Sean Nero

On­ly one word can be used to de­scribe the YU­MA ef­fect on the par­ty mas­sive in T&T: Hooked! Last Sat­ur­day's un­veil­ing of the mas band's C2k12 pre­sen­ta­tion ti­tled Press Play held at Pier 2, Ch­aguara­mas, proved this. Those who chose the event to be the high­light of their week­end en­ter­tain­ment were not dis­ap­point­ed. They were treat­ed to yet an­oth­er su­perb pro­duc­tion from the new kid on the block with its bril­liant dis­play of in-house cre­ativ­i­ty in Press Play. Though sim­ple, the theme was in­ter­pre­ta­tive and served as the right grade fu­el to the night's fren­zy.

Beau­ti­ful cos­tumes

In­trigu­ing pro­to­types fit the bod­ies of sexy mod­els to bring to life the Press Play con­cept in a 34-minute pre­sen­ta­tion. Thir­teen sec­tions de­vel­oped from pop­u­lar video games were pre­sent­ed. They were:

Spawn, Heav­en­ly Sword, Call of Du­ty, Azteca, Gold­en Eye, Apache, An­gry Birds, Fi­nal Fan­ta­sy, Tyris, Trans­form­ers (Prime), Lux­or, God of War, Be­jew­eled Blitz.

Mod­els ex­hibit­ing these pieces are re­put­ed to have walked the longest run­way to have been built for a Car­ni­val mas pre­mier. Us­ing in­no­v­a­tive de­sign, YU­MA's prin­ci­pals en­sured that every­one got a bird's eye view of the cre­ations in what they called a 360 de­gree ex­pe­ri­ence.

Vibes ga­lore

"The vibes can't done" was an ap­pro­pri­ate phrase to de­scribe the au­ra at Press Play. As it turns out, the theme was al­so the code phrase for ex­treme fun at the drinks in­clu­sive event. The event start­ed on a high and as fate would have it, the en­er­gy in­creased as the night wore on. A big thumbs up was in or­der for the YU­MA event man­age­ment team. They made clever use of the space al­lot­ted and com­fort­ably fa­cil­i­tat­ed the throngs that turned out to be­hold the beau­ty in the mas and par­ty hearti­ly un­til morn­ing.