Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 23:02:37 05/18/04
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On May 18, 2004 at 20:04:28, Sune Fischer wrote: >On May 18, 2004 at 15:14:13, Gerd Isenberg wrote: > >>Cheers, >>Gerd > >Okay, I see you are hooked :) > >I guess in a way it is better for 10 people to have a really great time, than >for 100 people to have a moderately good time. 95-97 there were more than 30 paticipants iirc. > >I just wonder if these 10 people couldn't get together for some other tournament >some other day, and then let the 100 people play at the world championship. > >A world championship seems a bit "wasted" on so few people, it really ought to >be a major event, something that was widely recognized with a solid support in >community, something everyone looked forward too and not just a handful of the >same usual suspects. > yes, that was the common spirit until 97. For some reason, the number of participants decreased from year to year. I guess ICGA's policy has something to do with that, swapping between America and Europe, ICGA's focus on other computer games and so on. Gerd >-S.
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