Problem 46573. Determine the winner of a goofy golf tournament
My brother and father were playing golf one day, and they caught up to a group that was part of a tournament. The group members explained that the tournament's rules were unconventional:
- The golfer with the best score must have cheated, so that person is eliminated.
- The golfer with the second-best score must have choked (definition, example), so that person is eliminated.
- Therefore, the golfer with the third-best score wins.
Write a function that takes a vector of scores and determines the winner of this tournament (i.e., the number of the golfer with the third-best score). Remember that the objective in golf is to get a low score. You can assume that if two golfers tie for the best score, a playoff would separate them, and the player with the original second lowest score would win. If two golfers tie for the second-best score, eliminate them both. Let's ignore the possibility of a tie for third-best score; the organizers of the tournament probably had everyone figure it out at the 19th hole.
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Christian Schröder
on 4 Mar 2023
The problem description is a bit unclear. Suppose that x = [70 71 73 74 73 70 72]. Then golfer #7 has the third best score; but since there's two golfers tied for first place (#1 and #6) and we're supposed to imagine a play-off then, I would suspect that the correct answer here is actually 2 rather than 7. Would be nice to get a clarification.
ChrisR
on 9 Sep 2023
Yes, that's correct. The order would be 70a, 70b, 71, so the golfer with 71 would be third and win.
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