spotes wrote:
I'm going to venture a guess that, given its name, The Pulse is all current event sports questions. This would accomplish two long standing dreams of BT sports game writers:
1. It will only take a single glance of the week's sports results and a whopping 10 minutes to construct a game. These people want to put as little time as possible into these games. A brush with the editing from practically any premium game over the last year should confirm this. (And it's also the
real reason they chose SIQ over STC last year, BO).
2. Their abject lack of sports knowledge has been all but removed from the equation for game construction. The only thing they need to do now is not get a paper cut turning the pages of USA Today or whatever. (I know. I know. What's a newspaper, grandpa?)
Maybe I'm wrong.
It's happened once or twice before.
I'll endeavor to reserve judgment until I actually play this game.
Maybe they'll really wow us with all of the bells and whistles that BO loves so much...
Actually, with thousands and thousands of historical sport questions in a relational database one would think you could generate endless SIQ / STC type games without a writer.
I could. ( I actually did that in the late 80s for PCs using Clipper86).
Current sports would require new questions for the database, with, being topical, most of which would never move to the permanant database (think expire on date).
If they truly draft the entire premium game "by hand", including distractors, that would be a real waste of a database.
I could see a review and editing procedure of pregenerated proforma games, but to create a fresh premium game from scratch every night seems anachronistic.