does any documentary footage exist for this momentous event, or was it
just too extreme and censored?
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 09:58, Nick Collins wrote:
> DOUBLE CODE OUT CONTROVERSY CASTS DOUBT ON VIABILITY OF AGGRESSIVE
> PROGRAMMING
>
> A controversial double code out in the ninth amidst claims of underhand
> deals has cast the ownership of the WPF fingerweight belt into contention.
> Legal discussions of the sport's governing body continue today to resolve
> the fate of the contest, dubbed the 'Battle of the Belge'. A speedy
> resolution has been overshadowed by allegations and counter allegations of
> underhand deals. Both fighters have made public assertions that they had
> not been paid to throw the match, but suspicion in betting circles
> continues, particularly over the case of one Stockwell based punter who may
> have deliberately misled officials both as to his real gambling intentions
> and possible links to the WPF and the athletes.
>
> Code sports fans had been prepared for a titanic struggle, and in the first
> rounds saw a series of twists, with live coded fx units for piggy back
> processing, manic perl scripting, interpreted function substitution,
> massive bass sounds, self modifying code, SynthDef subversions and
> accidental soundfile explosions. But no-one was expecting the fork
> bomb/grain choke finale. Possible complicity between the contestents is
> supported by documentary robot footage of the two whispering to each other
> at the end of the eight round while locked in a 186 bpm dancehall embrace.
>
> Live coding fights are a speciality sport gaining interest on the
> underground arts scene. Not without critics, an enraged musician was heard
> to declare that the musical level was 'not much above bear baiting'.
> Respected MC (Machine Controller) Q-Type was in the audience and has also
> asserted a suspicion as to the level of presets used when on the ropes,
> though he admitted that the programming in some rounds had been genuinely
> on-the-fly.
>
>
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Received on Thu May 26 2005 - 00:02:01 BST