Some (unrealistic?) forecast for the future across/elma scene by kuiva (1999): 1. In the future, teams pay to the players, the best players are professionals so that they play the game for their full-time job with the support of team salary and sponsorships. It might be so that the elma genre will divide to professionals and amateurs. 2. In the future, teams and players are sponsored by big companies such as Nokia and smaller ones such as ericsson. For example when Nokia sponsors Team PeX... whoops Team Finlandia, small Nokia logos can be seen in the players' bike skins (the skins will for sure remain in future replays) and smaller stickers in helmets etc... 3. The Rozstzsa bros won't accept times which are driven on unregistered (read: warez) versions of elma to the wr list, this might result in two separate wr lists, the official one and an unofficial one with the unaccepted wrs. 4. There will be elma labor unions protecting the players from eager managers and team bosses. 5. In 2002, elma passes quake and ski jump and becomes the most played net game. 6. Micro$oft buys the Rozstzsa bros and elma 5 becomes Motocross Sadness. 7. Elma clothes (elma-collection) spread, the most fashion-conscious guys wear new elma caps, trousers and shirt. 8. In 2003 Mercedes starts mass producting 40cm^3 elma mopeds, the cheap (and powerless) mopeds spread all over the world and irl-kuskis bump along the country. Several young crossers die and get hurt when trying to perform impossible tricks on their mopeds. 9. Steven Spielberg's "elma the roadmovie" is a big success 10. Elma-tiberian engine - elma team manager game is a flop and microsoft goes bankrupt. Gameboy byus the rights for elma, but the crossers force it to sell the rights back to the rozstzsa bros... the next version of the game should come soon... ;) 11. The @perators on the ircnet-channel #across start collecting membership fees from the chatters on the chan 12. Big stadion-crosses are introduced in the Scandinavia. Crossers get a track for practise an hour before the competition where the players start playing the track at the same time behind their own monitors. The audience can watch the competition from giant screens. 13. Elma university has been founded. There you can study physics (Elma physics of course), computing, cooking (apples), biology (flowers), English, Swedish, Finnish, Hungarian, music (Elma related), arts (MUe is the professor of that unit), sport (no no, no sport, we have bikes), maths (total time isn't easy to count), history (of course!) and religion (Elma religion...hm..) 14. The elma party attends the elections in 2005 and gets many seats from the EU parliament. The millionaire PeXi who had also been backing the party has been sued for dubiousness on taxes. 15. The top100 crossers - list which had been started in 2000 is stopped on 2006 after big disagreements. The hackers who are fighting against the commercialized game scene terrorize the sites of teams and as well the sites and computers of players. The players having been involved for a looong time are quitting one by one when the skills and the skill of höyling have been beaten by the market forces. 16. Elma losts its popularity to the new multiplayer games of internet 2 and the game is fading out to the grey mass... Some small groups still play it though but just for fun... 17. In 2009, across and elma have been forgotten, flying cars have been developed and the damn apes have taken over the world (no no i didn't copy that from anywhere=))