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According to my calculations this is what the top 30 currently look like:

 Rank Name Page Post Votes Score Vote Avg.
1 Sinti 10 1 13 5.417 2.400
2 CheeseEtc 3 9 87 4.964 17.526
3 Broeck1 11 3 6 4.435 1.353
4 nurgling13 9 7 17 3.719 4.571
5 trolldaddy 11 8 5 3.696 1.353
6 stalantia 2 18 112 3.577 31.312
7 jmo101 5 14 28 3.500 8.000
8 MrUncreative 10 9 8 3.333 2.400
9 Gnomenschuh 7 2 15 3.110 4.824
10 RazorOfArtorias 3 3 52 2.967 17.526
11 SvagoCorp 11 9 4 2.957 1.353
12 MrYorick 5 9 23 2.875 8.000
13 Zukuu 4 5 43 2.637 16.308
14 Toble 8 13 8 2.560 3.125
15 linkblade91 6 7 16 2.542 6.294
16 Demonxz95 5 6 20 2.500 8.000
17 Lathy 2 2 76 2.427 31.312
18 Mmrmm 5 13 19 2.375 8.000
19 Livesage 7 13 11 2.280 4.824
20 StegosaurusRex 1 7 117 2.273 51.474
21 Enselt 8 3 7 2.240 3.125
22 ShadowsOfSense 6 11 14 2.224 6.294
23 BorkBot 6 16 14 2.224 6.294
24 Otovent 3 11 38 2.168 17.526
25 Maldoni 5 0 35 2.146 8.000
26 Vignu 7 15 10 2.073 4.824
27 Henway325 6 13 13 2.065 6.294
28 Cogito_Ergo_Sum 9 3 9 1.969 4.571
29 DevonADucharme 6 12 12 1.907 6.294
30 Fortify 6 2 12 1.907 6.2943

So, you aren't royally screwed, because you're in the top 30 out of ~200, but still not in a great place for making the finals. 

Foonote: Calculations probably aren't 100% accurate due to changes in votes since gathering the data, not getting the disqualification list 100% accurate, and the possibility that the mods combine the last two pages.

 This makes me want a plug in / external site that always shows the current ranking.

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According to my calculations this is what the top 30 currently look like:

 Rank Name Page Post Votes Score Vote Avg.
1 Sinti 10 1 13 5.417 2.400
2 CheeseEtc 3 9 87 4.964 17.526
3 Broeck1 11 3 6 4.435 1.353
4 nurgling13 9 7 17 3.719 4.571
5 trolldaddy 11 8 5 3.696 1.353
6 stalantia 2 18 112 3.577 31.312
7 jmo101 5 14 28 3.500 8.000
8 MrUncreative 10 9 8 3.333 2.400
9 Gnomenschuh 7 2 15 3.110 4.824
10 RazorOfArtorias 3 3 52 2.967 17.526
11 SvagoCorp 11 9 4 2.957 1.353
12 MrYorick 5 9 23 2.875 8.000
13 Zukuu 4 5 43 2.637 16.308
14 Toble 8 13 8 2.560 3.125
15 linkblade91 6 7 16 2.542 6.294
16 Demonxz95 5 6 20 2.500 8.000
17 Lathy 2 2 76 2.427 31.312
18 Mmrmm 5 13 19 2.375 8.000
19 Livesage 7 13 11 2.280 4.824
20 StegosaurusRex 1 7 117 2.273 51.474
21 Enselt 8 3 7 2.240 3.125
22 ShadowsOfSense 6 11 14 2.224 6.294
23 BorkBot 6 16 14 2.224 6.294
24 Otovent 3 11 38 2.168 17.526
25 Maldoni 5 0 35 2.146 8.000
26 Vignu 7 15 10 2.073 4.824
27 Henway325 6 13 13 2.065 6.294
28 Cogito_Ergo_Sum 9 3 9 1.969 4.571
29 DevonADucharme 6 12 12 1.907 6.294
30 Fortify 6 2 12 1.907 6.2943

So, you aren't royally screwed, because you're in the top 30 out of ~200, but still not in a great place for making the finals. 

Foonote: Calculations probably aren't 100% accurate due to changes in votes since gathering the data, not getting the disqualification list 100% accurate, and the possibility that the mods combine the last two pages.

 This makes me want a plug in / external site that always shows the current ranking.

