Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:29:06 09/28/97
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On September 28, 1997 at 05:01:29, Chris Whittington wrote: >I didn't enter on time. I entered after the deadline, didn't query >amateur/professional status and offered my $1000 and 150 word CSTal >description on provisioal acceptance. > >I was accepted without any problems or queries. > >Chris Was this a sensible way to treat this? Of course. For one of the WMCCC's I think I applied a few days too late as well. I didn't know what category I was in, so I just left that blank and described my situation, and they didn't balk about my lack of entry fee, either. They changed this policy retroactively. You are sitting there ordering entries (or maybe you haven't even started yet, in which case you just pretend the thing came in on time), and there are either not too many already, in which case you just go "tsk tsk" and add the entry, or there are too many already, so when you get the new one you say "damn" or local equivalent, but you still stick the new one in the stack where it goes, and the bottom one goes into the wait list, although you feel bad about this for a second, and probably put him on the top of the wait list at least. The above is the logical way to handle this, right? So now we have a case where the ICCA took someone they are alleged upon pretty good evidence to dislike, and made an accomodation. No problem. But we have this other case where the ICCA took someone who, no offense Chris, has better credentials, has caused less trouble, didn't show up (for political reasons) last year but was very polite about it (according to Marsland), and even won the championship two years ago, and did not make an accomodation. So what else is going on here that we do not know about? Are the situations really this similar? Did they have your late application, and Marty's application, together, one in each hand, and decide to be nice to you and to screw over Marty? I would think that anyone would have expected the opposite, if anything. All I have heard so far is rumor, I don't know if MChess applied two days late or two days after the entries were selected and/or announced (massively different situation), or seriously balked at the thousand bucks, or whatever. It's not time for recriminations, it's time to get more information. bruce
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