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| - A Round Robin works as thus, write up to a page of material, and then sit back and wait for the next users to post. Then you can make another post, and continue the cycle until it is complete.
- Round Robin DNS Load Balancing (also known as fast-flux) is a technique where a DNS server rotates which of several server IP addresses is to be used. It holds a list of IP addresses, and provides a different one for each successive request, returning to the first on the list after the last has been provided. Strictly speaking, round robin is a load splitting technique, rather than load balancing.
- The "Round Robin" was a maneuver that the Scooby Gang often performed in high school. The basic layout was that Buffy, Xander, Willow, Oz, and Cordelia would call their respective parents and inform them that they were staying at one of the others' house in order to study and/or hang out, thus giving them free reign to fight vampires and demons after hours.
- A round robin is a scheduling system where three or more teams are in a tournament or playoff. Each of the teams involved play each other an equal number of times. Sometimes they play each other twice - home-and-home - or if time is short only once. This is opposed to the single elimination system which is used in the Stanley Cup playoffs, for example, where teams play only one opponent at a time.
- A round robin is a form of where many authors take turns writing chapters in a story. Round robins come in two forms: moderated, where the sequence of authors is decided in advance, and unmoderated (or freeform), where they are not. Adapted from the Wikipedia article on round robins.
- A Round Robin is a story written collaboratively by a group of authors, each of whom takes a turn writing a chapter or section; the chapters are produced in chronological order, or at least in the order in which they are intended to be read. There is no agreed-upon outline for the overall plot, and the authors are all free to take the story in whatever direction they wish when it is their turn to write a section, without consulting the others, leaving those who follow to deal with the consequences of what they have written. By the same token, each must accept what previous contributors have written.
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| - A round robin is a form of where many authors take turns writing chapters in a story. Round robins come in two forms: moderated, where the sequence of authors is decided in advance, and unmoderated (or freeform), where they are not. In its original meaning, the term "round robin" described correspondence to a single address authored or signed by numerous individuals. This use of the term dates from the seventeenth-century French term ruban rond ("round ribbon"), which referred to the practice of people who signed petitions against authority—usually Government officials petitioning the Crown—appending their names to a document in a non-hierarchical circle or ribbon pattern in order to disguise the order in which they had signed so that no one could be identified as a ring leader. Adapted from the Wikipedia article on round robins.
- A Round Robin works as thus, write up to a page of material, and then sit back and wait for the next users to post. Then you can make another post, and continue the cycle until it is complete.
- A round robin is a scheduling system where three or more teams are in a tournament or playoff. Each of the teams involved play each other an equal number of times. Sometimes they play each other twice - home-and-home - or if time is short only once. This is opposed to the single elimination system which is used in the Stanley Cup playoffs, for example, where teams play only one opponent at a time. The round robin system is used in, for example, the Memorial Cup and in the preliminary round of the Olympics. In the Olympics the leading teams play single elimination sudden-death games after the round-robin is finished.
- Round Robin DNS Load Balancing (also known as fast-flux) is a technique where a DNS server rotates which of several server IP addresses is to be used. It holds a list of IP addresses, and provides a different one for each successive request, returning to the first on the list after the last has been provided. Strictly speaking, round robin is a load splitting technique, rather than load balancing.
- A Round Robin is a story written collaboratively by a group of authors, each of whom takes a turn writing a chapter or section; the chapters are produced in chronological order, or at least in the order in which they are intended to be read. There is no agreed-upon outline for the overall plot, and the authors are all free to take the story in whatever direction they wish when it is their turn to write a section, without consulting the others, leaving those who follow to deal with the consequences of what they have written. By the same token, each must accept what previous contributors have written. A classic Round Robin has each person writing multiple parts, repeating the same order of authors each round. Variations include each author writing a single part or the authors writing multiple parts without a pattern to the repetition, perhaps not even producing the same number of parts. Another simple variation is to have the same person write both the first and last parts. A variant on the Round Robin format restricts the author's knowledge of what has come before. Typically in this variant, each new writer will be given only the immediately preceding chapter, and must extrapolate how things got there. Needless to say, this is done only as an intentional gambit to produce amusingly incoherent results; moreso the shorter each chapter is. This variant reaches its ultimate expression in comic strips where each participant is given only a single panel. This variant is often called "exquisite corpse", after a famous phrase created by this method. A Round Robin presents a number of obvious storytelling dangers, including character derailment, loads and loads of characters, plot holes, retcons, spotlight-stealing, and worst of all Dead Fic if someone fails to go through their turn. In general, the most major danger of a Round Robin is that each author is more eager to introduce his own characters and subplots and then talk about them than to write about characters introduced previously. Furthermore, it's hard to give a Round Robin an actual ending, since even when all the plot points are wrapped up, someone will likely reveal that this was all part of the villain's master plan, or another mega-powerful villain will show up suddenly - all in a desperate try to lengthen the story for at least as many pages; of course, it won't work, since everyone else are tired of the story already, and so the Round Robin will never get a proper ending.
- The "Round Robin" was a maneuver that the Scooby Gang often performed in high school. The basic layout was that Buffy, Xander, Willow, Oz, and Cordelia would call their respective parents and inform them that they were staying at one of the others' house in order to study and/or hang out, thus giving them free reign to fight vampires and demons after hours.
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