Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:53:36 05/02/01
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On May 02, 2001 at 07:44:27, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >On May 02, 2001 at 06:57:35, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >>On May 02, 2001 at 06:48:14, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >> >>>Thanks for your comments. >>> >>>Do you have news about the suggestion made by the ICCA (match of DJ-DF winner >>>against Shredder) ? >>> >>>Regards, Uli >> >>As far as I know, ICCA did not approach BGN regarding this issue. >> >>Enrique > >Thanks again for the informations, Enrique. > >I personally regret that the suggested match against Shredder will not come >because IMHO this would have been a worthwhile attempt to react reasonably on >some of the points regarding this match which had been critized (the role of the >legitimate ICCA champion). > >But it's clear that it wasn't up to you to decide this. > >BTW, regarding the attempt to join Tiger to this event, your remarks seem quite >reasonable to me. > >Perhaps, this event should have been announced a bit earlier, so people would >have had time to make suggestions ? > >Uli There are two tremendous errors here: 1. Shredder was the "natural choice". For reasons already given. 2. Ferret had finished higher than either Fritz or Junior at the last "open" WCCC event. It was not considered. Just picking the two top entries from the SSDF list is a _poor_ way of choosing programs. Ferret may be better than either. Yet it was never given a thought. The decision making for this match was not just "poor". It was _terrible_. (no, I don't think the SMP Rebel or SMP Tiger discussion is a problem. They are not SMP in any public way, so not knowing about such a possibility is not an issue IMHO. But any fool knows about SMP Ferret and how it has done.)
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