Some people have also received this by email, but it is intended for anybody wanting to compete in CC#2: Subject: CC2: Speak up NOW or forever hold your peace! In short: we have to cancel one of the categories. You can choose from one of the options below. Votes have to be in no later than Saturday January 15! Votes to: eli@dnd.utwente.nl L.S., Let me start by saying that I do regret to have to resort to such drastic measures, but we need to make a decision soon and we want it to satisfy the needs of as many of you as possible. So here goes: CC2 currently has 4 (four) categories which indeed is too much. We therefor have to get rid of one of the categories. Without any doubt we can safely say that we must at least KEEP the 1K category as it's immensily popular and already has some entries. That leaves us with cancelling either 2K, 4K and 64K or maybe combining some. We now want you to pick one of the following options: 1) combine the 4K and 64K categories into an 8K category (which would allow for a 32K external music file) 2) get rid of the 2K category and allow for tools in both 1K and 4K categories 3) get rid of the 2K category AND turn the 4K into an 8K category (without external music file) 4) get rid of the 64K category Some points to consider: - we've only received 1 2K tool yet and I don't know of anybody else working on one - many people seem to be short on time so it's questionable whether we'll actuall see 64K's - a really decent 64K is extremely cool though - I've already received some 4K beta's so there does seem to be enough interest in that - 4K's often look very good but often lack audio etc etc, I think you can work it out for yourself. We must receive votes no later than Saturday January 15 (2000) and we'll send out the results on Sunday. (We need to know the final categories before sending of articles to magazines.) It is unfortunate that we have to resort to silly voting to settle this, but we've had some talk about it on the codecraft mailinglist with very few replies which gave us the impression that what we had in mind (option 1) was OK with most people, but now that I've actually mailed with some of you about the fact that we were going to announce the change almost all reactions were negative. While we're at it: due to the fact that articles on CC#2 will appear in some magazines no earlier than February we will have to move the deadline once again to give readers of the magazine a chance to take part in the competitions as well. Depending on the actual date the articles appear the new AND FINAL deadline will be either 30 Apil or 31 May. Kind Regards, and I hope everybody will respond this time :) Eli-Jean aka Pervect of Topix co-organiser of CodeCraft #2