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Subject: Re: World championship titles

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 11:08:50 06/06/98

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On June 06, 1998 at 13:36:54, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On June 06, 1998 at 09:53:38, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>>Question for programmers: what do you value more, to be the official
>>world champion for a year, or to be on top of the SSDF list also for a
>>year? If you had to pick between one or the other?
>
>You cannot replace this EVENT without giving an alternative.
>An icca championship is a meeting for people, to see friends, to join
>friendship, to compete as humans against other humans, in preparation.
>Like sport. You cannot compare this to the ssdf-effort.
>This is no EVENT. I would not like to see the ICCA championships
>declined, and not replaced with another tournament.
>Aegon is over. So this IS a tournament and a competition we miss yet.

I don't want to replace anything. I am only curious to know what would
programmers prefer for their own personal satisfaction, if being for one
year the world champions in ICCA or for a year on top of the SSDF list.
I am no programmer, but I think I would prefer the latter.


>>Enrique



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