The best party of this summer is coming! ASSEMBLY Summer 2010 takes place from Thursday 5th to Sunday 8th of August at Hartwall Areena, Helsinki, Finland!

We are rocking for the 19th time with over 5000 participants, 3000 computer seats, >40 000 euros worth of prizes and a kick ass program!

So make sure you are the best party of the summer - ASSEMBLY Summer 2010! Tickets go on sale in Sunday 16th of May!

Ticket sales to ASSEMBLY Summer 2010 start as follows

• Sunday 9th of May at 19:00 - Registration begins
• Sunday 16th of May at 19:00 - Online ticket sales begins
• Thursday 5th of August at 12:00 - Ticket sales begin at the party place by the main entrance

Tickets cost 69 euros (main party area), 79 euros (grand stands) and 39 euros (entry tickets).

More info on the ticket sales.

ASSEMBLY is organized by over 200 volunteers - people just like you who have a passion for making the best, biggest and coolest Finnish party happen! We are always looking for motivated and talented people to join our team.

If you are interested, please check our available jobs!

ASSEMBLY Summer 2010 is host to magnificient competitions ranging from Demos to Nordic Championships in eSports. Our prize pool is just as legendary. The total value of prizes at ASSEMBLY Summer 2010 will exceed €40 000!

ASSEMBLY Summer 2010 starts in just three months! The summer's greatest party takes place from 5th to 8th of August at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki. For the 19th time we will make ASM a mindblowing experience for everybody! We are busy putting together a great party program and we'll be sure to rock you with concerts, seminars, robowars and much more!

Tickets to ASSEMBLY Summer 2010 are sold in advance thru our web store. The registration is now open at https://tickets.assembly.org

If you haven't bought tickets previously to ASM, you need to register first.

If you have bought tickets in previous years, you already have an user account to our web store. Login and select from the menu "Re-enter to Lottery", and you'll be ready to buy tickets also this year. If you have misplaced your password, you can get a password reminder.

Ticket sales starts on Sunday 16th of May at 19:00. The order in which tickets are bought is random from everybody who has registered. When you are randomly picked to buy tickets, you will get a notification about this by email.

Detailed instructions to ticket sales are also available.

Take your friends with you and join thousands of participants at ASM for the best weekend of summer 2010!

CU at ASM!

The ASSEMBLY Ticket Shop now supports a larger variety of payment methods including all Finnish bank's web payment methods. We are also adding support for credit cards (VISA, MasterCard and Visa Electron) next week.

The support payment methods are shown below.

The ticket sales to ASSEMBLY Summer 2010 have started today Sunday 16th of May at 19:00. Already over 1500 (more than half of the computer places) have been sold. Hurry up and get yours now!

Ticket sales is now open to everybody. Buyers of computer tickets are picked in random lottery. The lottery is run every ten minutes and on each run ten more buyers are selected. This means that everybody will be notified of their turn to buy in next 8-10 hours.

Welcome to ASM!

The compo rules for ASSEMBLY Summer 2010 have been published. The following changes were made to the competition rules:

• Extreme graphics compo was changed to executable graphics. Same size limit 4k for desktop and oldskool platforms.
• Extreme music compo was changed to executable music. No Protracked modules allowed.
• Desktop compo machine specs were update: Windows 7 (32 bit) and resolution 1280x720p60 must be supported
• Oldskool platforms were updated: PCs up to 486dx/50 (dx2 is not allowed) and Amigas up to Amiga 3000 (ECS + 030)

Do you have a hobby, that has something to do with technology or computers? Would you like to tell about it to others and perhaps even show it at Assembly?

Well now you have a chance to do that! Assembly Summer 2010 presents a new concept called Hobby Depot. We are inviting enthusiasts and hobby communities to present their hobbies and passions to the best computer festival in Finland - Assembly! We will choose 2-3 applicants who fill the requirements of Hobby Depot. We will provide you a booth space to present your activities, visibility in AssemblyTV and website. Plus access to your staff to the event as well.

So what does it take to get to Hobby Depot?

We want communities, groups or associations to join in. It doesn't matter how you have organized yourselves, the main point is that you are active and passionate about it. And ofcourse, be ready to present you hobby and activities in the Assembly event.

The hobby or activity should somehow be related to technology and/or computers, we are looking for "assembly spirited" hobbies, who would fit nicely to our event. We don't want to define too strict borders what is acceptable and what is not.

We will offer you a space from Hobby Depot area to present your activities and visibility in our website and AssemblyTV. Mikrobitti is also supporting Hobby Depot and will provide some visibility to you on their media as well.

Hobby Depot applications

Informal Hobby Depot applications will be accepted via email to hobbydepot2010@assembly.org

In your application, you should provide at least the following information

• Applicant's (group, community or organization) full name
• Applicant's contact persons details (name, email, telephone)
• Presentation of the group or community and the activity/hobby
• Informal plan how you think you'd be presenting your activity at Assembly, about the program etc
• Estimation of staff needed from your organization

The age or size of the community doesn't matter, but you will get more favourable reception if you can provide information of active operation. Do not apply, if you are not sure you can participate and get enough personnel to the event.

Bringing commercial supporters to the Hobby Depot is not allowed.

The last date of applications is Wednesday 24 June 2010. We will choose 2-3 applications and inform the choises we have made latest 30th June 2010. We will contact the chosen groups directly and provide the information at our web as well.

Hobby Depot is supported by

Are you a seasoned classic game player? This year our contest for Assembly tickets is based on your gamer abilities. See if you can master SVG-oids and get your friend a free pass to Assembly.

Rules:

1. Download IE9 preview from http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
2. Play SVG oids (http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/35SVG--oids/Default.xhtml)
3. Post your best game score here (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118667931505124&v=wall)
4. Alternatively you can post your score to td2010fi@microsoft.com
5. Wait for end of June as we will award tickets at that time
6. Second round last until end of July - the last tickets will be given out at that time
7. Select your friend to receive the ticket

Note that the only results that will be accepted must be played with IE9.

