Author: Andrew Wagner
Date: 08:00:52 04/07/04
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On April 07, 2004 at 09:26:23, Andrew Williams wrote: >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. I certainly don't mind running them once a week. I just thought maybe if it was less frequent, maybe it would be more special or something. <shrug> > >>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. > Actually, I had one idea about this: perhaps someone with good hardware and a strong commercial engine could take the pgn scores and annotate them at a long time control. Might encourage people to play. >> >>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... Hope you can! > >Cheers > >Andrew
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