[RCSE] Contest Format

[tony estep]

Original message:
...To level the playing field and to reward players for not being prepared, 
less skilled or less practiced...
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At first glance it appears to do that. But if you think about how this would 
have worked at contests you have attended, you might conclude that the overall 
effect is to introduce arbitrariness and quirky results into the scoring, with 
no corresponding benefit. It's purely a  landing contest for the maxers;  a guy 
who gets a near-max will have the door slammed on him with no chance to 
recover; and the guys who would have been at the bottom with conventional 
scoring will still be at the bottom.