Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:15:34 07/06/04
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On July 06, 2004 at 12:14:15, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On July 06, 2004 at 10:31:27, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On July 06, 2004 at 03:16:25, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>On July 05, 2004 at 23:06:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>My feeling is that the socialism stuff is good, but the event itself is more >>>>important. Given the choice of 14 programs or 54 programs (last CCT) I'll take >>>>54 programs every time. Socializing could be done at a 3 day conference, where >>>>more would come for a much shorter time. 9 days is ridiculous in the extreme... >>> >>>I don't think you'd get 54 programs as soon as travel is involved. >> >>That was my point. :) >> >>travel is an outdated concept in this era of electronic meetings and the like. > >I disagree. It's nice to have an online tournament, it's even nicer to >play IRL and meet people. > >-- >GCP Much nicer to play online, and have a conference where the "meeting" takes place. Otherwise, back to the ACM way of a 3 day tournament which would also be OK. But _not_ 9 days... that is out of control. Also manual move entry is beyond ridiculous today. Why the ICGA won't address that is beyond comprehension...
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