As I now the sandbagger is a player who only pretends to be a beginner by lowering ratings, etc. I am not a sandbagger. These are my first steps in perlgolf. I never write short programs before. My goals was speed and readabilty. Last 5 days were not easy for me so my brain is boiling. :)
What is 'beginner'? A man who starts to learn Perl? (It is not me.) A man who plays perlgolf first time? It's me! My second hole will in veterans category of course. Ton, 24 points is a very big separation anyway :) Also any beginner may improve his result in last 2 days Is it my mistake that I did not send 194 symb yesterday and 200+ two days ago, and 187 which not pass recent test 4 days ago? Sincerely, Alexander -----Original Message----- From: Dave Hoover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 11:33 PM To: Ton Hospel Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [tpr04] 2.5 days left Ton wrote: >However, one of these superbeginners entered again and spoils it for them. >Since the beginner category is meant purely psychological (to get >people to enter), and these guys defeat the whole point, I again propose >to forcibly promote people with an y-index below -7 to veteran already >during the tournament. Yes, I have also noticed the newly elected chairman of the international coalition of sandbaggers, Alexander Onokhov, whose opening solution was *by far* the lowest opening solution of *anyone* in the tournament. I'd rather not do anything forcibly, so Alexander, please, promote yourself to veteran status ASAP. You should realize that if you had entered your opening solution in the veteran's catagory, we would all be exalting your genius right now, rather than griping about the parity of the beginners category. --Dave
