Author: Charles Roberson
Date: 07:42:25 02/26/05
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I know a few nonprogrammers that might enter this one. Its a fairly interesting idea. So, I am going to try to be positive on this and look at it in the how can this be made good/great as opposed to what's wrong with it. Long term, it could become something really nice. It has attractiveness for the humans because they are in a different payout category. There is less attractiveness for the computer entrants because there is only 2 divisions and 1 prize per division. So, how you state the "current" payout and the "potential payout" is important. Also, you might try stating the prize fund the way it is stated in human tournaments to attract more humans. What if you have humans enter, but no masters -- are you going to pay the best human? It is good to state that X% (maybe 100%) of the entry fees go to the prize fund. However, I do not mind (especially for large tournaments) a small percentage going to the TD. Seems to me if there are 200 entries the TD should get 2% of the fund for his efforts. Maybe more -- in the US, we typically give more than that to a waiter/waitress. There may be more than the normal CCT headeaches in this type of event due to the entry of humans and a prize payout and allowing multiple copies of anything. But, this could become something really neat over time. A typical human (non-internet) tournament will say the prize fund is guaranteed based on X entrants. I'm guessing you are basing this tournament on 50 entrants. This allows people to know upfront if the prize fund will get bigger. They know this at a normal tournament by just looking around on the day of the tournament. Here it could be noticed ahead of time. As registration is increased past the minimum, the prize fund increases (maybe even more awards added say second place amateur and commercial computer)... As people see this increase it may attract more people and snowball it to something much bigger. Here is a piece of a typical advertisment: o $X prize fund based on N entries, elese proportional. o $Y minimum with Z% of each proize guaranteed. o The class break downs (you have this). o Incentive entry fees are next (maybe free entry to the highest rated GM but now you have to state what rating scale). o Some tournaments have reduced entry fee for early entries and penalty fees for late entries. o Now a very important part for humans entrants. + B number of half point byes allowed. the rounds you wish to take a bye in must be stated by 2nd round. This is something humans typically like!!!! Since this tournament is paced very fast (humans may not like it). So, giving them upfront ability to have 3 byes is good!!! This may also be good for computer operators as well. For GM's ... , the tournament certainly has the attractiveness of no travel fee's and no hotel expenses ... So, this could take off if advertised well. Maybe, you should state how the prize will be delivered considering the registration doesn't ask for mailing address .... A question on the rules in the case of two amateur programs being the "same", the author, if entered, is in amateur class while the "duplicate" is in commercial class. Now, the real question -- what about clones? Do they go into the commercial division if author is there and what if author is not there. You mention clone in the context of "duplicate". I take this to mean another copy of a given program with the same name. But, what of programs that are of another name but are clones of a given program. Just asking because this seems unadressed in the rules and having a rule upfront could alleviate headaches later.
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