View topic - [UPDATE] Sentinel June 6th, Champaign admitted to the PCAG

unforum
a.r.g.b.b

Welcome!

New users, PLEASE read these forum guidelines. New posters, SEARCH before posting and read these rules before posting your killer new campaign. New players may also wish to peruse the ARG Player Tutorial.

All users must abide by the Terms of Service.

Website Restoration Project

This archiving project is a collaboration between Unfiction and Sean Stacey (SpaceBass), Brian Enigma (BrianEnigma), and Laura E. Hall (lehall) with
the Center for Immersive Arts.

Announcements

This is a static snapshot of the
Unfiction forums, as of
July 23, 2017.

This site is intended as an archive to chronicle the history of Alternate Reality Games.

Our Esteemed Contributors

The time now is Thu Nov 14, 2024 8:16 pm
All times are UTC - 4 (DST in action)

View posts in this forum since last visit
View unanswered posts in this forum

Calendar

Forum index » Archive » Archive: Perplex City » PXC: General/Updates

[LOCKED] [UPDATE] Sentinel June 6th, Champaign admitted to the PCAG

Page 1 of 1 [2 Posts]

Author

Message

icklemelly
Boot

Joined: 09 May 2005
Posts: 18
Location: Norwich, UK

[UPDATE] Sentinel June 6th, Champaign admitted to the PCAG

Quote:

Champaign Accepted into Competition
By ALWHIN COPI
The uproar over prodigy athlete Myra Champaign has reached a new pinnacle, with a specially convened committee of PCAG officials judging in favour of allowing her to compete. "This is a proud day for us," said Champaign's father, Klaus Lowrie. "Our girl is well within the rules, and it would be a shame for her to not be allowed to live up to her potential."

Myra Champaign, 14, is the eighth youngest player ever admitted into PCAG competition. She handily outmatched her opponents in trials, and is widely recognised as being one of the best young players on the scene since Serena Duncan's debut eight years ago. Typically, the PCAG would allow her to play based solely on her performance in her tryouts.

Advertisement

Opponents do point to a darker side of the picture, though. "Myra may be a sweet girl, but she is absolutely the product of enhancement." said Jonas Sawgrass, of the Alliance for Clean Players, an anti-drug group. "We are going to fight her admission tooth and claw. We don't have anything against her personally ... [but] allowing her changes the level of the playing field for everybody else."

The controversy revolves around what cognitive enhancement fundamentally is, how long the effects are, and whether simply ceasing consumption of a pharmaceutical can be said to negate all of the effects of that substance in the body. It is now widely known that when Champaign was a small child, she suffered from cognitive and developmental disorders, which were treated with a range of experimental enhancement medications.

"For Myra, the drugs simply allowed her to live up to the potential she had all along," said Lowrie. "When her treatment stopped, she was ten years old, and at that time she was perfectly typical for her peer group. It was only after she went off the enhancers that she started to take these intellectual leaps above and beyond her classmates."

For now, PCAG officials seem to agree with that stance. Champaign begins competitive play during the June holiday exhibition matches. The ACP will not be content to let the matter rest. "We plan to protest every one of her matches," said Sawgrass. "We don't mind that [Champaign] had these drugs when she needed them, but it is unfair to everybody else to allow her to play now. We just want to keep the sport fair and natural."

[/quote]

_________________
A careful man tries to dodge the bullets, while a happy man takes a walk

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:48 am

SteveC
Unfettered

Joined: 05 May 2005
Posts: 381

May 30th actually...

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10896

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:52 am

Display posts from previous: Sort by:

Page 1 of 1 [2 Posts]

Forum index » Archive » Archive: Perplex City » PXC: General/Updates

Jump to:

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum
You cannot post calendar events in this forum