It's been more than half a month since the end of the Spring Cup, and it's been a month since the end of the guess.
Originally, I wanted to write another article while the hexagonal warrior was hot after writing, but the stove was also cold, the hot rice was also satisfied, and even the hot spots of the puzzle circle were changed several times. Therefore, it makes sense that this public name is not looked at by anyone.
However, since the idea has been in the mind for so long, the words that should be said always have to be said.
Speaking of which, the Spring Cup and the Autumn Cup have been held so far, this year is already the twenty-first year, and this time the Spring Cup is the 41st in total. In these 41st sessions, I should have actually participated in less than ten times, not a regular customer, but almost every year lurking in the red team group, only one red heart, do not make two-handed preparations. Born is a person of the red team, and death is a dead person of the red team. At first, it was naturally because only the people of the mystery court went to the blue team, and later the red team was more familiar with the face, anyway, they did not contribute anything, and they could be more rogues in the red team, so they became a habit.
For so many years, the format of the Spring and Autumn Cup has hardly changed much, and it has always been a confrontation between two teams, giving each other questions to guess. It is nothing more than some patches, such as the current rules in the game divided into three games, each team has 10 word cards, can be set up hanging red puzzles and so on. Maybe there were other patches, after all, I didn't keep an eye on it. Although there are some mystery requirements and other content in the announcement, in my opinion, it seems that it is not strictly enforced.
In addition to the BT cup that has existed briefly, the Spring and Autumn Cup is probably the biggest outlier in the mystery circle. For a competition that lasts so long and has so many participants, it seems strange to say that it is "outlier". But the truth is that the Spring and Autumn Cup has simply become a basket, and any mystery can be packed into it. Almost all the mysteries that don't apply elsewhere can be taken here. There are BT, erotic, secluded, vulgar, new people practicing, and great god defective products... There are many people who are tired of playing, tired of playing, and vow not to play again, but there are also many people who have been indulging in it and enjoy it.
What's the attraction of the Spring and Autumn Cup?
Maybe it's its free-spiritedness, there will always be a brain-opening puzzle, you can never imagine what medicine to buy in the other party's gourd, even if you scold three times after guessing, you will feel that this is the taste of the Spring and Autumn Cup.
Maybe it is its openness and inclusiveness, any foundation can be into the group, you can throw puzzles at will, Xiao Bai does not have to entangle the puzzle as a level dish, and the god does not have to worry about the puzzle can not be selected, just like opening a self-help body.
Maybe it is its incomplete system, when guessing that there is no guess, just report the bottom, and the exhaustion can also become a guessing method. When the Unveiling Dafa is sacrificed, it is even more dark.
However, the Spring and Autumn Cup has always been accompanied by various controversies, of course, there are human factors, but I am afraid that more is caused by rules (if it can be called rules).
Spring and Autumn Cup, success is also the rule, defeat is also the rule.
"Two teams confrontation" is the biggest original sin of the Spring and Autumn Cup.
Why?
Because of the use of "two teams against each other", the contestants' desire to win or lose will inevitably make them tend to choose difficult puzzles and puzzles with strange ideas when making puzzles. After one team chooses a large number of puzzles and strange problems, the other team will inevitably bring great passivity to guessing if they do not use such puzzles. Therefore, under the action of the "Dark Forest" law, the two sides can only do their best to continuously push up the difficulty of puzzle guessing, and they can't control it at once.
When the BT Cup was discontinued, the preference of many players for the so-called BT puzzle resonated with the unpredictable nature of the BT puzzle due to the bias of the sword, thus contributing to the actual confluence of the Spring and Autumn Cup and the BT Cup. BT mysteries flooding the Spring and Autumn Cup have become a natural thing.
Changing to a three-round competition and calculating the total score is an effective way of balancing, which can have a certain guiding effect on the distribution of puzzles of different difficulty, and also increase a certain degree of contingency. But the biggest drawback of this approach is that it's easy to make the second field a chicken rib, or it may make the third one the hardest hit area for the BT mystery.
Because of the use of "two teams against each other", the number of puzzles per team must not be too small. The game itself requires a lot of puzzles, and the format does not specify what the total number of puzzles is. In order not to be passive in the final determination of the number of puzzles, both teams can only make more puzzles, so the level of puzzles is uneven. The worry about the lack of puzzles will inevitably lead to an excessive proportion of puzzles by a small number of large puzzle makers, which further makes the puzzle matching ratio unbalanced.
