Help Decide the Best August Articles

[JonnyPoet]

Well, let me help you see.
Assume, there are 3 winners per game "time frame".
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The 2nd contest has 3 winners for 40 articles.
Is my math totally screwed up or don't you stand a better chance of winning in the first contest? Come on.

Mathematics especuially statistics could be used to proof everything. The first truth is, you simple do asumptions that cannot be proven. Who says that the double of time will bring a double amount of people publishing an article.
So it could also happen that we also have only 20 articles in the two month period. Or you could get 200 in one month because its just holidaytime and people have time to write an article like me last month.
In my case I could easily do this in August, but very much more difficult now, because the job needs work too.
So mathematics with variables used arbitrary just as they fits to proof an idea, is not good. The whole thing is only an idea, nothing else.
The truth is: All of us had a chance to write an article in August,some did, some not. Now there is again a possibility to write an article and again a chance to win, and again everybody has the chance to win.
If one has done the August competition he maybe would have had a better chance then in the next one, maybe not, nobudy knows. Maybe when there is another competition done at chrismastime lots of people needs to do family concerning things and have less time again. Is it unfair then to have a competition during chrismas time as there are less people doing an article nd that one who does have a better chance again. - Or maybe its to hot in Vienna to work on an article so it would be unfair for me to have a competition in that time.

No, none of that. If you have the same rules for all in one game then it is fair. You never in life get reallly the same conditions twice in life.
If you are playing games where the win is devided to the amount of winners. like in Bingo I think or here in Austria the national lottery. Sometimes they have a bigger win then in another time, sometimes they have one winner who gets all the mones, sometimes they have 10 winners and every of them only gets 10 percent of the win. Not fair ?
But maybe the 10 % are more then another win someone has had alone.

You are on the wrong track. The simplicity behind all that is. You have a game and you have rules, And you can choose to play the game or not, your decision. and you may win or loose which maybe a bit has to do with luck - thats what I can accept.

Doing an article within two month and having maybe more articles there reduces the chance for everybody who playes the game - and this way it is FAIR. As told from another one you have the chance to do a much better workout if you have more time and this way increase the chance to win, even when there are 1000 articles. May the best get the price. Next time - next try - next luck. Take it as a game instead of a calculation.