[Cs4800] Counting tournament tonight at 10 pm

[Dennis Zografos]

I was about to type out this whole long-winded response, but Greg 
boiled it down quite nicely:

> TL;DR: Tonight's scoring system isn't perfect but I think the issue is
> minor

This system is miles away from being "not fair at all".

It's true round-robin. With disqualifications, for serious rule breaking.

Yes, players who "boot" others are *slightly* disadvantaged, in that 
everybody gains "their" advantage.

But remember, ejection only happens for egregiously bad scientific 
behavior.  In practice, good avatars generally do not "cause" invalid 
avatars to be booted.  If all the warm-up tournaments are any indication, 
ejected avatars tend to be fundamentally broken, and would be 
disqualified playing any valid avatar.

Yes, ideally, keeping in avatars would improve score granularity.

But this is NOT "unfair".

Best of luck in the tournament,

-Dennis

----- "Greg I Kerr" <kerr.g at husky.neu.edu> wrote:

> Matt,
> 
> 
> 
> I don't think this disadvantages people who successfully boot players
> (they will get +3 points as will everyone else). The graders will
> simply fix up the points after the tournament. It is not ideal but as
> long as the grades get fixed I don't see an issue.
> 
> 
> If an avatar is kicked out, someone who might have lost to that avatar
> may get a lucky extra 3 points. However, they will likely lose to
> other avatars anyhow, which is a nice feature of the round-robin.
> 
> 
> TL;DR: Tonight's scoring system isn't perfect but I think the issue is
> minor
> 


> 
> - Greg
> 
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Matthew Strax-Haber <
> straxhaber at gmail.com > wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> That is not fair at all. Prof. Lieberherr said in class that the
> players would be left in from round to round.
> 
> 
> This gives an unfair disadvantage to people who are successful at
> booting other players.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Why are we being graded on unfinished code from someone else's
> project?
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> --
> ~ Matthew Strax-Haber
> Northeastern University
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 14, 2011, at 8:57 PM, Srinivas N Jay wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> The tournament is hosted at tvtennis.ccis.neu.edu and name of the
> tournament is "counting tournament - 11/14". As Madhu mentioned, you
> need not to sign up again.
> 
> For only today's tournament, in order to keep it fair, when an avatar
> is kicked out we will award equal points to all the avatars that dint
> get a chance to play against the kicked out avatar. We will do it
> manually and take the final points to grade each of you.
> 
> Thanks,
> Srinivas
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Madhuvanthi Balasubramanian <
> balasubramanian.m at husky.neu.edu > wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> 
> There will be a counting tournament tonight for HSR as planned at
> 10.00 pm.
> Teams who signed up already will not need to sign up again. However if
> you want to have a different name for your avatar, you are welcome to
> sign-up.
> Since both Srinivas and I will be in class, we can approve sign-up
> requests only after 9 pm.
> The tournament will be scheduled around 8pm and we will send out a
> mail with the details of the server and tournament.
> The version is the one that was updated on Saturday and you can find
> it in the following link :
> 
> 
> http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lieber/courses/se-courses/cs5500/f11/projects/project-page/
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Thanks
> - Madhu
> 
> 
> 
> --
> ***Race A Race Where You Are The Goal For Every Opponent! - N Jay ***
> 
> Srinivas N Jay
> srinivasnjay at gmail.com
> +1(617)-817-0913
> 
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