Author: Eric Oldre
Date: 20:18:40 07/09/04
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I have a few ideas that if such a tourney ever takes place, may be useful for the issue of unequal hardware. I used to be involved in the local stock car racing scene, and they had similar issues to resolve. what they did was to say. if you place in the top 3 in a race. you have the option of buying the winners engine for the price of $800 plus your engine. This kept people from spending huge amounts of money on their motors and buying the race. but still allowed for some differences. I think a similar scheme may be applicable here. The tournament could have a rule that the hardware you use must only be worth $1500 (or pick a different amount). This could either be enforced with a gentleman's agreement, or if that is not considered good enough. you could say that someone had the option of buying the winners hardware for some amount. This allows people to target different platforms. PowerPC, Athlon-64, or something else. without allowing someone to just buy the tournament. what do people think of this idea. anyone have other suggestions?
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