Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 16:54:14 07/16/02
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On July 16, 2002 at 18:58:03, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >Don't do this. The greater the number of participants in the WCCC event, the >better. In that case, you WILL get more participants if it is an online event. >The WCCC with the greatest number of participants will acquire the >greater amount of prestige. One big swiss with plenty of rounds is ideal IMHO. I guess this is a matter of what you expect from such an event. For example, I personally want to know which engine is the strongest. You can't find that out from a tournament. Only match play. Tournaments can serve as decent qualifiers for entrants into the match play rounds, but one giant swiss tournament (regardless of the number of rounds, reasonably anyway) is not going to give you the best engine. >The other thing you should not do is require that one of the programs authors >attend. This type of rule limits participation for those who cannot afford to >attend due money or time constraints. The less you do that limits participation, >the better. Once again, the thing "that limits participation" is holding an event where you have to travel. Again it seems that you haven't thought about this, since an online event would solve that problem again. >Make sure you call it a WCCC event, since this will attract more participation >and as a side benefit, compel the ICCA to do act more reasonably e.g. like hold >its WC event outside of europe 50% of the time among other things. If it's going to be hailed as a WCCC event, it better have something that the other WCCC events do not have. In other words, if you're going to throw together a swiss tournament and have everyone go at it, that's been done. You need to introduce something new like match play for the finals or even semi-finals. Russell
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