Although the alternative puzzles may be much larger than the minimum requirements of the game, neither side will offer to reduce the number of questions in order to ensure quality, so the final number of puzzles must be inflated. Even after internal screening, it can only be screened under a lower threshold, and the overall level of puzzle work is not guaranteed.
Since the puzzle is selected proportionally, the false high number of puzzles correspondingly makes the number of puzzles also inflated, and the overall quality of the puzzle is naturally difficult to maintain at a higher level. In addition, the style of the puzzle is too mixed, which also makes it difficult to produce a more consistent standard when voting on the puzzle, and the result of the puzzle is easy to produce great controversy.
At the same time, with the development of network riddles, all kinds of puzzles and puzzles continue to appear, the application of puzzles continues to increase, the demand for puzzles has also increased greatly, and most people's inventory is relatively limited, which will inevitably distribute and screen the direction of puzzles. The top product that I think will be left to the Qingfeng Cup, and the one who thinks that the difficulty is lower will be left to the puzzle, and if it is not high or low, or has certain flaws, it will fall to the Spring and Autumn Cup, which also reduces the puzzle quality of the Spring and Autumn Cup to a certain extent.
Because of the "two-team confrontation", the number of members of each team cannot be small. The whole process of the game has become a super social event, and the natural hostility is superimposed on the ultimate entertainment pursuit, giving birth to some mysteries that are not friendly enough to each other or have a rather low style. These puzzles are difficult to appear in non-two-to-two matches, and most of them have become an important reason to lower the impression of the game.
In fact, this kind of competition between the two teams of mutual control and mutual guessing has existed as early as before the Spring and Autumn Cup, that is, the "Glass" first East-West Puzzle Network Confrontation Competition of the Wandering Zi Yin Mystery Society, and the predecessor of the Huaqing Cup, the Beijing Tour Tiger Competition. The difference is that the medium at that time was not QQ, but email.
In 1997, the "Glass" was a wandering internal competition, when most of the members were distributed throughout North America, and the competition was generally divided into east and west teams according to the location of the members, with a total of 60 puzzles, divided into two games, each with 15 questions. In the end, the two sides drew one-to-one and rated the top ten mysteries. Judging from the records left in "Enigma Path", the overall competition is still quite exciting and smooth, but both sides have a mystery to reveal the other side' indignation.
Also in 1997, the Beijing Tour Tiger Tournament is more similar to the current Spring and Autumn Cup, with two teams fighting, multiple rounds of competition, and weighting of the game. Since it is a match between two organizations, even a friendly match inevitably adds some confrontational meaning. It was mentioned in the "Huaqing Cup Miscellaneous Memories" that according to the records of "Enigma Path", in the second round of the game, the Youzi team and the Beijing team invariably deliberately set up obstacles on the puzzle, and the Beijing team was even worse, and there was a serious imbalance in the guessing result, which triggered a small protest. Although the conflict was eventually resolved, the shortcomings of the format were exposed.
Fortunately, from the second tournament that followed, the Beijing Tour Tiger Tournament became the Huding Cup in which three and four teams participated, and then the Huaqing Cup in which more teams participated, and the drawbacks of the confrontation between the two teams were avoided through the change of the format and the assistance of the procedure.
The successive Fengyun Cup, inter-provincial cup, etc., and even last year's Summer Cup, are all multi-team mutual control and mutual guessing. Although the specific event process and scoring method of these competitions are different, the overall spirit is consistent, and they can better solve the problem of completely overlapping the three roles in the competition.
Only the Spring and Autumn Cup, on the road of confrontation between the two teams, went farther and farther alone firmly and persistently.
Can the Spring and Autumn Cup be changed to a multi-team confrontation to fundamentally get rid of this dilemma? It may be possible in theory, but it is almost impossible in practice.
It seems that it is just an addition to the team when organizing the competition, making it into red, yellow and blue primary colors, but many of the changes brought about by it are subversive.
The second Tiger Cup was also a three-team confrontation, but at that time the game tool was still email. The email is not real-time and is not suitable for full participation, so at that time, the team contacts contact each other through email from time to time. Teams are limited in number, puzzles are limited, and interactions don't need to be too much.
