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Saberproject: Clone Wars Adventures – Day 1
8 August 2008 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Thursday, Aug 14, 2008 * Wednesday – Setup – Chatting
For us, Thursday actually started on Wednesday evening. After Jana, known in the chat as „DarshaJela“, had already challenged Tim on Tuesday, Desirée (Shana), Jan (Karsil) and Markus (Bertuzzi) also arrived at his place the following day.
Together we drove to the Rhein-Ruhr Zentrum to attend the preview screening of „The Clone Wars“. There we met Andre (scoulcher), who had already brought the tables for our booth to the cinema. Together we enjoyed the film.
Afterwards we held a short briefing and agreed to meet at 12 noon, to have enough time to set up the booth and rehearse. When we got back home, Alex (Shadow-Chao) announced he'd arrive in half an hour, and he actually showed up an hour later.
On Thursday morning our Eddy joined us and we drove to the cinema, where Andre was already waiting for us. There we set up and held a briefing, during which every team member received a new team shirt from Andre as a gift. Thanks again for that!
Once our booth was set up, we checked out the cinema's stage and rehearsed our choreographies. The rehearsals went quite well, so we looked forward optimistically to our first performance at 15:30. But first, the cinema opened at 14:30.
Our first guests were costumed members of the fan group „Order of the Force“, who spent some time at our booth before plunging into the Clone Wars. Shortly after them, Lukas (Shelby) showed up, cheerful and in a good mood, straight from school.
As expected, there wasn't much of a crowd, so we decided not to do the 15:30 performance. But at 17:45 the time had come, and our first show began. Since Markus didn't have a costume, though, we decided to do all performances that day in team clothing.
A little nervous, we entered the theater. When the commercials were over, „Rolling Fighting“ started playing and Tim and Eddy took the stage. Confidently, just like at Jedi-Con, they performed their fight, and finally Eddy was struck down by Tim.
Next came the first of the two premieres, „Anatim vs. Scoulcher“, set to „The Sith Spacecraft and The Droid Battle“, but in a different version than seen at the Jedi Convention. Andre attacked Tim determinedly with two sabers, and Tim struggled to parry his blows. Unfortunately the two made a few mistakes, so the premiere didn't go as planned. But both fought their way through, and in the end Tim defeated Andre.
But Tim got no breather. Just seconds later, to the sounds of „Duel of the Fates“, Markus ignited a double-bladed lightsaber in front of him. This time, though, Tim didn't have to fend off his opponent alone: Lukas took the stage as well. The opponents circled each other, and Markus struck first. A fierce fight broke out. Not flawless, but still successful, they performed it, and finally Markus ran Lukas through with his blade. But Tim rushed to his friend's aid and triumphed over his opponent.
Overall we were happy with our first performance, but there was definitely room for improvement.
Since we all agreed that clear start and end points would be good, we decided that Jan, who proved to be good with the tech, should make short announcements before and after the following shows.
We had the next show at 20:30. It was very similar to the first. Eddy and Tim made no mistakes, while „Anatim vs. scoulcher“ again didn't go well. The last fight was almost flawless and good overall.
After we were done with our performance, we had some free time again, which we used to order from a pizza delivery service, so we could eat something again after about 12 hours.
Just as we finished eating, the film ended. We greeted a few more visitors and answered questions. When the cinema gradually emptied, we carried our exhibits to our room and headed home at around 23:30.
