Thanks go to Gasman over at Demotopia for pointing me to a post on X-Agon's Message Board regarding the replacement for this years missing Doxycon. Alas, the post is all in Czech (natch!) but the details we can make out are that Kaplicon 00/2, as it's called, will be held from the 4th to the 6th of August, nicely overlapping uber-party, Assembly 2000. Looks to be 100% Speccy-based, much like ZX-Party 2000 being held later that month in Poland.
Hmm, August looks like being a damned busy month. My only/main concern is, with all these parties, the entries into the competitions will probably "thin out", and Spectrum-based attendance could well be low. Surely it'd be better to have, say, two BIG parties a year, about 6 months apart. Just my opinion.