I appreciate the concern over the scoring, and I can only respond to what I know. I wasn't involved in the first task, so I don't know about that scoring, but it seems fair, since Ravenclaw showed up and made an attempt that SOME points appeared. That's the way it worked in the other two tasks... but again, don't know.
I'm glad they didn't have a problem with task two, as that was my baby, and I think it was VERY fair.
As for task three, the scoring did go "1st=40, 2nd=30,...etc." but that was made clear even before the task started. I don't know how else that task could have been scored, and I felt that it was fair, considering the task, and that it kind of reflected the spirit of the original Tri-Wizard tournament - scoring based on the order they completed it. Its unfortunate that this scoring means Slytherin lost, but... they didn't complain about it until it was clear they would come in second.
I'm sorry... its a game, and there was no absolutely fair way to do this, considering we AND they had real life and time zones to deal with. I think they're going to have to just accept the scores and we'll work to make sure that time zones are considered more carefully and that scoring is more even in some ways... next time.
Just my two knuts
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