Author: Pete Galati
Date: 11:25:07 08/22/00
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On August 22, 2000 at 11:17:44, Ian Kennedy wrote: >On August 22, 2000 at 10:49:38, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On August 22, 2000 at 09:24:11, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On August 22, 2000 at 06:18:44, Jason Williamson wrote: >>> >>>>On August 22, 2000 at 04:14:44, Peter McKenzie wrote: >>>> >>>>>I think that it could be time for the 10th WCCC next year, surely something >>>>>worth organising? Volunteers, anyone? Can't be that hard to do better than >>>>>this year... >>>> >>>>Again, how expensive is it to organize something like this? Is there prize >>>>funds or other things, are you programers expected to foot the bill? >>>> >>>>JW >>> >>> >>>Estimates have said that ICCA needs to be paid about $30,000 to put the >>>event on. That is a pretty serious hurdle... >> >>As big a problem as sponsors are, the event needs a sponsor. >> >>I'm making an effort not to constantly join the threads complaining about the >>coverage of this WMCCC, not easy to do since I find the coverage aggravating. >>But next time they need money behind the tournament to start with, and someone >>who's heard of the internet (now there's a new concept!) to organize it. >> >>Was London just flat out the wrong place to hold WMCCC? >> >>Pete > >The last bit about London seems a bit of a non-sequitur (sp?)- why should London >be the 'wrong place'? Notwithstanding your other comments ... > > >Ian Kennedy I don't object to London at all, but for some reason, while it's in London, we all know very little about what's going on. I can't explain why, because when they held a tournament in Paderborn, we had reasonable coverage of what was happening, and you could go to Java boards and go through the games, and you could download pgn files of the games. So someone wasn't very concerned with the rest of the world being able to observe the games now that the WMCCC tournament is being held in London. Can someone tell me, is it because it's being held in London? Is it a result of the people in charge of this tournament? On a related not, was there a huge entrance fee for being part of the Paderborn tournament too? And another related note, Vincent Diepeveen complains about huge rental fees for a monitor at the London event, not that we've never seen Vincent complain before, but this event isn't running all that smoothly being in London. But... I don't have any complaints about it being there, it seems like it would be a great place, how could anyone complain about the country that brought us the Mini Cooper? Pete
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