[Icehouse] Re: End of Tournament Games

[Eric Wald]

Marc Hartstein wrote:
> One alternative I thought of after the tournament was to have a
> tiebreaker rule instead.  I see two possibilities:
>
> 1. Having an empty quadrant breaks ties.  [...]
>
> 2. Having at least one piece left breaks ties.  [...]
>
> I was originally leaning toward choice 2, but I'm not sure any longer
> which I prefer.  Neither covers the situation in which a player who's
> not one of the ones in the tie for the lead empties their quadrant, but
> that might be ok.

3. The person with the empty quadrant chooses a winner among those tied.

> There could be a problem, though, where players are simply unwilling to
> move the game toward an end if they're not in a winning position.

This is slightly alleviated by the above rule, but perhaps not much.

- Eric