[ASM scene] New compo rules

[Arttu Haglund]

> Jussi Laakkonen wrote:
> "There will be one Music competion (sic) combining the 
> Instrumental 
> music and the Freestyle music compos from previous years. - - 
> Likewise, 
> the traditional Drawn Themed graphics and Freestyle graphics have 
> been 
> combined to a single compeittion (sic)."
> 
> Am I the only one who doesn't see this as a welcome change?
> -- 
> Martti "maraz" Roitto

You're absolutely not the only one with this thought. I think the compos have been riding the highway to hell because of ridiculous changes for some years now. Therefore, by now, I hate to see it, but Assembly - as a demoscene event - is starting to lose my interest. :(

The way I see it, most of the changes have been bad for demoscene and the roots of this whole thing. It's been all about combining - I wonder if Assembly 2010 has only demo compo left and that's it - by then all the compos will surely be finally TRULY COMBINED?

Musicwise, for example, the tracking scene is completely forgotten. This has been the situation for ages already. For a brief while, the fast music compo was the only choice for a tracker, but that's not the case anymore. Well, during this decade tracking scene has been somewhat forgotten in most of the other parties as well, but it sucks nevertheless.

Combining vocal and instrumental music is not such a big problem, them having been divided was an artificial line to begin with, I think. But the multichannel compo should make its happy return. There is a free place for it, even, now that one music compo has been lost! Then again, combining drawn and freestyle graphics is just outrageous.

Now that there is Assembly Winter, shouldn't Assembly Summer be profiled as a scene party even more than before? Well, that's probably not gonna happen, only the other way around. Let there be Quake, the money has spoken.


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Arttu Haglund of LiveCrew / ASMORG
aka _LUKE_/Sixth Fire^Numedia Cyclops