Re: Comments on the comments


9 Oct 1995 08:33:30 GMT

In article <AkS9=Ja00WB88AynN=@andrew.cmu.edu>,
Andrew C. Plotkin <erkyrath+@CMU.EDU> wrote:
>On the same topic, I don't like the idea of having separate prizes for
>story games, humorous games, detective IF, etc. It biases the results,
>especially for authors who want to do something that wasn't done last
>year.

Indeed. Splitting the contest up into a lot of sub-categories would
perhaps be a good idea if there were a hundred entries and several
hundred voters; as it is,this year's contest was far too small for
something like that to work (quite apart from the issue you raise
about discouraging entries that don't fit into any category). I
sincerely doubt that next year's contest will be much larger.

Magnus