Author: Andrew Wagner
Date: 08:04:05 04/07/04
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On April 07, 2004 at 09:44:18, Richard Pijl 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 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? I sent a message to the ICC admin in charge of scheduled tournaments, asking about this. I'm not holding my breath, though. > >>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. See my idea under Andrew's post in this section. > >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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