So get your score at SVGoids and participate! Your friend can join the Assembly fun with you if you score well enough.

The world famous, number #1 World of Warcraft guild, Paragon will be coming to Assembly Summer 2010!

Now it is time for you to meet the best WoW guild in the world in person. Paragon has reserved seats in Game Lab area and will be located in the tables G1 and G2. You can also spot the guys & gals playing at the Asus stand.

The ASSEMBLY Summer 2010 invitation intro has been released. Majestically crafted by United Force + Digital Dynamite and released @party 2010, this intro hammers home this year's theme: Computer Candy Overload!

Get your overload now!

• PC executable
• Youtube video

See you at ASM in just a month's time!

IRC-galleria and Assembly have produced a community to IRC-galleria (a finnish web service). You can check the community at http://irc-galleria.net/community/3347153

You can watch the AssemblyTV at the community and chat with your friends during the event.

Join in now and get your free "Assembly sälä" :)

Pimp your own office by playing Ribbon Hero –game!

Play Ribbon Hero –game with new Microsoft Office  2010 and win gift cards to pimp your very own Assembly office.

RULES

1. Get Microsoft Office  2010.  Free trial  version can be downloaded here:  http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/try/try-office-2010-FX101868838.aspx
   
2. Download Ribbon Hero: www.officelabs.com/RibbonHero
3. Play Ribbon Hero game during 1.7. – 6.8.2010 and send screenshot after collecting 200 points in  either OneNote, Excel, Word or  PowerPoint –challenges to the Ribbon Hero jury:  ribbonhero@hotmail.fi by  6.8.2010  at 14.00.  More challenges you take better changes you have for winning. 
   
   
4. The  Ribbon Hero Jury  will not help you during the competition period.
5. The jury  will draw the  winner  among all the participants with  200 points on Friday 6.8. at 15:00.

PRIZES

3 x  50 €  gift cards  to  Jimm’s PC-Store. Jimm’s PC-store is also at Assembly so you can start pimping your  Assembly Office right away!

REMEMBER THESE

http://www.microsoft.com/express

http://www.microsoft.com/expression/try-it/

http://fuse.microsoft.com/projects-kodu.html

http://photosynth.net/

ARTtech seminars bring together the creative minds behind the latest in art and technology - especially in the way the demoscene binds these two into amazing results. 

We are very proud to announce our full line up of speakers and the schedule including

• John Buckman, chairman of the board, EFF, sharing the stage with
• Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, co-founder of The Pirate Bay and Flattr, to talk about culture, digital rights and activism and business
• Saku Lehtinen, art director at Remedy Entertainment, talking about Alan Wake
• Kostas Pataridis, of Andromeda Software Development, sharing his views about creating demo masterpieces
• Matt Swoboda, of Fairlight, exposing Fairlight's rendering secrets
• Matti Palosuo, a.k.a Melwyn of Scene.org, showcasing the best creations of the demoscene in the past 12 months
• Simo Santavirta, Flash coder extraordinaire, sharing cutting edge insights to Flash demo programming
• Tomek Augustyn, a leader in use of webcams with Flash, talking about his amazing face tracking tech
• And much more!

Qt runs everywhere!

Nokia proudly provides special prizes for finalists in Gamedev, Demo or Real Wild-compos. If you end up in the Big Screen and use Qt-framework, you are entitled to these extra prices.

The winner is selected together with the scene (ie do well in the competition voted by Assembly participants), but there also be a jury set by Nokia. However, the scene has more power, 75 %, where as the Nokia jury's view is limited to effect 25 % of the final decision.

The Nokia jury looks especially mobility and visionary in the entries. For example, the use of Qt Mobility – and thus, integration to the mobile platform (e.g. N900, 5800) – is an important criteria.

The winning crew will enjoy a trip to Doublin, to MeeGo 2010 summit to learn the new trends of the MeeGo-platform. Naturally, the trip is sponsored by Nokia. Also, all participants of demo, Game Dev or Real Wild competitions are invited to join the N900 is you passport-sauna VIP event at Assembly on Friday evening.

So - it's time to check what QT is all about and participate for some cool extra prizes!

Check the rules from QT competition page.

Hobby Depot 2010 participants announced

Assembly Summer 2010 presents a new concept called Hobby Depot. We are inviting enthusiasts and hobby communities to present their hobbies and passions to the best computer festival in Finland - Assembly! We have chosen three applicants and you will see helicopters, online radio and true hardware hax0ring at the Assembly:

RC-kopterit (RC-helicopters)

A group of helicopter enthusiasts who will bring their equipment to the Assembly. You have a chance to see some of the equipment flying and test your skills in real simulators.

Check www.kopterit.net for information about the group.

Muroradio

Interested of how a radio station works on Internet? Come and check Muroradio when they make the broadcast from the event.

Muroradio website can be found at www.muroradio.net

Helsinki Hacklab (hackerspace)

Community of builders - if you want to try a techical building project, Hacklab is your place where you should be: community of people interested of building and hacking.

Check more about Helsinki Hacklab in www.hacklab.fi

Assembly Summer 2010 will host the Big Nordic Battle in the WCG Counter Strike 1.6 nordic finals. Total of five teams from Finland, Norway and Finland will fight for the participation of WCG Grand Finals in Los Angeles (USA) in September.

Teams participating:

Finland

• Power Gaming
• Playzone

Sweden

• SK Gaming
• H2K Gaming

Norway

• Oslo Lions

More information and the tournament schedule at Peliliiga's site:
http://www.peliliiga.fi/news/wcg-nordic-final

It is here. The rocks will tremble, spike balls fly and miniguns will sing Hallelujah in the match of the year, something that everyone has been waiting for.

