11 Jan 2000: uk.games.mornington{.|-}cres(c)ent
From: Chris Dickson <c.dickson@ukvoting.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:52:50 GMT
Subject: RESULT: newsgroup uk.games.mornington-crescent PASSES
Newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,alt.games.mornington.cresent,alt.games.mornington.crescent
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RESULT - newsgroup uk.games.mornington-crescent PASSES
Summary of results:
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The six options were:
Option 1: Create uk.games.mornington-crescent
Option 2: Create uk.games.mornington.crescent
Option 3: Create uk.games.mornington-cresent
Option 4: Create uk.games.mornington.cresent
Status Quo (Create no new newsgroup)
Re-Open Discussion (ROD)
STAGE ONE - All options compared to Status Quo:
Option 1 preferred to Status Quo by 69 votes to 11
Option 2 preferred to Status Quo by 54 votes to 21
Option 3 preferred to Status Quo by 41 votes to 31
Option 4 preferred to Status Quo by 41 votes to 30
Re-Open Discussion preferred to Status Quo by 50 votes to 22
As Option 1, Option 2 and Re-Open Discussion beat Status Quo by at least 12
votes, they all move to Stage Two.
STAGE TWO - Surviving options compared to each other:
Option 1 preferred to Option 2 by 69 votes to 13
Option 1 preferred to Re-Open Discussion by 70 votes to 10
Option 2 preferred to Re-Open Discussion by 49 votes to 31
As Option 1 was preferred to all options surviving from Stage One, it is the
Condorcet winner. Therefore, as the result of this vote, a newsgroup called
uk.games.mornington-crescent is created.
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Voting closed at 23:59:59 GMT, 8th December 1999
Proponent: ugc-prop@salterg.demon.co.uk (Barry Salter)
Votetaker: c.dickson@ukvoting.org.uk (Chris M. Dickson)
Distribution:
uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,alt.games.mornington.cresent,alt.games
.mornington.crescent
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The Results:
The results follow below in the following order:
1) Results
2) Particulars of the Vote
3) Votetakers Comments
4) Voting and Appeal Guidelines
5) Rationale & Proposed Charter
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RESULTS:
RAW PREFERENCES GRID
1 2 3 4 SQ ROD
Option 1 [n/a] [ 69] [ 75] [ 75] [ 69] [ 70]
Option 2 [ 13] [n/a] [ 52] [ 54] [ 54] [ 49]
Option 3 [ 5] [ 18] [n/a] [ 40] [ 41] [ 38]
Option 4 [ 7] [ 10] [ 14] [n/a] [ 41] [ 35]
Status Quo [ 11] [ 21] [ 31] [ 30] [n/a] [ 22]
ROD [ 10] [ 31] [ 39] [ 44] [ 50] [n/a]
In this grid, each number represents the number of votes which were
cast that preferred the option named in the number's row to the option
appropriate to the number's column For instance, 69 votes preferred
option one (uk.games.mornington-crescent) to option two
(uk.games.mornington.crescent) while 44 votes preferred reopening the
discussion to option four (uk.games.mornington.cresent).
OPPOSITE COMPARISONS GRID
1 2 ROD
Option 1 [n/a] [ 56] [ 60]
Option 2 [-56] [n/a] [ 18]
ROD [-60] [-18] [n/a]
In this grid, each number represents the number of votes which were cast that
preferred the option named in the number's row to the option appropriate to
the number's column less the number of votes which were cast that preferred
the option named in the number's column to the option appropriate to the
number's row. For instance, 56 more people preferred Option 1 to Option 2 than
preferred Option 2 to Option 1.
As shown by all the numbers in its row in the lower grid being positive,
Option 1 was preferred to all other options and hence wins the ballot.
