Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 04:38:55 11/05/97
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On November 05, 1997 at 06:42:04, jean-christophe WEILL wrote: >On November 05, 1997 at 05:35:42, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>. >> >>The first days there were no drinks in the tournament hall. You had to >>sit there 8 hours and there was only ONE coffee-machine that crashed >>after the heavy usage. The air in the hall was very hot and dry. >>You were unable to open the windows ! >>Later they bought coke and different juices and water. >> >>I wonder why there was no internet machine. Why wasn't it possible to >>get a machine from e.g. Titus who had their office in Paris (!!) to get >>a steady internet access ??? >> > >FIrst, Titus is outside of Paris and is without Internet Access ! >(They have an e-mail address but the www.titusgames.com is in the US >as far as I can tell) > >As far as I understood there was some communication problems with >the local organizer and the ICCA for putting the information on the >Internet. Before the tournament, Titus thought to take care of that by >themselves >but ICCA found another people to do it, so Titus did not care about it. > >>Why wan't it possible to use the TITUS internet access AFTER each round >>to broadcast games and maybe some reports ??? >> > >So after, each round, Eric Caen of Titus were sending the games to the >US. > > >>Strange ! >> >>It looked like Titus and ICCA had a fight about any thing to do. >>Who has to buy the coke, who pays for the paper of the printer... > > >This should have been arranged before, of course. > > >> >>For visitors it must have been very difficult to come into the bourse. >>How is the paderborn tournament doing this year ? >>Can we organise a tournament there ? >>Reinhold ? Mr.Feldmann ? Mr.Gillgasch ? Mr.Gille ? How about Paderborn >>next year ? > >France can be OK for next year, Titus is having experience by now and >can arrange to make it far better. Not a good idea. Titus is commercial (it publishes you program !). It can't get to sponsor the site in France two years running. Chris > > >Jean-Christophe.
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