The 2007 User Popularity Elimination Game

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RolStoppable said:

This elimination game is weird. Normally at this point there would be two or three clear leaders, but things are very even here. I guess of the 15 people left, everyone is quite popular. Nobody wants to eliminate someone and therefore evens things out at the top.

Once we get down to only 10 people left, it seems very likely that the leader will have less than 10 points.

Btw, by that point we should make use of the ten man rule in this elimination game to prevent quick assassinations. No double and triple votes anymore, instead three single votes per day.

I think that the reason there are no clear leaders is that as soon as someone pulls significantly away from the pack everyone starts dragging him down.  naznatips was at 19 for about a page (4 or 5 points above everyone else), then at 20 for half a page, then he got dragged down and Onna76 took his place at 20, then she got dragged down and no one has dared rise above the leading pack by more than a point or two without being dragged down in short order.

As for your idea, it sounds like a very good one and I intend to put it in the rules right now.