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Wikicup

2017 WikiCup round 3 wrap-up

Key
FA	Featured article
GA	Good article
FL	Featured list
FP	Featured picture
FT	Featured topic
GT	Good topic
DYK	Did you know?
ITN	In the news

Seventeen of thirty-two remaining contestants advance, with Cas Liber again leading the round

The third round of the WikiCup competition has finished in a flurry of last-minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine. Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as five featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall; this last figure exceeds the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people took part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

Cas Liber (submissions) proved his dominance again, with the Red-billed tropicbird being one of his two FAs, and four GAs. He also pulled in points on DYK and GAR, with six and thirteen respectively.
Whilst Arlington, Washington was SounderBruce's (submissions) only FA, he had five GA's and eight DYK's propelling him to second.
The 250t-class torpedo boat was one of two FAs that pushed Peacemaker67 (submissions) to third place.
Despite having no FAs in round three, Carbrera (submissions), with two Barbra Streisand related, and eight other GAs, as well as one FL was pushed into fourth place.
Cyclone Ada was one of Juliancolton's (submissions) two FA's, (and their only GA) that allowed them to finish in fifth place.
Rocky Romero was one of three GA's for MPJ-DK (submissions) that helped them greatly. However, what really sealed the deal on their sixth place finish was ten points for each one of the twenty-six articles in a featured topic.
Read-Only Memory (publisher) was one of Czar's (submissions) two GA's. An additional FA catapulted Czar from near the bottom to seventh place.
The mallard was one of four GA's that allowed Adityavagarwal (submissions) to snag eighth place.
Miriam Makeba was one of Vanamonde's (submissions) four GA's. In addition, they had seven DYK's, three ITN, and four GARs.
Bcschneider53 (submissions) had one FL, one FA, two GA's, one DYK, and eight GARs leading them to tenth place.
With Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery being one of two GA's, and having two FLs, and three DYKs, Bloom6132 (submissions) took eleventh place quite smoothly.
1918 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team was one of two GARs that, along with eight GAs, left BU Rob13 (submissions) in twelfth place.
Clear Rivers was the GA that, along with a FA allowed PanagiotisZois (submissions) to come in thirteenth.
Hurricane Debby (1988) was one of the seven GA's that 12george1 (submissions) received. Those largely kept them ahead of a lot of the pack, to finish in fourteenth place.
Typhoon Clara, and four other GA's, as well as eight DYKs and nine GARs put Yellow Evan (submissions) in fifteenth place.
A single FA for Swiss explorer and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, along with two GARs, allowed Freikorp (submissions) to narrowly make the next round, in fact tying for sixteenth place.
Getting the Philadelphia municipal election, 1951 to featured status, and having two GAs is largely the reason that Coemgenus (submissions) managed to progress to the next round, tying for sixteenth place.

Category leaders

This WikiCup has been a very high paced one, with 33 FAs, 216 GAs, 14 FLs, 26 FTs, 15 GTs, 499 DYKs, 71 ITN, and 377 GARs. In this section, we pay tribute to the leaders in every section, even if they are no longer competing.