Our result also shows that in this class of noisy-contests, the profit-maximization problem of the planner can be turned into a stochastic choice problem for a planner who has some deterministic preferences over the contestants' win probabilities.
Gardener Peter Glazebrook has won top prize in all six classes of the giant vegetable contest at the Harrogate show and has broken the world record for the heaviest onion.
A team of 50 rowers across 17 boat classes will contest the event.
Ascot's showpiece remains a top class contest, of course, but there is no getting away from the feeling that it is not the race it should have been.
Follow the returns on Election Day, and then announce winners of the class contest once the national vote is tallied.
As a former co-ordinator of the World Bank's tertiary-education programme and author of a book entitled "The Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities", he is the white-haired sage of the world-class university contest.
The Daily Telegraph has been blunter in its assessment that the election is "a class-war contest between the promise of prosperity and the defence of the working class".
But Harty said he had been sure of the horse's quality and felt he would benefit from the stronger pace of a top-class contest.
The King George has sometimes struggled to live up to the quality of the race's halcyon days in the modern era but this year's running has all the makings of a high-class contest.
