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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
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Julian Arnold (jools@arnod.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> > ... my vote is unlikely to go to any game that fails
> > in the portability stakes. I guess this also applies to those voting
> > on Macs or Unix machines.

> If you are able to play a game, I don't think you should penalise it because
> other people can't play it.  It will already have a sufficient handicap
> *because* of its lack of portability. 

Will it? The only handicap is that an entry must be rated by ten 
people to qualify. I don't know how many people will be voting, but I 
doubt that (for example) there are less than ten AGT-capable people who 
will vote. So that constraint simply has no effect at all. The only thing 
that *actually* affects the rating of AGT games is that my opinion won't 
figure in. (And if you look back over what I've said about AGT over the 
months, you may not consider that a handicap. :-)

> The contest is about the games, not
> the system they were written in, and voting should reflect that.  If "Sir
> Ramic" is a 7 (hypothetically) don't give it a 5 or 6 just because there's no
> working AGT interpreter for the Mac, when you have a PC.

The contest rules *are* set up so that a game's system has as little 
impact as possible on its score. This is what you're saying in this 
paragraph, but it contradicts what you say in your previous paragraph.

--Z

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