Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:24:21 05/20/04
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On May 20, 2004 at 14:39:03, Dan Honeycutt wrote: >On May 20, 2004 at 14:19:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On May 20, 2004 at 11:31:35, Dan Honeycutt wrote: >> >>>On May 19, 2004 at 22:21:41, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On May 19, 2004 at 21:33:48, Dan Honeycutt wrote: >>>> >>>>>Whether the rule is new or whether it makes sense was not my point. Omid: you >>>>>have done a good job of keeping your focus on this tournament, not events of the >>>>>past. Because of that Bob has given indication he might enter. But right now >>>>>this rule is the sticking point. Bob: could you say "It's a stupid rule but >>>>>I'll live with it and enter." Or has too much other water already gone under >>>>>the bridge? I hope not. >>>>> >>>>>Dan H. >>>> >>>> >>>>I've already said I am working on hardware. I have a volunteer for book >>>>preparation and operator. There is simply a question of whether there is enough >>>>time to get access to good hardware on such short notice... >>> >>>You did say that. But then you later said you were putting the search on hold >>>till this entry fee business was resolved. Thats when I piped up. At any rate, >>>thats fantastic. Hopefully the hardware search will work out. >>> >>>Dan H. >> >> >>I probably was sloppy in my wording. The "double entry fee" issue raises >>warning hackles that "no non-programmer operator" could become a possibility. >>Omid seems to think "no" so I'm going with that and proceeding. Whether it will >>work or not is unknown, but I'll certainly try... > >Omid has been steadfast in his statement so I think it is right to take him at >his word. You show a lot of class for letting by-gones be by-gones. But if >something changes here no one could blame you for saying "never again". > >Dan H. Let me be very clear. I _love_ to compete. At most anything. Football in high school. Karate until 1994 or so. Computer Chess since 1968. I coached and played on a departmental intramural basketball team until that same 1994 period where my knee doc said "stop with the kicking and with the running up and down a hard court". I always considered the ACM events the highlight of each year, until the last one in 1994. And I hated to see them end as they were always in the US, and were held annually. The WCCCs were harder to attend due to cost and time. And over the past few years they have gotten _much_ worse stretching out well over a week plus travel time... So I'm all for playing. I've played in all the CCTs I think. I play in the author's only tournament when I can. So be assured that there is nothing I would like better than to play in every event that comes along. But the ICCA is _not_ making it easy. They offer more obstacles than help, in reality, due to a lack of planning. IE do you know when the rounds of the WCCC will be played, time-wise? Neither do I. And neither do they, yet. Couldn't _that_ be planned a bit further in advance? I have to ask a vendor to give me access to hardware but when he asks "when?" I have to say "I know the days, but not the times, and I don't know whether they will do a playoff or not if there is a tie, and so forth." Cray would have _never_ given me machine time without significant advance notice of exact dates and times. This makes the hardware question much more complicated. IE if it happens to be AMD, and games are at night US time, it will be easy. If games are during the day, it will be much harder. If I don't even know exactly when, it will be harder still...
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