Author: Don Dailey
Date: 12:53:17 06/25/98
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On June 25, 1998 at 14:19:22, Roberto Waldteufel wrote: > >On June 24, 1998 at 19:56:26, Don Dailey wrote: > >>On June 24, 1998 at 18:15:59, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>> >>>On June 24, 1998 at 17:18:08, Thorsten Czub wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Maybe I am living in a different time zone, but I thought WE HAD THIS TOURNAMENT >>>>THIS YEAR. I thought I was there operating tiger, and I guess Vincent was also >>>>there. Stefan was there. The only person I have not seen was Bruce/Tom/Martin >>>>and others. >>>>Or was this last year ? No - last year was 1997, or ? >>>>Do you have a different year in US , Bruce ?:-)) >>>> >>>>Of course we can do it several times in Paderborn. Lets do it again. >>>>Lets make another Paderborn tournament. >>>>Where's Ulf, where is Rainer ! Hello - Bruce wants a tournament !! >>> >>>Yes, I figured this out. I thought they had it late in the year, not early in >>>the year. >>> >>>So this is supposedly like February or March next year? That's awful. >>> >>>If there really will be no ICCA tournament this year, then we have a tournament >>>vacuum. >>> >>>Is it possible for Rainer and Ulf to move their thing forward a bit to fill this >>>gap? >>> >>>I tried to get the Australians to let me into their thing, and they balked. Can >>>I become Dutch or something if this Paderborn thing also doesn't work out? >>> >>>I will bring a pack of cigarettes, if that will make me more Dutch, but I won't >>>smoke them. >>> >>>bruce >> >> >>Why not have our own low cost tournament in the USA? MIT will donate >>classroom space for this, I've already checked it out. >> >>If I can get any interest from the European programmers I would >>persue this. >> >>- Don > > >Hi Don, > >I'm not sure of the exact format you have in mind - I live in London and I doubt >that I would be able to get over to the USA in person, but if I could simply >send in my program I would love to enter. Is this allowed? > >Best wishes, > >Roberto As far as I'm concerned this is fine, but I don't know who would actually be making the rules. But nothing has happened yet except that I have access to free space. Probably I would first attempt to get the ICCA to sanction this, but I'm very skeptical because I believe they would require a substantial fee for organizing this and this would require a rich sponsor. If we could get a rich sponsor then of course I would prefer to see the World Championship get moving instead. If I ended up organizing this I would keep it as warm and friendly as possible, along the lines of the Dutch championship which I enjoyed very much. With the space we already have access to, not very much money will need to be involved and perhaps no prize money (but also little or no entry fee.) But so far it's just an idea, maybe ill concieved, maybe not. I really would hope to attract Europeans (or any non-USA folks) who would want to come. I don't really want a tournament of just USA people but would like to mix everyone together. It's much more FUN this way and that is the only reason I would do it anyway, for the fun. But I'm not sure Europeans would be willing to go to the effort and expense for this kind of thing. I would hate to go to a lot of trouble and have no one show up from the other side of the ocean! I've had so much fun at every tournament I've been at that I hate to see them die, and they seem to be gradually dying. The U.S. ones seem to be already dead so maybe a new one could be born? - Don
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