Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:19:43 11/26/03
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On November 26, 2003 at 12:52:03, Louis Fagliano wrote: >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? I did this several years ago. They changed the rules to require a programmer to be present, although they enforced it spottily...
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