Devonin's Critical Thinking Tournament (COMPLETED)

[Tasselfoot]

erm, well. not FFR bizniss... but for school.


<3. either way, i'll be back in LA tomorrow afternoon. i could try to AAA here in the library, but that would be a bit rude.


edit: also, shouldn't dabigpig have 23 for puzzle points? 3 5s and 2 4s.


also, my feelings on scoring, for a future 2nd CT tournament:
-Make it 10 points for 1st, then scale downward. Right now, 2nd-9th all get the same points, leaving little incentive for fast solving or a bonus for solving before others. either 1st for 5 or 4 for everyone else... or 0 (since we're getting less than 10 solves for the past 2 [probably 3] rounds, and likely future rounds). I'd say something LIKE...

1st - 10
2nd - 9
3rd/4th - 8
5th/6th - 7
7th-10th - 6
11th-15th - 5
16th-20th - 3
21st or more - 1

Possible some variant of that, but more along those lines. That way there is a) more incentive for finishing 2nd-6th and fighting for those spots as well and b) a bigger penalty for not submitting at all.

Also, I'd weight the CT vs FFR halves equally... yes, they are equal now in terms of points potential, sort of... but 2 potential changes. 1) point structure being identical for both halves, instead of 2nd-9th for 4 points on CT side vs 2nd-6th for 4 points on FFR side. I guess the reasoning for this is to put a bit more weight on the CT side of things, rewarding more people with points overall... but I don't' really agree/see the benefit of this. If you want to weight the CT side more, make the CT stuff worth 1.5x the value of the FFR stuff, but keep the placements the same. 2) Make ties factor into score more than they currently are. Instead of all 1st getting 5 and then if there are 7 of them, giving the next best score 3... take the 7 AAAs and give them 7.86 points each, instead of 10 (by my proposed above system... 4 points each by your system currently). Why 7.86? 10+9+8+8+7+7+6 = 55 / 7 = 7.86. The average of the point values of the 7. This would mean that each round has a set cap on potential points, vs the current system where everyone could get the max.

Just my 2 cents. Feel free to dispute/discuss/call me retarded.

ppps - i hate the round 5 song.



edit: OR... another idea on scoring... have a set amount of points to give out each round. then dole them out based upon the number of submitters for that round. that would give extra benefit for solving a really hard puzzle vs an easy one. you could get a f-ton of points if only you and 1 other person solved.... although this may be too much, and the 10/9 points you'd get for being one of two to solve vs the 0 for everyone else may be sufficient.