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My Chemical Showmance (and damn! I love their Black Parade album) - FYI the Overall Edgic Rating isn't really part of edgic. It's a fun thing to do to fill the void in our sad, pathetic little lives between seasons of Survivor. Edgic's point is to use the logic of editing, episode-by-episode, to identify the winner. There is no way that any compilation of all episode edits, no matter how performed, can help in this process.

So your complaint about the lack of logic in assigning (as an example) an OTT to Bruce is understandable. at least from a certain perspective. But it's utterly irrelevant to edgic regardless of which side you come down on in the great "What does Overall Rating Mean" kerfluffle.

If it matters, here's my take (again, completely irrelevant!) on the Overall Impression Rating:

Because Edgic deals in edits in a single episode - the impression one has of the person in an entire episode, the OIR can logically be considered the overall edit for the story arc of a player. To show the point, let's take a basic, weird OTT edit - someone who is really not seen for most of the episode but then gives an ugly tirade at TC. It's quite reasonable that we'd smack him with an OTT. However, in the first three segments of the show he was nearly INV! That's adding 0 + 0 + 0 + 4 and getting 16!

Well, yeah, but edgic isn't addition. It's impressions. It's essentially: So, what'dya think of player X this episode?

It's not a compilation of the rating in each segment. That is where Visibility comes in. Remember - confessionals and sentences CAN be added, so V is easily considered an objective summation.

But ratings, which are impressions, are subjective and cannot be logically added (How much is "Sad + Angry divided by Triumphant?") It's an overall impression in an episode.

Now if we apply this to a player's entire season edit the logic of an Overall Impression rating becomes clear. You are basically asking, at the end of the season, the same question you ask at the end of an episode to get a player's rating: "So - what'dya think of Player X?" It's no more a compilation of all the player's episode ratings than an episodic rating is a compilation of the player's rating in the "Previously" segment, the First segment, the Reward Challenge... Tribal Council.

And again - the above is completely irrelevant to Edgic.