Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 01:28:15 09/11/99
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On September 11, 1999 at 02:41:25, Tina Long wrote: >On September 08, 1999 at 18:08:56, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On September 08, 1999 at 17:36:38, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >> >>>Should the game Rebel-Hoffman be taken in account to calculate the performance >>>rating of Rebel in the GM challenge? >>> >>>-Yes 1 >>>-No >>>-Abstain >> >>Why such an absurd position as to claim it should count despite machine crashes? >> >>Because it does not matter *why* the outcome was as it was. >> >>If a GM defaults because he does not feel well enough to continue, does that >>invalidate the loss? No. And neither should this one. >> >>No cries of "mess-up... do-over" should be allowed. > >The question is not "did Rebel lose" >The question is how well does Rebel perform > >I race my racecar, it blows an engine, I come last. >Result: I came last >Performance ability: No data provided > >I raced my car before, it didn't blow an engine >Performance ability: seconds per lap, top speed, compared to other cars. > >Rebel has & is going to play lotsa games: >To prove itself. To give Ed data on strenghts & weaknesses. To see how it >performs on different platforms. etc > >When assessing a performance "rating", only bonafide games provide data. It did perform, maybe you should read over some of the other comments about this on here. When GM's stuff up or is are feeling well, they cannot go and say well I did not play my best so this game should not count. Rebel wants to play with humans, it should be treated like a human. If you cannot stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Either Rebel is up to playing or it is not. It lost, the result should show that. As for game data, well like all stuff ups, things to be learned for next time Tina. As for the car, no one cars how they won the race, just the result. So if the car blows up then he did not finish the race, so lost. Results are not about how the resuts come about, its either win, lose, or draw.
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