Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 06:44:18 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 think that once a week is ok. > >Change the number of rounds? 4 or 5 rounds is ok for me > >Change the time control? Like many other authors I like the longer time controls, but I'm afraid the event will take too long. It is already taking about 2 hours. A small increment (15 3 or 15 5) would be nice though. >Add one or more commercial program each week? Please no. >Change to a different day/time? I like the tournaments to be late in the evening, so Saturday is ok (could be a little earlier though) and Friday could be a little later. I realize that the late shift on Fridays is already occupied so perhaps it is ok like this. >Create a mailing list to try to get some bigger names (people who don't >read/post here as regularly)? Perhaps getting the event listed on the ICC calendar? >Provide some kind of incentive for playing/winning (don't ask me what, I'm a >broke college student)? I don't think that would have any positive effect. It might attract cheaters instead. Richard. >I can't think of anything else...please make your own suggestions. Thanks! >Andrew > > >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.
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