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Should tournaments use BEST score or LAST score?
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<blockquote data-quote="jbejarano" data-source="post: 165342" data-attributes="member: 814"><p>I should note that if FarSight wanted to implement a "LAST score" tournament, there'd be a bit of engineering work ahead of them. They'd have to either A) post to their servers as soon as you hit the START button indicating that your old score was no longer valid, or B) post to their servers if you pause and then quit out of a game indicating that your new score is either zero or whatever your score was when you quit. If they did neither of these things, then the validity of a "LAST score" tournament could easily be undermined. So while I would like to see at least some tournaments like this, the engineering cost for FarSight to implement this is not zero.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: On further reflection, it would probably have to be option A, because if you really wanted to cheat at this tournament by not having it post a new, bad score you'd just pause the game, and quit the app at the OS level. Yes, to truly be fair, they'd have to post as soon as you hit START. That is also a lot of extra traffic to their servers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jbejarano, post: 165342, member: 814"] I should note that if FarSight wanted to implement a "LAST score" tournament, there'd be a bit of engineering work ahead of them. They'd have to either A) post to their servers as soon as you hit the START button indicating that your old score was no longer valid, or B) post to their servers if you pause and then quit out of a game indicating that your new score is either zero or whatever your score was when you quit. If they did neither of these things, then the validity of a "LAST score" tournament could easily be undermined. So while I would like to see at least some tournaments like this, the engineering cost for FarSight to implement this is not zero. EDIT: On further reflection, it would probably have to be option A, because if you really wanted to cheat at this tournament by not having it post a new, bad score you'd just pause the game, and quit the app at the OS level. Yes, to truly be fair, they'd have to post as soon as you hit START. That is also a lot of extra traffic to their servers. [/QUOTE]
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