Assembly Summer 2010 will host the ASSEMBLY Challenge to sort out who is the toughest Team Fortress 2 team in Europe.

The tournament will start in Thursday 5th of August and will continue on Friday 6th of August with medal games.

Teams participating are:

Group A:
Team Dignitas
Power Gaming
The MIPC Organization
RCTIC eSports

Group B:
TCM-Gaming
Broder
illegal
Piggy Bankers

Check more information from Peliliiga's site (in Finnish):

http://www.peliliiga.fi/news/asm2010-tf2

The Challenge is sponsored by:

Now you can upload your game development entries to pms.assembly.org! The deadline for all gamedev compo entries is on Sunday July 25th, 2010 at 18:00 Finnish time (EEST or GMT+2).

If you haven't bought your ticket in advance, you can still buy your ticket at the party place. The ticket sales booth is open 24h/day.

Please note that tickets cost 1 euro more when bought at the door, i.e.,

• Entry tickets: 40 euros
• Computer places: 70 euros (floor) and 80 euros (grand stand)

Welcome to ASM!

This year we are proud to present 19 Game Development competition entries for you to enjoy.

Here are all the entries in random order, in which they will be also shown on the big screen.

All entries updated on 5.8.2010

	Pulse Phase Chronicles by 006 Studios PPC is a realtime strategy game in which you can build and command your own army. Prove yourself in campaign-mode or experience the most unforgettable battles in TotalWar gamemode. Download: Windows - assembly.org
	Ufohippa 3 by Itchi / Lonely Coders Ufohippa 3 is a modern remake / sequel of an old action game, where your goal is to catch other UFOs and avoid getting caught. This time the game has 3D graphics and supports network games. Level editor is also included. Download: Windows/Linux/OS X - assembly.org
	7-bit Pirates by The 7 bits 7-bit Pirates is an unique naval deathmatch game with up to 30 players online. Choose and customize your ship, setup a game with friends and have tons of funs. Controls for the game are simple, you only need a mouse to play. http://www.7-bitPirates.com Download: Windows/OS X - assembly.org
	Particle Zone by Aroppuu Particle Zone is a puzzle game that also requires reflexes. Guide the particles in each level to their respective goal zones as fast as you can. Download: Windows - assembly.org
	Part-time Angle Grinder Hero by Tekotuotanto Part-time Angle Grinder Hero is a game of skill and accuracy! Your task is to saw a pipe at correct spots, as precisely as you can. Due to depression your job is only part-time, so work hard to keep your workplace! As you learn your job better, bigger and more effective angle grinders are awaiting. Are you ready? Ready to start your Grinder! Download: Flash - assembly.org
	~[ROD]~ by Diabolix It's a vehicular combat race game. Drive over the buttons to acctivate weapons, unlock shortcuts, restore health or put up an instant death trap for the enemies. Score points and be first, racer! Needs to be played at 16:9 ratio. Download: Windows - assembly.org
	Super PakPak by AOH Games SUPER PAKPAK is a 2-4 player Spacewar!/Thrust/Gravity force style game for Nintendo Entertainment System and Famicom. Download: NES - assembly.org
	Fancy Fang's Adventures by Bendy Patrol Games Fancy Fang's Adventures is an adventure/platform game. In the game you take upon the destiny of an old vampire family and travel amongst the toad princesses, and gay unicorns. Download: Windows - assembly.org
	Chain3D by Alphapolygon CHAIN3D gives "a twist"  to the tired genre of match 3 games. A superb match 3 puzzle game in 3d space, unlimited gameplay, online highscores and many trophies to unlock Download: Windows - assembly.org
	Vuvuzela Hero by Kray Vuvuzela Hero is a game where you can be a Vuvuzela rock star! It tries to simulate playing vuvuzela as precisely as possible, while making it fun! Download: Windows/Linux - assembly.org
	Taisto by Below Absolute Zero Taisto is a multiplayer co-operative top-down shooting game where your objective is to beat enemies and conquer bases. Download: Windows/Linux - assembly.org
	Dimensional Shrooms by Mythorb Dimensional Shrooms is a fast-paced real time strategy game requiring lots of actions. This is your chance to prove that you are a better person than your friends. Check our website at http://ds.kapsi.fi for newest version and public ranking lists. Download: Windows/Linux - assembly.org
	Tricky Truck by Archee This little game is meant to test  your parking skills with a long truck in 3D, along with a few road stunts. In hard mode you only can view from the cabin, and through mirrors. You have to reach your parking lot, sometimes reverse park, and avoid breaking valuable objects in your way. Download: Windows - assembly.org
	Raya Racer by XZM Raya Racer is a simple racing game for N900 Maemo devices, made using the Qt-framework. Download: Nokia N900 - assembly.org
	Tank Shock by GDSH Tank Shock is a simple first person multiplayer deathmatch game with tanks. The only twist is that the tanks do not have health but a semi-realistic simulator-ish damage model. If you have the Unity Web Player plugin you can play the game in your browser at http://koti.mbnet.fi/marwer/tankshock.html Download: Windows/OS X - assembly.org
	Dr. Funkenstein's Bad-ass Rocket Jump Challenge by Meatgrinder Dr. Funkenstein is having a bad day. He's trapped in another dimension and his only way back home is through space hell: over 20 levels of fiendish physics-based platforming and aliens! Crank up the funk soundtrack and rocket jump your way to freedom -- but only if you're a bad enough dude! Download: Windows/OS X - assembly.org
	40 Caves by Elite Ninjas Inc. 40 Caves by Elite Ninjas Inc. is a challenging puzzle-game where your goal is to get all the treasures by any means possible. Use your bombs to destroy ground or objects on your way and move the boxes to create a path to diamonds or ultimately to level-ending door. Download: Windows - assembly.org
	"LUOMUHEINÄSEIPÄÄNTAPINHEITTO" a.k.a. organic hay pole peg throwing by tAAt 2010 HAY POLE PEGS can be used also for a tight accuracy contest. Play the game to find out how! Download: Windows - assembly.org
	Orbital Bombardment by Faemiyah You assume the role of a robotic invader. While the rest of your kind are busy conquering the galaxy, newboots like you are tasked with purging remote systems with nuclear fire. Your performance is measured by the amount of innocents killed. Personal survival is preferred, but entirely optional. Download: Windows/Linux - assembly.org

