CAFe'99 - according to the organizers

Hello All! === Cut === CAFe'99 report Phew, that's it, CAFe'99 is over. We still have it done. We are Excess Team and Vysokogorsky Computer Center Back in the spring, the first versions of the wheels were released online. Closer to summer, the composition of the organizing team was determined. Honestly It's not an easy thing to do as a demoparty. There was so much you need to find it, and first of all money. Sent out letters at 15 Kazan computer companies and no one even responded with a refusal. Here....okay I won’t swear, well...there they are, in general, they understand probably. And that’s when for the first cool hall found with a cool the device requested 10 pieces in 2 days, awesome troubles came out, there was nowhere to get this money. And then I got involved Vysokogorsky Computer Center. Unlike the snickers gentlemen in Mercedes they turned out to be more attentive to this the original event and now they are already co-organizers, everyone Money problems have been resolved. In general, the high-flyers are simply the most naturally saved the party from failure, for which they are special and thank you very much. By the way, such an important thing as They already had a video projector. We got screwed with the closed hall, the owners of the hall started something there and the director of the cultural center could not give us it’s already even for twice the amount. Well, we found a worse place intimes cheaper, although not a cool hall, but also not some kind of club or school.....like some. And then spring passed, followed by summer, The time has come for CAFe 99. August 27. The night before the festival: part of Excess Team: Lasoft, Pasha, xPasha, ZK System, SK Corp from St. Petersburg, Adam Bazaroff, Xanth and Maxi GC music makers from Samara gathered for apartment y Lasoft a. The sorting and selection of competition entries went on all night work, equipment was checked and detected glitches were eliminated. K this was a great video for everyone, some from the Excess Team, for example Lasoft, we haven’t slept for two days. August 28. In the hall of the Mayakovsky Palace of Culture work is in full swing on installation and setting up equipment: 4 computers, video projector, acoustics and some necessary little things. Remaining time until opening filled by showing demos on an Amiga computer. Comes on stage Adam Bazarov and after the director’s welcoming speech Vysokogorsk Computer Center L.V. Bikmullina announces the festival is open. The first of the competitions was the 1K intro competition on PC/Amiga computers, then multi-channel music competition, ZX Spectrum 4K intro, hand-drawn graphics, BC 4K intro, Amiga/PC 64K intro, Wild compo. We came to film a report about CAFe representatives of two television companies: Variant and Ether. During breaks The best demos that won prizes were demonstrated between competitionsplaces at the world's best demo parties: Assembly, The Gathering, The Party, etc. Guests of the festival demonstrated interesting video about the Finnish demo-party Assembly and funny 3D A video about penguins won a prize at this festival. By chance, on the same screw there was a video about how Bill Gates was treated to cake, this video was played several times, and every time at the climax the cake hits the head's face Microsoft Corporation the hall simply exploded with screams like: Microsoft mustdie, whistling and hooting. Wild compo This is a show-what-you-can competition. One of the Wild participants compo sang rap, the second played popular songs on his own teeth melodies, the third demonstrated a 400-byte demo under Linux. After this, the first day is declared closed. Arises problem: where to accommodate a crowd of guests from other cities. Problem successfully solved: Yoshkarolina team BrainWave and Moscow Antares takes on one local computer scientist. In this Almost the entire Excess Team spends the night in a tiny Lasofta apartment and Moscow guests: Manwe/Sands, Shaggy Nik/BFG, Nazgul/Chaos Energy. A total of 14 people. Maxi breaks all records stamina, this is the second night he spends without sleep intensively refining my competition entries. CAF players all nightdrink beer, communicate, share impressions and experiences. In the morning Fatigue takes its toll and some fall asleep even on a bare floor and sometimes in awkward positions the only thing left to stay awake is make fun of the sleeping people because there is no more room even on the floor. August 29. The second competition day opens late for more than an hour. The following competitions took place on this day: Amiga/PC 4K intro, 4-channel music, BC demo, Simulated graphics, ZX Spectrum 4K intro, Amiga/PC demo, Animation. About 18.00 the second competition day was completed, before the ceremony There were 3 hours left for the awards ceremony, a break was announced and it was time people killed by socializing, drinking beer, watching demos and listening to music, music maker Manwe from the band Sands finds behind the stage there is a piano and begins to sing to its own accompaniment songs in English. And at 21.00 the award ceremony began. Director of the Vysokogorsk Computer Center Bikmullina Larisa Vladimirovna congratulated the winners and presented them with diplomas festival and cash prizes. Everyone was very happy (or almost everything). Diplomas of those who were not in too much of a hurry were decorated with signatures Head of the Committee on Children and Youth Affairs M.M. Barieva After this, the Yoshkarola BrainWave team went to station, and Muscovites in full force joined ExcessTeam. That night in the Lasoft apartment there was nowhere to fall not only apple, but also berry, and the hallway resembled a shoe warehouse. Every spent the night on the Internet, downloading demos and doing all sorts of nonsense. Moscow guests liked the good connection to the Internet via digital automatic telephone exchange, which is no longer uncommon in Kazan. On v90 it’s easy to press 49,000, and sometimes even 50,000 and a few kopecks. Hidden Part lasted all night. Despite the cramped conditions it was very interesting and fun. In the morning, Muscovites can’t wait to take a stroll through the festive Kazan. Everyone goes to Bayman Street to take photos as a souvenir. Moscow guests really liked the local Arbat. And from the cafe Well-fed Dad, they were simply delighted. On this occasion one of he told them that in Moscow you can eat so tasty and varied paying 2-3 times more, and 50-60 rubles for which they are up to we ate enough in Papa, it’s impossible to eat decently in the capital even in the most s#$@th canteen (really?). More guests Tatarstan is usually pinned with Tatar inscriptions, but they didn’t with the exception of visiting cafes, they discovered for themselves meanings of the words: barn, yabyk and yort. At 1.30 the next day I left last guest: SK CORP from St. Petersburg and on this CAF e 99 for organizers ended. Yes, of course there were many shortcomings: rake with equipment, long delays between compos, badsound, problems with overnight guests, etc. Next year Excess Team and VKTs are planning to hold CAFe again this year too once at a really high level. Maybe the first pancake has come out lumpy, this is not so important, because as one famous person said politician, the main thing is to start (with stress on the first syllable). With best regards, PR group Excess, Pavel Yarmolchuk (xPasha) === Cut === Best regards, Wladimi