Re: TPR golf

Terje Kristensen wrote:
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> Hello All
> 
> Dec 12th today and no sign of golf. the pm of the last golf has still no link from the frontpage.
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> Have ppl gotten tired of golfing, and have other priorities in life? This mailinglist have also gotten very quiet lately.
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> What should we do, or should we do anything to revitalize the TPR, and who are we ? :)
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> I know that there are quite a few ppl that cant get enough golf, and even tho we have had an avg one golf pr month on my system since august, and ppl still want more, so there is no reason to shut down the TPR.
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> So whats the reason for the lack of contests ? The obvious reason is that nobody is volunteering as a head ref for the next contest, or as a ref at all, and i feel that the current system with manually checking all solutions with 3 - 5 refs is unnecessary. We do have a system now that's close to completion with an automated tester, which will make it possible to run with just one ref, but we still need that ref.
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> Does anyone have any opinions in the case ? I dont offer any solutions, but i would like to see a little discussion on the topic because i love perlgolf, and the TPR's have a high standard and are a lot of fun, and i would hate to see it disappear.

I like your minigolfs, too. There is less pressure to play for the big
prize-money stakes like there is with TPR, and there almost always seems to be
one going on if you fancy dabbling.

It's a nice format, with gentleman's rules (apologies to the ladies), and very
little in the way of maintenance (correct me if I am wrong). All we need is a
good problem (you have an endless supply of these, it seems), and a test script.
Having played a number of these it almost seems pointless to me to have even one
(let alone three or four) people spending hours a day on TPR maintenance.

Sure, TPR has books to give away, but only one (OK, two) person can win each
month. I don't think they are an incentive to play for most of us.

Jasper
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