Author: David Dory
Date: 06:15:51 07/17/02
1) No Qualifying Rounds - the more the merrier. If you really want qualifying rounds, make it apply ONLY to non American (North or North & South), programs. 2) Emphasize America's Region (either North or North & South). We want to build our region up. Limiting participation of programs from other area's will help make that possible. Spending a lot of funds on air-fair for non- Americans will spread the regional support down to almost nothing. As stated by others, it can also choke your tournament to death. How many American programs were sponsored to enter the Austrailian or WCCC tournaments? We would be wise to follow that same path. I'd love to see all the programs there, from ALL over the world, but that can't be hugely supported in this first regional tournament. I'm sure the sponsorship won't be THAT good. I believe the World Championship should be the place for these programs from all over the world to come and compete - not necessarily the America's tournament. We don't need or want a "World Championship" - yet. First, we need a good regional tournament, lots of entrants, lots of programmers. If we make it good, and build up CC in America, later we can have a WCCC over here. Saying we're going to have a WCCC now, without any recognition, or any recent tournament evidence, would be an unfunny joke. 3) Emphasize Categories - Open Titles: ============================================ Open Champ Open Amateur Champ North (or North & South) American Titles: ============================================ North (or North & South) American Champ North " " Amatuer Champ Young Programmer Champ - Under 25 years (building up interest and motivation in our younger programmers) Brilliancy Award - Commercial and Amateur Best Amateur Single CPU program Best Blitz program Etc. The categories help the American programs compete in a way that will motivate their future improvement and prevent them from being steam-rollered by the European programs. 4) A good IM or GM to discuss the games subtleties in the final decisive games I thought Mike Valvo and David Levy added HUGELY to the ACM CC events. As in Maastricht, would be great if he could play a simul or ??. 5) Game in 90 minutes makes for easy scheduling and many rounds - I like it. With the horsepower of today's PC's, this should be fine. For scheduling, it's VERY important that the games NOT be allowed to drag on and on!! 6) NO adjudicated games! :) I believe this should be shaped as a fast-moving, regional championship, (Not a world championship), emphasizing categories for amateur and young programmers, particularly from the America's. While other's are welcome to compete in the Open category, this should NOT be a "Euro Championship held in North America". If we don't take this opportunity to help build up our regional CC interest, and our young CC programmers, we'll have bungled this badly. As much as I would love to see the programs and programmers from all over the world come here to compete - this is just NOT the time to try and do that. As soon as you start talking dollars, you'll see this, clearly. This CC "baby" can't even walk yet, trying to fit it with "track shoes" is just silly. David
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