Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:56:29 11/13/99
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On November 13, 1999 at 14:50:21, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On November 13, 1999 at 12:02:40, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>Check past ACM/WCCC events. There was _no_ entry fee for those events, so >>that wasn't an issue. It was more about 'marketing' than anything else. Yes >>there are/were exceptions. There were also plenty of non-exceptions. > >Didn't Schroder win the WCCC in 1992? He attended in 1995 and 1999, although he >sat out the WMCCC's. > >I don't know about the ACM events, the last one was a long time ago and those >aren't world championship events. > >bruce Go back to the WMCCC events in the 80's. Almost without fail, the winner one year would not play the next. Everyone complained. But they also followed right along whenever _they_ won. :) The WCCC's are different... Micros never won those until 1992 when no 'big iron' played. But when a program did well at an annual event, you could almost count on it not entering the following year, to keep the P/R going from the 'win'...
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