Author: Mridul Muralidharan
Date: 03:26:33 03/30/04
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On March 29, 2004 at 16:06:41, Dann Corbit wrote: >On March 29, 2004 at 14:26:30, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>On March 29, 2004 at 01:06:02, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>For the first time in the International CSVN Tournaments substantial prize money >>>is offered. PAL Group sponsors the tournament and makes available US$ 1500 for >>>first prize, US$ 1000 for second prize and US$ 500 for third prize as well. >> >>Again I must state that this tournament is becoming better and better each year. >>With the added incentive of a cash prize, I am sure there will be a record >>number of participants. > >It won't make any difference for how many people show up. The strongest >programs are going to win it and they were going to enter anyway. And it won't >entice people from North or South America because it is only the cost of the >trip and you are not guaranteed to achieve it. > >I predict that it will make the winners happy but will have no effect on >entrants. Maybe business class air round trip and 5 start accomadation would do ? :) Mridul
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