More than two apparently. Despite that fact that both mathematicians in fact have other work to do for which they get marked, they spent at least 6 hours yesterday trying to do up a draw.
Why? you ask. Why not just give the problem to an international relations housemate who, we are certain, will freakishly pull the only possible combination out thin air and leave us wondering what good maths if for anyway? In fact, what is the point of it all? Why do we live? Why do we die? And why do some of us spend so much the the intervening time solving Maths problems?
This is clearly an issue for another day, and one fortunately all Ultimate players know the answers to (Why do we live? To play Ultimate Why do we die? Because we can no longer play Ultimate. Why do some of us spend so much the intervening time solving Maths problems? Because you need something to fill the time in when you're not playing Ultimate)
However, rest assured all you Canberra Ultimate Players that the WILL be an outdoor winter league, it WILL be during daylight hours, and therefore the temperature WILL (with probability 1/2) be above freezing and it WILL (with probability 1) have the most beautiful (mathematically speaking) draw ever to have graced the Ultimate community.
Given:
- Winter league will run for 4 days on the about the third Sundays of the months June, July, August, September. (tentative dates: June 22, July 20, August 17, September 21)
- Each team will play 3 70-minute games per day (subject to change depending on exhaustion levels after the first sunday)
- Lunch will be provided.
- Games will run from 9 am to 5 pm
- First three sundays will be round-robin type play, last sunday will be semis and finals, with a BBQ.
- Maximum of 10 teams.
- The draw will be beautiful
- We only need 3 fields.
- We can play at our favorite playing fields, Downer.
I'm no mathemagician, but I'm curious as to how/why you would create a draw before knowing how many teams you have.
ReplyDeleteWell, at this stage we want to know the smallest number of fields we can book. It turns out we can run the whole shebang on two ACT sportsgrounds fields (which fit 3 ulty fields) and the worst that happens is that one team gets a double bye on the last day. Fate clearly scowls on team 6.
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