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Subject: Re: Weekly ICC tournament: Feedback needed!

Author: enrico carrisco

Date: 14:59:49 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.
>
>>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.

And who says none of the commercial folks are interested?  ;)

-elc.




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