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Subject: Triathlon / Team Leader Stuff

Posted by: Terry
Date: Feb 16 12

1. The FunTrivia Triathlon has been a great success. However, far more people than I ever thought have played during peak hours, which gives us some pretty large variability in "tri points" awarded. The scoring is pretty flawed, because if we have an hour where, say, 600 people play, we'd end up awarding 300 tri points to someone! Clearly these points should be more uniform.

So, the scoring is being capped and scaled, so that each hour the top veteran player will earn +25 tri points, and the player who finishes at the 50% mark earns +1 tri point. All players in between these receive 25 to 1 points, depending on where they fall.

This means that players playing off-peak FunTrivia hours can participate on a fairer playing field. It also prevents point inflation/deflation depending on how many people play.

2. We shall add a second cumulative badge for the triathlon, but it will be at a relatively high value. The intent is that it should only be available after a number of months. We will choose a value and post that new badge sometime soon.

3. In other news, team leaders may now remove threads and replies from team message boards. We have a few more things planned for team leaders, so stay tuned over the next few weeks.