On 18 Mar 02 at 02:55:19PM, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Dave Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Piers wrote: > >> So, how about having some way of letting spectators see the > >> entries. > > > >I can't think of a good way to do this *during* the tournament. > >I know if I was golfing, there's no way I could resist looking at > >the solutions. > > So set up a list that all solutions go to upon submission. > No players would subscribe to such a list, and no archive > would be available.
Much as I am also getting bored with the golf-only nature of the list, I have one suggestion in this regard: You could have an open tournament. Everyone sees every entry, but only the person who makes a particular solution can claim the score for it. You can modify someone else's solution to produce your own, and improve your score, possibly passing them in the process, but you can't just submit the same entry. There might be some hazy areas in which there would need to be some checking of substantial difference (e.g. reject solutions of the same stroke count with whitespace-only differences), or maybe that could be part of the game. There would still be strategy involved - should I delay submitting my cool solution until the easy bits have been optimised by others, or do I put it in now to avoid someone else stealing it? Alternatively, the speed of submission could weight the score favourably. But I would prefer this to be done in a golf-only list. Regards, Ian Boreham
