Allocations !?!

'CBH na ?' - the most popular qn. on every tamils mouth here around last wednesday(even 4 some andhra peepl bordering tn !!!).

" Chennai-Bangalore-Hyderabad "

' make it the same order of preference so that at least we will get posted together even if not in chennai ' - the reasoning was perfectly logical.

' so many CBH, theres no way we can get chennai. so i put bangalore as the first preference ' - some brite idea on some peepls part paid off ... muthu got bangalore - that was his first preference. n many others like him did get it.

' vats the algo that may be used ? ' - a difficult one to spot.
must hav been random round-robin at least for peepl here frm mit.
a sampling at the http://203.200.154.9/allocations page gives the following results ...

161974 - R.John Leo Antonet - Chennai
161975 - P.Anitha Lakshmi - Bangalore
161976 - M.Kasi Rajan - Kolkata
161977 - V.Karthick - Lucknow
....
161986 - R.Rakesh - Pune
161987 - Anish Ramjee - Mumbai
161988 - P.Saranya - Chennai
161989 - M.Bala Murugan - Lucknow
161990 - D.Vaishnavi - Chennai
161991 - V.Muthu Giritharan - Bangalore

some were sad that they dint get chennai n some(including me) were sad tho' they got chennai.
the former ok but the latter y, u may ask.
'whereever v get allocated letz be allocated together' - thats y many of us blindly put CBH as pref.

im glad now that atleast i hav other frenz in chennai n also becuz peepl speak tamil there.
n manik is (apparently!!!) happy (rejuvenated ...) becuz he is goin to suffer creatively n get sth good n lovely (?!?) - (in the name of sepultra!!!).

so
at first, every1 was sad for sm reason
n
in the end, every1 is happy for sm other reason.

all is well that ends well, rite :-)