Jimm's PC-store is one of the main partners of Assembly Summer 2010. Come and check what Jimm's has to offer at the event:

KILL ARMAN CHALLENGE

The most well known tailor, Arman Alizad, challenges all Assembly visitors to join the Super Street Fighter 4 challenge at Assembly. The final games will be played at the main stage and the opponent is Arman himself. The winner will be eligible to win a brand new black scooter, so if you are good in SSF4 and interested of driving a new scooter, the join in.

More information in: http://www.jimms.fi/arman (finnish)

Youtube clip of the competition in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSHqTYk4Lsk

EXTREME OVERCLOCKING

Jimm's will bring a heavy set of overclocking to the event. World leaders in overclocking, including Petri "SF3D" Korhonen and internationally renowed  Pieter "Massman" Plaisier, Marcin "ryba" Ryvak and Sargis "DeDal" Getemyanwill be overlocking the fastest PC on the party. The question is, will there be Crysis running on the computer? YES! Be ready to experience the coolest overclocking in Finland at the Assembly!

3D GAMING ON 80" SCREEN

When we talk about extreme again, come and check the 3D gaming on 80" screen. If you like to play 3D at 22" display, you surely don't want to miss this!

JIMM'S PC-CLINIC

Got problems with your computer? You have no idea how to fix it? No worries. Jimm's PC-store has a PC-clinic open to the party visitors. You can bring your computer to the clinic and it can be fixed with no cost in addition to possible replaced parts.

JIMM'S OFFERS

Check out Jimm's Assembly offers - real pricegrabs out there!

Following the ASSEMBLY tradition we have two great concerts on Thursday night: Eat Rabbit and Axes Denied! Eat Rabbit mixes non-harmonic music, 8bit frenetic beats, stupid lyrics and sputnik sound effects in a shroomy combination, and Axes Denied rocks to the tune of old computer/video/arcade game music. More information on the Concerts page!

The full party schedule is now available!

Please note that the ending times of the events don't currently show correctly. This will be fixed shortly.

This year the table rows A9 - A14 (tables in front of the main stage) will not be built. Instead they will be replaced by a grand stand from where you can enjoy the main stage events such as gaming tournaments.

Please see the updated map below and click on it for a larger view.

Check out the details here!

We got ton of great program and compos lined up for you!

The legendary poker tournament returns! Up to 50 players and only one winner!

Is your machine the fastest at ASSEMBLY? If you think so, join the Fastest PC competition! Don’t have the latest hardware but have mad skills in fine tuning your PC? Show your talent off in our High and Low competition!

Join the Counter-Strike: Source Bring-Your-Own-Computer (BYOC) compo at ASSEMBLY Summer 2010! The tournament is open for teams of all skill levels, from beginners to seasoned tournament players!

The winner of the tournament will get a slot for the Pro tournament, where they will meet the teams such as CKRAS Gamingin, eXelon Gamingin and Team Menacen. If you got the skills you may even go up in the tournament to win the Finnish championship!

The last day to sign up is Sunday 1st of August. Sign up at http://tournaments.peliliiga.fi/summer10/?p=overview&id=57. We can fit in 16 teams and the games are played between Thursday and Friday.

Break up a little bit sweat on Saturday and join the street floorball tournament! Up to 16 teams of 3 persons can join. Good prizes for winners!

Paragon to showcase the latest publicly available content and the latest Cataclysm beta content live all days after 16.00.

There is no doubt that the most popular feature among today’s games is the everlasting massively multiplayer online role playing game dubbed World of Warcraft. ASUS has invited the full guild of Paragon to be able to bring the attendees of Assembly the best possible World of Warcraft experience, live at Assembly Summer 2010. 4 guild members will be raiding directly from ASUS booth. There you will be able to follow the raids perfectly on secondary screens and a big screen. The other part of the Guild will be located at G1+G2 in the normal LAN area.

The main publicly available content consists of 10 and 25-man raids in Ice Crown Citadel and Ruby Sanctum. But maybe the most intriguing content is the not yet available content from the upcoming Cataclysm expansion.

If you are a World of Warcraft fan and player, then this is something you do not want to miss. There will also be opportunities to interact with the Paragon members and ask them for tips and hints. Why not find out first hand from the world’s best the perfect rotation for the ultimate warlock dps or the best gold farming method. To find out the exact content schedule for Paragon please contact an ASUS representative in the ASUS booth.

Find out more here: rog.asus.com and www.paragon-wow.com

The doors are now open and ASSEMBLY Summer 2010 has begun! Welcome to the party!

Coolermaster Casino

Coolermaster will arrange a special Casino at their booth everyday between 11:30 and 20:30. Come and try your luck - and maybe you are the one who will win cool prizes from the casino! (including Gladiator 600 chassis and lots of other PC-tuning and gaming equipment).

The main prize drawing will be held amongst the Casino participants in 20:30 at the Coolermaster booth on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. So if you want to win the main prize, you have to be present at the Coolermaster booth. If the winner is not present, the main prize will be redrawn.

Coolermaster shootup

Play against the pros! Coolermaster will arrange 1 vs 1 deathmatch in TF2 against Coolermaster sponsored pro team member (TCM). The idea is to kill the opponent as many times as possible in 3 minutes.

