Nick Wolff wrote on Sat, May 13, 2017 03:26 PM UTC:
I do have one small question about the 8th category. Will each participant submit, or be allowed to submit, a variant they invented or will it be a list of user created variants that is preselected? Regardless, I suggest a consideration that the matches played from that category are not with variants invented by those players. For instance, if one of my variants (let's say Mimic Chess) is in that category, in order to avoid any unfair advantages during the tournament, that variant cannot be played by myself in the tournament. Not sure how the reception on that idea will be, since I know I'd love to play some of my variants in a tournament and I bet that sentiment is shared amongst other inventors - especially those with more prestigious reputations than my own.
I do have one small question about the 8th category. Will each participant submit, or be allowed to submit, a variant they invented or will it be a list of user created variants that is preselected? Regardless, I suggest a consideration that the matches played from that category are not with variants invented by those players. For instance, if one of my variants (let's say Mimic Chess) is in that category, in order to avoid any unfair advantages during the tournament, that variant cannot be played by myself in the tournament. Not sure how the reception on that idea will be, since I know I'd love to play some of my variants in a tournament and I bet that sentiment is shared amongst other inventors - especially those with more prestigious reputations than my own.