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. Muthu Ramadoss http://mobeegal.in http://androidrocks.in http://intellibitz.com http://twitter.com/intellibitz http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz http://slideshare.net/intellibitz http://groups.google.com/group/android-chennai +91 44 22476750 We develop innovative search solutions using LBS for Android. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
