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Subject: Re: WCCC 2003 Starting List

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 14:22:08 11/18/03

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On November 18, 2003 at 17:11:12, Joachim Rang wrote:

>>
>>If the WCCC had continued to be held in North America, you would have seen a
>>continued interest from the university in fielding technology to participate in
>>the challenge.  We would see more research as we did in the '80s, and knowlegde
>>would have an opportunity to be shared and increased.
>>
>>Hold this same event in North America and people here will care.
>>
>
>hm, that might be true. But why didn't you manage to organize at least one
>important tournament in the States? I mean the WCCC is not all, there is Leiden,
>Paderborn and so on.
>
>now it's held in Europe and people _here_ do care. :-)


It's one thing if we all lived within six or seven hundred miles of each other,
like in Europe.  But the miles go up and the practicality goes down here in the
US.  That's one factor.  The other factor is that NET events make so much more
sense anyway, especially since North Americans tend to be individualists and
somewhat less gregarious (perhaps) than Europeans.  Besides, look how many US
entries there are for CCT6, which are more than any other country so far with
likely more to come.

I don't think GCPs arguments about lack of interest over here hold water.

MH



>
>regards Joachim



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