Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:04:33 11/19/03
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On November 19, 2003 at 11:30:37, martin fierz wrote: >On November 19, 2003 at 11:06:21, Matthew Hull wrote: > >>On November 19, 2003 at 10:55:26, martin fierz wrote: >> >>>On November 19, 2003 at 10:31:54, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>here. Makes a _lot_ of sense. And it shows just how "world" aware the >>>>ICCA actually is. >>> >>>i don't really want to be involved in this thread, but i can't resist this >>>one... >>> >>>disclaimer: of course it would be much more sensible to have the championship in >>>the US from time to time. >>> >>>cheapo: so the ICCA does something which is not good for *one* country >> >> >>That's one cheapo that doesn't work. It would be like 2000 years ago holding >>gladiator events that discommode only one country, Rome. >> >>MH > >of course it works, and you just invite the next follow up cheapo ;-) > >2000 years ago the romans were perhaps not aware that there was much more to the >world than rome. sometimes one gets the feeling that the US citizens are no >different in this respect... > >cheers > martin The original ICCA was _mostly_ USA folks with some from Canada as well. Would you say _we_ were not "world aware" in 1977? If so, why did we _specifically_ think it necessary to alternate the WCCC between Europe and North America every three years? To let the US folks have a European vacation and then the Europeans have a US vacation every 6 years ago? That didn't figure into _my_ voting on the charter as originally written.
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