In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Piers Cawley wrote: >> >> > 2. Tie-breaking rule >> >> > >> >> > I chose to break ties by rewarding the first to post. >> >> > I suppose other ways are possible (e.g. reward the more >> >> > efficient one) but they all seem a little artificial. >> >> >> >> This seems fair to me. First in Best dressed. I don't think that >> >> efficiency and Golf should ever be mentioned in the same sentence :) >> > >> > `First wins' is not good IMO, perhaps some additional scoring like >> > for example using non-average(usual) solution is better? this is >> > arguable of cource but it is just an idea... of cource this won't >> > be factor for different strokes count solutions... >> >> The beauty of 'first in breaks the tie' is that it's objective. Which > >Depends very much of the free time you can use! It is *NOT* objective unless >you get all players in a room and you give them timelimit!
Have each contestant emailed the holes upon request @ the contest web site, recording the time the email was sent. Then check how long it was before the answers were submitted. Better yet, just report ties as ties. I would prefer submissions be by plain email with files demarked by \n===========\n or some such. The contest email would presumably send a response form that just needed the actual code pasted into a reply.
