election_title: "Crowded field, rung 7 — 7 candidates, 65 voters, counted by RCV-IRV"

scenario_description: |-
  RUNG 3 — seven candidates, and Diego is down to 9 first choices out of 65 while
  still beating all six rivals head-to-head.

  He is eliminated; RCV-IRV elects Clara. Round 1 doubles as the Choose-One count, which
  elects Greta on 15 — the candidate standing furthest from the middle of the electorate,
  and one Diego beats 50–15 one-on-one.

  Counted here on the ranked ballots, deliberately. At seven candidates the 0–5 ballot in
  crowded_field_c7_star.yaml carries ties on most rows, so reading IRV or Choose-One off
  it — as that file's divergence block is forced to — measures the score-to-rank
  tie-break rather than the method. These are the numbers to quote.

  Same 65 voters and the same fixed candidate positions as crowded_field_c7_star.yaml,
  on a ranked ballot — the same ballots as crowded_field_c7_ranked_robin.yaml, counted by
  elimination instead of head-to-head.

  Construction: build_ladder.py in this folder. 65 voters in seven blocs at 0, 4, 8, 12,
  16, 20, 24 (sizes 6, 10, 13, 9, 12, 8, 7); candidates fixed at Ana 1 · Bruno 6 ·
  Clara 9 · Diego 11 · Elsa 14 · Felix 16 · Greta 22; utility = minus distance; scores =
  each bloc's own min-max scaling onto 0–5. Nothing is tuned, and no count at any rung is
  settled by a tie-break.

voting_method: RCV_IRV
num_winners: 1

lot_numbers: [Ana, Bruno, Clara, Diego, Elsa, Felix, Greta]

ballots: |-
  6:Ana>Bruno>Clara>Diego>Elsa>Felix>Greta    # bloc at 0
  10:Bruno>Ana>Clara>Diego>Elsa>Felix>Greta    # bloc at 4
  13:Clara>Bruno>Diego>Elsa>Ana>Felix>Greta    # bloc at 8
  9:Diego>Elsa>Clara>Felix>Bruno>Greta>Ana    # bloc at 12
  12:Felix>Elsa>Diego>Greta>Clara>Bruno>Ana    # bloc at 16
  8:Greta>Felix>Elsa>Diego>Clara>Bruno>Ana    # bloc at 20
  7:Greta>Felix>Elsa>Diego>Clara>Bruno>Ana    # bloc at 24

expected_winners:
  - Clara