Here is a solution - use the power of chaos. Take the year and month of the tournament, md5sum it and use the least significant bit to determine which of 2 time zones.
Or something similar we used to do at a place I worked to determine who's turn to carry the pager on the weekend: If the Saturday in question is an odd day, one person carries, if even the other person carries it. Sometimes you carry it twice in a row, but over the long haul it works out. The whole idea is to avoid the difficulty of remember who's turn it is. Of course there are many other possibilities. You could still compute a schedule, post it, and just say the time's are determined randomly. - Don Nick Wedd wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Wedd > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >> I have not yet updated the page >> http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/future.html, I shall do so today. > > I have updated that page. I have also spotted a problem - now the > board sizes go in a 2-cycle, and the timezones also go in a 2-cycle. > So as things stand, Japanese and NZ entrants who want to watch their > bots play during daylight hours will be restricted to small-board > events, and Americans to full-board events. > > Three possible fixes: > 1.) break the alternation pattern once in a while by e.g. having > two consecutive 19x19 events > 2.) change the cycle to 19x19 slow - 19x19 fast - small-board slow > - small-board large > 3.) find someone to organise every third tournament in the East > Asia-America time zone. This person should live in East Asia or the > west coast of North America (or be willing to run the event while most > of their neighbours are asleep), and should have admin powers, so that > they can assign results and close games when the bots fail to finish a > game. I could still do the job of registering the players - I would > remain online until the event has started, which I assume will be > around 00:00 GMT. > > I much prefer (3). Is there someone reading this, with enough admin > powers, who is willing to volunteer? > >> I shall also create this Sunday's tournaments and open them for >> registration today. > > Or maybe not. When I try to create the tournaments, the server sends > me a java error message. This is not my fault, another KGS admin who > creates tournaments for humans has hit the same problem. I have > emailed wms about it, and I hope he will allow the tournaments to be > created soon. > > Nick _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
