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                       The Magnetic Fields "REVENGE" Party
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                          A party report by Judge Drokk 
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    October 27th 1990  10am - 12pm
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    On this historic day in time, Magnetic Fields held their second party. 
    Their first, the 'Select' party, had taken place  eight months earlier 
    and had obviously given MF the  confidence  to organise a  much bigger 
    event....this was IT!


    The Location
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    The party was held just outside Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England.
    The actual partyplace was a spacious sports hall,  with a  comfortably
    large carpark. Inside  the   actual  hall  were two bars,  one serving
    constant  food (burgers, chips,  hot  dogs!)  and  the  other  serving
    constant booze!  Ahh... Heaven!


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    Who was there?
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    Well who was at the party, well just  about  all of   Magnetic Fields, 
    Anarchy of course,(OF COURSE!),  Skid Row,   Quartex, Miracle, Rebels, 
    Ecstasy (Hi Sabbath!), Inner City,  Modesty,   Intuition,  Crack, Rare,
    Pussy ...and lots more! 

    The Competitions
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    As always,  there  were  the  familiar   Demo & Music  Competitions, a 
    Kick Off  competition, and  perhaps a  first  for  Amiga  conferences,
    a Tug-Of-War  competition.   The first  to be  held was   the Kick off
    competition, where 64 guys  battled for one of four  winning  trophys!
    This competition officialy began at 3:00 pm  and ended  at aprox.6:30.
    The results were like this..   1st Place  -  Wizoid of Inner City
                                   2nd Place  -  Smurph of Inner City
                                   3rd Place  -  Mr.Big of Anarchy
                                   4th Place  -  Axe    of Inner City

    After  the  winners  had  collected their wonderfull trophy's, it  was 
    time for the next event.. the Tug-of-War!  
    Six teams of six dudes were  assembled, each team  made in  whole   or
    part from the crews at the party. Our  team  was  made   from  Anarchy 
   
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    members (Judge Drokk,  Mr Big,  Banger) and  guys from  MF (No.5 ect).
    A best of three tugs decided the winner of  each bout, sadly  we  were
    wiped out  by a  group  of  vertual  unknowners  called  "The Laughing
    Assasins",  they  were  obvoisly  on  steroids!!
    
    The next  highlight of  the  day was  the  Demo  & Music competitions.
    These took  place at  aprox. 9:00 pm, (three hours late).   Just about
    everybody who was left sat in  front of  a  large stage, on  which  an
    Amiga and  monitor, AMP and  a  pair  of large  speakers stood.  Every 
    demo  entererd  into  the  competition  was  then shown. This  is  the
    only   place   where   the   organisation    slipped up, although  the 
    collapse   of  the   demo    competition  was  hardly  due    to   the
    organisers.    The original method  of  voting  in  the  demo comp was
    for each guy to write  his  favourite  demo  from  all  shown  on  the 
    back of his  (specialy marked)  entrance  ticket, but  this  idea  was
    dropped due a lot  of  guys voting  and leaving the  party  after only
    a few of the demos had been shown. This  was felt unfair to  the  rest
    of the guys who's demos  were not  shown  until  last. So  the  voting 
    method  was  changed  to a  show  of hands.  Now  this  is  where  the 
    party organisers slipped up, after  all demo's had been shown, and  it
    was time to vote nobody could remember what they had seen  or  who  it
    was by!, So only about a third of the  demo's got the "show of hands",
    
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    This mistake didnt make  any  difference to the  authenticity  of  the 
    final results but it must  have  annoyed the guys who  entered  a demo
    which never received a deserved vote.   The other flaw in  competition
    was not the fault of MF but the fault of little  bastards  who  wanted
    to screw up the voting by voting for their own group. The main culprit
    of this  crime  was a  guy from New Age of Sweden. He sat  with   hand 
    raised for his own demo and when told he could not vote  for  his  own 
    demo he said 'What!?... I'm not in New age!', yet  he  was  wearing  a
    New Age T-Shirt!, What  an  asshole, he  was  fully  deserved  of  his 
    title....."TOE RAG".      Remember,  winners dont cheat (they just get
    shit faced!).        Results of the demo competition were  as  follows
    
    1st Place   -  Anarchy's "Madness", Code & GFX by Dan. Music by 4-Mat.
    2nd Place   -  Express   "Filled Vectors"
    3rd Place   -  Modesty   "Vector-Bobs"
    
    The prizes were as follows ... 1st - 100 Pounds, 2nd - 60 Pounds
                                   3rd - 40 Pounds.

    The Music competition was held  in a similar  fashion  but  thankfully
    ran a lot smoother!  The only hiccup was  when  Ray Norrish  tried  to
    eneter  an  already  heard  tune  (his Killing Game Show music)   into
    the music comp and  became  rather  emotional when  he wasn't allowed!

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    Conclusions
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    All in all, the party,  in my opinion, was the best U.K party yet. The
    group turnout was tremendous, the only  notable  missing  groups  were
    S.A.E, and Genesis. Its just a shame more european groups didnt  come,
    you could have thrown that toe rag from New Age out of  the  plane  on
    the way home!! The party place was  excellent, although an  extra room
    (or two) for coders who cant work in noise would have  been  nice. The
    allday booze and food bars were  great, (ask Banger of Anarchy  if you
    dont beleive me)!   The  Kick Off  &  Tug of War   competitions   were
    superbly organised and the demo comp would probably  have gone   a lot
    smoother if it  had taken  place at  its originaly set  time.  But you
    cant blame MF for this!, It was just the  Kick off  comp  that  lasted
    longer than had been  anticipated!  The prizes were  large and many, a
    total of 200 Pounds were given as prizes  in the  demo  comp,  with an
    extra 50 & 30 Pounds prizes in the music and Tug of War  competitions,
    respectivly & four large trophy's were arwarded in the Kick Off event.
    The releases from crews were  plentifull, although it has to be  said,
    true quality was  sparse.  Magnetic  Fields  themselves  releases five 
    products with a sixth  yet to  be released. All in all,  the "Revenge"
    party the best & biggest  U.K party  yet.  Congratulations  and thanks
    to Magnetic Fields for such a great day!          >Judge Drokk/Anarchy 

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