Competition runs:

Thrusday 5.8 at 14:30 - 17:30
Friday 6.8 at 14:30 - 16:30

Top 5 players (scores) will play for the grand prize on Friday 6.8 at 18.30 - 19.30. The participants must be available to play at above times.

First prize: 600w Silent Pro Gold
Second prize: CM690 Chassis
Third prize: CM storm inferno gaming mouse

Coolermaster and Assembly Loves you?

If you remember from last Winter event, Coolermaster and Assembly really loved our party visitors. They will keep on loving you more at Assembly Summer 2010, so keep watching the big screen events!

The main part of the song must include these three predefined chords in this order and in clearly distinguishable form at least once:

Asus4  ( A4  D5 E5 )
Em     ( E4  G4 B4 )
Bb     ( A#4 D5 F5 )

NOTE: feel free to use any other chords too, as long as these are also there. All tools and techniques are allowed.

Alternatively, you can use the given sample.

Samplesets from previous years are also available: 2004 and 2005.

See Fast music rules for details.

Your chance to win a brand new 3D monitor!

Samsung has launched a picture competition again in Assembly: memorize your best Assembly moment to a picture and participate to the competition.

You can participate in www.samsungkilpailu.fi (in finnish) or go get a competition coupong from Samsung stand. Once you submit your photo, you will participate into a draw - and the winner will get a brand new Samsung 2233RZ 3D monitor.

You can submit your work via the website or by returning the competition coupong to the Samsung stand in Assembly.

Samsung will also draw surprise prizes each day, so enter the competition now!

The fast graphics competition theme

It's time for another mobile hunt at the Assembly!

Ten mobile phones have been buried inside the venue. Your task is to locate where they have been buried and combine the bluetooth ID strings into a real sentence you think is correct.

Are you up to the task?

The winner will get a brand new portable Sony DVD player and 10 movie tickets to take his/her friends to experience the movie.

Check out the competition page and information on how to enter the hunt. Good luck!

There has been an update to tonight's schedule.

The executable graphics and executable music will be shown without breaks beginning at midnight between Friday and Saturday. Oldskool compo will be shown after the executable compos studio.

Plenty of program at ASUS booth on Saturday!

Today we start Asus Counter-strike "pair tournament" at 13:00, where the winning pair gets mighty product prizes, including ASUS P7P55K motherboards, Intel Core i5 665K processors, Steelseries Iberia V2 headphones and XAI mouses. So quite a heavy set of stuff incoming! Be at Asus booth at 13:00 to participate.

Paragon will be raiding again in the afternoon, you can watch them at Asus booth and at their GameLAB places (tables G1 and G2).

ASUS Mayhem

Saturday at 18:00 you can participate to Asus Mayhem competition. The best score will receive a product package including ASUS Maximus III Formula motherboard, Intel Core i5 655k processor and Steelseries XAI mouse.

Also, the frist person to reach 100.000 points will be rewarded with a special prize. The game will be played with UL30A ajd U35JC laptops.

Be sure that you have checked the products at the stand, like EEE Keyboard PC, new RT-N56U router and various 3D gaming products including G51JX laptop and VG236 3D display.

Thank you for making ASSEMBLY Summer 2010 a great party! Please help us make next year even better!!

If you were at the party, please answer our party survey:

• Party survey in English
• Party survey in Finnish

If you didn't make it to the party, please answer our survey for "people who didn't come":

• Survey for people who didn't come - in English
• Survey for people who didn't come - in Finnish

The language versions are identical, so pick the one you are most comfortable with.

Prizes

We will randomly select six survey participants, who will each be awarded with one free computer ticket to the next year's event.

Thank you for helping us our next party even better!

Would you like to join the team of roughly 200 volunteer workers behind ASSEMBLY?

WebCrew is looking for web developers and designers. Think you have what it takes to develop a modern web site for thousands of users? Drop by at our office next to the InfoDesk (shared with CompoCrew, follow the CompoCrew signs) and say hi!

Other teams also have open positions. See the Jobs page for more information.

The results of ASUS competitions are here. The winners can get their prizes from ASUS booth. Congrats to the winners:

Olli Jukka, Jani Hyytiäinen, Jani-Petteri Pohjonen, Akseli Erkilä, Lauri Niemensivu, Teemu Havulinna, Samuli Kallio, Jani Koskela, Taro Nieminen ja Miika Hämäläinen.

The Future Crew episode of the Demoscene Documentary can now be watched on YouTube!

Our new media gallery is online and all competition entries have now been uploaded! That's right from Gamedev to Executable Music, 4k to Demo, it's all there! So what are you waiting for — go watch them and have fun!

And for the socially minded: most of the media is held on Web 2.0 services like YouTube so you can comment, rate, and share your favorite memories from ASSEMBLY with your friends.

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  - -- --------- 5.-8th August 2010 - Hartwall Areena, Helsinki -------- -- -

[ Gamedev competition ]

1   4532p   Tricky Truck by Archee 
2   1959p   7-bit Pirates by The 7 bits
3   1859p   Part-time Angle Grinder Hero by Tekotuotanto
4   1319p   Chain3D by Alphapolygon
5   1255p   Dr. Funkenstein's Bad-ass Rocket Jump Challenge by Meatgrinder
6   833p    Orbital Bombardment by Faemiyah
7   703p    Super PakPak by AOH Games
8   608p    LUOMU HEINA SEIPAAN TAPIN HEITTO by tAAt 2010
9   512p    Tank Shock by GDSH
10  356p    Ufohippa 3 by Itchi / Lonely Coders
11  345p    Vuvuzela Hero by Kray
12  272p    40 Caves by Elite Ninjas Inc.
13  262p    Particle Zone by Aroppuu
14  249p    Raya Racer by XZM
15  138p    Taisto by Below Absolute Zero
16  117p    Pulse Phase Chronicles by 006 Studios
17  116p    ~[ROD]~ by Diabolix
18  97p     Dimensional Shrooms by Mythorb
19  67p     Fancy Fang's Adventures by Bendy Patrol Games

