On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 10:31:24PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't want to pre-empt the referee's traditional half-time
> entertainment for the crowd,
Entertainment? I'm about as entertaining as a brick.
> but I could not help but notice the hot pace in this tournament.
Quite. The first couple of days had numerically pretty few entries,
but of suprisingly high quality. Now that people are getting more
comfortable with the problem we're starting to see more normal levels
of activity (now up to 171 entries from 35 golfers). And the quality
is improving equally rapidly! We now have 10 veterans and 3 beginners
below BoB's first shot.
It looks very likely that we'll be getting into the double digits
before this is over, something that I was absolutely sure wouldn't
happen. In fact, I even made a bet over it with the accursed Mr
Champoux.
An interesting pairing you didn't mention is pom and mtve, who (while
now separated by a few positions) have been trading blows practically
from the start. I'm sure that the growing mass of golfers in the 120-130
region will be having some fun in the coming days :-)
[ Oh, if your programs fail in the big tests and you manage to create
the same effect using a very small test, please send it to us for
inclusion into a possible next version of the tests. ]
--
Juho Snellman
