Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:44:22 02/10/03
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On February 10, 2003 at 14:38:14, Russell Reagan wrote: >On February 10, 2003 at 14:05:44, John Merlino wrote: > >>Yep, pretty annoying. Another hobby of mine (being an all-around nerd) is Drum >>and Bugle Corps. The Championships are held every year in mid August. There have >>been 30 of these now, and none of them have been West of Dallas, although over >>1/2 of the Championships have been won by Corps from California. >> >>The point is that, literally, 90% of the Corps are based in the Eastern half of >>the US, and these organizations are non-profit. Many of them, even the best >>ones, are just able to survive through a competition season which lasts less >>than two months, because trekking about 150-175 people cross-country for that >>period of time does cost quite a bit of money. >> >>I guess the ICGA decision-makers are using the same (not entirely flawed) >>reasoning as the DCI folks.... > >This makes good sense, but it is kind of a catch-22 (I think that's the right >phrase). Perhaps the ICGA looks at the situation and says, "90% of the >participants are from Europe, so we will not make the majority travel to North >America." But, if they held the competition in North America, they might well be >saying, "90% of the participants are from North America, so we will not make the >majority travel to Europe." > >I don't think they'll ever know until they give it a chance. They gave it a chance. It worked. In the 1970's, _all_ the computer chess research was going on in the USA, except for the Kaissa group in Moscow. The first WCCC was in Austria, the second in Toronto, and they alternated for several cycles thru 1989, in Alberta Canada. Then they moved to Europe exclusively. Of course, holding those early events in Europe, where computer chess was non-existant, certainly fostered interest over there. Which was _exactly_ why the ICCA was formed in 1977. But they seem to have forgotten that.
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