Problem 46573. Determine the winner of a goofy golf tournament

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The group members explained that the tournament's rules were unconventional:</div><ul style="block-size: 62.5px; counter-reset: list-item 0; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; list-style-type: square; margin-block-end: 20px; margin-block-start: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 10px; perspective-origin: 391px 31.25px; transform-origin: 391px 31.25px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; "><li style="background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 50%; block-size: 20.8333px; counter-reset: none; display: list-item; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-start: 56px; margin-left: 56px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 363px 10.4167px; text-align: left; transform-origin: 363px 10.4167px; white-space: pre-wrap; margin-left: 56px; "><span style="background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; perspective-origin: 243.875px 8px; transform-origin: 243.875px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; ">The golfer with the best score must have cheated, so that person is eliminated.</li><li style="background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 50%; block-size: 20.8333px; counter-reset: none; display: list-item; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-start: 56px; margin-left: 56px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 363px 10.4167px; text-align: left; transform-origin: 363px 10.4167px; white-space: pre-wrap; margin-left: 56px; "><span style="background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; perspective-origin: 179.7px 8px; transform-origin: 179.7px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; ">The golfer with the second-best score must have choked (<a target='_blank' href = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choke_(sports)">definition</a><span style="background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; perspective-origin: 3.88333px 8px; transform-origin: 3.88333px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; ">, <a target='_blank' href = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A24tAToTxLU">example</a><span style="background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; perspective-origin: 93.35px 8px; transform-origin: 93.35px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; ">), so that person is eliminated.</li><li style="background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 50%; block-size: 20.8333px; counter-reset: none; display: list-item; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-start: 56px; margin-left: 56px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 363px 10.4167px; text-align: left; transform-origin: 363px 10.4167px; white-space: pre-wrap; margin-left: 56px; "><span style="background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; perspective-origin: 157.525px 8px; transform-origin: 157.525px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; ">Therefore, the golfer with the third-best score wins.</li></ul><div style="block-size: 105px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-block-end: 9px; margin-block-start: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-inline-end: 10px; margin-inline-start: 4px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 2px; perspective-origin: 384px 52.5px; text-align: left; transform-origin: 384px 52.5px; white-space: pre-wrap; margin-left: 4px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-right: 10px; "><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 374.025px 8px; transform-origin: 374.025px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; ">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). 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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 at 15:51

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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