I hope that each submission will be valuated by a panel of judges, not an individual judge: http://code.google.com/android/adc_judging.html
To be objective, a panel must consist of at least 3 judges. Let's assume that each of 100 judges receives 17.8 submissions. A judge will score an app relatively to other apps in the same “bucket”. In most cases, this will lead to one app from a bucket that makes into the first 100. Apps are randomly packed into buckets. This may result in "strong" (several good apps) and "weak" (no good apps) buckets. A second app in a strong bucket can be significantly better than the best app in a weak bucket. But this second app may not make the first 100 if buckets are reviewed by individual judges because cross-bucket judging will not be executed. So, larger buckets lead to fairer judging. Dan Morrill, please let us know the size of a bucket when you have a free moment. On Apr 18, 8:09 am, "jim.renkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wondering if the 1,788 is total submissions (including re- > submissions) or unique submissions (not including re-submissions). If > it's the latter, we were all way off on our guesses of submissions. If > it's the former, it's still a large and impressive number, but the > number of unique submissions will be much smaller. > > I was not receiving acknowledgments for submissions, so I re-submitted > until I got an acknowledgment. In one case I had to resubmit 5 times > before I got an acknowledgment. > > Also, if it's the latter, that means each judge is going to be looking > at an average of 17.8 submissions, and they need to do that and have > the results collated by May 5. Wow, talk about deadline pressure. :-) > > Any other thoughts on this? > > Jim Rnkel > > On Apr 18, 1:41 am, freeanderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > great news. > > the competitive rate is 35.76:1 for 50 semi finalist. > > of course, although substantially it will be hard competition of 2.8% > > of top level. > > it's the stern realities. > > > On Apr 18, 3:00 pm, jalopy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/04/android-developers-hav... > > > > Good luck!- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
