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US Presidential Election 2012 Guessing Game
（October 24, 2012 to November 5, 2012）
Photo：Wikipedia
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney

The "US Presidential Election 2012 Guessing Game " has been completed from 24 October to 5 November, 2012 and the following are the results. All rankings have been calculated by the final amount of PopCoins earned. Besides the PopCoins earned after the game, POP has listed the extra PopCoins earned in the following table.

The results of the by-election is Barack Obama(332):Mitt Romney(206)

Calculation of the extra Popcoins: POP has recorded an accumulation of extra points of 39,335 and has recieved 2 groups of valid and correct guesses after the game has ended. If by this means, each correct guess will receive an extra 19,668 points and the extra points given to the players have been listed in the table below. We would like to thank you for your participation!

*Note: All POP staff have been removed from the winners' list

Prize winners Correct answers in total Extra PopCoins
samchan212 2 39335

The United States Presidential election of 2012 will be held on Tuesday, 6 November, 2012. This is the 57th Presidential Election of the United States.

 

References: United States Presidential election - Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election

  • The name of this game is the US Presidential Election 2012 Guessing Game.
  • Registered users can make guesses of the number of electoral votes each candidate will get in the US Presidential Election 2012 to be held on 6 November 2012.
  • 150 PopCoins will be earned for making daily guesses. Please complete the simple login process if you wish to earn PopCoins and other prizes, otherwise you will not earn any PopCoins or prizes. Each registered user can only guess once per day.
  • The game will end at 2359 (HK Time) on 5 November 2012, guesses made after 2359 on that day will not earn any PopCoins or prizes.
  • All registered users can earn both PopCoins and extra PopCoins at the same time.
  • Extra PopCoins are calculated according to a one-on-one basis by POP and will be given out after the game is over.
  • Each guess matching the number of electoral votes that the candidates of the US Presidential Election 2012 get will earn extra PopCoins. Guesses made by non registered users will not be calculated.
  • Each valid and correct guess made by registered users will earn extra PopCoins, the extra PopCoins are allocated to each player according to the accumulated extra PopCoins received after the game ends divided by the total amount of correct guesses made by all registered users. This is the extra PopCoins of each guess.
  • The extra PopCoins of each individual registered user is the total number of correct guesses of the registered user multiplied by the extra PopCoins given out of each guess result and to be rounded up to an integer.
  • POP retains all rights in explaining the game rules, allocating PopCoins, scoring of results and deciding winners.