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|/_/\/\ The Cologne Conference 1998 :
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|_\_\/\ a party report from the :
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Cologne Conference '98 (Nov 14, 98)
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Organizer Report
- The Computer '98 (November 13th to 15th 1998)
Every year on November, there is the biggest Amiga fair in the world in
Cologne/Germany. In earlier days, the Scene used to spray their graffity
and group names on the walls and stalls around the fair. From that moment
on, every year, there is a big wall prepared especially for the Scene to
write and scribble on. For many Sceners around Europe, this place at the
fair became a traditional meeting point. You can meet more than 200
Sceners from various groups on the so-called "Scenewall" at the fair.
Former, the fair was called "WOC" (World Of Commodore). But since years
gone and especially Commodore is out of business, the fair got different
names. This year, the fair was called "Computer 98" and again many Sceners
came to the fair on saturday.
- The Fair Party
Three or four years ago, every regular visitor and Scener knew, that
there's a party to visit after the fair. Because, nothing happened
the last years, six Sceners thought, that it's time to change this lack
of parties during the fair.
It was the Los Endos BBS Meeting, where we all had the idea to organize a
party during the "Computer 98". Nevertheless we had big problems to find
a place to party. The November 14th is the busiest time in Cologne,
because that's the time of carnival. Fortunately, we finally found a
place. It was not that big as expected, but our last hope to make this
party to become real.
- The Sponsors
Surprisingly, from that moment on we rented a place and everything was
very easy. A homepage have been built "http://www.academicus.de/cc98" with
the support of the company "Academicus", an intro has been coded by Modem
of Darkage, who came to the party from Italy by the way, and lastly we
found many other sponsors supported us.
We like to thank Amiga International, Inc. who really helped us out with a
financial help. Without them, the party wouldn't been a success. It was
Petro Tyschtschenko from Amiga International Inc, who talked with us, and
also Nicole Gottfriend was very helpful. Again, we realized, how grateful
we should be towards Amiga and even Amiga Internatoinal Inc. himself. No
Party and no Scener would have become that, what it/he is, without our
favorite Computer. Thank you Amiga!
The same time, MicroniK sponsored us an Infinitiv Tower II
(value: 438,- Marks) for the big lottery. We also like to thank the
great MicroniK employees who build this tower for us, and special thanks to
Oswald from MicroniK, who came to the Party and helped us around. Even
Village Tronic gave us the "Ariadne" network card for the Amiga, worth
200,- Marks. Thanks to Ekkehard Brueggemann from Village Tronic for his
effort.
- The Meeting
The opening was at 6 pm and almost everyone was already at the place at 7
pm. After a couple of hours the party place was quite full. For some
people, the room was too small. Other told us, that they liked it because
that was much more personal that way. We think, that it was small. This
was our first party and at the end the majority liked it. We are satisfied
this time, but we'll do it better next time for sure.
Lastly, more than 180 visitors came to the party. You can have a look at
the guestlist and all reviews at the party homepage:
http://www.academicus.de/cc98
- The Prizes
We also like to thank to firms, who supported us with a lot of prizes
during the fair: Amiga International Inc, Schatztruhe, Titan Software,
Amiga Spezial, Amiga Plus, amigaOS, Amiga Magazin+PCgo, Magic Bytes,
and Red Bull for 100 cans of free beverages for the party people.
During the party, there was a little misunderstanding. XXX of Haujobb
thought that the big Red Bull sign was not for free. Fortunately the Red
Bull employee left the party place after that. So, even XXX had a nice
souvenir to take home. Lastly, the prize value for this meeting
was 2,000 Marks (Red Bull sign included).
Almost everybody won something at the lottery, which was at 11:30 pm.
Every winner won also the "The Golden Beer" - the party prize including
some other big CD prizes. Congratulations to Acryl of Scoopex: The famous
graphician won the Infinitiv II Tower, the biggest prize to win at the
lottery. Lucas of Lightforce was the winner of the "Gravereuth Dart
Competition" and won the "Ariadne" card. The winner of the Dynablaster
competition was again, the unbeatable champion: Andy of Nuance.
- Chocolate Competition
All competitions have been moderated by Steeler of Phantasm, the star of the
night. The first competition was at 9 pm. At the "Chocolate Competition",
two competitors had to eat 500g chocolate to win "The Golden Beer" with
some other prizes. Before eating the chocolate, the competitors had to get
it between all the cream on the chocolate. The winner was Exhorder, who
couldn't resist to vomit after eating chocolate and drinking beer at the
same time. Unfortunately, that was too much for him. One hour later, he
began to fight with the organizers and was forced to leave the party place
as usual.
- Gravenreuth came, saw, and has been kicked...
The next competition was one of the interesting ones. It was the
"Gravenreuth Dart Competition". After everybody wanted to throw knifes to
Gravenreuth's picture instead of darts, Steeler chose the Amiga users, who
could win the "Ariadne" Card from Village Tronic. Five cut-throats threw
knifes to the ill-famed lawyer's face. And here, something very weird
happened. Allow me to call this the "Gravenreuth Desaster":
While People throwing knifes to Gravenreuth's picture, the master himself
appeared. Gravenreuth came to the party place and asked to enjoy the
competition. We think, that this was one of the most embarrasing moments
at this party and we will never forget Gravenreuth's timing to appear. We
thought, that the opportunity was too high to mix up Gravenreuth's ugly
face with the nice picture painted from Peachy of TRSI. For his own
secure, Gravenreuth has been kicked out of the party place by the
organizers. Surely, something everybody wants to do once in his life.
"Ladies and gentleman, Gravenreuth left the building..."
- Hungry Sceners
We had too much prizes for the lottery, that we didn't have enough time to
make a drawing all the time. After raffling the Infinitiv Tower II, and
also many other big prizes, Steeler did the "Lion feeding". PC-CDs,
PC-Magazines, and PC-Stuff were destroyed from a bunch of hungry Sceners.
Also, there were a real scuffle, to get all the Amiga stuff. That was a
real desaster, because after this, the party place looked like a
battlefield. Finally everybody was happy. The person who rented us the
place, was not. Unfortunately we couldn't kick him out of the party place.
- The End
The last hours many Sceners were drunken and some of them were high.
But the real trouble came from the man, who rented us the party place. He
was one of those aunties, who use to complain about everything all the
time. We apologize for the stupidness of those people. We think that
every visitor at the party behaved very decent. The last visitors left the
building at about 4 pm, and after that, the organzers tidied the party up
and left either. For us, it was a great show and a nice coming together,
and we want you back, when it's time to spread invitations for the "Cologne
Conference 99"...
- The Credits
The Cologne Conference was organized by Ghandy/Darkage^Gods,
Dire/Eremation, Exon/Jormas^Faith, Merlin-M/Nuance, and eVRIMSSON/Nuance.
We are also very grateful to Chavez/Faith, who did the same work as the
organizers. The Dynablaster Competition was arranged by Andy/Nuance. The
Party competitions were moderated by sTEELER/Phantasm. We'd like to thank
Raven/Nuance, Bettina, and Iris, who helped us a lot. Also, many thanks to
The-Elevatorman and his brother Skyfly for taking pictures and helping us
at the party.
report by eVRIMSSON/Nuance (Evrimsson@teucom.xnc.com)
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