Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 10:07:50 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? > >Change the number of rounds? > >Change the time control? > >Add one or more commercial program each week? > >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 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. Once a week is fine. Author only tournament. G15 or G15 + <4 is fine. The occasional blitz is worth considering. I can make the Friday 2pm (7pm BST) tournament, but the Sat one is past my bedtime :-) But no doubt more convenient for others, so the balance is probably right. Finally, thank you for organising it. Frank
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