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From: lel@wuphys.UUCP (Lyle E. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BADGE contest suggestions
Keywords: eggplant
Message-ID: <585@wuphys.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 88 20:17:00 GMT
References: <5299@louie.udel.EDU> <18426@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: lel@wuphys.UUCP (Lyle E. Levine)
Organization: Physics Dept., Washington U. in St. Louis
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In article <18426@ames.arc.nasa.gov> mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick) writes:
>
>I'd like to add one further note to this BAADG discussion if I may.
>And this is, that this year's contest really wasn't all that exciting.
>Let's face it, for all of the hype, announcements, and articles in
>Major Publications, the majority of the entries were late and gave
>new meaning to the word "mediocre". They weren't all that good folks.
>So the question is, where the heck were you guys? Huh? Where was all that talent 
>that this Net embodies? Most of the entries were tool-based, many of them 
>showed little cleverosity, and even less overall skill, yet some of those
>guys are going to be walking away with prizes. If there ever is going to
>be another contest, and I hope that there will be, start work NOW, don't
>wait until 3 weeks before the deadline, and ship a half finished program.
>
>
I'm VERY SORRY to hear this...  I don't know what kept others away,
but I know what happened to me.  I spent a good 3 months working on
what would have been an excellent demo (Those who saw my preliminaries
said they beat RGB cold).  Unfortunately, the first announcement of
the rules killed it.  I may have misinterpreted them but it looked
like it had to run on a 2 disk drive machine with one of the disks
being a workbench disk. I needed 2 disks for the demo.  Also, I
required > 1 Meg to run it (1.5 needed). Also, it required red/blue
glasses to be worn. The demo followed all good programing practices
and released everything when done.  
	I can understand why the rules were made so restrictive but
it may have had the effect of seriously cutting down on the number
and quality of entrees.  I know that if the rules would permit it,
I would seriously consider finishing off my demo for next year.

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