Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 17:20:26 04/30/00
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On April 29, 2000 at 16:21:59, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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 I agree, but the 98% of the mass public who have no interest or do not know about this area of sport, will see the result and if you asked them, they would say that it is now world champion, thus considered the best. When I said sport, we in Australia do not cosider it a sport, thus no money from the sporting fund from the government. Australian chess is crap
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