Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 11:56:15 07/19/04
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On July 18, 2004 at 20:10:58, Andrew Wagner wrote: >Hi everyone! Time to start thinking about the next set of authors-only >tournaments. As has always been my philosophy, I want to hear from you what you >would like to see happen in the tournament. What changes do you want to see? >Schedule? Format? Policies? What did you like least about the tournaments? >Please, discuss! Andrew I liked the format. The time schedule favors the Europeans a little perhaps as all games were be played in the evening. I have no problem with a shift to play only the weekend. It could be alternating Saturday/Sunday but perhaps a fixed dotw is easier to remember... One other thing that we could discuss is the scoring of qualification points. It seems a bit unfair to award a different amount of qualitifation points depending on how many engines scored the same amount of points. E.g. When there is 1 engine scoring 5 wins, 1 engines 4 points and 1 engine 3.5 points, in total 9 qualification points are awarded. But when there are 4 engines tied at 3 points, 4 engines as 2.5 points and 4 engines at 2 points, 36 qualification points are awarded. I suggest a little different scheme, where every round will give out the same amount of points, sharing the points in case of a tie. So, when using the same amount of points, the first example would be the same, the second example would give 2.25 points each to the engines tying for first place. Perhaps the distribution of points should be altered a little (to give sufficient opportunities to earn points, e.g. to: 1. 12 points 2. 10 points 3. 8 points 4. 6 points 5. 4 points 6. 3 points 7. 2 points 8. 1 point Richard.
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