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The Why and the Wherefore
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All fun aside, kids, this year we've hit the Big Time (or something appearing to approximate it). Natural History New Zealand will be filming the event this year to create 4 one-hour pilot programs to be aired on the Discovery Channel next fall/winter as part of Discovery's ever expanding offerings in the "idiot American fabricators build stupid things" subgenre of the reality TV genre. The production company behind this is a nice group of folk from New Zealand and not a sleezy LA porn outfit, as one would likely expect for the event in question. We appear to have a reasonable contract and nice collaborative relationship with them that will retain our full control of the event (so all of us do not end up embarassed for the rest of our lives) and allow us to continue doing whatever we want at the event (but with no guarantees about what will have to get edited out for family TV).
The Contract pays a not-insulting amount of money: $30,000 for the first year/event: 10k of which Jim will immediately put into buying the crane truck of his lust, 10k Charlie will use to buy containers for the Box Shop expansion, and the other 10k will get distributed far and wide to pay everyone (like Simone, the invaluable, wonderful, gracious Simone, who works so hard and knows all the web page passwords) who usually doesn't get paid in these things. We'll increase the purses, as well as deal with the increased event production costs that will follow from changes needed for real filming).
The Production Company is already here in the Bay Area and about to start shooting all of you that are interested while you build your crazed engineering monstrosities and tell lies about your lives. They want about 10 people/teams to follow in great detail as they build their machines over the next two months. Those interested in being on the list of potentials should tell Charlie and Jim, or better yet, Simone (simone@qbox.org) very very soon.
This year we promise to have not one, but two "designated organizers" who stay cognizant enough to keep track of all this (Simone and Lera) and hold chaos at bay until all races are fairly and squarely run. And we have expanded the event to two days so we are sure to actually finally really make it through the double elimination rounds (for the first time) as well as give the film crew one day where they can be more invasive to get the shots they need (Saturday).
Sunday will be the regular plate of mayhem and the film crew will have to fend for themselves.
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