Thanks to everyone who came to support the Masters of Modding Contest & Showcase.

Thanks too to all the 3 teams - ModHeAdz.com, Sofkenijn.cpm ft. Ribbi.be and Babetech.de - for the hardwork and great profesional spirit during the live modding. The Masters of Modding Contest pioneers the concept of "speedmodding" - where time management, decision on designs to that maximise effects with minimum time, entertainment and "eye-candy" factors, working under pressure, working in fixed / limited environment - these are all essential factors in developing a pro / semi-pro modding community. And the 3 teams truly showed their high professional standards - truly the Masters of Modding.

While speedmodding compacts modding into a compact package for the public to peek into the world of modding (imagine the general public sifting through months and months of worklog?), it is still important for the modding community to capture the imagination of the public with high profile mods from months- / year-long projects. That's where the Masters of Modding Showcase comes in - much much thanks to all the Masters of Modders - Robbert Stoeppels, _ferry_, mydogisgone, Ediejo, RAG.Bitchie - for all their super effort in supporting the Masters of Modding Showcase and being there to explain and promote modding to the public.

A round of applause to the organisers of the Masters of Modding - Hardware.info, NYGL.com - as well as the organisers of Hardware.info - Hardware.info, TE2 (Telegraaf Expomedia Events), HUB Utigevers - for the very well organised event.

AC Ryan will continue supporting and promoting both worklog-modding and speedmodding - yes, there's gonna be more different variations of speedmodding contests - we see speedmodding contests as the off-line "real-life events" brothers of worklog contests. Hope to see you guys around both online and offline - keep modding (with AC Ryan)!!

Photos will be posted here soon... watch out for it.
You can also check out event reports on Hardware.info site http://www.hardware.info/artikelen.php?id=171

All 3 teams did a really fantastic job – all highly skilled, creative and top modders.

Team Babetech	Team Soefkenijn ft. Ribbi	Team ModHeAdz

Team Babetech (or so-called “The Germans”) gambled big with the wheels and sadly they paid the price – under the limited conditions (incl. missing parts left at home) and time constraints, the wheel was a shade of its intended glory. Strategically they went for the “one major attention” – the one grand idea that wows all. You must have seen those… mods where you just stared at that one feature and forgot about the rest, or that the rest of the mod simply did not matter. The comments on the forum speak for itself – it’s all about the wheels. Imagine if they had managed pull off the motorized wheel mod and that casing would be zipping up and down the hall. Would you have cared what shape the side window is?

Team Soefkenijn’s (aka “The Belgians”) strategy seems to have paid off the best in terms of getting attention. Keep it simple, use non-standard shapes, use contrasting colors (green on black always jumps out at you), repeating color scheme and pattern theme. In short, to maximize the impact on the eye. A sure sign of their experience in modding at lanparty workshops. A round of applause to the Soefkenijn team too for improvising with “theelicht voetjes” (yes those casing feet are made from "tealight holders") when they saw ModHeAdz doing the same acryl feet they were planning to do – cool that they adapted so we dont have the same mods ;)

Team ModHeAdz (“The Dutch”) mod has the most details – that’s where they spent most of the time. I believe it’s because both modders are pros in worklog-modding – extensive modding spread over months with great attention to details. They both share the style of modding where the more you look the more features you discover. So that’s the case with this mod – lots of details that looked better in real life than in the photos L. The mirror mod, the acryl mod on the graphic card, the meshx panels behind the acryl Dutch flag.

3 teams, 3 different styles, 3 different strategies. Our choice? For the guts to go for something extravagant, the Germans are winners. For the highly professional strategy, the Belgians are winners. For the details & features, the Dutch are winners. Wouldn’t it be interesting if we could put all 3 teams together?

In conclusion, the Masters of Modding is a show of master skills and the positive attitude to go for something new and exciting - the friendly competition and good spirit between the teams was much more important than the winning - that's the underlying signature of all "Masters events" be it tennis, snooker, bowling, to name a few - the joy of watching the masters compete in a positive and inspiring atmosphere. To add that touch of excitement for the public... go vote for your favorite at Hardware.info forums - the Reader's Choice Award.

ps. AC Ryan is proud to have provided the modding supplies for this great event - the Masters of Modding modded with AC Ryan ;) We love the resuslts so much - AC Ryan is currently already in talks with all 3 teams to sponsor their next projects. We all like to see more from these Masters of Modding dont we? Stay tuned and keep modding with AC Ryan...

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dM Gaming Challenge : digitalMind
Meet the hottest gaming team in Benelux - dM digitalMind.




AC Ryan is proud to be the main sponsor of the recently reformed & resurrected digitalMind (dM). The young dM team showed its talent and potential by immediately clinching the no. 2 spot in both CounterStrike 1.6 as well as FIFA 2005 competitions at the recent Netgamez 2005b. A top result in a well attended event which drew an attendance of 1485 gamers including all the major gaming teams in Netherlands. The fast rising dM is now already ranked no.2 in the latest Gamelux.nl CS 1.6 rankings.

At the AC Ryan booth during Hardware.info Dagen, you'll get to meet and talk to the dM CS1.6 team - tommeh, Seaker, Legend, sn!p, Lockon - and the management - Craven, kml, crx, AaiGht. You'll also have a chance to challenge the dM gamers at CS1.6 1on1 and win great souvenirs! You'll be playing the dM Gaming Challenge on Z0th systems - the same gaming systems used in WCG 2005 NL qualifiers and the upcoming Best of Benelux competitions! The unique Z0th systems are commissioned by GamePC.NL & Gameparty.net - custom mods created by ModHeAdz.com specially for the the gaming scene. Don't miss the dM Gaming Challenge at AC Ryan booth!


digitalMind.CS team : (from left) tommeh, Seaker, Legend, sn1p, Lockon
photo courtesy of Gamelux.nl