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Subject: Re: Crafty's reign of terror ends as, mighty Insomniac takes the thrown.

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 14:01:09 08/25/00

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On August 25, 2000 at 16:03:19, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

>Hi ERIQ,
>
>>All hail the new King !!
>
>Sorry to rain on your parade -- but "Crafty" never won
>any official ICCA amateur champion title.

Somebody should also inform him that it's "throne" not "thrown".

>
>"Ferret" won the last official amateur title in Paris,
>October 1997.
>
>Thereafter, AFAIK, the ICCA decided to abandon the flood
>of different WMCC titles (amateur, professional, overall)
>in favour of awarding only one, namely the overall title.
>
>Hence, no amateur and professional WMCC titles were
>presented during the 1999 championship in Paderborn.
>Otherwise, "DarkThought" would have earned the amateur
>microcomputer title there -- bad luck for us ... :-(
>

I thought the award was given to Lambchop that year.  Maybe I'm thinking of
another tournament?

--Peter

• Re: SOS won the amateur title (?) Sylvain Renard 16:14:31 08/25/00
  • Re: SOS won the amateur title (?) Bruce Moreland 16:31:01 08/25/00
• Re: Crafty's reign of terror ends as, mighty Insomniac takes the thrown. Ernst A. Heinz 14:15:34 08/25/00
  • Re: Crafty's reign of terror ends as, mighty Insomniac takes the thrown. Dave Gomboc 16:09:06 08/25/00
    • Re: Crafty's reign of terror ends as, mighty Insomniac takes the thrown. Bruce Moreland 16:46:06 08/25/00
      • Re: Crafty's reign of terror ends as, mighty Insomniac takes the thrown. Uri Blass 21:22:46 08/25/00
      • Re: Crafty's reign of terror ends as, mighty Insomniac takes the thrown. Dave Gomboc 18:20:45 08/25/00

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