Terje Kristensen wrote: > > Hello All > > Dec 12th today and no sign of golf. the pm of the last golf has still no link from >the frontpage. > > Have ppl gotten tired of golfing, and have other priorities in life? This >mailinglist have also gotten very quiet lately. > > What should we do, or should we do anything to revitalize the TPR, and who are we ? >:) > > I know that there are quite a few ppl that cant get enough golf, and even tho we >have had an avg one golf pr month on my system since august, and ppl still want more, >so there is no reason to shut down the TPR. > > So whats the reason for the lack of contests ? The obvious reason is that nobody is >volunteering as a head ref for the next contest, or as a ref at all, and i feel that >the current system with manually checking all solutions with 3 - 5 refs is >unnecessary. We do have a system now that's close to completion with an automated >tester, which will make it possible to run with just one ref, but we still need that >ref. > > Does anyone have any opinions in the case ? I dont offer any solutions, but i would >like to see a little discussion on the topic because i love perlgolf, and the TPR's >have a high standard and are a lot of fun, and i would hate to see it disappear.
I like your minigolfs, too. There is less pressure to play for the big prize-money stakes like there is with TPR, and there almost always seems to be one going on if you fancy dabbling. It's a nice format, with gentleman's rules (apologies to the ladies), and very little in the way of maintenance (correct me if I am wrong). All we need is a good problem (you have an endless supply of these, it seems), and a test script. Having played a number of these it almost seems pointless to me to have even one (let alone three or four) people spending hours a day on TPR maintenance. Sure, TPR has books to give away, but only one (OK, two) person can win each month. I don't think they are an incentive to play for most of us. Jasper -- I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... Unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth.
