Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 06:26:23 04/07/04
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On April 07, 2004 at 08:33:08, Andrew Wagner wrote: >Once a week for the past few weeks, I've been running an authors-only 15 0, >swiss, 5-round tournament on ICC. We've been doing it at 2 pm server time Friday >one week and 5 pm server time Saturday the next. No, I'm not going to try to >convert those times :) > >So, my question is, now that we've run a few of these, how can we make it >better, and/or attract more program(er)s? Here's a few ideas, PLEASE comment or >add your own! > >Hold the event less frequently? > I'm not sure about this. I certainly can't participate every time, but I guess that holding it every week means that more people take part in total. I think you have to decide for yourself what you want to do. It's a lot of work on your part - don't do it so often that you get discouraged and stop wanting to do it. Lots of people enjoy your tournaments. >Change the number of rounds? > I don't think 4 or 5 rounds is excessive. >Change the time control? > I think that if anything it should be a little shorter, but I'm happy with 15 1. >Add one or more commercial program each week? > Personally I'll only participate in an author-only tournament. >Change to a different day/time? > >Create a mailing list to try to get some bigger names (people who don't >read/post here as regularly)? > >Provide some kind of incentive for playing/winning (don't ask me what, I'm a >broke college student)? > I wouldn't worry about that. > >P.S. Unless there are some radical changes desired, we'll still have this week's >tournament at 2 pm server time Friday, as usual. I fear I can't make it, but I'll know on Friday... Cheers Andrew
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