Time and date: 7 February 2024 at 2:00 pm | Location: Abacws 3.38 | Speaker: Aric Fowler
In many competitions a set of point assignments is used to determine a winner, with the winning candidate being the one with the highest score. When it comes to revealing the result to an audience, some competitions proceed by having a roll call where each voter announces their vote in turn. This is done for entertainment purposes, raising the question: Which ordering of the voters should be chosen to maximise the entertainment value of the roll call? In this talk, I present a formal definition for the Score Reveal Problem, some background on entertainment theory, and a framework of entertainment measures that can be used to find entertaining permutations.
