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Quick question about judging, from a newbie.

A topic by DeafonicsGameStudio created 44 days ago Views: 98 Replies: 1
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As this is my first Jam, I don't know if this is something I'm not allowed to ask.
I'm just wondering how the judging system works.
Does 1st/2nd/3rd etc place depend on how many ratings a game has got? Or which has the most 3/4/5 stars compared to others?
Just trying to work it out as someone who has 50+ ratings is obviously going to overshadow anyone who's barely got 10 or 15 and it seems a smidge unfair regardless if most of the 50+ ratings are 3 or thereabouts.
What am I not knowing/misunderstanding? Or is this a forbidden question?

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The rank is based on average rating except that the score is reduced a bit porportionately to the number of votes missing to reach the median number of votes among games (median, not average, so basically for the top half most voted games their average rating is used while the rating of further ones in rank of numbers of votes is reduced).