That sounds like a good compromise to me. And the lower devision would hopefully encourage other participants with weaker bots so that Iomrascálaí and matilda don’t feel so alone. ;)
Urban On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Nick Wedd <[email protected]> wrote: > At present, KGS bot tournaments are run as Swiss tournaments. Entry is > restricted to bots able to beat GNU Go, which is rated at 7k. > > Two suggestions have been made recently for changes in the structure. One > is to allow bots of any strength to enter, and to have two divisions, with > those unable to beat GNU Go in the lower division. The other is to use > McMahon instead of Swiss. > > A problem with McMahon is that the scheduling software (a module of the > KGS server, which I have no control over) uses the ratings assigned by KGS, > and many bots do not have such ratings. I don't think it's reasonable to > require all entrants to have rated bot status. Rated bot status is granted > only to *stable* bots, ones which do not change rapidly in strength and > thereby upset the ratings of their opponents. I think it's fine for > someone to enter an experimental bot of unknown strength in a tournament, > but such a bot cannot have a KGS rating. > > Maybe we could combine the two suggestions. Have two divisions: upper > division McMahon, with entrants required to have KGS ratings of 7k or > better; lower division open. I would like to hear people's views on this - > and any more suggestions they have. > > Nick > -- > Nick Wedd [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > -- Blog: http://bettong.net/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ujh Homepage: http://www.urbanhafner.com/
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