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Hi,
I was talking to Jinnate the other day and had a crazy idea.

It would be nice if we could let mgnu bots enter the tourneys, to fill the empty spots.

I could ask the programmer of the bot if he could implement that, but first i would like to know what you guys think of it.

In my opinion they should not auto-join the tournaments but only when invited by tourneybot (initiated by a TB operator).

The down side of bots entering tourneys is that some players maybe won't think it's fair and object.
Also the bots would probably win at least half the tournaments. :angry:

Do you have any ideas on this?
MadMatt: is this easy to omplement in TB?

This could be useful when you need just one more player (or two) to have a nice number bracket, I'd been thinking about it myself.

There are both good and downsides to it.

Good:

• complete the bracket
• it'd be interesting to see how many tourneys they win
• we could hold bot tourneys to see which one's the strongest
• another nice feature for the mgnu bots and TourneyBot as well
• bots play fast, less hold ups in tourneys
• we want to include everyone in this, so why leave out bots? we're not bot-prejudiced

Bad:

• More work for me
• More work for me
• Neverendless whining by people who get matched-up with a bot
• Stability. THis goes both ways, if TourneyBot's not there/malfuctioning it might break the bots... If the bots are not there/malfunctioning it could break TourneyBot
• the bots are incredibly strong, would they win too many tourneys?
• bots have many many saved games. How to get around that, if they're paired up with someone they have a saved game with?
• Did I mention that'd mean more work for me?
• What happens if a bot wins a prize tourney?

Don't do it -- It's a good idea in theory, but I promise you that when implemented, it will cause way more trouble than you want with people complaining.  Byes are much, much better.

Besides, in a tournament, I want to play people.  I can play the bots anytime, but a tournament is a fun competition with people.  I like the human element.

JLee

Yeah, I vote no. JLee has it right.

I vote no as well.

But it would be fun to enter all the bots into a bots ony tourney, or better yet series of tourneys. That would be interesting to watch.

JJ

No for me too

I like JonJon's idea... something like this happened once, where the bots were set to play each other.  It drew great interest.

JLee

A big resounding no here as well - sorry  

I dont think either, that bots should play in normal tourneys.

Anyway, I'm very interested to see mgnu_bots playing each other in their own tourney

OK OK OK.. it was just an idea !!