(appeared in Yahoo issue 5, April 29 1995) 旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 � North American International Demofest Epeius/Night Vision, etc. � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸 Official Sponsor listing: College Edouard-Montpetit A.G.E.C.E.M COOP Montpetit Advanced Gravis Corel Corp. Tim Horton's Subway Mediatrix Techno-TV Services D'abonnement Canebsco La Piece de musique Monolithe info NAID The Apraxia factor report by Epeius of Night Vision From Saturday April 15th to Sunday April 16th 1995 9:00 the doors open, groups of people and local news crews are eager to get inside. As people begin unloading their cars, the party place begins to fill with computer equipment, and demo freaks of all sorts. 10:00 was to be the time for the opening ceremonies, but they were slightly delayed. This was apparently done, in order to wait for the hall to be a little more full of people. The ceremonies consisted of the organisers introducing themselves, and telling us to have a good time. Almost immediately afterwards, they began showing "historical" or classic demos on the big screen, including demos like CD2, Unreal, and 2nd Reality. We now had until 15:00, when the music entries deadline was. Suddenly, a massive crowd was formed in front of the huge screen. Apparently, White Noise had managed to fetch a copy of the newly released demo, Dope by Complex. Simply put, it was a beautiful sight. Unfortunately, all the competitors in the demo competition were now severely depressed :) 15:00 Music entry deadline 15:30 Graphics entry deadline 16:00 The music competition began. And went on for an excrutiating 7 hours. Almost every single one of the 55+ entries were played. Yes "almost" all of them. The organisers managed to lose a few of the entries, making some people a little upset. During the 7 hour music competition, people were hard at work to get their intros and demos ready for the deadlines. There were no other major problems, appart from the fact that the surround sound system was messing up a few tunes that didn't like being played in surround. And so the organisers had to turn the surround off, and replay a couple of songs. The intro deadline was pushed back to 00:00 from 19:00, and the demo deadline became extremely elastic, going all the way to 5:00. The night went on. The live band Public Enema played from 00:00 until 4:30. Their music was quite nice, unfortunately, not too many people were around to hear it. There was a "rave" at 4:30. I put the word rave in quotes, because there was only about 15 people on the floor. Everyone else had gone off to their rooms, or were working on stuff elsewhere. A few hours later, the DJ packed up, and the classic demos were back up on the screen. 10:00. The beginning of the Intro compo. I can't say much about this event, since I slept right through it. Nobody woke me up! :) Anyhow, I heard that it sucked, lacking in participants. Although, I heard the highlight of the event was Pisstro, coded by Daredevil of Renaissance at NAID. 11:30. The Graphics compo. The pictures were announced and displayed one by one. The quality of art was exceptional, making the judges job a tough on. Although a few pictuers were a little too nice. Thus the disqualification of a piccy by an artist of TRS'93. Apparently, he had scanned his entry. 15:00. The Demo Compo. Finally, the long awaited demo competition was at hand. 11 entries. 50% more then a lot of us had expected. The demo competition went by smoothly, except for the fact that the projector had trouble switching in between certain screen modes, and would lag it's display. So you could see the demo going on the screen in the organisers booth, but you would see nothing on the big screen. This wasn't a very big problem, since the judges weren't looking at the big screen, but rather at the monitor in the booth. And they had already viewed each demo a few times before the competition. Other then that, there were no major problems. The crowd was very supportive, clapping and cheering when something particularly nice caught their eye. 20:00. The closing ceremonies took place, consisting of a nice speech by Snowman (Chris G. Mann) and the NAID organisers giving out the prises of money, and hardware. In closing, I'd like to say that this party had some good organising with no entries being cut off half way through. Yes, there were some minor problems, but they must be expected from a party that's happening for the first time. All in all, it was a great experience for the north american demo scene, where everyone finally met each other, and was able to put a face to the names they always heard. Signed, epeius of night vision NAID Results (Not Official yet) (quite unofficial, indeed.. -Ed) Music competition: 1. ? Necros/Legend Design/FM 2. HitchHiking HiQ & ? 3. Can't Fake The Funk Basehead/FM/Kosmic 4. Tears Mosaic/Renaissance Graphics competition: 1. TRS Bobs/Thunderstorm (or it's TRS Bobs by Thunderstorm.. :) -Ed) 2. ? ?/Pure Resistance 3. Opticron Lakee Intro competition: 1. Less Is More Humanoid 2. ? Used 3. High Pressure ? Demo competition: 1. Opticron Craw Productions 2. Electric Gruyere De Cheezz 3. Flight Kosmic