THE RESULTS



Graphics (11 contributions):

1.      Fairfax/Andromeda           302
2.      BCR/Stone Arts              126
3.      Bridgeclaw/Trinid & Iris     98
4.      Sixpack/Paramount Prod.      70
5.      Foxy/Cadaver                 67
6.      Vision 3                     56
7-8.    Morten/ASDF-Team             44
7-8.    Osprey/Avalon                44
9.      Optic/Devils                 30
10.     The Drittsekks               26


Music (20 contributions):

1.      J. Lilljedahl/Noiseless     185
2.      Mr. Man/Andromeda           172
3.      Interphace/Andromeda        122
4.      Peavy/Devils                 87
5.      B & H                        76
6.      Jelace/Destiny               50
7.      Redferne/Devils              44
8.      Mutant/Stone Arts            37
9.      Scott/Spaceballs             35
10.     Jason/Lemon.                 27

40kB-intro (four contributions):
1.      Nukem/Base                  240
2.      Symbiostro/Cadaver          237
3.      Blue Oyster/Talent          213
4.      SR & MA	                     55

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RENDEZVUS '93 PARTY

      REPORT


Rendezvous  '93 - Arranged by Symbiosis
on 30 July to 1 August in Kristiansand,
Norway
Introduction:
If  you  consider  the  small number of
visitors   (only   125)   and  the  few
contributions  to the competitions - It
is  indeed tempting to call last year's
arrangement, Rendezvous '92, a complete
failure!
This  was  mainly caused by the lack of
information  about  the  party  itself.
(The  invitation-intro,  for  instance,
came much too late.)
This year's preparations were obviously
much better.  Symbiosis had released an
intro  and  in  addition  several disk-
magazines had published the invitation.
But,   only   300   persons  payed  the
entrance   fee   on  130  NOK.   A  bit
disappointing  perhaps,  but there were
actually   parties   simultaneously  in
Finland,  Germany  and  Denmark; and in
Sweden only one week after.
Kristiansand:
Kristiansand,     founded     by    the
Danish-Norwegian  king  Christian IV in
1641,  is  Norway's  fifth largest town
with  its  approx.  70.000 inhabitants.
The  town  itself  is  situated  in the
south  most part of Norway, and has the
region's   sea-  and  airlinks  to  the
Continent.   Indeed  a  smart  place to
arrange  a  party  if  you  want people
outside  Norway to attend.  But, due to
the  earlier mentioned reason - I don't
think   there   was   as  much  as  one
foreigner at this party!
Support from Commodore Norway:
Commodore  Norway  seems  to  be  quite
active   when   it   comes  to  sponsor
Norwegian  parties,  and Rendezvous '93
was  not  an  exception.   An A1200 was
given  out,  but Commodore had promised
an  A4000/030  if  the organizers would
pay 5000 NOK in between.
The partyplace:
The  partyplace  was a sportshall which
easily  could  have been overcrowded if
200 more people had showed up.  Anyway,
the  possibility of taking a shower was
of  course very good.  The same can not
be said about the sleeping- facilities,
because  you  had  to sleep in the same
hall   as  the  computers.   (Too  much
noise!)
The  hall was furthermore quite easy to
spot,  as  Symbiosis  had  been hanging
several signs near the roads which lead
to the place.  There were also signs on
the busses which went to the hall.
Who was there?
I  think  nearly all the best groups in
Norway  were  there.  In addition there
were a bunch of kids who looked at some
porno-movies   all   the  time,  played
Superfrog     and     really    enjoyed
themeselves   being   away  from  their
parents for a whole weekend...
Facilities:
The  promised lazerdisc-room didn't see
the  light  for  more  than the last 24
hours   of  the  party.   (Who  attends
parties to watch movies anyway?)
The promised arcade-machines were never
there, but some others were situated in
a  part  of  the  hall which originally
shouldn't    be   accessable   to   the
attenders.  Nobody complained though.
A  kiosk  was  selling  soda, chips and
sausages   to  expected  prices  (which
means  that  it  was  just  a  bit more
expensive  than  if  you had bought the
same   food   at   a  Norwegian  petrol
station).
It  has also to be mentioned that there
were  no power failures during party, a
fact which speaks for itself!
Problems:
Not  only scene-freaks were gathered in
Badmintonhallen.    No,   a   home  for
tourists  was located in the same hall.
