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Subject: Re: why isn't crafty plaing??

Author: Louis Fagliano

Date: 09:52:03 11/26/03

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On November 26, 2003 at 11:43:49, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 26, 2003 at 06:26:38, Gerald Wright wrote:
>
>>.world championship
>
>
>1.  This event is always held in Europe, the last North American WCCC was 1989
>in Canada.  That makes it expensive to attend.
>
>2.  It is right on top of a major US holiday, Thanksgiving (tomorrow, Thursday,
>is the official holiday, but schools are also closed on Friday.  May as well
>have it on top of Christmas, from the US perspective.  It would be no worse.
>
>3.  It takes a week to play plus travel time.  We have classes the first three
>days of this week, plus the days surrounding the holiday.  Missing that many
>classes is simply not viable...

Do all programmers have to be there in person?  Could you not have sent a
friend, assistant, or proxy?



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