JJ-8 Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Ok then, so that pesky SOTM 3 question... I try so hard to be clear and yet still I don't read my own questions clearly enough to succeed. In this case, the problem was actually because I tried to be clearer. Let me explain: The original question just read: You simply have to pick which film wins in each scenario. But then somebody somewhere asked what 'wins' meant and without thinking about question 4, I added the fastest/largest caveat. This is what has caused the problem. Without it, I think most will have assumed that a 14% drop is better than a 40% drop and so 14% wins and that is what the question is supposed to ask. However adding that largest bit in brackets does change the meaning and how it can be interpreted leading to a scenario like now where to be honest Jajang and Infernus are both correct. Deducting people points because I cannot word a question clearly is more than harsh (it would be downright mean), and thus I am going to have to take the coward route and mark everybody who answered question 4 as correct. (only each separate player knows how they read the question and whether they were correct or incorrect relating to their personal interpretations). As for the 100% bonus thing. you got a bonus if you did not put a wrong answer. The bonus was 1000 per question attempted. So 1 out of 1 was a 1000 bonus, 2 out of 2 was a 2000 bonus and so on up to 6 out of 6 being a 6000 bonus. Sorry if this question got overly messy. I am going to go and remark it now to save Jajang the extra time as it's my incompetence that led to the confusions in this matter. [emoji4] So I did understand the question. Lol knowing me if I hadn't abstained I would have misread it in my rush to answer it. Lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ-8 Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 As for the bonus lol. I couldn't understand it. :)makes sense now though. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ-8 Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 http://forums.boxofficetheory.com/forum/31-chasmmis-winter-game/?do=add I am actually a monster. I'm sorry Dare I ask what this refers to..... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ-8 Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 7 hours ago, Jar Jar Chasmmi said: http://forums.boxofficetheory.com/forum/31-chasmmis-winter-game/?do=add I am actually a monster. I'm sorry I see what you did there ... you are indeed evil.... that one question could easily be the game changer if someone somehow gets the money question ...... mind u, i'm sure there will be a few who go for the money and lose a lot too.... Love it! oh and your link doesn't go to the right place... hence the confusion... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ-8 Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Updated Scores Weeks 9, 10, SOTM 3 & 5 have all now been added to the overall scores. Here it is... It's a very tight race at the top... (I've used the updated scores for SOTM 3) # User Pre- season Entry GRAND TOTAL PreSeason Total SOTM Total SOTM 3 SOTM 5 Weekly's Total Week 9 Week 10 1 darkelf YES 315,000 10000 51000 9000 20000 254000 31000 40000 2 Exxdee YES 313,000 10000 41000 30000 0 262000 23000 51000 3 Infernus YES 313,000 10000 33000 7000 5000 270000 29000 57000 4 Telemachos YES 310,000 10000 43000 7000 20000 257000 21000 46000 5 Movieman89 YES 296,000 10000 49000 3000 20000 237000 24000 36000 6 DamienRoc YES 283,000 10000 48000 1000 20000 225000 20000 42000 7 glassfairy YES 275,000 10000 40000 9000 5000 225000 24000 37000 8 DAJK YES 275,000 10000 18000 3000 5000 247000 21000 62000 9 Filmovie YES 271,000 0 35000 9000 5000 236000 24000 35000 10 chasmmi YES 264,000 10000 42000 14000 20000 212000 17000 36000 11 thatoneguy (Background Char) YES 260,000 10000 40000 30000 5000 210000 17000 24000 12 grey ghost YES 257,000 10000 39000 30000 7000 208000 23000 52000 13 WrathofHan YES 250,000 10000 14000 3000 10000 226000 10000 42000 14 Wrath YES 248,000 10000 26000 6000 5000 212000 23000 40000 15 kayumanggi YES 248,000 0 21000 3000 20000 227000 25000 43000 16 Jajang (JJ-8) YES 238,000 10000 22000 1000 20000 206000 17000 50000 17 misafeco YES 238,000 10000 8000 1000 10000 220000 23000 46000 18 Blankments (Blan Solo) YES 231,000 10000 10000 3000 15000 211000 21000 39000 19 MikeKaye42 YES 199,000 10000 15000 12000 20000 174000 22000 35000 20 avi (Sakskidz) YES 166,000 10000 -8000 12000 20000 164000 11000 35000 21 bcf26 YES 120,000 10000 