CUT & PASTE EVENT ‘09
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Cut&Paste to Unveil an Expanded Tournament and Global Championship in 2009
Live digital design tournament adds new cities, new disciplines, new format, new website, and first-ever international championship for upcoming global tour
September 29, 2008, NEW YORK – The annual Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament is traveling forward in time. The next global tour, originally slated for fall 2008, will instead take place in early 2009 to accommodate Cut&Paste’s new, largely expanded competition series. The scheduling shift allows what will be a considerably longer tournament series to avoid holiday interruptions—the upcoming global tour will span five months of consecutive weekend competitions across the world map, while the previous tournament in 2007 completed its circuit in three. The changes to the 2009 tour, outlined below, represent Cut&Paste’s decision to create a bigger, better program in response to its audience’s growing demand for more competitions in more places.
Cut&Paste’s 2009 global tour will begin in February and continue through June, leading the charge with city competitions in North America, moving across the pond to Europe, and rounding things out with the Asia/Pacific region. But this time it won’t end there. The 2009 tournament will culminate in the first-ever Cut&Paste Global Championship, bringing all its winners from cities around the world to one place for a climactic battle of the champions. Competitors again will perform live onstage in the high-pressure environment of Cut&Paste’s trademark 15-minute elimination rounds, eyed and observed by judges and audience alike as they design against the clock—only this time, the pride of their respective countries and hometowns, as well as their personal reputations, will be at stake. In June 2009, New York City, birthplace of Cut&Paste, will host this all-out, guns-blazing international showdown of skills, speed, and style.
The debut of the Global Championship will mark a milestone in Cut&Paste history, presenting its unique competitive concept on a grand scale in the city where it all began. Born as a novel idea—to have designers not only compete for bragging rights but also showcase their talents in a live performance, with the audience watching their every move in real time—Cut&Paste began with a single competition in New York City in 2005. This first event surpassed expectations, drawing a full house of hundreds of the city’s creative professionals and curious partygoers, all making noise for the designers they deemed worthy. The technical setup allowed every mouse click and tapped command to register immediately from each designer’s workstation (Apple® G5, Wacom® Cintiq®, and Adobe® software) to one of the large-scale projections displayed across the walls of the venue. Design became spectator sport, party atmosphere and all. And with this initial success, what began as eight designers and an energetic crowd in a brick-walled Tribeca bar quickly evolved: Cut&Paste followed up with a 4-city national tour in 2006, then exploded into a whirlwind eleven-city global tour in 2007.
The 2009 Digital Design Tournament will further expand the series, adding several new cities to the global tour and introducing new competitions in the disciplines of 3D and motion graphics design. Event formats will vary from city to city: while all tournament cities will host the 2D design competition, not every city will produce competitions in 3D and motion graphics. Cities for the 2009 global tour are to be announced in November 2008, but past tournaments have taken place in major U.S. and international cities including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Portland, Boston, Tokyo, London, Sydney, Berlin, and Hong Kong.
To accompany the comprehensive changes it is making for 2009, Cut&Paste will also reveal a revamped website this fall. Fresh updates and detailed information about the tour schedule, city participation, and event programming for the 2009 Digital Design Tournament will be available on the Cut&Paste website when it publicly launches its redesign on November 10, 2008.