Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 13:21:59 04/29/00
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On April 29, 2000 at 09:05:53, Michael Cummings wrote: >On April 28, 2000 at 23:19:07, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On April 28, 2000 at 19:52:53, Michael Cummings wrote: >> >>>On April 28, 2000 at 12:24:51, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >>> >>>>On April 28, 2000 at 07:11:42, Michael Cummings wrote: >>>> >>>>>When you hold a world championship in anything, your main goal should be to >>>>>first try and get the best in world for the given championship. If I was running >>>> >>>>I don't think that's clear. I looked up the word "champion" last night and all >>>>it said was [basically] "a person who wins a competition." Nothing about being >>>>the best. >>> >>>But this is a World Championship. And Championship means a gathering of the best >>>in their field to compete to see who is the best. Yes the Champion is the person >>>who win a contest, but thats not the word you should be looking for. >>>Championship. >> >>I found this definition for championship from Merriam-Webster's web site: >> >>3 : a contest held to determine a champion >> >>and then for champion: >> >>4 : a winner of first prize or first place in competition; also : one who shows >>marked superiority <a champion at selling> >> >>Hmmm. I guess these definitions (when considered together) are pretty stupid, if >>you can find some better ones, go for it. >> >>-Tom > >okay so when you add world and championship, you are looking for a world >champion. So when you hold a championship of the world you are looking for the >best in the world. This discussion is getting dragged straight through the ground, but if you add "world" + "championship" it might just mean that competitors are from different parts of the world. Not that everybody in the world competes. In any case, like I said, the WMCCC is not set up to determine the best program in the world. In fact, it's a far cry from doing that. So it might as well be a social gathering. -Tom
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