OK, to get you all in the mood, here's the rules for a new competition for this year's meet:

It's called the SMART Watch.

The what?

SMART Watch.

Basically, you all have to get your digital cameras stoked up, and bring them with you - because I want you to take pictures of EVERY Smart car you see on the way to the meet. The guy (or gal, of course ) with the greatest number of Smart cars photographed on the way to the meet wins a Smart (hur hur) prize!

Some rules;

- one point per Smart car, with two points awarded for cars carrying adverts.

- only cars with Dutch registration plates are valid points. I know of one individual who will drive straight to a Smart tower and photograph every car in sight - well, sorry! If it's not got a reg plate, it ain't a valid point!

- only photo images date stamped with the dates from the 8th July to the 10th July (inclusive) will be considered valid points

- only the first image registered of a specific vehicle will be considered a valid point, so if you are the third to photograph the same vehicle - sorry, tough!!!

- all images have to be shown to the judges while they are still sober on Saturday the 10th July to be considered valid points. If submitted when the judge(s) and their girlfriends/mates are pissed, tough!!!

- the judges' decision(s) is/are final, even if you try bribery.

SO get ready to get snapping, people! May the best empeg owner win!!!

extra points for american registeration plates?

Hm, nice! But I wonder, if each individual car can only be photographed once between ALL the participants, then won't the guy who submits the photos first have a "lock" on all the cars in the area? The (sober) judges see the first guy's photos and he gets a point for each, but while others may have taken more total photos, most will be invalid because they were already submitted.

So, camp out by the Judge's hang out (beer keg?).

won't the guy who submits the photos first have a "lock" on all the cars in the area?

First by timestamp, I'd assume, not first by submission.

Peter

Easy: just set the timestamp in the camera back a couple of hours, and then reset it before presenting your photos.

Not relevant for the competition, however a nice series of pictures from someone with his smart:

http://www.schlijper.nl/portfolio/25max/smart/01.html

Jelle

OK - the prize for this competition has been sorted. If I say so myself, it's a rilly, rilly coo-el prize.

What is it? Well, you'll have to come along to the meet and see, won't you?

Wanna win it?See the above

It's OK to allow only Smarts with reg-plates, but why only Dutch???
Give Christian and me the chance to start from the first row...

Here Here

Here's another competition that I feel is long overdue:

A timed Breakout tourney, BYOP (Bring Your Own Player). No limit on games played, but shortest time-to-win from the starter's whistle takes the grand prize.

One entry per Empeg/RioCar player (no player, no playee). Of course the prize should be something appropriate, like on-the-spot rotary-encoder replacement surgery for the winning unit! But I'll try and think of something more cool than that.

Cheers

Perhaps this would be an appropriate prize.

Cool!

Or perhaps I'll donate one of Paul's 1000 balls, since I just happen to have a few on hand here.

Mmmm

I know! I have an extra original Tempest Spinner in my box of spare parts! Mounting it would be someone else's problem... (spinner reviews)

Mmm.. ideally that thing could be wired up as part of an Empeg remote control (a REALLY BIG remote control), and would provide the rotary encoder (knob) functions.

There are even spinner models (think "Disks of Tron") that support button pressing...

Of course the prize should be something appropriate, like on-the-spot rotary-encoder replacement surgery for the winning unit!

Seems like the loser would need that more than the winner.