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PARTICULARS OF THE VOTE:
Re-Open Discussion -------------\
Status Quo (no group is created) -----------\ |
Option 4: create uk.games.mornington.cresent ---------\ | |
Option 3: create uk.games.mornington-cresent -------\ | | |
Option 2: create uk.games.mornington.crescent -----\ | | | |
Option 1: create uk.games.mornington-crescent ---\ | | | | |
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Voter's Name Voter's E-mail Address 1 2 3 4 Q D
(the)webhamster webhamster trampette com 1 2 5 6 3 4
A Plantigrade Omnivore D Budd mcc ac uk 1 2 3 4 5 6
Alan Staniforth alan apollonia org 1 2 5 6 3 4
Alex D. Baxter alex-news oenone demon co uk 1 4 2 4 4 3
Alex Dawson alex dawson uea ac uk 1 4 4 4 3 2
Alex Holden alex alexh clara co uk 1 6 6 6 6 5
Alex Page mchu7ap2 fs2 ee umist ac uk 1 2 4 3
Andrew Pattle andrew egplc demon co uk 1 2 3 4 6 5
Andrew Stoker andrew peek-a-boo org uk 2 4 3 4 1 2
Andy Roberts andyrobts zetnet co uk 4 3 6 2 5 1
Andy Walker a j walker virgin net 1 4 5 5 2 3
Anthony R. Gold tgold panix com 1 3 2
astral alice alice darkwave org uk 1 2 3
Barry Salter ukvotes salterg demon co uk 2 4 1 3 6 5
Brett Paul Dunbar brett dimetrodon demon co uk 1 2 2 2 1 1
Charles Bryant ugm vote ch chch demon co uk 1 2 3 4 5
Charles F Hankel charles hankel mersinet co uk 1 2
Charles Lindsey chl clw cs man ac uk 1 2 3 3 1 4
Chris Croughton chris keris demon co uk 1 4 2 5 3
Chris Dennis chris dennis ndirect co uk 1 2 6 6 4 3
Colin Murphy ql 4 ever bigfoot com 1 2 3 4 5 6
Dave Holland dave zenda demon co uk 1 2 3
David Clark David Clark warwick ac uk 1 2 4 5 6 3
David Greenhough greeny spirit demon co uk 2 1 4 3 6 5
David Jackson david middleroom demon co uk 1 2 3
David John david amanuensis demon co uk 1 2 3 4 5 6
David Wood david wood2 demon co uk 1 2 4 4 5 3
Del derek knight bigfoot com 1 2 4 3 6 5
Denis McMahon denis pickaxe demon co uk 6 4 5 3 1 2
DinkiPixie dinkipix dinkipix co uk 1 2 3 4 6 5
Fi fd216 cam ac uk 1 2 3 4 6 5
Ian Jackson ijackson chiark greenend org uk 3 4 5 6 2 1
Ian Kitching systimk bridge anglia ac uk 1 2 5 6 4 3
J Watson engineer181 holistic clara net 1 5 6 3 4 2
James Bellaire bellaire tk com 1 2 4 5 3 6
James Coupe james obeah demon co uk 1 2 3
James Farrar james sfgiants22 freeserve co uk 1 4 5 5 3 2
Jason Waghorn wj tesco net 2 1 3 4 6 5
Jezza jezza hotwells freeserve co uk 2 1 4 3 5 6
Jim Benton-Evans jim benton-evans demon co uk 1 3 2 4 6 5
John A Fotheringham jaf jafsoft com 5 3 4 1 2 6
John Dexter JDexter Westfarthing demon co uk 1 2 4 4 3 4
John Ewing john gelsalba demon co uk 1
Kate L Pugh kake ox compsoc net
Keith Willoughby keith flat222 org 2 5 1 4 6 3
Livia Mitson livia wheelwright net 1 2 3 4 6 5
Luke Bosman lukebosman shrimpers org uk 1 1 2
M@ mgk ecs soton ac uk 1 2 3 4 6 5
Malcolm Mladenovic mbm acm org 1 2 1 2 1 1
Marcus Flavin aurelius theculture org 1 2 3 4 6 5
Marcus Houlden mcvote houlden f9 co uk 1 1 1 1 3 2
Mark Tyndall mrt102 york ac uk 1 2 4 3 6 5
martinr martinr thequiff demon co uk 6 4 3 1 5 2
martonvambac fwinstanley hotmail com 1 2 3 4 5 6
Matthew Hambley snowyowl therealm freeserve co uk 1 2 3 4 6 5
Mike Fleming mike tauzero co uk 1 2 4 5 6 3
Neil Horlock Neil Horlock mcmail com 1
Niles alex foster zetnet co uk 1 2 6 6 6 6
Nyk Tarr Nyk tomobiki u-net com 1 2 3
Paul Paul-U xebon clara co uk 1 3 3 3 3 2
Paul Bolchover pb10003 cus cam ac uk 1 2 4 5 3 6
Paul Leake P J Leake durham ac uk 3 4 5 6 2 1
Pete Humble peet dircon co uk 1
Peter Alfredsen peteralf softhome net 3 4 5 6 1 2
Peter Corlett abuse cabal org uk 1 3 2
Peter McMinn peter lemoncurry cix co uk 2 1 3 3 4 4
Phil Clark phil saxmund demon co uk 1 4 3 5 6 2
Philip Powell philip blencathra demon co uk 1 5 3 5 4 2
PRAR prar bizonline co uk 4 3 4 3 1 2
Rachael Munns vashti+cfv dream org uk 1
Rex M F Smith sumisu gehena demon co uk 1 3 5 6 4 2
Rick Martin rick martin pixel-group com 4 1 4 4 3 2
robbie robbie arrakis nu 1 4 2 3 6 5
Sarah Reeson sarah gubbins net 1 3 2 4
Steph Peters steph sandbenders demon co uk 2 1 3 3 5 4
Steve Dodd dirk loth demon co uk 1 1 1
Steve Wright steve wrightnet demon co uk 1 2
Tez Burke burkesworks lineone net 1 2 3 3 4 5
Thomas Lee tfl psp co uk 1 4 2 5 6 3
