Pulchra, the beauty game.

Pulchra - Contest rules

Pulchra is a contest that pits one hundred articles against each other. These items are chosen by a commission of authoritative experts.

The general public then selects the ten most beautiful things out of these one hundred items. Anyone who wishes can vote by listing the ten items of their choice in order from first to tenth. You can vote by logging on to www.pulchra.org and filling out the form provided. Or, vote by mail using the printed forms you'll soon find in newspapers and official publications. You can vote as many times as you like. The only thing you can't do is vote more than once a day.

A voter automatically gives ten points to the object in first place on his personal standings, nine to the second, eight to the third, and so on until the tenth, which gets one point.

The points given to each article in the personal standings will be totaled up to create a general classification that lists the objects in order from first to one hundredth place.

The first ten items on these final standings will be the winners of the contest.

There will also be a winner among the voters; namely, the person whose personal standings most closely match the general standings of the winning items. He or she will receive ten thousand euros in gold coins and will be chosen in the following way.

Ten points will be assigned every time the personal standings have predicted the position of an item in the general classification; for example, when the article in third place in the general classification is in third place on the personal standings.

When the places of the same item on the two classifications do not match, the difference between them will be deducted from the full ten-point score for that item. For example, if an object is in third place on the personal standings and is in tenth place on the general list, the difference is 10 - 3 = 7, so that seven points will be subtracted from the full score of ten and the remaining 3 points will be given to the voter. Here's another example: if an object in third place on the personal standings is in first place on the general list, the difference is 3 - 1 = 2, so that two points will be subtracted from the ten points of the full score and the 8 remaining points will be given to the voter.

There may be multiple winners with the same number of points. If this happens, preference will be given to the winners who've identified (in the box on each voting form) an object that deserves to participate in next year's contest.

However, there still may be winners with tie scores. In this case, preference will be given to the one who has totaled the most full 10-point scores. If the ties persist, the winner will be the person who voted first.