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Subject: Re: List of participants for WCCC

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 11:06:51 05/13/04

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On May 13, 2004 at 13:51:50, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>On May 13, 2004 at 11:53:22, Matthew Hull wrote:
>
>>On May 13, 2004 at 06:12:50, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>I do not see a list of participants in WCCC.
>>>I registered yesterday but did not get a response until now.
>>>
>>>You can register in http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/wccc2004/wcccreg.html and
people >>>who do it after 15.5 will need to double the price they pay.
>>>
>>>I think that it may be productive to see list of participants who registered
but >>>unfortunately when I goto http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/wccc2004/ and click
>>>participants I see no list.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>
>>Maybe only one program is registered so far.
>>
>>In that case, you will be European Champion.
>>;)
>
>And in this "sport", the European Champion is almost certainly the world
>champion.  After all, both MLB and NBA teams call their best teams the world
>champions, despite not inviting teams from Europe.  It seems fairly obvious to
>me that the chance of any american engine beating Fritz, Shredder, Junior,
>Hiarcs, or Ruffian in a match is very small.

It seems fairly obvious to me that crafty running on a 16-way or 32-way NUMA
box would have excellent odds of winning a match against anything or anyone.

CCT6 (4-way) is proof of that.  That pretty much neutralizes the assertion that
Euro-champ equals World Champ.

>
>anthony



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