Compo organizers:
Jimmy Turunen, Paaris / trilobit^wAMMA
Pekka Jääskeläinen, pahamoka / trilobit^wAMMA^PWP
Petteri Sillanpää, spiikki / Dekadence^Nalleperhe




[ Executable music competition ]

1   3750p   Pixelated Knight Tales by King Thrill / Tekotuotanto
2   1834p   The toilet seat of gods II by JDruid
3   1716p   Namevote this sucka by Player One
4   1685p   THE FLATTER by Castor of Inversion
5   1625p   life worth livin' by luuk / 6th Fire
6   1340p   FrostaPorce by pOWL / Alcatraz
7   1169p   Pure Life 2.0 by Silent
8   753p    My Happy Place by Prophecy
9   454p    mulperi by Mr. Bunny / brainlez Coders!


disq        Aroma hive by Paokala
            Reason: mod-file, not executable

Compo organizers:
Ville Jouppi, jope / Extend

Compo organizer screened the entries, no jury held.




[ Executable graphics competition ]

1   6572p   Novus vita by Ananasmurska
2   6525p   Come play with us by havocplague
3   3338p   Hymy_5v_Paint.bmp by Hymy



Compo organizers:
Ville Jouppi, jope / Extend

Compo organizer screened the entries, no jury held.




[ Oldskool demo competition ]

1   5680p   Grind by Dekadence & Accession
2   3852p   Vanility by Byterapers
3   3772p   crushed by inversion
4   2181p   Trackmo 2 by FST



Compo organizers:
Ville Jouppi, jope / Extend

Compo organizer screened the entries, no jury held.




[ Fast music competition ]

1   1646p   C A S T L E M A N I A by King Thrill / Tekotuotanto
2   1353p   A little time for iskelmä by Castor
3   916p    Well This Was Fast by Little Bitchard
4   843p    there are no penguins in atlantis by cce
5   641p    Quickly Done Piece of Crap by Free Fall
6   575p    Slippery when wet by 1nsane
7   426p    BOOM CHICKA by JML DANCE SQUAD
8   390p    sheibe01 by dsbt
9   386p    It's a fish by Bugg
10  347p    Autumn by Shadikka
11  329p    Jinglette by Puti
12  277p    Gore Disturbance by tArzAn
13  242p    Lol coder by Gemis
14  216p    Brainfartism by Rajunen
15  172p    False Dreams by Aspor



Compo organizers:
Jaakko Pero / Erodix

Members of the jury:
Jaakko Pero, Erodix 
Juho Korhonen, Signal
Pauli Marttinen, Gwaur/Ohjelmointiputka
Mikko Leino, viisi5555/Viiksipojat
Samuli Kaipiainen, isotykki/viiksipojat




[ Fast Graphics competition ]

1   3660p   Like holding a phone - what could go wrong? by Random
2   2717p   Fire one two three! by Dekus
3   2348p   herp derp by john peeba
4   2162p   Holding an Apple. by Timi Koponen
5   944p    Palloilija by Anni
6   831p    Young Hiawatha by juriga
7   817p    Peaceful fishing by Onis
8   729p    There are no issues... Hello? by Sibane
9   510p    Messed up by Sipe
10  502p    Hold'em wrong by Irah
11  436p    He's holding it wrong by Zagupi / HBC
12  326p    Guitar devil by Oxbacka
13  302p    You're holding it wrong by Decoder & Elviira-LeeLoo
14  273p    Get Sharper by MacGywer
15  186p    User Error by McLad
16  53p     wrong by ara

n/a 3.88    Kato mutsi - ilman käsiä! by Doomchild
n/a 3.75    Mother by RooPelle
n/a 3.75    Saksikäsi Eetu takes a leak (Free Willy sequel) by Saeru
n/a 3.5     Don't try this at home by Mig26
n/a 3.5     Beer time by Timo Perämaa
n/a 3.5     Holding it wrong by Janne Jalava
n/a 3.43    This is how its done by Tug
n/a 3.43    Hold by rubber parts by kiirala
n/a 3.13    What's My Purpose? by maxon / HBC
n/a 3.13    Trio Fail by Surround
n/a 3.13    Sattuu by Sulq
n/a 3       I really held it wrong by Dark
n/a 2.88    Kivipää by Nossat
n/a 2.75    Wups by Juha Linna
n/a 2.43    Smile by ~mursu~
n/a 2       suicide fail by luuk / 6th Fire
n/a 1.38    pärinä by Tirehtööri
n/a         Army girl by Mupsus


Compo organizers:
Risto Mäki-Petäys, BassCadet / Adapt

Members of the jury:
Risto Mäki-Petäys, BassCadet / Adapt
Joona Poikonen, McLad/GFXILE
Laurimäki, Random/GFXILE
Juha-Pekka Alanen, ZARNIWOOP
Joel Lehtonen, Zouppen/Codegrove
Leo Koivistoinen, Tethys
Niko Kiirala, kiirala
Lauri Nurmi, ~mursu~




[ Music competition ]

