Round 190 summary

From: Richard S. Holmes (rsholmes_at_MailBox.Syr.Edu)
Date: Sun Aug 11 2002 - 18:12:38 PDT


Round 190 is over.  The Judge for Round 191 is Henry P Towsner, with
Ed Murphy and Jeff Weston as Co-Wizards.

PLAYER          ELIGIBLE UNTIL           STYLE
Ed Murphy       2002-08-08 06:29:43 GMT  +1.5
Jeff Weston     2002-08-10 15:44:03 GMT  +1.5
Henry P Towsner 2002-08-10 21:17:13 GMT  +1.0
Everyone else   2002-08-08 06:29:43 GMT
Alan Riddell    2002-08-07 06:29:43 GMT  -0.5


Rules and judgments:

190.1:

"Ed Murphy" <emurphy42_at_socal.rr.com> writes:

> <html>
>
> <head>
> <title> Fantasy Recreation Consulting - Home </title>
> </head>
>
> <body background="image/ocean.jpg">
>
> <img align=right src="image/palm_tree.jpg">
>
>
> --
> Ed Murphy <emurphy42_at_socal.rr.com>          "I'm not sure I can go through
> http://members.fortunecity.com/emurphy/      with it.  Leave, I mean."
>
> --
> Rule Date: 2002-08-01 06:29:43 GMT

Validity: No problems.

Style: Do not adjust your set!  This is indeed a plain text message,
not MIME formatted.  An interesting idea with subtleties in its
implications.  Is the Judge to award style points based on the
correctness and quality of the HTML?  If so I could dock for absence
of a DOCTYPE; height, width, and alt attributes on the img tags, and
so forth.  But the Judge is no expert on the nuances of HTML, and the
players are not assumed to be, either; more to the point, this is FRC,
not a final exam in a web site design course.  Faulty HTML may in fact
be regarded as a feature, not a fault, in this round.  Or not; we'll
see what restrictions are made.

Speaking of restrictions, 190.1 makes none, or at least none
explicitly.  +1.5.


190.2:

"Jeffrey J. Weston" <jjweston_at_kenny.sir-toby.com> writes:

> <H1>Welcome to Fantasy Recreation Consulting</H1>
>
> <P>
> Please pardon our e-dust. Our website is still open while under
> construction. Please come back often to see the new changes to the site.
> All updates will include a new addition to an already existing page on our
> site, or will start a new page page on our site as long as there is a link
> to that page from one of our other pages.
> </P>
>
> <P>
> Plan your dream vacation!
> </P>
>
> --
> Jeff Weston (Sir Toby)
>
> --
> Rule Date: 2002-08-03 15:44:03 GMT
>

Validity: No problems.

Style: Good restriction in keeping with the HTML idea, nicely
incorporated into the web site text.  The obligatory "site under
construction" apology.  +1.5.


190.3

Henry P Towsner <htowsner_at_stanford.edu> writes:

> 190:3
>
>
> <H1>Plan Your Dream Vacation!</H1>
>
> At Fantasy Recreation Consulting, we specialize in unsual, hard to reach
> places that can be hard to reach with other travel agents.  Currently, we
> offer a one of a kind, one way trip to <b><a
> href="shangrila.html">Shangri-La</b></a>
>
> Our agents are always scouring for new locations, and in our future
> updates we will make sure to announce more of our exciting and unique
> travel packages.
>
> --
> Rule Date: 2002-08-03 21:17:13 GMT
>

Validity: The one thing that might arguably make this invalid is that
this does not unambiguously start a new page; there are no <head>,
<title>, or <body> tags.  But after last round I am not inclined to
make things any harder than they have to be... and in any case, while
this does indeed appear to be a contribution to dreamvacation.html, it
could be a continuation of the FRC front page, which certainly is
legal.  Or... but no, I won't trot out that loophole until it's
needed.

Style: Stylishly unstylish prose, a less than inspired restriction.
+1.0.


190.4:

"Alan Riddell" <peekee_at_blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> <P>
> TIRED OF SITTING IN FROUNT OF YOUR COMPUTER???
> <BR><BR>
> Goto the kitchen get yourself a drink then drink it slowly and think about
> where you live. Think about how there is the street... You know the one just
> down the road abit, the one that you have never been down despite having
> gone past it day after day...  Do this go see what is down there it might be
> interesting and if it is not well then you will know not to go down there
> again.  What do you have to loose? Nothing plus you get a little bit of
> execise and a break from staring at your computer screen.  After all this
> miniture travel package is brought to you for FREE, that is right it costs
> NOTHING AT ALL...  We tell you this incredible price because here at the
> Fantasy Recreation Consulting website we inform all our potential customers
> of the cost of the travel packages we offer [at least in the same html
> paragraph as the deal is mentioned in] no matter what the price.
> <p>
>
> --
> Rule Date: 2002-08-05 19:17:46 GMT
>

VALIDITY:  No, we don't.  In 190:3 we mentioned a travel package to
Shangri-La but we didn't state its cost.

STYLE: I'm not sure if the radical differences in HTML and English
style between this rule and the others is unstylish or not.  It would,
perhaps, be characteristic of a site with multiple authors, but thus
far Fantasy Recreation Consulting has come across as the sort of Mom
and Pop outfit that'd have a web site done by either Mom or Pop, but
not both.

And presumably this is a continuation of one of the previously
mentioned web pages, but stylistically it belongs on its own web
page.

A highly subjective -0.5.


--
- Rich Holmes
  Syracuse, NY

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Rule Date: 2002-08-12 01:12:56 GMT


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