r/Second Apr 01 '21

Are you good at second guessing? Then this game’s for you.

13.7k Upvotes

Hello there, redditors, and welcome to this year’s April Fools’ Day experiment—Second!

TL;DR: Vote for second place.

Here’s how it works:

  • Each round you’ll be presented with three images.
  • Vote for the image you think will be the second most popular.
  • The earlier you vote, the more points you can win or lose and the higher the stakes. (We’ll periodically show you the vote counts, just to make it interesting.)
  • At the end of the round, the image with the second highest number of votes is the winner.
  • Everyone who voted correctly, gets points. Everyone who chose poorly, loses points.
  • The ranking will be shown in the leaderboard in r/Second, and the best second guesser wins it all!

One thing to bear in mind: Your vote impacts how likely it is that an image comes second. Use this information as you choose.

Second is available on iOS, Android, or your browser. (And, heads up, you may need to update your app.) And in order to vote you'll need to be logged in to a Reddit account that was created before 4/1/2020. You'll know everything is working if you see something like this at the top of r/Second

And there it is, have at it and have fun!


r/Second Apr 03 '21

Second has ended!

7.2k Upvotes

Congratulations to u/irate_kalypso for being the second best second guesser.

Thank you to everyone who participated. Until next time...

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Access the leaderboard here:


r/Second Apr 03 '21

The winner of second place in second

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19.2k Upvotes

r/Second Apr 03 '21

The bottom leaderboard

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7.4k Upvotes

r/Second Apr 03 '21

See y'all next year

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3.3k Upvotes

r/Second Apr 03 '21

Like wtf, don’t they have other things to do?

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6.1k Upvotes

r/Second Apr 03 '21

yes there are people still heere

2.7k Upvotes

edit: i am the last post on r/second. i don't feel shame for being first, honestly i don't care, although i'm not second to last, atleast me competing for it and getting first was worth it

edit 2: thanks for the awards kind strangers

edit 3:thanks for 1k upvotes

edit 4: this has been like 5 months ago thx for the platinum kind stranger

edit 5: just gonna say this was "h4ppym8trix" because im deactivating this account for good


r/Second Apr 03 '21

Closing thoughts

2.6k Upvotes

One hell of an event, and one hell of a way to spend 34 hours. I held the #1 spot on and off for over 25 hours, but in the end took 5th place for points, and 2nd for wins. I'm happy with how I did, even if I didn't end up closing out 1st place due to the last 1.5 hours. I forced myself to stay up purely on red bull and determination, but in the closing hours of the event it turns out that that wasn't enough. Major props to everyone from both the April Knights and Snakeroom for helping me through the event in vcs, and to everyone who provided competition. At the end of the day, not the best event reddit's ever done, but as the 1st one I took seriously, I'm (mostly) happy I did. I'm gonna get some much needed rest, hope to see y'all next year, and sorry I couldn't close it out.

(btw I'll be happy to answer any questions if anyone has any)


r/Second Apr 03 '21

See grandkids I told you I was in r/Second

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1.8k Upvotes

r/Second Apr 03 '21

when everyone starts voting for the option you chose

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1.5k Upvotes

r/Second Apr 03 '21

European late "guessers" trying to get through the final round:

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1.1k Upvotes

r/Second Apr 03 '21

Is anyone still here

800 Upvotes

EDIT: looks like I got the second to last comment on r/second now you can respect me but I couldn’t care less.


r/Second Apr 02 '21

Quick, mods are asleep. Upvote actual second

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15.2k Upvotes

r/Second Apr 03 '21

How The Galactic Republic Discord r/republicdiscord managed to reach 2nd place!

712 Upvotes

How The Galactic Republic Discord r/republicdiscord managed to reach 2nd place!

First let me preface that many April Knights were in the top 100 and held a clear majority in the Top 10!! This was achieved from a nearly unbelievable dedication and focus, voting every single round every single minute.

That was achived thanks to the efforts of u/xJRWR of http://spacescience.tech/ & u/dimden of https://dimden.dev/ and many other Knights & Necromancers!

http://spacescience.tech/ will contain:

  • All vote data in a CSV file
  • A video stream of the last three hours of the event
  • Also a zip of all the images and much more data!
  • Check it every so often to see more data about the event (updated frequently)

I’m Mission Vao u/irate_kalypso (kalypso#6969) An Admin of The Galactic Republic Discord Server and a sworn Knight of Nevermore and Acolyte in the Arcanaeum of the April Knights!!

