Invitation to Belgian Scene Event 1997

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Belgian Scene Event '97
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                Belgian Scene Event '97


Introducing : BSE '97 or The Belgian Scene Event 1997,
              to be the coolest Amiga party in Belgium in
              YEARS !
    (1992 to be exact, long live TRSI Easter Conference !)


What is it ?
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BSE '97 will be a small but cool *Amiga Only* party held by
CRUX & BAD KARMA (CBK) in Hasselt, a town in the northwest
corner of Belgium close to the Dutch/German border.


Where and when ?
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The date set for now is August 29 till August 31, 1997.
Doors will open the 29th at noon and close the 31st at
noon so all of you peeps can get home before school starts
again September 1st (har har).

Party place will be Zaal Crutzenhof in Hasselt.


How to get there ?
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By car, see that you get on the E313 highway (Antwerpen - 
Koln/Cologne/Keulen), get of at exit 27 (Hasselt) and drive
towards the 'Grote Ring' (the large circle-like road around
the town of Hasselt, should be to the RIGHT). Once you're
on the 'GROTE RING', take the 'KURINGERSTEENWEG' and then
take the second road to the LEFT. You will come out in the
LARAZUSSTRAAT. Take the first one to your LEFT and you will
be in the 'Oude Kuringerbaan', the street where the party
will take place. No worries, we will indicate EVERYTHING
so you won't get lost
(read : we'll TRY to indicate okay, bring a map to be
sure :) ).

By train see you get to the station of Hasselt (Limburg).
The partyplace is at 200m of the station. (For foreigners:
Take the train to Brussels, then take the first one to
Hasselt/Genk & Luik/Maastricht (make sure that you sit in
the front wagons, the last ones will go to Holland :).

Here are some train-hours :

Direct trains to Hasselt leave in Brussels (station
Bruxelles-Midi) at xx:18 (mostly from track 12, but check
to be sure).  At xx+1:45 you'll be in Hasselt then.

Another way is take the train to Luik & Collogne in
Brussels (BXL-Midi) at xx:48.  Get of in Leuven (the first
stop after Brussels, the third after Bruxelles-Midi) and
run to platform 3 (mostly !) where you can get the train
to Hasselt/Landen at xx+1:25 (the train to Luik/Collogne
will arrive in Leuven at xx+1:17 so better be quick hehehe)
to be in Hasselt at xx+2:10.

If you want to take the direct train to Hasselt in Leuven,
its there at xx:47, mostly on track 4.

On friday you will have trains till about midnight..
In the weekends aim at 22:00 for the last train to and from
Hasselt.

When you are in the front of the Hasselt station, you will
see lots of busstops in front of  you. Take the street on
the RIGHT OPPOSITE hand of the square (the F. Massystraat).
You will end up at a pretty big road called the KONINGIN
ASTRIDLAAN. Walk left here and take the third one to the
RIGHT. (The Lazarusstraat). Then (after 20m) take the first
one to the LEFT and you will see the partyplace indicated
:)


Accomodations
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A seperate sleeping hall in the complex is provided
(and it *IS* isolated & silent!).

Toilets and stuff are also nice and clean. No showers
though.

Inside the party place a bar will be available with all
kinds of drinks (beer, water, coke, etc.) at CHEAP prizes,
where cheap doesnt mean 2 USD for a coke. You will also
be able to buy some sandwiches over there for the same
price of a drink (read: CHEAP FOOD :)

You are at about 5 mins from the main center of Hasselt,
which has LOTS of pubs, snack bars, also at very acceptable
prices (but not as cheap as in the partyplace :). and for
all you party freaks: The biggest disco from the region is
at a 10 mins walk :). And for all you hard-rock lovers out
there, Metallica and LOTS of other groups will be giving a
LIVE concert at Pukkelpop '97 (which is at 5km from the
Partyplace!)

And to make it clear for the first and last time : There
will be NO Cybercafe of any way and certainly NO
party-network. Ofcourse you are totally free to set up
those things yourself and we wont be mad for it, but its
something we dont have the time and cash for to organise...


The cash stuff
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Entrance fee will be set at 350 BEF (Belgian francs) per
person, we only accept belgian francs, if you DO want to
pay in your own currency expect some ridiculous exchange
rates in our favour.

If you want to pay in advance, no problem..  The price
then is 250 BEF (Belgian francs, same stuff as above)
per person. If you pay in advance, your money will not be
refunded if you don't show up at the party, sorry.
Also no change on advance payments.

You can mail the money to PO BOX 25 / 3000 LEUVEN 3 /
Belgium.
With the cash send your 'password'.  We'll ask you for
it at the entrance if you claim to have payed in advance.
If someone else knew about your password and got in with
your money before you..  tuff luck. Better find the dude
and kill him (OUTSIDE the party-place please !). Also
add your first name and handle please.

And ofcourse if you dont like the Belgian postal service,
you can use a bank-transfer too..  The account-number
is 330-0201835-32. In the message put your handle, real
name and password.


Competitions
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We're ofcourse thinking of some competitions but nothing
really has been set for now.  Expect the normal ones like
Demo, Intro, Graphics, Music etc but also some nice other
ones.  Idea's we have for those now are Wipeout speed
trials and Ridge Racer Revolution in link-mode (both on
a niiiiiiiiiiiiice Sony Playstation) and what about a
Karaoke compo ?  We'll provide some funny tunes for you to
sing along. Read: It will be LOTS of fun! :)

Prizes (hardware from sponsors, cash depening on how much
we have left after taking off al our expenses), will be
set later.


Why ?
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OK, you probably wonder how we can be so mad organizing a
party in a nowhere-land like Belgium.  Well to make it easy
we want to prove that there IS indeed a scene left in
Belgium and that it can still organize something decent.

But remember that we make this party for FUN.  We dont want
to make ANY money on it, all we have left will go to the
prize-money for the competitions.


Ok, you want to know more
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To contact the organizers of BSE '97 you have some options:

E-Mail : crisp@unicall.be / franky@unicall.be
WWW    : 
S-Mail : PO BOX 25
         3000 Leuven 3
         Belgium
BBS    : CyberGarden +32-11-333703


Party staff
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Here's a list of the people crazy enough to organize this :

Main organizers : FRaNKy/cBK & CRiSP/cBK
Co-organizers   : Makno/cBK , MaLC0MN/cBK and
                  Deathrider (former CBK :).


Some final notes
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Please keep these things in mind when you're at the party :

- The party-place is located on a piece of land called
  BELGIUM, this means that all Belgian laws apply inside
  and outside of the party-place.

- It's a LEGAL party.

- All the hardware that you bring is at YOUR
  responsibility, dont come and cry to the organizers if
  it gets broken/stolen/whatever.

- Troublemakers will be thrown out or even be handed over
  to the police.

- If you're too intoxicated (read drunk/stoned/...) you
  will be denied entrance to the party-place until you
  are decent again.

- If you make a mess of the party-place or the
  neighbourhood, YOU clean it up and pay ANY damage.

- If you damage something, YOU pay for it. No cash ?
  Don't worry, we'll call your parents.

- The organizers have to be seen as almighty gods and
  their word is law in the partyplace. If you wanna play
  smart, meet mr. baseball-bat! :)