Was there a definitive decision made on minimum number of games required to be submitted by an individual before they would be considered "qualified" for final tournament standings and when this rule would be implemented ?!

BeeJay.

-- BeeJay (bjohnstone@cardinal.co.nz), August 19, 1999

Answers

There is a rule with what you indicated - but this will happen in the next tournament. You'll have to complete eight of ten games to qualify for the tournament.

However... I'm real tempted to even put a qualifying line in the current tournament? Why? Four reasons - all one word: Lagavulin, Lax, Sad, and Game Guru.

All have played but one game, and is influencing the results on this tournament - get to it - or I might just have to put a game limit for the current tournament.(Like three games...)

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), August 19, 1999.

Whoops... Game Guru is a two word reason... oh well... it's just as powerful as the other three :)

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), August 19, 1999.

In that case Zwaxy probably needs a slight refinement to the scoring for the tournament.

ie: After your score based on all submitted games, in parenthesis it would be good to see your score based on all people who've submitted sufficient games to pass the minimum required.

Ok, so this is going to be a pig of a piece of coding for Zwaxy who's already done so much for us but it really does become necessary to decide how many points you really do have.

Take for instance our current tournament where I would lose 6 points to JoustGod and 5 points to QT if there were say a 9 game minimum.

BeeJay.

-- BeeJay (bjohnstone@cardinal.co.nz), August 19, 1999.

NO, NO, NO...absolutely not! I think that we've had enough "late- breaking" proposals/ changes already. Consider this tourney as a learning experience for all of us. We have definitely come across a number of situations that were not thought of before the situation began to develop. To change rules that have a deep effect on its participants this late into it is ludicrous to say the least.

I did a breakdown between BeeJay, QT and myself and found that if the tourney were to end today with a 9-game minimum requirement, the effect would be as follows:

JoustGod would receive an effective +6 points (to BJ)-1 (to QT) QT Quazar would receive and effective +4 points (to BJ)+1 (to JG) BeeJay would receive nothing in relation to the other two.

Now I know this (the 9-game minimum) benefits me greatly, but I feel the whole idea stinks to have a change like this after the beginning of the tournament. For the next tourney I say go for it! It's actually a good rule, but not so good as to being needed for this tourney. As for future tournaments, rules should be clearly noted and be honored as final once the tournament begins. The only possible reason to have a change in midstream would have to be an extreme case scenario which this one definitely doesn't fit.

BTW, as far as lagavulin's score goes, it is a non-factor as it is the top score which means EVERYONE gains a point by a DQ factor. ;)

Happy tournamenting! (or is that tormenting?)

JoustGod

-- JoustGod (pinballwiz1@msn.com), August 19, 1999.