If exactly 50 submissions are made, and google awards 50 winners, its 
time to believe we are living in a perfect world. :)

Philip wrote:
> Peli,
>
> Though your reasoning makes sense, I believe the numbers mentioned in
> the Judging process summary MAY have more to do with the mere human
> nature since they are put together by people (did anybody say
> androids?). Humans love nice round numbers (see this for more details
> http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=why-things-cost-1995). Of course
> you would not expect them to say something like "we will select 76 or
> 64 or 123 submissions". 100 sounds nice, it's twice the number of the
> first round winners so why not...
>
> Philip
>
> On Apr 9, 12:45 pm, Peli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Incognito,
>>
>> I'm really sorry that I have to scatter your hopes for few
>> submissions. Dan Morrill has the most accurate submission count tool,
>> but he will not share his information. But luckily some information
>> leaked :-)
>>
>> Look at the page "The Android Developer Challenge Judging 
>> Process":http://code.google.com/android/adc_judging.html
>>
>> This page was added recently, and whoever wrote this knew the number
>> of submissions up to that point and could estimate the expected total
>> number of submissions. It states that phase I will select 100
>> submissions with the highest scores. This pre-selection would not make
>> any sense if there were less than 100 submissions to be expected, and
>> also would not be necessary if the number of submissions was only
>> around 150. Note that phase I already follows a "threshold" phase
>> where all submissions that do not run are dropped.
>>
>> The distinction between phase I and phase II (which is nowhere
>> mentioned in the ADC terms and conditions) is a move that is only
>> necessary if there are at least a few hundred applications expected
>> that pass the initial threshold.
>>
>> It would be very interesting to know the true statistics once the
>> competition is over :-)
>>
>> Peli
>>
>> On Apr 9, 8:34 am, Incognito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> OK, I know that this is extremely unlikely. But can you imagine that
>>> around 50 entries were submitted? Yes, 300 now sounds far fetched. It
>>> will probably be around 150 apps or less based on the turnout that
>>> I've seen here. I'm assuming that there are a lot of small
>>> applications from users that do not check this forum.
>>>       
-- 
Thanks.

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