Steve and Mike,

It is fantastic how you feel committed to build a new site hosting this new 
avatar of the defunct(?) IRTC. My sincesre and humble thanks for this. And 
of course to all the people that have joined in the discussions over the 
past months. The concept is very much alive and kicking!

Concerning the name of the competition, there is the problem that - as long 
as we are not certain that the IRTC will not be revived one day, and I 
believe Chris Cason implied this more or less, or am I mistaken? - this 
competition will have a provisional status. Not that that is a problem in 
itself. On the contrary, I think it enables us all to explore new avenues 
and expand our challenges, and maybe it will even continue in its own right. 
But how to call it? with reference to the IRTC, like Steve suggests 
(3D-IRTC), or IRTC-2 (my humble suggestion), apart from copyright problems 
maybe, or try to imagine a new name that immediately will attract people to 
it? That is more difficult, although more challenging, no doubt. Something 
like the CGSphere competition name, but better :-) for instance 3DC (3D 
Competition)? Not very good, I know, but I'm just scratching my mind's 
convolutions...

>  ....Another reason is that I had a look at the IRTC site again last 
> night, (and just now), and I can't even comprehend why it says: "deadline 
> was passed by 66 days, 5 hours, 54 minutes, and 22 seconds".
>
>   That's just mad.

Yeah... It's weird. The clock still ticking in an abandoned house... spooky!


Thomas

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