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Subject: Re: Amateur and Professional

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 20:59:17 08/30/01

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On August 30, 2001 at 23:43:48, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On August 30, 2001 at 18:21:39, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Why do we have to sock it to the rich guys anyway?  Just because we know that
>>they have deep pockets?
>>
>>Why not charge everybody $50 for admistrative costs and let it go at that?
>>
>>Is there some reason that the professionals should be punished?
>>
>>Make the entry fee the same for everyone.
>
>Then the entry fee would be relatively high, and there would consequently be
>less entrants.  Also, remember that the ICCA has a journal to publish: from the
>financial perspective, it's important for them to generate money from their
>championship tournament to support that.

What's the ICCA membership fee for?

I think that they charge too much.  Let's suppose that 5 programs show up at
$500 each.  That's $2500.  Is that amount going to make or break a technical
publication?  If it is, then they should just fold anyway.

I think that the ICCA is a waste of time.
The professional programmers do not publish useful articles.
The amateur programmers are almost universally college students or instructors.
Just publish them as technical reports on a college site.

This eliminates:
1.  The fact that you can't get the articles unless you become a ICCA member.
2.  The fee to join the ICCA.
3.  The fees for these contests.
4.  The horribly, horribly run contests (with rules appearing and disappering at
the last possible moment).
5.  An organization that does not even abide by its own statements (about
locations of tournaments, etc.)

Then again, you would need *some* kind of sponsoring organization.
Of course, I have not come up with any good alternative to the ICCA.  So we
should wait until someone comes up with a realistic idea before we tear the
walls down.



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