I don't think it would be that hard to do, but I don't know how to code website stuff. For my code, I manually save the source code for each page in the competition to my computer, load the text into Python, and extract the scores that way. It's a lot easier than writing down each score by hand, but still enough of a bother that I don't use the code that often any more.

 

 

That sounds like a really good idea, saving this source code and stuff.

I'm quite surprised that CheeseETC's Megagma Rager isn't first. Also, it's quite obvious to tell the advantage of posting on the later page. Three of the top 12 (An average # of finalists) are from the last page. Of the top 5, four of them are on the last three pages. I think CheeseETC's was much more popular among voters than Sinti's card, but due to some imbalance in the current point system, Sinti is given the advantage. (No offense/personal preferences intended; just observations) This has been previously stated by someone (I forgot who), but I believe that a group of judges should be chosen to choose a few additional wildcards... maybe have the finalists be 1/2 from the points, and 1/2 from judges? I'm not sure, this is for the mods (Hi Shadows, howya doin?) to decide.

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Yeah, as you can tell from the quality of pun, I've had a horrible day. Then again, I did make a textless 7 mana 0/25 minion. I probably deserve being cursed by the Hearthstone gods. Oh side question. Do y'all think Hearthstone should be monotheistic, polytheistic, or animistic? I'm talking about capital-g gods, as in like actual formless concepts (ex. The Cristo-Judaic God or Hinduism's Lord Vishnu), not just false idols like C'Thun or Emrakul.

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According to my calculations this is what the top 30 currently look like:

 Rank Name Page Post Votes Score Vote Avg.
1 Sinti 10 1 13 5.417 2.400
2 CheeseEtc 3 9 87 4.964 17.526
3 Broeck1 11 3 6 4.435 1.353
4 nurgling13 9 7 17 3.719 4.571
5 trolldaddy 11 8 5 3.696 1.353
6 stalantia 2 18 112 3.577 31.312
7 jmo101 5 14 28 3.500 8.000
8 MrUncreative 10 9 8 3.333 2.400
9 Gnomenschuh 7 2 15 3.110 4.824
10 RazorOfArtorias 3 3 52 2.967 17.526
11 SvagoCorp 11 9 4 2.957 1.353
12 MrYorick 5 9 23 2.875 8.000
13 Zukuu 4 5 43 2.637 16.308
14 Toble 8 13 8 2.560 3.125
15 linkblade91 6 7 16 2.542 6.294
16 Demonxz95 5 6 20 2.500 8.000
17 Lathy 2 2 76 2.427 31.312
18 Mmrmm 5 13 19 2.375 8.000
19 Livesage 7 13 11 2.280 4.824
20 StegosaurusRex 1 7 117 2.273 51.474
21 Enselt 8 3 7 2.240 3.125
22 ShadowsOfSense 6 11 14 2.224 6.294
23 BorkBot 6 16 14 2.224 6.294
24 Otovent 3 11 38 2.168 17.526
25 Maldoni 5 0 35 2.146 8.000
26 Vignu 7 15 10 2.073 4.824
27 Henway325 6 13 13 2.065 6.294
28 Cogito_Ergo_Sum 9 3 9 1.969 4.571
29 DevonADucharme 6 12 12 1.907 6.294
30 Fortify 6 2 12 1.907 6.2943

So, you aren't royally screwed, because you're in the top 30 out of ~200, but still not in a great place for making the finals. 

Foonote: Calculations probably aren't 100% accurate due to changes in votes since gathering the data, not getting the disqualification list 100% accurate, and the possibility that the mods combine the last two pages.

 This makes me want a plug in / external site that always shows the current ranking.

I don't think it would be that hard to do, but I don't know how to code website stuff. For my code, I manually save the source code for each page in the competition to my computer, load the text into Python, and extract the scores that way. It's a lot easier than writing down each score by hand, but still enough of a bother that I don't use the code that often any more.

 

 

That sounds like a really good idea, saving this source code and stuff.

I'm quite surprised that CheeseETC's Megagma Rager isn't first. Also, it's quite obvious to tell the advantage of posting on the later page. Three of the top 12 (An average # of finalists) are from the last page. Of the top 5, four of them are on the last three pages. I think CheeseETC's was much more popular among voters than Sinti's card, but due to some imbalance in the current point system, Sinti is given the advantage. (No offense/personal preferences intended; just observations) This has been previously stated by someone (I forgot who), but I believe that a group of judges should be chosen to choose a few additional wildcards... maybe have the finalists be 1/2 from the points, and 1/2 from judges? I'm not sure, this is for the mods (Hi Shadows, howya doin?) to decide.