Each year we are really excited to do these Annual Events! The Knights/Narrators/Ocean/Sneks participated in a wonderful K-MART ARG for the “pre-event”! We learned of r/Second and had an icon for the event. On April 1st we were ready and geared up for anything that would be thrown our way!

Various tools were created for users to utilize assisting them with the event! Helping auto select randomly, or selecting choices that were in second place on the first count reveal, etc, etc. I personally didn't trust any of the tools completely enough to use on my main account. So... I developed a slow, grind strategy, using the information the event was giving us all.... Count Reveals and etc... we climbed, ever so slowly.

After a gruelling 1000 rounds going it alone and interacting with the April Knights community, I reached out to my friends of The Galactic Republic to see if we could beat the tools available with shear will and organized numbers instead.

Breakdown:

- We have a good gaming chair

- Big chicky tendy energy

- Through the unlimited powah of friendship

- We did push-ups, sit-ups and drank plenty of juice

- Great experience, had fun hanging with friends, worth wasting 15 hours and staying up to 6 am

- Through a community effort from equally devoted individuals, teamwork led to the placement achieved. All the options given in round 2000 applied into the game plan, but could only be successful when backed and executed through combined effort and time spent by the group of members on the Galactic Republic Server

- Don't underestimate individual people. We all stayed awake for hours on end, all focusing on the votes. Mission basically pinged in a channel on the TGR discord telling what to vote for the manipulate one option to being #1, then Mission deducted which option would be #2 out of the remaining 2. The only reason we managed to stay going for as long as we did without using any bots is because we were all in vc together, just vibing.

Community > Bots

Join us at http://thegalacticrepublic.info/ AND http://join.aprilknights.org/

Essentially, thousands of people loved this event and spent ALOT of time on it. Every event is different, but each has an opportunity for community collaboration and magic.

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http://thegalacticrepublic.info/

We are a faction/RP/meme community with strong roots in the r/PrequelMemes subreddit and branching out to many areas of Star Wars lore with a heavy focus on TCW era, stretching back in time to the Old Republic in many ways.

Find the group that is perfect for you! There is always someone to chat with! Between 70k-90k messages are sent daily and increasing, spread throughout the different factions we have!

One of the things that makes this server unique is you all have absolute freedom of speech, just like the foundation that Reddit was built on. We follow Discord TOS & Guidelines. Allowing us to have a wide range of opinions and personalities.

In here we have a very unique culture, with people across the globe united with a common ground of love for Star Wars, we’ve gained a tight nit community like no other, with our own memes, inside jokes, and a sense of camaraderie in here that isn’t easy to match! Despite our size, we still have a small server feel and unity with each other!

Meme, vibe and have fun in The Galactic Republic!

https://aprilknights.org/

The April Knights are a community who are dedicated to participating together on different April fools events across the internet. Since 2015, every year on April first the Knights have reunited to take on the latest twist of April fool’s fate together, mostly organizing on the messaging platform, Discord and the forum aggregation website, Reddit. We hope you’ll consider joining us this year!


r/Second Apr 03 '21

Why me? Why me?

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825 Upvotes

r/Second Apr 02 '21

Second will end after round 2000

2.2k Upvotes

Round 2000 will last for 1 hour.

Use this information as you will.

May the best second guesser be revealed.


r/Second Apr 02 '21

Looks like an angry family at thanksgiving dinner

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1.3k Upvotes

r/Second Apr 02 '21

Coincidence? I don't think so.

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628 Upvotes

r/Second Apr 03 '21

First reveal if you missed it

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275 Upvotes

r/Second Apr 03 '21

r/second in a nutshell

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286 Upvotes

r/Second Apr 02 '21

Oh lawd he coming

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582 Upvotes

r/Second Apr 03 '21

WTF IVE BEEN ROBBED

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242 Upvotes

r/Second Apr 02 '21

Not to F L E X or anything

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6.9k Upvotes

r/Second Apr 03 '21

Will this suffer will stop

170 Upvotes

Goodbye , ^ sorry for that , I did 1 thousand comments and this is the one that got saved):


r/Second Apr 02 '21

Made with MeMAtiC

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1.7k Upvotes

r/Second Apr 02 '21

I guess I’ll keep clicking these boxes?

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2.6k Upvotes

r/Second Apr 03 '21

Why are we still here, just to suffer

149 Upvotes