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              . news  about  the  cruelization  ten  and  beyond .

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   . F O R E W O R D .

     here I intend to write some important stuff about what happened, what
   happens and what will happen to the Cruelization these days. read it    
   through - you might find pieces of information you'll need to know in 
   order to enter or judge ;) or if you have entered already, and wondering
   what's happening to your song's score, comments, etc. read ahead!


   . P A S T .

     The past few months have been a complete disaster as far my internet
   connection was concerned. not being able to connect for about a month
   was bad enough, but i've had continuous connection and e-mail problems
   since then to this very moment. that is why i've registered in all
   possible emails I could, and now I have a whole bunch of e-mail addresses.
   here they are, priority from top to bottom - use the top ones 1st and
   please do not mail to them all together - if the email bounces from one,
   THEN use another. since i'm checking all the POP3's on one e-mail check,
   my mailbox becomes flooded with the very same mail if you send it to all
   those addresses at once. so please, don't. so:

   Crcr@Securenet.Net <-- the stablest email so far :D use this when not sure.
   Cruel@Kosmic.Org <-- 2nd main e-mail, seems to work now, was down w while
                        ago.
   CCZ@HotMail.Com <-- pretty damn slow, but reliable.
   CC@ThePentagon.Com <-- seems to work with no problems so far.
   Cruel@Demoscene.Interstat.Net <-- seems ok, although the server is down
                                     for short periods sometimes (which does
                                     not affect email, because SMTP servers
                                     send email for 5 days :)
   HTTP://wwp.mirabilis.com/191061 <-- Send me short (450 char max) messages
                                   over the world wide web. No email needed.

     On to more interesting things :). the vote program i've made got some
   good comments - however it had problems on about 15% of Windows machines.
   I've found what the problem was, but did not have enough time to re-code
   it, so Cruelization 9 voting pack has a text form for voting. I am
   currently rewriting the voter completely, it has now a better interface
   and a setup screen, will also have some new functions and back-version
   compatibility (meaning that all of you Cruelization 6, 7 & 8 entrants will
   get the full results, with comments, once I am done). Unfortunately,
   without the working program I can not release the official (exact) results
   for Cruelization 7 and 8. I am about to release 'pre-results', which should
   not deviate much, but unfortunately they have no comments. Eventually the
   comments will be released, with the official results :-/ .

     More 'past' stuff - ftp.cdrom.com also known as ftp.hornet.org had some
   problems lately, due to the music archive transfer. The Cruelization dir
   moved too, but it is linked and now accessible. Another mirror of 
   Cruelization packs is http://demoscene.interstat.net/cruelization or
   http://packs.home.ml.org for short :).


   . P R E S E N T .

     So, what's going on now? After I finish this text, I'm releasing the
   Cruelization 10 sample pack and 9 voting pack. The Cruelization web page
   will be up soon, big thanks to MrData for giving me web space and a shell
   on his work machine. 

    The rules haven't really been majorly changed yet, the only change that
  is there is that a composer cab enter up to 3 tunes to a regular, non
  special Cruelization.. Some people track like crazy :) It *IS* fair,
  because each song is evaulated separately. The 10th Cruelization still has
  5 songs max as a Special contest.

    Off to the future..


  . F U T U R E .

    Whee :) Alot of stuff is coming up. The Cruelization home page, as I've
  already mentioned, is under way. It is not the top priority right now
  though, so it might not be ready to the 10th or even 11th Cruelization's
  deadlines. The main objective right now is to get that voter done :) As fast
  as possible.

    "The Best of Cruelization X" music disk will be released after
  Cruelization 10 results will be released. Every tune from Cruelizations 1
  to 10 (inclusive) which was rated 14 or more will be included. It will not
  and I repeat will not be a contest pack - just a music disk with the best
  music :) I will not even put in the scores of the songs. More information
  on that will be available later, I will gather info from every composer
  who rated 14 or more in one of the Cruelizations. The deadline is still
  pretty far, so for now it is not the issue.

    An idea of "Cruelization Remixes" was contributed by Lemm, I've ehcnanced
  it and now am woring out the details. Nothing official yet, but it will
  probably be an "extra" pack to vote on. I will notify in advance so don't
  worry about that for now.

    I'm accepting ideas for 'special' contests - mail me! If your idea is
  interesting enough and simple enough :), I might issue it in one of the
  'teen' Cruelizations :).

    During the summer, "The Grand Cruelty" project will, hopefully, begin.
  It will be one-level-up contest, like MC and Nebulosity. Being generally
  against size limits whatsoever, I will have to enforce one - the samples
  are all own, it can be anything :) . I believe the limit would be 2.5 mb,
  whicb should be enough for everyone. As for voting and rules systems, it's
  too early to say. I'm just sharing a plan :) If nothing goes wrong, it will
  get under way in the beginning of July. 


  . C O N C L U S I O N .

  I should get more sleep. :) Who said exams can't be aced without preparing?

    Aside from that, that's it folks. Hope you've found this file informative.
  E-Mail me if you got any questions/suggestios/ideas/complaints/reports/cash
  :).
                                           Yours,

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        - Cruel Creator -                        - cruel@kosmic.org -
        - The Cruelization Organizer -          - crcr@securenet.net -
                                                - cc@thepentagon.com -

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