But now, using QQ, an instant messaging tool, instant guessing and shooting instant reporting has become a natural demand. If each team needs to guess the mystery of the other two teams at the same time, it means that in addition to a centralized contact group, it is also necessary to establish three guessing and shooting bottom groups at the same time, and the guessing information also needs to be fed back to the contact group in time. Guessing and shooting in different groups will inevitably lead to inconsistencies in the scale of judgment, and even there is a subconscious exchange of interests between the two groups (deliberate cheating is not considered, after all, there are opportunities and possibilities for cheating in any format). And multiple groups guessing at the same time will inevitably produce a lot of confusion, which can easily cause string groups.
The other competitions mentioned earlier use the contest platform to reduce the workload of organizers and contacts, and use procedures to achieve maximum fairness, openness and impartiality. However, if the Spring and Autumn Cup is also transplanted to the competition platform, it will undoubtedly lose many of its characteristics, and it is likely that it will eventually become more and more convergent with other competitions, which is not the right choice. What's more, the existing platform is not compatible with the Spring and Autumn Cup, and the development of the competition platform is not an easy task.
The Luyang Cup was another attempt, but unfortunately it did not last to bear fruit in the end. The bottleneck is still the demand for puzzles, after the team is split, the number of puzzles will fall off a cliff, and the demand for puzzles in the group guess is far greater than that of the Qingfeng Cup and the Spring and Autumn Cup, which are more similar to the pen guess. However, even if it can be stabilized, this format is obviously not the way to go in the Spring and Autumn Cup.
Is the Spring and Autumn Cup "hopeless"? Not really.
Even if the Spring and Autumn Cup is played according to the existing rules, it is also the same as the market, and the Spring and Autumn Cup originally did not cater to who is against whom, otherwise it would not be the Spring and Autumn Cup.
What's more, the puzzle game is like a variety show, there will be fatigue after a long time, and the prospect of the Qingfeng Cup is not necessarily better than the Spring and Autumn Cup. Although it is reasonable to say that it exists, it does not mean that it will always exist if it is reasonable. Therefore, worrying about survival is not the first priority of the Spring and Autumn Cup.
If the problem of confrontation between the two teams is fatal, it will not persist all the time. In fact, as long as the necessary easing measures are taken, the competitive color is diluted, and the rules can be moderately guided, there may not be a big change. The Spring and Autumn Cup has been patched many times, and a few more are not a big deal. The question is simply whether there are good patches to play and whether the organizers (if any) are willing to do so.
So the next thing is to talk about some patch ideas. These ideas are not all aimed at the original sin of the confrontation between the two teams, but also against some "secondary disasters". Some have a certain degree of feasibility, and some may already be pure brain holes. Anyway, if it is wrong, there is no deduction, if it is adopted by the legendary organizers, I will not charge another money.
In the case of two teams fighting, it is impossible to unify the difficulty and easy scale of the puzzle, in order to avoid blindly seeking difficulties and seeking strangeness, it can only reduce the confrontational color of the game as much as possible, improve entertainment and accident, so that participants can consciously give up the idea of pressing the other side.
Not counting the guesses is of course the most straightforward, but it is estimated that the attractiveness of matches without scores will also be greatly reduced. So we still have to make a fuss about the way we score points.
For example, one way is to ask the two teams to divide the puzzle into 6 groups, each group is assigned 1 to 6 different scores, but the scores do not need to be arranged in order, and the score private message is notified to the host. During each round of the game, two sets of random sets are drawn from the opponent's 6 groups as puzzles used in the current round of the game, of course, the opponent's score is not known at the time of extraction. The winner of each round of the match can get the total score value of the two sets of puzzles on the other side, but the specific score value needs to be announced by the host after the end of the game.
In this way, the questions in 6 groups may be drawn together with the questions in 1 group, and in exchange for even 3 points for each other's 1 group and 2 groups, the chance of the game becomes greatly increased. In this way, unless all the problems are very difficult, the utility of the puzzle will be greatly reduced. At the same time, since the final host is not revealed, no one can determine whether the team will win, and there is no question of which round of strategic abandonment.
Let's talk about BT puzzles and erotic puzzles.
