of votes but Mokrie Dela was voted 1st more than everybody else which puts him on first rank (Gold star). As for kmlwin.1996 he did not get any 1st votes but he got more 2nd votes than everybody else which puts him on second rank (Silver star). And it goes on like that.

Yeah, I don't think you understand how this sort of voting should work. The person who gets "the most silver medals" doesn't come second. That's ridiculous.

First off, it needs to be defined up front what any given vote is worth. Gold should be worth a set amount of points; silver another, bronze another. It could be 3, 2 and 1, respectively. Or, to give higher emphasis to winning a gold, it could be 5, 3, 1. Or Maybe 4, 2, 1. See how there's so many permutations of it? Every one of them will give different results.

The bottom line is that coming 1st should get you more points than coming 3rd. The entire idea that someone who gets ranked 1st by three people doesn't even place against two people who didn't come first on anyone's list is laughable.

If you went with 3, 2 and 1 points respectively, then the standings would be:

Mokrie: 22
kmlwin.1996: 14
Coat.: 12
cammi: 6

If you went with 4, 2, 1 it would be:

Mokrie: 28
Coat.: 15
kmlwin.1996: 14
cammi: 6

Now, coming up with such a calculation for every round makes it kind of complex. Who decided to do a 1st/2nd/3rd style anyway? SSOTM always just used to be vote for the best; the one with the most wins. Infinitely more simple.

Infinitely more ridiculous, though, is just tallying up overall medals. 3rd place should not bear the same weight as 1st place.

Rant over. This competition is a bit of a joke.

[Coat.]

QUOTE

The bottom line is that coming 1st should get you more points than coming 3rd. The entire idea that someone who gets ranked 1st by three people doesn't even place against two people who didn't come first on anyone's list is laughable.

Very true.


***


The tarmac laid fresh
The weeds pulled deep
From the eerie below

The rotors waved as a go
the fourteen men made their way
with their heads laying low
and their hearts on their sleeve

Crickets stopped chirping
Predators stopped lurking
and the plane was indeed working

Airborne with height
Wind took the lift
The ground turned blue
Below seemed fray
Irrelevant
Seemed the day was irrelevant

Never expecting to return,
Nor hoping for long life,
It didn't matter if it was a good day
As bad
Because their lives were already over
and the best of them got older
Leaning on each others shoulder
Watching the sun die down and the fields grow darker
Further
As the last of us glimpsed at the best of our lives.