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In article <694BB7191495D51183A9005004C0B05452DEE6@ir-exchange-srv.ir.com.au>, Andrew.Savige@ir.com writes: > Veteran golfers have a gentleman's agreement to "submit early, > submit often" because a tournament where everyone submits in > the last hour is rather dull. > > Perl Golf newbies, however, are unaware of this agreement, as > evidenced by a number of new "super-beginners" submitting their > first entry in the last hours of the game. > > I would like to open for discussion a rule change: the cut-off time > for your first entry is 24 hours before the game ends; new entries > will not be accepted in the final 24 hours. I think this rule > change will make the last day more exciting. Opinions welcome. > I don't think this would help. Strategic solution hoarders would just submit a long solution to be "entered". I propose to explicitely spell out the gentleman's agreement in the rules and depend on people's integrity. Let's see what happens then.Thread Previous