Season 10 - Weekend One - Rules explained

over 2 years ago

Good Day All,
Season 10 is going to be different. Super League is introduced, so I feel I need to explain the format and scoring again. Please read below. For Consolation Cup players - you compete in a standard play-off mode, with two matches per round and the aggregate score deciding the winner.

Super League

Format & scoring

Starting this coming weekend (Fri THRU Mon, Aug 26-29), we will score points for:

stepping and publishing @actifit report cards
writing a post

Novelty: we do not compete in pairs (no group phase, no play-offs). We simply "walk alone". The sum of scores gathered during the four days is our Stepping Score.

Stepping Score: step count divided by 1000 and rounded to the nearest integer; 0.5 rounds up to 1

Novelty: additional points can be gained by writing an original (no reblogs) post into the @MAcFiT community). They will be awarded with Writing Score.

English preferred, could be bilingual
min. 250 words (400 if bilingual)
any topic within the broad categories:
-- @actifit (walking, hiking, biking, mass event etc.; even a visit to a museum goes)
-- @aliveprojects (cherishing life, planning and achieving goals, sharing good advice - ex. financial, health, even a cooking recipe fits in)
the post must have at least two beneficiaries
-- @macfit - this will create a pool of awards for our competitions
-- @hive-135376 (community owner) - this will create pool of awards for Super League participants
posts need to be submitted by Thursday preceding the stepping Weekend
-- ie. Weekend One starts on Friday, Aug 26, therefore posts must be in by Thursday 20:00 CEST at the latest
they will be evaluated by
-- regular upvotes; the four best will be awarded 20-15-12-10 points respectively
-- popular vote: on Thursday evening I will announce eligible posts and Super League participants (and only they!) will vote by placing comments. The authors of best four posts will be awarded 20-15-12-10 points respectively; each participant who cares to vote, will get 5 points. Voting for one's own post is obviously not allowed.

Writing Score: Sum of points for upvotes and popular vote

All points collected during a Weekend will be added up. Six players with the lowest total will be eliminated; the best two of them will be transferred to Consolation Cup. The rest will compete in Weekend Two, with the same rules. In Weekends 3 and 4 only four players will be eliminated.

See the scoring table for illustration (it is available as a public Google spreadsheet)

Super League scoring table

Scoring example

Say that @merthin achieves the following step counts:
Fri: 19501 => score: 20
Sat: 30456 -> score: 30
Sun: 15987 => score: 16
Mon: 14124 -> score: 14

He also writes a post (already there - see it here). Say it doesn't collect enough upvotes to be in the top four => 0 points. But say, in the popular vote of the participants it ends being the second best => 15 points. And since @merthin will take part in the voting, he receives additionaly => 5 points.

Therefore the total is: 20 + 30 + 16 + 14 + 0 +15 +5 = 100 points.
If the total is NOT among the 6 lowest scores for Weekend One, @merthin advances to Weekend Two.

All clear?

Schedule

Weekend One

SuperLeague first round (24 players; "walk alone" mode over 4 days) and Consolation Cup round 2 (12 winners from Weekend Zero; play-off, two matches).

SuperLeague:

Friday, Aug 26 thru Monday, Aug 29

Roster:

Consolation Cup:

Friday, Aug 26 and Saturday, Aug 27

Weekend Two

SuperLeague second round (18 players; "walk alone" mode over 4 days) and Consolation Cup 3rd round (6 winners from Weekend One + 2 best players eliminated in SuperLeague Weekend One; play-off, two matches).

SuperLeague:
Friday, Sep 2 thru Monday, Sep 5

Consolation Cup:
Friday, Sep 2 and Saturday, Sep 3

Weekend Three

SuperLeague 3rd round (12 players; "walk alone" mode over 4 days) and Consolation Cup 4th round (4 winners from Weekend Two + 2 best players eliminated in SuperLeague Weekend Two; play-off, two matches).

SuperLeague:
Friday, Sep 9 thru Monday, Sep 12

Consolation Cup:
Friday, Sep 9 and Saturday, Sep 10

Weekend Four

SuperLeague 4th round (8 players; "walk alone" mode over 4 days) and Consolation Cup Semifinals (3 winners from Weekend Two + the best player eliminated in SuperLeague Weekend Three; play-off, two matches).

SuperLeague:
Friday, Sep 16 thru Monday, Sep 19

Consolation Cup:
Friday, Sep 16 and Saturday, Sep 17