1   2168p   The Apocalypse Will Arrive On A NES Cartridge by GRiMM / Meridian
2   1921p   When There's no Beer by Aikapallo
3   1289p   As We ARRR the Pirates by Cap'n Thrill / Tekotuotanto
4   737p    Monophonique by Noby
5   674p    Moonshine Parade by ruuvari of aspekt
6   671p    Hideout by Byproduct
7   553p    Believe in it by 1nsane
8   526p    Do It Nao by Little Bitchard
9   497p    Infinite energy source by Ihmemiehet
10  416p    Mental Satisfaction by Q
11  294p    Dude Where Is My Scroller by P-Wex & s2sounds
12  215p    Oh! A whoa! by Yolk / CNCD
13  128p    don't let em by beek

n/a 3.09    Old Man Belmont by Signal
n/a 3.09    New Beginning by NDi
n/a 3       Ugly by Castor of Inversion
n/a 3       Revenge by Oxide & Maza / Sonik Clique
n/a 2.91    Purple dreams by Paokala
n/a 2.91    Rise (Assembly 2010 quartersize teaser edit) by DJ Joge
n/a 2.91    The Past Is Not Dead by KK
n/a 2.82    On the Edge by damage / wAMMA
n/a 2.82    Animated by Noby
n/a 2.73    Alpha Trance by The Hooligan
n/a 2.73    Requiem by artz
n/a 2.64    Not so different by Roz
n/a 2.64    Tibetian Power Seeds by cce
n/a 2.64    Far Former Times by Rebellion
n/a 2.55    Square will rise by Kaspe
n/a 2.55    651 by Santtu Haka
n/a 2.55    SUPER MEGA IBIZA EXPERIENCE by glxblt
n/a 2.45    Something by Awe
n/a 2.45    The Majestic Enemy by JPT
n/a 2.45    Eagle by Rendi
n/a 2.45    Cold Played Love After Party by Reignarsson
n/a 2.36    651 by Santtu Haka
n/a 2.36    Ancient Wisdom by ATOPICA
n/a 2.36    The Beauty & The Beat That Bites by CULT Commander
n/a 2.36    How A Fish Loses Its Freedom by Cross-Dressing Robots
n/a 2.27    Vivid by crafn & Aerochord
n/a 2.27    Race U There by glxblt
n/a 2.18    Castle World by Tomi Antikainen
n/a 2.18    Sysadmin by Free Fall
n/a 2.18    Drank In My Cup by Aegis
n/a 2.18    Functure by Galaksinvartija
n/a 2.18    Chrysanthemum Life Machine by Cross-Dressing Robots
n/a 2.09    Costa Del Nymphos by Raiden / Satori
n/a 2.09    Song of the Phoenix Bird by TA & Electronic Birds
n/a 2.09    EchoRun by Wingman
n/a 2.09    yhen markan kiksu by minomus
n/a 2.09    Whirtlpole by Asiamies Lorkki
n/a 2.09    Sokal Affair by Valdor
n/a 2.09    Kansallislaulumme by Japanin laivaston tasavaltio
n/a 2.09    Hituc Pjanottais by trigger
n/a 2       Fly Away by Coloneil
n/a 2       swingalicious by luuk / 6th Fire
n/a 2       White by Dj Tabasco
n/a 1.91    Moment in the morning by Gouafhg
n/a 1.91    Algorithm Aria by Puti
n/a 1.82    Asteloori by korhi
n/a 1.82    Silence After the Storm by The Duck
n/a 1.64    Termination by Free Fall
n/a 1.64    acid like burns by karma force
n/a 1.55    Grill in the Hill by RHZ
n/a 1.45    Terrorism against our nation will not stand by Vätsgy
n/a 1.18    I only dance with my gasmask by tzaeru

disq        Warm Inside by Aisth
            Reason: remix from asm01 #3 in mp3 compo

Compo organizers:
Jaakko Pero, Erodix

Members of the jury:
Jaakko Pero, Erodix
Sauli Korhonen, King Thrill/Tekotuotanto
Ari Karhunen
Juha Peltomäki, Randomheads
Tuomas Tams, Tumeski
Jyri Juhola, Randomheads
Jonne Laitinen, katte
Nils Haglund, shieni
Harri Jokinen, Randomheads
Jarkko Mäensivu, Tekotuotanto
Mirka Larjomaa, Aymee




[ Graphics competition ]

1   2501p   It all stated at the forgotten toyshop... by korpi / HBC
2   1309p   Komrade Kong by john peeba
3   1277p   Yellona by bracket / Accession
4   1168p   Aurinkoista tietä eteenpäin by DeCoder
5   1139p   Paper Bird by E-V-M
6   954p    Quod Erat Demonstrandum by Migugi / HBC
7   952p    The Caravan by Codsarmo
8   951p    Dragon slayer by Partikle
9   931p    John found out that his dog was the leader of the Animals Against Men-group by Kinnerean
10  821p    Blitzkrieg (dramatization) by flumba
11  757p    Imagination takes over by Random
12  751p    Please Buy Another Joystick by Irah
13  740p    PiggyZiggy by Mupsus
14  689p    O HAI by Maraia
15  613p    Great Adventure by HBT
16  581p    Ready for Assembly by Dekus
17  439p    A Night To Remember by PeXi
18  324p    Mr. Dali & Ms. Paint by Mig26
19  274p    Infernal Legion by Vablo
20  220p    Queen by Silvy
21  51p     Grow Up by maxon / HBC

n/a 5.78    I run my legs off by Sibane
n/a 5.44    Kraft by Nosfe
n/a 5.44    Thera by Sazu 
n/a 5.44    Old Coders Cave by MacGywer
n/a 5.33    Voodoo People by Timo Perämaa
n/a 5.22    Roudaus by ~mursu~
n/a 5.11    Kisser by Tommip
n/a         Kari Grandin loistelias uloslento by Kinetokiro

disq        Heal by Mazor / FLT
            Reason: Copyrighted material

Compo organizers:
Risto Mäki-Petäys, BassCadet / Adapt

Members of the jury:
Risto Mäki-Petäys, BassCadet / Adapt
Leo Koivistoinen, Tethys
Peter Hajba, Skaven/FC
Lauri Mäki, Random/GFXILE
Juho Korhonen, Signal
Joona Poikonen, McLad/GFXILE
Vantte Kilappa, Warma/Faemiyah
Niko Kiirala, kiirala
Antti Tiihonen, john peeba




[ Real Wild Demo competition ]

1   5743p   Spiral out by evoflash
2   3281p   Derelict by Hedelmae
3   3250p   Checked = "Checked" by jypa
4   2989p   Ballmer Peak by Department of Offense
5   1736p   Forrest Gulp by npli
6   1284p   casual vortex by bilotrip
7   755p    Oil Spill by Wide Load



Compo organizers:
Max Ylitalo, oasiz / The alberts^Bilotrip

Compo organizer screened the entries, no jury held.




