Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 16:56:02 08/16/00
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On August 15, 2000 at 13:00:10, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: >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 ... :-( My surprise was also big, but nevertheless i join! Nothing wrong with joining a tournament that's already under a lot of attack, or the tournament fades away! >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. Very sharp seen. A world championship where nothing is posted about at the start of a year is obviously suffering from that. Just 16 participants is real bad. The great fun of tournaments is that you can play programs and talk to programmers. This event has a high number of quiet programmers. I would be surprised if i see Ed say more as the word 'alphabeta', or Frans more as the word: "nullmove works great". Basically those who join are either buyable in the shop, or you play them daily at the ICC server. Apart from that only very few new entries are there. I counted Pacque Expert who smelt his chance to enter a world championship, and Xinix also smelt a chance to join the world champs. With the exception of Insomniac this tournament looks like an open european championship! It's time to organize next tournament in America! >=Ernst= >P.S. >WWW pages of "DarkThought" at http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/dt/.
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