>>Venelina,
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>>Calling the programmers in these other countries lazy is pretty wrong.
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>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.
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>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.
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>And as you pointed out, some shops do really well with Web development, others only desktop-C/S, and a few both.
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>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.

Steve,

In one of the messages Michel indicated, that international teams would be allowed, if there would not be enough "national" participants. So, you may still register your team. The more teams, the better and interesting the competition would be.

Since it's a first tournament here at UT may be Michel would allow some team to compete in only two events instead of all three. In this case prize could be adjustable.