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Subject: Re: 12th WCCC, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, July 4th-12th 200

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 18:52:53 12/04/03

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On December 04, 2003 at 21:01:32, Thomas Mayer wrote:

>Hi Matthew
>
>> Why don't you address the issue of the ICGA charter?
>This is no issue - that has changed... but go on to live in the past
>
>> Why don't you address the auto-play issue?
>you are unfamiliar with that - The CCTs - an autoplayer-event - are very nice
>tourneys, but possibilities to cheat are very high - and it is not nearly the
>athmosphere that you have at an on the board tourney - but you will never
>understand as long as you have not done it yourself...
>
>> The length issue?
>so well, it would take 5 rounds - what will happen at CCC -> they will all say:
>"Oh, it was so short, the winner was just lucky" etc. etc.... so what ?
>
>> The issue that ICGA should be drumming up sponsorships in the respective
>> parts of the globe.
>respective ? You mean US ? Get real - as long the ICGA must not search for
>sponsorships and organisations are still interested in the WCCC without the ICGA
>doing to much - what would you do ?

I would not pay the ICGA $50k and do all the work in order to have an event.

Where does all that money go, and why give it to them if they don't really do
anything to earn it?



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