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Just as a heads up - although one of the rules this week was to make your card a Common, we won't be disqualifying cards that don't 'feel' Common. As much as I dislike all the Giants running around pretending they shouldn't be Epics, if it has a Common gem, it's a legal card.

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Just as a heads up - although one of the rules this week was to make your card a Common, we won't be disqualifying cards that don't 'feel' Common. As much as I dislike all the Giants running around pretending they shouldn't be Epics, if it has a Common gem, it's a legal card.

 What about Loku the Priest? This is very clearly a Legendary with a Common gem. Commons do not have proper names.

 In that particular case, Hearthcards rule strikes it out. In general, cards with proper names won't be disqualified. Jeeves is the sticking point there. The Commonness of a card is for the voters to decide on. 

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 I suppose it can't hurt to tell you, since it would be fairly easy to figure out - we'll be taking 20 non-Wildcard finalists this time. There's around 170 legal entries. I was looking over the data I collected when looking into the 'Page One Problem', and the last times we had ~170 entries we only took 16 finalists; we also had two pages with no finalist in both cases. I'm hoping that by erring on the side of rounding up for finalists, we'll more often avoid situations where nobody on a page makes it.

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I suppose it can't hurt to tell you, since it would be fairly easy to figure out - we'll be taking 20 non-Wildcard finalists this time. There's around 170 legal entries. I was looking over the data I collected when looking into the 'Page One Problem', and the last times we had ~170 entries we only took 16 finalists; we also had two pages with no finalist in both cases. I'm hoping that by erring on the side of rounding up for finalists, we'll more often avoid situations where nobody on a page makes it.

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It would reduce the amount for some weeks, but for others it would do nothing. The week we had no finalist from Page 1 and 2, for example, the highest entries from each page were 21st and 23rd, respectively.  The week that we had three pages miss out we actually took 21 finalists! It is certainly something we could consider implementing, though, since there are definitely weeks where some pages just missed out, with the highest entry from the page being in the high teens.

You're going to make me re-tune it all at some point, aren't you?

Still need to finish other tasks that should have been finished a couple months ago. Yay stuff.

 For that particular idea? No re-tuning needed. For some of the other ideas people have come up with... maybe =P Depends on if we end up deciding we need them.

And hey, we're a hell of a lot closer on the other stuff than we were a while ago. Progress!

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It would reduce the amount for some weeks, but for others it would do nothing. The week we had no finalist from Page 1 and 2, for example, the highest entries from each page were 21st and 23rd, respectively.  The week that we had three pages miss out we actually took 21 finalists! It is certainly something we could consider implementing, though, since there are definitely weeks where some pages just missed out, with the highest entry from the page being in the high teens.

You're going to make me re-tune it all at some point, aren't you?

Still need to finish other tasks that should have been finished a couple months ago. Yay stuff.

 For that particular idea? No re-tuning needed. For some of the other ideas people have come up with... maybe =P Depends on if we end up deciding we need them.

And hey, we're a hell of a lot closer on the other stuff than we were a while ago. Progress!

 Wait a minute. What tasks are you guys talking about?

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It would reduce the amount for some weeks, but for others it would do nothing. The week we had no finalist from Page 1 and 2, for example, the highest entries from each page were 21st and 23rd, respectively.  The week that we had three pages miss out we actually took 21 finalists! It is certainly something we could consider implementing, though, since there are definitely weeks where some pages just missed out, with the highest entry from the page being in the high teens.

You're going to make me re-tune it all at some point, aren't you?

Still need to finish other tasks that should have been finished a couple months ago. Yay stuff.

 For that particular idea? No re-tuning needed. For some of the other ideas people have come up with... maybe =P Depends on if we end up deciding we need them.

And hey, we're a hell of a lot closer on the other stuff than we were a while ago. Progress!

 Wait a minute. What tasks are you guys talking about?

On moonless nights, the mods congregate at a forgotten altar in a nameless wood and are given unspeakable tasks by their Lord and Master Shub-Niggurath, the Goat with a Thousand Young. If you value your sanity, it is best not to inquire too deeply. Once the veil of reality is pulled back, there is no closing it.