Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 04:28:35 05/19/04
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On May 19, 2004 at 06:57:17, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On May 19, 2004 at 05:36:40, José Carlos wrote: > >>On May 19, 2004 at 05:33:50, Richard Pijl wrote: >> >>>On May 19, 2004 at 05:05:54, Jouni Uski wrote: >>> >>>>Number 1 favourite is missing, why? >>>> >>>>Jouni >>> >>>Hydra is officially from the UAE. As I understood the sponsors do not allow >>>Hydra to participate in an event in Israel. >>>Richard. >> >> Maybe if Hydra could connect remotely, the sponsors wouldn't disallow it...(?) >> >> José C. > >Hydra plays remote anyway, the cluster is located in Paderborn university under >supervision from Ulf Lorenz. > >Hydra withdrew from world champs 2004 about 1 week before ict4 if i understand >it well. The official identity from Hydra is UAE which is a middle east nation >and a number of them is in war with Israel already for a long period of time >(officially). UAE is one of them. I had hope they would join though in Israel >because relationship israel <==> UAE didn't look too bad. But well probably that >was false hope seen from the safe Netherlands. > >Perhaps some Israeli want to explain the situation. As far as we are concerned, they are welcome to play here. But it seems that the UAE sponsors have decided against playing in Israel. > >Best regards, >Vincent
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