Author: Martin Giepmans
Date: 09:09:00 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! Thank you for organizing these events. I enjoy them very much! >Hold the event less frequently? I think once a week is fine. >Change the number of rounds? >Change the time control? 15 with a small increment (1 - 3 sec) is okay for me. I would like to have a blitz tournament now and then, for instance 5 3 once a month. And with more then 5 rounds, if possible (perhaps round robin if there are not too many participants). >Add one or more commercial program each week? Only if it uses a pentium II :) >Change to a different day/time? The days/times are okay for me. I don't know about others. >Create a mailing list to try to get some bigger names (people who don't >read/post here as regularly)? Yes, I think that some authors don't participate because they don't know that there will be a tournament or hear about it too late. >Provide some kind of incentive for playing/winning (don't ask me what, I'm a >broke college student)? Probably not necessary. But if there is someone out there who is rich ... :-) >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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