Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:59:15 11/18/03
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On November 18, 2003 at 16:20:58, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On November 18, 2003 at 16:11:38, Matthew Hull wrote: > >>Of course not. But traveling to europe EVERY YEAR FOR A DECADE is somewhat not >>feasable/justifiable from a financial and/or marketing POV. >> >>Now, if the event were in North America every other year, the picture is very >>different from a News-coverage/marketing standpoint. It is much easier to get >>sponsors for high performance, high-tech engineering involvement. And it is >>much easier to engage global media interests in the USA. > >Besides, if this is true, why is there no serious event in the US? > >I've said it before and I'll say it again: if the event would be in the >US instead of Austria, I'd still go in a hartbeat. And so would Brutus, >Fritz, Shredder, Diep, Junior and if I'd have to guesw, probably ParSOS >and Falcon too. > >We want to _play_. We don't care _where_ it is! > >Is that so hard to understand? Would you do it every year... For maybe 8 or 10 years in a row? Eventually, we are talking about a $50,000 investment when we consider time, travel, hotels, etc.. That's a lot of money to spend pushing little wooden horsies around on a checkerboard.
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