Re: PGA Golf, Round 1 - Results

[jmcnamara]

Here is the leadership table after Round 1.

Scores that equal or beat the best PGA score are shown in bold face. A penalty score, shown in red, is incurred if an incorrect solution was submitted or if no solution was submitted. The penalty is the maximum score on the hole +5. (If nothing else this will exercise the minds of the games theorists).

I tested all the holes but not exhaustively. /msg me with any corrections.

I've included anyone who tried any of the holes.


Update: I need to fix some of the bold scores. Thanks tilly.

	1	2	3	4	5	6		1-6	7-12	13-17	Total
Penalty	30	63	28	52	39	65		277			332
Maximum	25	58	23	47	34	60		247			247
Minimum	16	20	19	19	28	38		140			140
PGA	16	27	20	19	28	38		148			148
petral	16	20	19	19	30	38		142			142
tilly	16	23	20	19	28	47		153			153
japhy	16	23	23	19	29	47		157			157
ChemBoy	18	24	22	19	30	44		157			157
tadman	16	31	28	24	30	39		168			168
mr.nick	21	24	28	32	32	51		188			188
iamcal	16	63	28	26	39	42		214			214
the_slycer	30	21	28	47	32	65		223			223
tachyon	25	58	19	35	31	60		228			228
da	30	21	28	52	39	65		235			235
jorg	18	34	28	52	39	65		236			236
btrott	30	63	28	20	39	48		228			228
srawls	30	63	28	52	34	65		272			272

Kudos to all those who participated.

John.
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[petral]

Most rounds of golf on pm seem to consist of several answers, along with (re: x 1..4)'s and updates, converging on the maximal(er, minimal) solution (which is great!).  And this one was no different, as I pointed out in my posting. My scores would have been *much* better if I hadn't seen the comments of fellow monks -- and wrong!
That said, I still don't quite get it. Seems like everyone got hole 3 wrong, even if the official answer is also 'wrong' for certain not-explicitly-excluded edge conditions. (And most would have gotten 2 wrong.) (And... my fixed 5 was 32... and so on.)

Anyway, the point is that this is such a different venue, that it's really a different sort of thing. Not that the score posting isn't fun anyway... I guess i'll just bring up a reply window from the 'New Meditations' page (so I can try for the lowest wrongest scores prize).

  p

update: Did I really say 'venue'? blecchhh...   (but I suppose it goes with Golf)

[jmcnamara]

You are right. The idea behind this is a bit flawed. The iterative approach to Golf as used in PerlMonks goes against the idea of a tournament. Also, as chipmunk pointed out here:

We tried to make things a little easier at the actual tournament by providing a test scaffold for each hole, which the participants could use to test their code on sample input. Solving these holes is much harder without that.

My main desire was to post some well conceived and well specified Golf questions as an example of how it should be done. In retrospect I should have just posted one a day and avoided the score tabulation. I might continue like that. I'll run it past the CB later.


John.
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