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Re: EBS Tournament

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From: Julius Cisek
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 06:22
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In article <67050@cup.portal.com> durham@cup.portal.com (Mark Allen Durham) writes:
>This meeting of the EBS will come to order:
>
>The EBS is the Electronic Branch Section of the International Core War
>Society.  Basically, if you have access to email, then you are a member of
>the EBS.
>
>Our immediate order of business is to determine how to run our tournament
>to determine the warriors we will be sending to the annual ICWS tournament.
>
>Our current options include:
>
>1. Run an isolated tournament specifically for choosing finalists.
>   Warriors would be submitted via email to the tournament coordinator on
>   or before November 15, 1992.  This is what we have done in the past.
>
>2. Use the top ten warriors on the KotH hill as of midnight, November 15,
>   1992.

It really ought to be 1.  We all know that Koth standings mean very little.
The current trend, not the quality of the warrior, would decide the winners.

What kind of tournament would you be thinking of running?  A KotH type
thing with unlimited players?  Or something more like the old ICWS
tournaments (which in my opinion were way too random)?

							Jules

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From: t-jcisek@microsoft.com (Julius Cisek)
Subject: Re: EBS Tournament
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Date: 05 Oct 92 06:22:54 GMT
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