>Perhaps you should take some of your spare time and invest in a course in international diplomacy

Yes, you are right that I was not so diplomatic, but I steel couldn't receive any reasonable answer, why programmers from biggest countries will not participate? How USA with more than 15000 programmers couldn't make a 4 members team? I think that they look only for money and honor to win this tournament mean nothing for them. After that ask questions like this - Why VFP is not so popular?
I have not so much spare time to take that cource. In reallity one of the project will be send latter, because of the tournament, but I suceed to persuade the customer that he will have some advantages of 3 days latter recieved project and he accepted this.