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When the evening arrived it was time for a couple of local rock'n'roll and synth bands to amuse us with some live performances. This wasn't a very good idea! I happen to know that 99% of the visitors hated it. We had made an agreement with the bands so we had to let them play. This event seemed to last forever. I fell asleep, but rumors say that they played nearly until the morning even though nobody was interested. (You're very right about that! It wasn't a pleasant experience! /ed. remark) Sunday morning! The day for all the competitions. First out was the 4-channel competiton, I think. Because of a lazy jury this compo got a couple of hours delayed. Then everything possible went wrong! The different juries didn't do what they were supposed to. Especially on the PC side! I think that it has to do with that one or two people had to much responsibilities. As an example, the guy who was responsible for all the technical things at the organizer tables also worked with the network (which crashed almost every time we had a power breakdown), and was also responsible for the PC demo competition, the PC intro competition and The Scene Jeopardy. Especially The Scene Jeopardy caused much trouble since he was the only person who had the skills to get that one going. I hope that everybody understands that even an organizer sometimes has to sleep, and that was exactly what happened that day...
To me it seemed like every time you had to speak with someone this person had disappeared! Well, after much stress and even more headache we started the multi-channel competition. We had decided to run it live, so of course the first module crashed. What had we expected? Then they all ran smoothly. We were still way beyond our schedule, but suddenly everything went much more smoothly. We delivered the Amiga 64kb competition live. As always there is one or two intros which crashes. We were so kind that we ran one intro four times I think. At that time we decided to tape the Amiga demo competition to be safe from crashes. We held the Scene Jeopardy and the graphics competition as soon as possible and without any major conflicts. After that I think that every organizer just wanted to sleep but of course that was impossible. So then it was time for the fast intro competition. We ran it live and it seemed be running as we had hoped but afterwards we found out that two channels was missing in the audio from our Amiga. This wasn't the first time this incident had happened, but no one really cared so we got away with it!
I fell asleep and when I woke up in the early morning around three or four, both the PC intro and the PC demo competition had taken place. We had saved the best until last! The Amiga demo competition, that is. This time we didn't expect anything to go wrong. We had taped it and it was just to push the play button. It seemed like one of our audio cables wasn't quite okay, because the old problem with two missing channels appeared once again when running Balance's demo "Freak". We started the competition all over again and this time without trouble! Now many of the organizers were able to sleep in peace...
The last day we held the prize ceremony and then it was time for the heavy work, cleaning up after all those piggy computer freaks, but that is another story...
At last, I think that the Swedish scene would like to give a big flower to the following guys because they have made Icing an annual event and an excellent party. DuffE/Sardonyx, the man behind it all with a fighting spirit you can't imagine. Liket/Goto 10, what had happened without you? Tobias "Electron" Jansson, a rock in every situation! A big heartily thanks goes from the Icing organizers to the Swedish Amiga scene for delivering such a fabulous demo competition. Once again, thank you!
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