After years of development, BT puzzles and erotic puzzles are already a must-have part of the Spring and Autumn Cup. The flood of BT and erotic works can largely ruin the guessing experience and the perception of reading puzzles at the end of the day for a considerable number of people. But these two types of mysteries are difficult to completely remove from the Spring and Autumn Cup, and even after removal, it will actually greatly reduce the color of the Spring and Autumn Cup.
Therefore, for BT and interest, it is advisable to be loose and not to be blocked, and a reasonable and effective display space should be given, but it should be properly differentiated to avoid too much impact on other puzzles.
For example, special markers are added to BT puzzles and erotic puzzles, and unmarked people do not involve BT techniques or erotic factors by default. Alternatively, BT special sessions or erotic sessions can be arranged for each competition, and there can be BT and erotic interest in the special field, and BT and erotic interest cannot appear in the non-special field.
Further, BT and eroticism can also be separated into two competitions, erotic puzzle is limited to the Yingchun Cup, BT puzzle is limited to the Autumn Cup, so that those who have a large resistance to eroticism or BT can choose to stagger participation, and at the same time can also increase the recognition of both the Yingchun Cup and the Autumn Cup.
When judging, good BT puzzles or erotic puzzles are sometimes considered to be inherently deficient and difficult to select, and even if they are selected, there will be great controversy. But both BT puzzles and erotic puzzles have their own value and significance, and they also have their own followers and preferences (although some may not be willing to admit it). Therefore, in addition to the good riddle list, it is not a choice to select another BT list or a sex list.
In addition, vulgar riddles and personal attacks need to be severely cracked down, including erotic mysteries that are too explicit and close to pornography. The Spring and Autumn Cup should form a clear bottom line of puzzle making through discussion, supervise each other, and implement it together. If necessary, it is even possible to invite the puzzle friends who do not participate in the contest to set up a review team to judge and punish the author appropriately.
The control of the number of puzzles also needs to be considered.
It is necessary to control the total number of puzzles in the Spring and Autumn Cup, otherwise it will inevitably cause a decline in the overall level of puzzles. As far as possible, the total number of puzzles used in the game should be clarified before the game, leaving sufficient screening space for the two teams, and it is not appropriate to wait until the end to determine the number of puzzles through consultation.
It is necessary to control the upper limit of the number of puzzles per person in the Spring and Autumn Cup to avoid the situation that the proportion of single puzzles is too large, which is definitely unhealthy and is not conducive to the long-term development of the game.
It is necessary to control the number of good ones per person in the Spring and Autumn Cup, so as to avoid the good riddle list becoming someone's rampant self-performance. Well, serious protests in personal name.
The Spring and Autumn Cup also has a setting of hanging red.
The red riddle in my opinion has a lot of ostentatious elements, you see, you can't guess this one, if you can guess it, I will give it a bag.
At best, it is through the reward of guessers, reflecting the sympathy between guessing and system.
So, what about the mysteries that were not guessed, including non-hanging red? Isn't it time to punish it too?
In the Breeze Cup, puzzle scoring and group puzzle scores can balance this problem, and there will be a price to pay for bad puzzles. But on the Spring and Autumn Cup, the rotten mystery is almost beneficial and harmless to the party.
In the context of the theory of guessing, the merits of the puzzle are not the biggest contradictions. But if the puzzle has reached a point where it is impossible to guess, the contradiction will be aroused. So you might as well let those puzzle authors who were not guessed also send a package to the guessing team to compensate.
At the end of the day, the riddle is meant to be used to guess. Maybe some mysteries are impossible to guess and need to be revealed to find the magic, but such mysteries should not appear in the game. If the title is not guessed, it should not be seen as a sign of success, but rather reflect on whether something is wrong. Even the mystery of the Spring and Autumn Cup should be so.
It's like a teacher designing an exam question, the final question must be difficult to do, but if all the students can't answer it, then the question will lose its value and meaning. How to control this difficulty just right is a kung fu, but it is definitely worth studying.
After so much talk, the length has seriously exceeded the original plan. The above is basically some of my thoughts and criticisms of the Spring and Autumn Cup, and the focus is also on issues related to rule design. There are also some management issues that are neither my concern nor my expertise, so I will skip them.
If you haven't seen what you want to see by this, make a supplementary statement in the comments.
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