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- From: whheydt@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Midrealm Crown Policy
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.202331.8897@pbhya.PacBell.COM>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 20:23:31 GMT
- References: <IfByEdi00YUnIVl9Fr@andrew.cmu.edu> <1hnjcfINNcm4@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Reply-To: whheydt@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
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- In article <1hnjcfINNcm4@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bq434@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael A. Chance) writes:
-
- [...a great deal of thoughtful material, ending with...]
-
- >The Midrealm system eliminates the first 2 groups entirely. Even so,
- >the list for unbelted fighters has been well over 50 for several years now.
- >With the number of Chivarly in the Midrealm, the potential size of Crown
- >tourney has rivaled that of the Easts actual size for the past few
- >years. If a Crown were to open the list to groups A and B, the size of
- >the list would be in the 200-300 range, and take 2 days to fight.
-
- I don't think the conclusion about how long it would take to run the
- lists follows. The West, with mid-90s to low-100s in the Lists,
- typically, can do it in about 5 hours using--at most--4 fields.
- Recent technique has been a segmented list that combines back together
- when the number of people left gets small enough. (As our Mistress of
- lists for details--I don't follow it that closely.) Even if you *did*
- get as many as you speculate (how many would stay in once reminded
- that they're expected to reign...?), it could be organized to run in
- one day.
-
- >The Midrealm system isn't perfect; no one has said that it is. But is
- >does serve a useful purpose.
-
- I think this is a case where I don't believe in perfection. I think
- there are local optima--and that's about the best one can hope for.
- The systems that have evolved--for many reasons--seem to work locally.
- They add to the 'local flavor' differences among the Laurel Kingdoms.
-
- --Hal
-
- Hal Ravn, Province of the Mists, West Kingdom
- Wilson H. Heydt, Jr., Albany, CA 94706, 510/524-8321 (home)
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