Tahnan
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 2459
Registered: 11-14-2005
IP: Logged
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Re: A challenge for the underlings (+1)
Regardless of how many rank points I have, the total number of holds that I've posted to Architecture and Holds combined is zero. In fact, the total number of holds I've released at all is three--a Limited Resources Hold, a Story of My Life, and an Al Dente hold. I'd hardly call myself a particularly experienced architect.
On the other hand, Dali--who at the time of this writing has just slightly over a third of the rank points I do, for whatever reason (very possibly contest-winning-related; see below)--has two of the highest-ranked holds on the board, one of them at 9.0 and the other at 8.0.
And, OK, he's a Master Delver as opposed to a Delver, but regardless, I think it's a decent indication that, whatever else is true, there's no particular correlation between one's rank points and one's ability to construct a good hold. (Incidentally, I happen to have won two contests--one of them was my first contest, Hermetic Puzzles, which happened to require no particular DROD talent, whereas I've been constructing puzzles for nearly a decade; the other was the Story of You, which was not particularly holdbuildingish. In neither case would newbie-to-the-board status have especially changed much; in fact, I was almost certainly a Delver in that first contest.)
Now, that said, I'd encourage you to run an unofficial contest for delvers only; it'd certainly be interesting.
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