Background Material 3/3

By Jeff Zeitlin ·

TML message #5840From bundle 484

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          qualifying       average    is
          designed to keep  well-funded,
          but poorly skilled teams  from
          entering  the   race  at   the
          expense of poorly funded,  but
          highly skilled,  teams.    The
          Committee wishes to  encourage
          the  highest  skilled    teams
          possible to  participate.   It
          makes for more of a challenge,
          and  generates  more  interest
          among the public.   Within  an
          average  group,   taking   the
          highest-total-scoring    teams
          places more practiced teams in
          the   race,   increasing   the
          probability   of   competitive
          performace  (the   combination
          of  score  and  average  would

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  I'd appreciate comment on this, and any suggestions as to
  improving/tightening up the rules.  If you want to use this idea
  in your campaigns, go ahead; I may just use it as a source for a
  patron in my campaign.  If you write for any of the publications
  that support Traveller (including any TNE sourcebooks or GDW
  publications), and you think that they might accept a fleshed-out
  version of what I have here, please let me know, privately, and
  we can discuss it, privately.
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Jeff Zeitlin                                      [email removed]
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