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Subject: Re: WCCC-2005 : One Big Joke!

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 21:29:12 08/18/05

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> If u notice, there would be no conflict with Bob, because in my scenario, he
>would not have a program in the tourn. As for the Super Bowl, it is the only one
>of the major 3 that is not the best of something. Therefore obviously the result
>is not as credible. As for who agrees to show up, i was going on the assumption
>that all WOULD AGREE to come. I did not just ride into town on the pumpkin
>wagon, tho u all know alot more about this than I. I was merely picking what i
>think are the top 12 and a guy who has the ability to run it right. I KNOW FULLY
>WELL no format is perfect, but i think mine is close. I dont care if it takes 1
>month, 2 months, or 3, if ur going to do it, do it right.   George

It would be really nice if you bothered to format your text, your "one sentence"
style is a bit annoying to read.

What Dann is telling you is that no matter what format you choose, it will never
be a replacement for a ratinglist and it will not be perfect.

IMO if you have a beef with the format as it is, you are more than welcome to
make your own and "show the world" how to run these kind of events in such a way
that people will go;
 "Woooow i don't know how he did it, but in a one week tournament he managed to
make the result as reliable as the SSDF ratinglist, he had fabulastic
participants, no one have complained about it on CCC yet and never will! and the
winner is unequivocally the best program in the world based on his magical
event, oh and BTW nice pumpkin wagon he rides! yada yada blah blah."

It is like with almost any other event, from soccer to chess, the winner is the
winner of that particular event and the supporters has "bragging rights" untill
next event, no one event will realistically reflect any real serious result,
unless you are content with the authors sending their engines to some guy who
the runs 10s of thousands of games for each engine against the others and report
the results some 20 years later...

I say, count your blessings and be grateful that someone even makes these
events, i am sure they don't do it for the money...

Regards
Jonas



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