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Board: ARCHIVE - SpC2k5 to SC2k6
Topic: Oracle Challenge Discussion Topic 3
From: Ngamer64 Posted: 11/9/2006 9:03:13 PM
I know we're not going to be predicting the BR as an official part of the Oracle, but I know earlier we'd been discussing how fun it would be to go ahead and continue predicting in the topics anyways, just as a fun bonus.

I realize how difficult it would be to set up the updater script/website/database for this entirely new concept, but how about this idea? We could find a volunteer to enter predictions in manually, just like the old days. BUT, since there's a system in place, they could just enter picks into the database as if they were inputting predictions for 6 matches. So for instance,

Match 1 = Mario final %
Match 2 = Sonic final %
Match 3 = Zelda final %
Match 4 = Sephiroth final %
Match 5 = Link final %
Match 6 = Cloud final %

Is how the database would think of our BR Day One predictions. Then at the end of the day the volunteer would just have to manually enter the final % results, just like in the past, and the website would be able to display results, total points, and all the rest just like normal.

Of course failing that, we could just fall back on the classic Excel solution...

What say you Kax and KM? Is this doable? Do we need to start advertising for a competent volunteer to input this data?

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