8000 1000 0 102000 0 33000 22 Kalo YES 118,000 10000 8000 6000 0 100000 15000 38000 23 99 Trees YES 49,000 10000 -3000 -3000 0 42000 0 0 24 Alfred YES 39,000 10000 5000 -3000 0 24000 0 0 25 BastienGiot - 29,000 0 -3000 -3000 0 32000 0 0 26 Baumer YES 7,000 10000 -3000 -3000 0 0 0 0 27 laguy03 YES 7,000 10000 -3000 -3000 0 0 0 0 28 The Panda YES 7,000 10000 -3000 -3000 0 0 0 0 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadAtGender Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Pretty tight spread at the top, and I'm falling behind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exxdee Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 couldn't PM, but I should have 5,000 for SOTM 5 (the Star Wars Presales one), I answered Spectre. sorry, but thanks for the scoring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted December 27, 2015 Author Share Posted December 27, 2015 11 hours ago, Infernus said: ?? was meant to be this: http://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/20816-winter-sotm-8-who-wants-to-be-a-star-wars-not-quite-millionaire-dl-sun-january-3rd-1159pm/#comment-2325626 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infernus Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Ah, look look who's second once again On 12/26/2015 at 0:20 PM, MovieMan89 said: I'm fairly certain you won't have to settle for second in the updated overall rankings. Looks like it wasn't to be 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMan89 Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 1 minute ago, Infernus said: Ah, look look who's second once again Looks like it wasn't to be Lol, yeah I wasn't factoring in SOTM 3 when I said that. Take that out and you would've been tied for first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infernus Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Looks like we have got a lot of answers for SOTM 7 already 1. Evolution's Worldwide total ($98.37M) vs Force Awakens' highest single day gross. 2. Evolution's Domestic total ($38.34M) vs Deadpool's Opening Weekend 3. Evolution Opening Weekend (13.48M) vs Hunger Games' 2016 gross 4. Evolution's Opening Day ($4.43M) vs Revenant and Hateful 8's combined total gross by the end of the year. 5. Evolution's UK gross ($10.79M) vs Point's Break's Opening Weekend (this one may change though) 6. Evolution's Production Budget ($80M) vs Chipmunks' total gross (both the first and third part (second had a five day OW) made atleast 2.5 times their gross by second OW. This is at 39-40m. 80 should definitely happen) 7. Evolution's foreign total ($60.03M) vs 13 Hours: Soldiers of Benzhagi total gross 8. Evolution's Opening week total ($18.9M) vs Kung Fu Panda 3's Opening Day 9. Evolution's German gross ($7.08M) vs Sisters' Opening Weekend (I think it may do this in its third weekend too, quite a win for the film) Nothing can be said for Q2, 7 and 8 but I think 3 will be won by Hunger Games. Going by both of its predecessors it should do that. But its been having worse drops than them these past 2 weeks. That of course is due to Star Wars effect. Most probably it would improve now though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WrathOfHan Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 I originally answered 4 correctly but removed it since I thought it'd be close and not worth the risk. Boy was I wrong SOTM 7 will already be a gain for me as I answered 1 and 9 correctly and just have 7 left. Worst case scenario is 5k points, best case is 15k. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infernus Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 For the members who only answered from among these five questions bcf26 - 15,000 Jajang - 2,000 (should point break's estimates hold) Wrath - 10,000 glassfairy - 9,000 MikeKaye42 - -30,000 While the following are sure not to be handed the -30,000 thing Tele WrathOfHan Grey Ghost Blanks DAJK Infernus kayumanggi darkelf DamienRoc Not that all this matters much but I had a lot of free time (winter vacations for high schooler) and was bored so.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infernus Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 btw, I am unable to edit any posts. The text-pane isn't getting active. Is that happening to others too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WrathOfHan Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 1 minute ago, Infernus said: btw, I am unable to edit any posts. The text-pane isn't getting active. Is that happening to others too? Switching to a non-SW theme might help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infernus Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 2 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said: Switching to a non-SW theme might help. Nope, still not working... