Author: Ernst A. Heinz
Date: 10:00:10 08/15/00
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Hi Pete, >By the way , when it is about the missing ones : what happened to DarkThought , >the second best Micro in 1999 ? Simple answer -- until August 3, 2000 the whole event was supposed to be a uniform-platform PC championship in which "DarkThought" on Alpha would not have been able to participate. Because the decision and plans for the PC-only championship in 2000 were announced by the ICCA since mid-1999 (without any statements to the contrary until very recently), we never planned to participate. Now imagine our surprise when the event was suddenly announced to be a _regular_ WMCC. By August 3, it was just too late for us to do any meaningful preparation ... :-( Obviously, we were not the only ones greatly surprised by the sudden and completely unforeseen turn of events. If the list of participants posted by Ed Schroeder is correct, then there are awfully few of them. The previous championships always featured around 30 programs. The low number of participants is probably due to the fact that information flow regarding this tournament was almost non-existent until mid-July or so. =Ernst= P.S. WWW pages of "DarkThought" at http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/dt/.
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