Lousiana Attempting to Attract Game Industry

Academomancer writes "Yahoo reports that Louisiana is trying to lure the game industry with tax incentives and a marketing campaign. From the article: Mark Smith, entertainment director for the state economic development department, said he aims to integrate video gaming into the state's entertainment industry, bringing together music, film and digital production.

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Then why did they cancel their programmingcontest?

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Due to resource conflicts, we were not able to schedule this [programming] contest in late March or any Saturday in April. Based on feedback, May 1st is too late. Because of this, the 2004 High School Programming Contest is officially cancelled.

Granted this is just LSU's high school but lets face it, LA is pretty much all high school, scoring 46th (out of 50, for those of you from LA) on their ACT's This is an alphabetical list, so you will need to... oh never mind.

Don't get me wrong, I am not characterizing the whole state as slack jawed, cross burning, inbred, yokels, but saying that LA is a great state for gaming companies is rather like my state, Massachusetts, saying we are a tax haven. A cursory examination of prima facie evidence suggests otherwise.