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Subject: Re: CCT8 Operators ( I don't Understand)

Author: Thomas Mayer

Date: 14:40:59 02/23/06

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Hi Nolan,

On February 23, 2006 at 17:30:11, Nolan Denson wrote:

>This is from the rules page.
>
>Only the original author or an approved operator of the original author may
>enter.

nobody said that an Operator is not allowed. The spirit of the CCTs is, that it
is an author-tournament. When just some small number of operators are there and
the author is looking around from time to time I am fine with that. (I know that
it was opposite with Quark last time - finally I think it was not the best idea
to do it that way... I fully follow here Tords arguments)
But understand also us authors: It is way more interesting to discuss stuff with
the other authors.
By the way: Operators are even worser at on the board tournaments. It's simply
not the same thing. As far as I know this is one reason why Frans Morsch does
not take part anymore at the Dutch Open.
One of the good things of Paderborn was always that the programmer himself must
operate or at least be at the tournament site. (Only exception for a program
that fullfills the field to an even number) - this seems to have changed
recently. This isn't any good, IMO. You know, the programs participate, but the
programmers are the soul of the tournament. Everywhere. I hope that CCT will
never degenarte to something like the CSS Online Masters. (Of course those guys
have also fun and it is an interesting tournament, but I would never play there
myself... And as far as I understand CCT is for programmers. The option with the
operators was especially for those which do not have good hardware... programmer
or team-members should be around if in any way possible)

Greets, Thomas

P.S.: I am quite sure that Fabien will look around. Or at least Joachim.



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