You have two choices:

a. Pick the top ten yourselves via the normal voting method from the top 30.

b. Pick ten games out of random from the top 30.(I'll do that... I know enough QBasic to do so... it ain't that hard)

I need to know ASAP please. Thanks :)

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), October 14, 1999

Answers

People have voted on our new IRC channel - they have voted for the following:

Randomize - gameboy9, zwaxy, aquatarkus, brian mclean

vote - crash

vote stands at 4 - 1.

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), October 14, 1999.

I'll vote random.

-- Dave Kaupp (info@kaupp.cx), October 14, 1999.

The random is best when picked from all games, but i like keeping as much of the predefined rules (non changing ones) as possible, so i have to vote to vote.

-- Chad Hurwitz (churritz@cts.com), October 14, 1999.

random random random

-- Q.T.Quazar (qan@home.com), October 14, 1999.

I think a random choice for the 10 games since the beginning is too much risky....the could have a tournament with 10 "Us vs Them", and it will be 2 months of deadly bore !!!

So, let's take votes first, maybe allowing just 1 (max 2) games per category (sport, vector, shooter, fighting, etc...), then we should pick 10 randomly out of the first 30.

This should ensure high quality games in the Tourny, and discourage gang voting.

Cicca

-- Cicca (cicca@writeme.com), October 15, 1999.

let's randomize it - i think it's too stupid to vote and vote and vote ... and you won't stop the party-voters otherwise! It's just 4 fun folks !!!

-- Christian Rduch (christian@rduch.de), October 15, 1999.

The reason I posted the original group voting technique, was to show that a few players could manipulate the tournament voting.

If only the top 30 games are in the random pool, a few players still have a chance to manipulate the random pool.

There are quite a few games below the 30 mark that would be great for a tournament. There are also quite a few in the top 30 that in my opiniun would not be good in a tournament.

Why not draw the random games from all the games submitted, removing any obvious games that should not not be in a tournament.

-- Dave Kaupp (info@kaupp.cx), October 15, 1999.

I vote for random in top 30. That will make it fair.

regards, Stig Remnes

-- Stig Remnes (sremnes@samsen.com), October 15, 1999.

Here's an idea I got - everyone would select numbers from 1 to 30 - via the 10 points for "favorite", 1 point for the "10th favorite"

Those numbers I would compare with a randomly selected list, which will be told to a couple unbiased witnesses. Top ten gets those games put into the tournament. That way... it'll be completely random. Heck... you get to vote as well... in one sense.

What do you think?

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), October 15, 1999.

BTW... on a 10 - 2 vote(I think), we WILL be randomizing... now we have to figure out how to do it...

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), October 15, 1999.