Season Six already in choas... Was this staged? Have we just jumped the shark?
For the record, I never saw the auction. Nod sent me an e-mail (
emphasis is mine):
Quote:
So you can announce the winners from the price guessing game, I have included the final selling price here. I probably will not have internet access a good part of next week.
Price was $89.
The rules do allow a host to make up a price, but that rule was only intended for those that cannot remember how much they paid for a coin already purchased, not a pending auction.
This is clearly the same coin in the auction since the image posted here is linked directly to the seller's homepage!
It is possible that Nod misread the end time and grabbed an intermediate bid. I will let him answer that when he returns.
As for the impact on the round, oh my!
The real price makes
trdhrdr007 the actual winner of this round and
coincollectingkid eligible for five more points.
Here is what I have decided.
coincollectingkid and
trdhrdr007 each get five extra points.
trdhrdr007 can participate in Round 3. This gives him at least five more points and (at minimum) the twenty points he earned. He also has the chance to earn the five or fifteen additional points in this round; which
Murty cannot since he is the host.
Sound fair?