From: Jeff Weston (Sir Toby) (jjweston_at_kenny.sir-toby.com)
Date: Wed Oct 01 2003 - 09:01:55 PDT
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Richard S. Holmes wrote: > "Jeff Weston (Sir Toby)" <jjweston_at_kenny.sir-toby.com> writes: > > > Style: Still building on the theme. Still not adding anything unique > > as far as restrictions go. +1.00 > > I would never presume to Judge the Judge's awarding of style points. But > I can't resist commenting that, were I the judge, I would be charmed by > the idea of having this be the only restriction in the round, with rules > becoming more and more difficult not because of added restrictions but > because of added difficulty in meeting the restriction. Not that > there's anything unusual about restrictions that become increasingly > difficult to meet, nor would I want every round to evolve that way. I > just think this particular restriction alone could have produced an > interestingly quirky, "Can you top this" round. True, true. A "Can you top this" Round would certainly be an acceptable Round. I was just hoping that more of the theme would be used in the restrictions. We are of course locked into the "Can you top this" form of a Round due to 216:05. However, there are now additional layers of complexity layered on top of it. By discouraging people to repeat the restriction in each Rule, it prevents a bigger problem that I see coming up. It seems easy enough to top the previous Rule, but if you have to simultaneously top ALL previous Rules, that may bring the Round to a premature end. I am heartened by the fact that the amount of activity in the Round indicates I must be doing something right... :) -- Jeff Weston (Sir Toby)
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