>Venelina,
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>Calling the programmers in these other countries lazy is pretty wrong.

David, good for you! Family should come first at least dome of the time <g>.

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>I'd also add (late Sunday night) that having 3 parts to the tournament probably limits ability to participate. The people who write good articles are not necessarily the people who can get a good desktop app together within the timeframe and desktop app folks are not the ones that can get a good VFP driven website up in the timeframe.

This is the reason we didn't enter. I am a member of a multi-national team, which would have liked to enter the Desktop competition. We could also have done a credible article in the time allowed. Even though we are at crunch time on a major project, the schedule would have been manageable for the Desktop, but not for the Web App. Our team leader will be flying to a meeting with our European member during the web competition hours. If it had been 3 separate competitions, we wood have entered at least one, perhaps 2 events, but not the Web event.

And as you pointed out, some shops do really well with Web development, others only desktop-C/S, and a few both.

I assume Michel is monitoring discussions on this thread and want to make the following observations/suggestions for future events:
1. There be separate competitions for each event.
2. The idea that the competition should be national/regional, is unrealistic. At least some of us work with multi-national team members, in real life, and there should not be any restriction on team membership. I am aware that allowance were to be made for individual circumstance, but IMO, the competition need not be nationalistic to start with.