Tim Forcer tmf ecs soton ac uk 2 1 4 3 6 5
Tim Miller tm9829 bristol ac uk 1 3 2 4 6 5
Tobias Erle vote-uk kholdan snafu de 6 5 4 3 1 2
Toby Speight Toby Speight streapadair freeserve co uk 1 2 2 2 1 1
Tom Joyce t m joyce dunelm org uk 1 3 2 4
Tony Towers tony cats tele2 co uk 1 2 4 3
{R} {R} sunshine tm 1 2 3 4 6 5
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Votetakers Comments:
Many thanks to all voters for remembering to include their real names and e-
mail addresses on their votes. Many thanks also for including the most
entertaining collection of signatures and extra header lines I've yet seen
while taking a vote.
One person took the "PLEASE RANK THE ABOVE OPTIONS IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE"
instruction too literally and rearranged the order in which the options
appeared on the voting paper. Please don't do this.
Many apologies for the length of time it took me to produce these results.
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This vote was conducted by a neutral third party member of UKVoting.
UKVoting is a group of independent votetakers who count votes on CFVs
in the uk.* hierarchy.
The rules under which this vote is taken are posted regularly to
uk.net.news.announce or can be found at the following URL:
<ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/news.answers/uk/voting>
The UKVoting web pages can be found at <http://www.ukvoting.org.uk/>
There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted to
uk.net.news.announce.
Allegations of irregularity should be sent to control@usenet.org.uk.
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RATIONALE: (including Summary of Discussion)
The World Mornington Crescent Championships are going to take place
in October this year. Crescent is a game with a very long history
which is frequently discussed in soc.culture.british. With the World
Championship it is hoped that there will be additional interest in
Mornington Crescent.
Currently there are Mornington Crescent societies in Seventeen
countries.
Five of these countries (England, Scotland, Wales, USA, Italy) will
take part in this years championship. The Japanese, Canadian and
German teams hope to take part next year.
Summary of Discussion:
The majority of people responding to the RFD in unnc have said they
would be in favour of the group. The name, however, is undecided, which
is why I've requested a Condorcet vote.
The naming options are the top four from the strawpoll that was held to
reduce the number of options to be voted on, and, somewhat ironically,
don't include the originally proposed name (uk.games.cresent).
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CHARTER: uk.games.mornington-crescent
For your newsgroups file:
uk.games.mornington-crescent Discussion and play of Mornington Crescent
Charter for unmoderated newsgroup uk.games.mornington-crescent:
The group will discuss the various rule variations employed in
different countries. These rules require the contestants to think
for themselves and not rely on stock openings as is the case in
Chess. In addition others are required because of the need to
encompass the different topologies of the various Underground
networks.
In will also serve as a forum for discussing the various strategies
employed by world class players such as Tim Brooke-Taylor and the
late, great, Willie Rushton.
Finally it will serve as a medium for playing the game itself.
ADVERTISING
Advertising is forbidden, with these exceptions:
Suppliers of goods and services relevant to Mornington Crescent
in the UK may post a pointer to their website or invitation to
request details. This may not exceed four lines and may be
posted no more often than once every three months. The subject
line should begin "ADVERT:", except for vacancies, which should
begin "JOB:".
BINARIES & FORMATTING
Encoded binaries (e.g. pictures, compressed files, etc.), are
*forbidden*, except for cryptographic signatures (e.g. PGP).
Binaries belong on a web or ftp site, whose URL may be posted.
Posts must be in plain text. To see how to make your newsreader
comply with this, read <http://www.usenet.org.uk/ukpost.html>
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