I don't understand why there has to be a tie-breaker?
In the course, some may be good at chipping, some may be good at pudding, various styles display the beauty of golfing. In Perl, some may be good at algorithm, some may be good at regex, some may know all about POSIX:), thusly the beauty of TMTOWTDI. I also don't think it's easy to change tie-breaker rules every round with overall fairness. After all, at beginning of the competition no one knows the best solution (may apply even at very end). So I say, let tie be there, please. --(??{unknown}) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ton Hospel) >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ton Hospel) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: BoB >Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:49:16 +0000 (UTC) > >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Chris Dolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Isn't listing the number of [^\w\s] a little too big a hint? For > > example, it might have given away the technique for TPR(0,0) since the > > winners had so many \w characters. Maybe the leaderboard should just > > silently sort the ties. > > > > Chris > >one could say so, yes. >so I propose the following compromise: >if you have persons A, B, C and D at score X, and tie-scores, say 8, 5, 5, >3 >respectively, display them as: > >1 A >2 B > C >4 D > >This way at least everyone knows if he should look further or not, and >you don't tell the world the tie-scores _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx