Nick,
I am hoping that I can join this at some point, at the lower end of the
field to start with :)
Is it possible to set a bar at these tournaments? In human McMahon
tournaments, that very successfully allows a top tier of competition
while guaranteeing at least some fun for everybody else.
Christian
Nick Wedd wrote:
In message <8cbb1200f1dffd9-cbc-...@mblk-m02.sysops.aol.com>,
dhillism...@netscape.net writes
One factor is that there seems to be a narrow range between too few
entrants and too many. For any given contest, the potential pool
includes an elite few who have a chance at first place and maybe a
couple who have a new or newly improved bot. There is a larger group,
back in the pack, whose last breakthrough was a while ago. For many of
us in that last group, it would be easy enough to enter, but hard to
know if that would help or hinder.
My view is that more entrants, including weaker entrants, help. I
used to encourage Aloril to enter his deliberately weak bots, not only
to fill out the numbers, but to provide suitable opponents for first
time entrants.
I see a purpose of these events as providing a training ground for
more significant events. Some programmers concentrate too much on
trying to get the bot to play well, rather than on doing basic things
right. A bot that plays badly but beats IdiotBot shouldn't be too
hard to achieve - so if a bot plays well but loses to IdiotBot, it is
doing something wrong which really ought to be fixed.
Nick
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