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WrathOfHan Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Estimated answers: 1. Will Star Wars gross more than $100M this weekend? Yes 2. Will Star Wars gross more than $130m this weekend? 3000 Yes 3. Will the 5 biggest new entries' combined grosses exceed 50% of Star Wars' weekend? Yes 4. What will be the highest grossing new entry (new, not expanding)? 2000 Daddy's Home 5. Will Sisters drop more than 15% this weekend? No 6. Will at least 4 films increase this weekend? 2000 No (assuming we're talking about the Top 15 as usual) 7. Will Point Break open to more than $9.5M? Yes 8. Will Good Dinosaur stay in the top 10? No 9. Will Hunger Games stay above Creed? Yes 10. Will Hateful 8 gross at least 10 times the gross of Revenant this weekend? 3000 No 11. Will the Big Short Increase into the top 3? 2000 No 12. Will Concussion open higher than Joy? No 13. Will Alvin stay in the top 5? 3000 Yes 14. Will Star Wars' PTA be higher than Revenant's? No 15. Will I have marked the previous 2 weeks' questions before Xmas hits? Jajang did 10/15 - 2000 11/15 - 3000 12/15 - 5000 13/15 - 7000 14/15 - 10000 15/15 - 15000 Part 2 1. What will be the difference in gross between 1st and 2nd this weekend? 5000 $114,722,000 2. What will Krampus' Xmas Day gross be? 5000 876k 3. What will Concussion and Point Break's combined Saturday gross be? 5000 $7,115,000 4. What will Alvin's percentage change be this weekend (please specify drop or increase)? 5000 -11.1% 5. What will Hateful 8's PTA be this weekend? 5000 $45,366 Part 3 2. Daddy's Home 4. Sisters 6. Concussion 9. Mockingjay 12. The Good Dinosaur 15. Spotlight 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ-8 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 2 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said: Switching to a non-SW theme might help. Nope, still not working... It's working fine in tapatalk but u Lose most of the nice features..... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 OK, new weekly questions are belatedly up (results for last week will be done within 24 hours too ) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMan89 Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 (edited) On 12/26/2015 at 0:08 PM, Jar Jar Chasmmi said: Ok then, so that pesky SOTM 3 question... I try so hard to be clear and yet still I don't read my own questions clearly enough to succeed. In this case, the problem was actually because I tried to be clearer. Let me explain: The original question just read: You simply have to pick which film wins in each scenario. But then somebody somewhere asked what 'wins' meant and without thinking about question 4, I added the fastest/largest caveat. This is what has caused the problem. Without it, I think most will have assumed that a 14% drop is better than a 40% drop and so 14% wins and that is what the question is supposed to ask. However adding that largest bit in brackets does change the meaning and how it can be interpreted leading to a scenario like now where to be honest Jajang and Infernus are both correct. Deducting people points because I cannot word a question clearly is more than harsh (it would be downright mean), and thus I am going to have to take the coward route and mark everybody who answered question 4 as correct. (only each separate player knows how they read the question and whether they were correct or incorrect relating to their personal interpretations). As for the 100% bonus thing. you got a bonus if you did not put a wrong answer. The bonus was 1000 per question attempted. So 1 out of 1 was a 1000 bonus, 2 out of 2 was a 2000 bonus and so on up to 6 out of 6 being a 6000 bonus. Sorry if this question got overly messy. I am going to go and remark it now to save Jajang the extra time as it's my incompetence that led to the confusions in this matter. Thanks for doing this! I was one of the ones who read it as asking which would have the better drop (so the lowest), but later decided it must be "bigger" because of the wording at the top and changed it accordingly. Good to know you did intend better all along though. Edited December 30, 2015 by MovieMan89 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...