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12-10-2006, 12:24 PM #1
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A Modest Proposal for Scrim Sign-Ups
After reading the sign-up posts for the last couple of scrims, it seems that many of our members, especially those who work unusual hours or who are not in the US or Canada are at a disadvantage due to the first-come-first-served nature of the scrim sign-up procedure. What would you all think about a procedure where we allow 24 hours for everyone who wants to play in a scrim to sign up. At the end of that period, the admin in charge of the scrim would chose the appropriate number of players randomly from the pool of people who signed up. (And before anyone asks, yes, I trust the admins. Well, most of them anyway.) The rest of the pool would be reserves.
I'm not sure how supporting members fit in to this plan. My first thought would be that all supporting members would get priority over all nonsupporting members, but I don't know if that is the way it works now.
Clearly this would not be useful for scrims where the in-house squads have most of the slots reserved.
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12-10-2006, 12:58 PM #2
Re: A Modest Proposal for Scrim Sign-Ups
Not a bad idea. I wonder if this has been looked at in the past ?
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12-10-2006, 01:40 PM #3
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Re: A Modest Proposal for Scrim Sign-Ups
I know I'm not a member but since they are ofcourse going to be biased towards there supporting members (and rightly so) then of the people signed up they have a percentage of saying 90-10 so of the total players to be on the list 90% are supporting and 10% for the initial list and the people be randomized from the list of people signed up to what order they will be in for first come first server basis after that.
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12-10-2006, 03:33 PM #4
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Re: A Modest Proposal for Scrim Sign-Ups
For a number of the scrims, the in-house squads were able to submit names before the general sign-up (not every squad for every scrim though). It's not the same as randomly choosing players, but it helped some people who weren't able to get to the sign-in early.
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12-10-2006, 07:38 PM #5
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Re: A Modest Proposal for Scrim Sign-Ups
I think it could work. We have the sign up open for 24hours. Afterward all the names are assigned a number form 1-(to however many people signed up). Once thats done one of the admins randomly picks numbers(admin wont know whom the numbers belong to). The numbers picked are the players who will be in the scrim.
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12-10-2006, 07:42 PM #6
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Re: A Modest Proposal for Scrim Sign-Ups
Or someone could just code a little app to randomly pick numbers. I could if necessary.
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12-15-2006, 06:44 PM #7
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Re: A Modest Proposal for Scrim Sign-Ups
Another suggestion would be to just give others a chance to play. I've usually volunteered to play in a few of scrims in a row and then opted out of playing the next few. That kinda thing.
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12-16-2006, 12:55 PM #8
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Re: A Modest Proposal for Scrim Sign-Ups
Complaining works.
This is a good idea and I would like to see it implemented. I could do the Python leg work to pick out a bunch of random post numbers.
For whoever does do it though, Please use srand() or equivilent, rand() isn't very random...|TG| Lorian
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