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Subject: Too Much Noise for 1000 Bucks...

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 16:48:32 10/12/97


I am really amazed reading the post where ICCA executives are almost
accused of some kind of plot and/or trying to sell people to third
parties  and/or trying to become rich just exploiting poor programmers ,
and all this agressive noise just because they ask 1000 bucks to those
commercial programmers that want to be part of the party in Paris.
Is 1000 bucks so much money?
So badly goes things in this industry that commercial programmers -that
sell each of his products at 150 dollars- cannot pay  $1000?
 What I see here is that all the time there are many reasons for some
poeple for not going. Once is a political reason: Jakarta was not
adequate because of the people that rules that country. Then the
tournament is not fair  because some people in the ICCA does not gives
the due salutations and reverences to this or that guy; now is money,
because, as anybody can see, with 1000 bucks in the pocket this people
could fly to Monaco and expend a week with an army of girls.
What's next?
I don't believe 1000 is too much money to get the chance to get a good
position and then to use it as advertising. Even  if you cannoit get the
first prize, you always can say that your program got a point against
this or that other program, as Chris has made once with CST and Genius.
Or that your program got the fastest winning. Or that your program was
the best, provided his slow hardaware. Or that you won the prettiest
game of the tournament. Or this or that. I don't know any program that
ever has been in a tournament that has not got specious reasons to
proclaim that very same tournament as a wonderful motive to buy  it.
So, if this kind of tournament becomes, as ever,  a good launching
platform for almost any guy that goes there -like in movies festivals
theses days-, it seems to me that paying 1000 cannot be reasonnably
considered as abusive. After all, we are talking of COMMERCIAL guys, not
amateurs, not poor genuses, not deprived people.
 Maybe what some people want is that ICCA does not organize nothing  at
all. Not tournaments, no need to compete, no need to suffer the agony of
defeat, no need to lye telling that even to be the very last in the
final list is a kind of succes.



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