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The joke Backgammon Giants list
Posted By: Casper Van der Tak In Response To: The joke Backgammon Giants list (Sevdalin Tsvetanov)
Date: Wednesday, 17 February 2016, at 2:45 p.m.
That is the point. There is something at stake, it is an honor to be on the Giants list and to be as high as possible, but at the same time that is a limited stake: no one in his right mind would go through the charade of having 100 friends register for an international tourney to vote for him, etc. While there are flaws, the incentives to abuse these flaws are very limited. So overall, the approach to the Giants list is practical, given the limited stakes, and given that it is volunteers' work.
Manipulating dice hurts others who have invested in participating. Manipulating a Giants vote clearly does not hurt nearly as much.
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