[ Short film competition ]

1   7240p   RetroStorm by Tekotuotanto
2   3795p   What is Love by Pistoke
3   2027p   Space Funk Rock by HBC
4   1740p   Office Animals - The Coffee Addiction by Jaakko Alajoki
5   1226p   Mainoskatko by Randomheads
6   1084p   Vuosikerta by Jami
7   531p    Super Mouse 2000 by npli
8   461p    Jack and the photo by Alphapolygon
9   364p    Wine from the tap by Humane

n/a 2.454   Clip Jammin' by Kouvola Krew
n/a 2.083   The s-word by Moods plateau
n/a 1.916   hope had brought us this far by Flo & Lackluster
n/a 1.666   Johanna Rupiainen esittelee kotinsa by Stickletti
n/a         Bottle orchestra by The alberts

disq        Press X by Rajatapaus.org
            Reason: No file provided


Compo organizers:
Max Ylitalo, oasiz / The alberts^Bilotrip

Members of the jury:
Jaakko Setälä, JJaska/ASMORG/Screw
Tero Miettinen, Crazyguy
Jussi Hämäläinen, CountZero/ASMORG
Leo Koivistoinen, Tethys
Tuomas Tauriala, Legenda/wAMMA
Sauli Korhonen, King Thrill/Tekotuotanto
Tuomas Tams, Tuomeski
Ari Karhunen
Kristian Viding, koovee
Simo Ojala
Miko Koikkalainen
Jonne Laitinen, katte




[ 4k intro competition ]

1   8432p   Neanderstaller by Pittsburgh Stallers
2   2309p   Atleeti by Archee
3   2169p   Bubblin Under by adapt
4   2144p   Collideride by Digimind & Silent
5   1423p   Afrika by Rustbloom & XZM
6   856p    Bait by Fulcrum
7   716p    Ziggurat by npli
8   568p    Ratkaisu by Chemfy
9   481p    Tönöt by TDA
10  439p    Suattaapi olla flässiä by Hlas Fove
11  436p    Ars Gratia Artis by PuavoHard
12  265p    Friendly Fireworks by Dzarg
13  245p    Lots of Love by Blobtrox
14  180p    Rabbit Passes By by lucid
15  167p    Universaal Universum by Laserboy + Hot Multimedia
16  165p    kaks koiraa savosta redux by brainlez Coders!

n/a         Friendly Fireworks by Dzarg



Compo organizers:
Pekka Jääskeläinen, pahamoka / trilobit^wAMMA^PWP
Petteri Sillanpää, spiikki / Dekadence^Nalleperhe

Members of the jury:
Teemu Suutari, TS/Digital artists
Jani Halme, Firehawk/TDA
Hannu Salonen, Salonen
Tammo Hinrich, kb/Farbrausch
Tatu Kilappa, trilkk/faemiyah
Erika Tuunanen, Adellan
Truck, Truck
Konstantinos Pataridis, Navis/ASD




[ 64k Intro competition ]

1   5948p   x marks the spot by portal process
2   4274p   Behind the Curtain by United Force vs. Digital Dynamite
3   3413p   Ars Nova by Phantom Lord/Accept Corp.
4   3045p   Pier by Hedelmae
5   1518p   The Hungarian Gambit by Ate Bit
6   783p    transmission 1 by s/n

n/a 1.96    kerava by mrp


Compo organizers:
Pekka Jääskeläinen, pahamoka / trilobit^wAMMA^PWP
Petteri Sillanpää, spiikki / Dekadence^Nalleperhe

Members of the jury:
Tuomas Tauriala, Legenda/wAMMA
Matti Alanen, wolf_/static
Pekka Pesonen, bexi/wAMMA
kb / Farbrausch
Matias Wilkman, dep/trilobit
Konstantinos Pataridis, Navis/ASD
Terho Tanskanen, bracket/Accession
Stefaan Van Nievwehhvuze, Seven/Fulcrum
Dominik Ries, gopher/alcatraz
John Hertell, Chucky/The gang
Risto Mäki-Petäys, BassCadet/Adapt




[ Demo competition ]

1   7791p   Happiness is around the bend by Andromeda Software Development
2   6026p   Ceasefire (all fall down..) by CNCD vs Fairlight
3   3169p   Abysmal Invaders by Pyrotech
4   2164p   Devolution by Kewlers
5   2149p   Freon by Division
6   1911p   Beneath by Brainstorm, Elude, Traction
7   1513p   KOIBAN by SATORI
8   926p    First Play by KoomaDot
9   598p    Counter Intelligence Program by bilotrip
10  376p    restart by xplsv
11  183p    D by mrp



Compo organizers:
Pekka Jääskeläinen, pahamoka / trilobit^wAMMA^PWP
Petteri Sillanpää, spiikki / Dekadence^Nalleperhe

Members of the jury:
Tuomas Tauriala, Legenda/wAMMA
Terho Tanskainen, Bracket/Accession
Stefaan Van Nievwehhvuze, Seven/Fulcrum
Dominik Ries, gopher/alcatraz
Konstantinos Pataridis, Navis/ASD
John Hertell, Chucky/The Gang
Matti Alanen, Wolf_/Stati
Juuse Koivula, Jdragon