Author: George Speight
Date: 21:43:24 08/18/05
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On August 19, 2005 at 00:29:12, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >> 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 No one said anything was perfect. Not matter what u do, about half the people wont be satisfied. Jut offering my opinion. As for my sentence structure, no apologies here. Cant change the way i write. Read it or ignore it. Regards, George
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