[EM] it's been pretty quiet around here...

[Dave Ketchum]

On Aug 14, 2010, at 10:21 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote:
>
> Warren has used the term "beats-all winner" for the Condorcet winner.
>
> Hope we can do better.
>
> How about, to stay with the tournament metaphor, "champion winner"?  
> Also, it has the advantage of sharing the acronym with Condorcet  
> winner. Perhaps to be clearer, "guaranteed championship winner" -  
> you could still abbreviate that to "guaranteed CW" and satisfy both  
> theorists and the general public.
>
> ("Guaranteed runoff winner" works too, if you want to sound similar  
> to IRV.)

Seems to me IRV has made doing like that something to avoid.  Anyway,  
we don't do runoffs - we do not create a problem that needs to use a  
runoff to escape.

"guaranteed" sounds like a dangerous word to include in a label.

"Tournament" sorta fits for we are reporting on lots of races, but I  
do not really like that particular word here.

Why not Condorcet?  We can brag about having enough sense to use  
something good invented so long ago.

Dave Ketchum
>
> JQ