[ASM scene] New compo rules

[Maija Haavisto]

> "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?

No. I am pretty horrified. IMO the distinction between instrumental and non-instrumental music was a bit weird to begin with. Tracked music and freestyle music would have made much more sense. On the other hand, I never had any problems with the idea of drawn graphics and freestyle graphics, or the themes. It is already difficult to choose what to submit to freestyle when you work with photos, photomanips, fractals, traditional paintings etc. Now there's an even bigger problem related to the jury selection: the jury might go for the "wow" factor alone, which would make 3D and probably 3D more likely to get on the screen. Or there might be a jury that thinks digital paintings are more "demosceneish" and then photos, photomanips and such would have a much harder time getting on the screen. In general I feel like 3D has an advantage now. You might say that the jury is unlikely to be homogen(e)ous, but I am sure I am not the only one who has got fed up with juries who think that only songs that sound like epic Hollywood movie soundtracks should be played in the music compo, etc.

I am really not happy with this change. I feel like it is one worst decisions the Assembly organizing has ever made, on par with the "brilliant" idea of stuffing the oldskool area into the main hall (luckily that was fixed at least, thanks for that). 

P.S. I am still available to proofread Assembly related documents, like I've done in the past. :P As a professional writer, the horrible language of the Assembly website always makes me cringe. It just seems to get worse every year.

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