[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'231119\' date=\'Nov 23 2009, 09:22 PM\']My feeling would be that a crossed-out answer, correct or not, is effectively the same as writing nothing. That's more or less what crossing out means.[/quote]
And that, ladies and gentlemen, wraps up another edition of Words Have Meanings.
It's a gray area for me, because if it's the only thing on the board, it's still a registered guess. There's no second guess on the monitor to nullify the first. I look at this as a written version of what we dealt with in College Bowl-your first given response is the accepted one, regardless of how unsure your answer sounds. Even if a player says "Is it Jefferson? No, it can't be", Jefferson is still the registered answer.
On the other hand, I wouldn't want to be the second place player who gave the correct response, only to lose because the leader's sole crossed out answer was accepted.
[quote name=\'jmangin\' post=\'231114\' date=\'Nov 23 2009, 08:03 PM\']Out of pure unrelated curiosity, what do you do if they write something incorrect after crossing-out what had been a correct answer?[/quote]
I do recall an occasion or two where Alex said something along the lines of "You said Washington. That's wrong, and it looks like you crossed out Jefferson, which was the correct response. Oooh, sorry."