During  the first night 40 persons left
this   home  due  to  too  much  noise.
(Indeed  understandable!) The day after
the  organizers were forced to rent the
tourist-home  to avoid similar problems
the   forthcoming   night.   This  gave
unexpected  expences  on  5000 NOK, but
the  organizers  did  only  have to pay
half  the sum.  The pathetic point was,
however,  that  the  attenders  weren't
allowed  to  use  the tourist-home, but
that   wasn't   the  organziers  fault!
(They were quite dissapointed with this
fact themselves!)
The  volume was also to be turned down,
as the police were threatining to close
the  whole partyplace due to complaints
from the neighbours.
Competitions:
Should pictures and demos which require
AGA be allowed to compete against demos
and  pictures  which don't?  Well, this
party  offered this possibility anyway.
The   organizers  told  me  that  their
reason for this decision was to support
AGA, so the Amiga could compete against
the IBM-PC.
Demo-competition:
The  demo-competition was cancelled due
to  only two competitors.  However, all
members  of the competiting groups were
given   a   free   subscription   on  a
Norwegian computermagazine, Databladet.
The  A1200  was  instead  moved  to the
music-competition.    A  pity,  because
Talent  did  with no doubt deserve more
attention with its demo.
Graphics-competition:
The  graphics-competition  was  won  by
Fairfax,  who  also  won last year.  He
got  an original version of Scala MM210
(a    multimedia-program    which   the
organizers  used  to  show the graphics
and play the music with), worth approx.
4000 NOK.  (A quite useless prize, even
though  it is expensive!) On the second
place  came BCR, a member of Stone Arts
-   One   of   the  new  and  promising
Norwegian groups.  The third place went
to  Bridgeclaw.   Untill now an unknown
graphician,  who drew a fantasy-picture
without   any  model  (according  to  a
friend of him).
Music-competition:
The  music-competition  was,  like  the
graphics-competition,  supposed  to  be
annonymous.   Due to some bugs and lack
of  support  for  Powerpacker in Scala,
Scott  and  Jogeir's  modules had to be
played   from   the  Protracker.   This
caused a certain degree of chaos, since
both  of  the composers got their names
revealed.
The   competition  was  won  by  Jogeir
Lilljedahl,  who got the A1200.  On the
second  place  came  Mr.  Man, who also
got  the  second  place last year.  The
third  place  went  to  Interphace, who
competed  with  a module for the coming
Fairfax- slideshow.
The most surprising facts were no doubt
that  Jason,  the  last  year's winner,
only  got the 10th place and that Scott
only got the 9th.
Intro-competition:
Symbiosis  hadn't  informed  about  any
40kB  intro-competition  in  the  party
invitation.       Nevertheless     this
competition  became a reality, but only
symbohlic prizes were given away.
This  competition was a close race, but
a coder called Base won before Cadaver.
(By  the way, to find the hiddenpart in
the   winnerintro  -  Press  the  right
mousebutton  26  times  while  the blue
vectorspaceship is on the screen!)
Soccer-competition:
ASDF-Team   which  consisted  of  Moxy/
Lemon.,  Morten/ex.   Spaceballs, HeadX
and  Fairfax/Andromeda and Steinar won,
and  each of the players got a one year
subscription on Databladet.
Conclusion:
It  seems  like  Symbiosis  has several
problems  with  its  parties.   But, at
least  they try to make a good job, and
I  don't think they made any surplus by
arranging Rendezvous '92 nor '93.
It  was  of  course  sad that the demo-
competition    was    cancelled.    The
question  which I keep asking myself is
this:   Where  are those days when more
than   ten  Norwegian  demos  could  be
released  at  a  party  of  this  size?
(Lost  in  the  vast  amount of useless
intros perhaps?)
Example:   The  Imp  666  and No Limits
party way back in 1990 didn't have more
than  300  attenders  either,  but more
than ten demos were released!
OK,  enough  complaining.   All  in all
this  year's Rendezvous was much better
than  the  year  before.  Furthermore I
think  that this party wasn't any worse
organized   than   any  other.   So  my
conclusion  must  be  that I can safely
recommend you to attend Rendezvous '94,
if  there  is  going  to  be any!  (The
organizers  would not promise anything,
nor would they deny the possibility!)

            Written by Hydra/Andromeda