Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 06:55:43 07/18/02
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On July 17, 2002 at 09:15:51, David Dory wrote: You guys are all passing the most important point. The first and most important thing to figure out is finding an organizer and at the same time finding a sponsor for it. That requirement is so very important that it is completely useless all the postings here. If you have an organizer and a sponsor, then the rest is not a peanut but it's only 0.00000000000001% of the effort of finding a sponsor + organizer. Right now it's an water balloon this whole north american chatter. >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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