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Subject: Re: The most stupid contest of the year? :-)

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 13:57:53 12/14/01

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On December 14, 2001 at 15:25:39, J. C. Boco wrote:

>On December 14, 2001 at 15:11:50, Torstein Hall wrote:
>
>>At the Rebel homepage you can enter a contest in connection with the Rebel -
>>Loek Van Wely match. Do not predict the outcome, instead you predict how many
>>moves the games are going to last! I find the idea rather stupid, but the prize
>>is great! A brand new $400 IDG board! I want it, so I guess I should not have
>>mentioned the contest here!
>>
>>Torstein
>
>It sounds like fun, why is it stupid?

I tried to be funny.... Anyway, how are you going to apply any knowledge or
skill to such a question? You could just say that the Rebel team would flip a
coin 1000 times. You guess how many head and tails that would come up!

Torstein



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