Did you miss us on Facebook and Twitter? Well, Assembly is there now! You can follow @assemblyparty and also connect to us with our Facebook page us!

Jimm's organizes again competitions for coolest computer place and coolest case. If you have what it takes to participate into this competition, sign up at Jimm's booth before Saturday 12th at 16:00.

The jury will decide the winners on Saturday evening, so be on time.

The prizes for the competitions:

Coolest place:

1: Logitech MX518 Optical Gaming Mouse, Retail, 1800dpi
http://www.jimms.fi/tuote/910-000616

2: Logitech X-140 2.0 5W RMS
http://www.jimms.fi/tuote/970264-0914

3: Zalman ZM-RC1000 muistijäähy, Titaani
http://www.jimms.fi/tuote/ZM-RC1000-TI

Coolest Case:

1: Logitech MX518 Optical Gaming Mouse, Retail, 1800dpi
http://www.jimms.fi/tuote/910-000616

2: Logitech X-140 2.0 5W RMS
http://www.jimms.fi/tuote/970264-0914

3: Zalman ZM-RC1000 muistijäähy, Titaani
http://www.jimms.fi/tuote/ZM-RC1000-TI

Are you looking for a REAL challenge?

Come to Jimm's stand and challenge Grubby, the best WC3 player in the world either in WC3 or SCII in 1vs1 mode!

Thats right. Now you have the chance to fight against the best pro-player in these games and win cool prizes.

You can challenge Grubby at Jimm's stand:

Friday: 18:00 - 20:00
Saturday: 16:30 - 18:30
Sunday: 12:00 - 13:30

Jimm's offers for the event

Razer Lycosa 59€
Razer Naga 42€
Razer Naga 59€
Razer Blackwidow 75€
Razer Goliathus Standard Control 10€
Eizo Foris 23 FS2331 LCD-display + 2 movie tickets 349€
Roccat Kone + SOTA granular Blue 79,90€

If you buy Steelseries Headset, mouse or keyboard, you get Wck mousepad for free.
If you buy any Steelseries product, you get a cool Steelseries bottle for free.

Few late additions to our program, but surely they will be very interesting ones!

Paragon WOW Raiding

The best WOW guild in the world - Finnish Paragon - will be raiding at Assembly Winter 2011 on Saturday 12th February at 13:00 - 15:00. The raid will be shown on the big screen at the event venue.

Paragon will be attempting the hardest raid bosses on heroic mode, so there is plenty to watch if you are interested of the WoW raid content.

Lot of Paragon players are also at the venue, so you can meet them on if you want to have a chat.

Angry Birds competition

Angry Birds have become a huge hit in the mobile devices and we are arranging a cool competition on Saturday 12th February at around 17:00 after the pricegiving ceremony is over. What's going to happen? Come and see, the competitors will be chosen from the crowd in random and the prizes include cool Angry Birds merchandise, including plush toys etc.

Rovio will be also telling about the Rovio Academy, check out www.rovioacademy.com if you are interested of working at Rovio and game industry.

Ridge Racer unbounded

Bugbear Entertainment just made the news that they are making new version of Namco's famous Ridge Racer series. After the Paragon WoW raid, we will be showing the official trailer of the Ridge Racer unbouded and the producer of the game will be presenting insights to the production.

If you want to join the elite and be one of the great soccer stars, now is your change offered by Assembly to prove your abilities. Our official Fifa 2011 tournament winner will win a ticket to Copenhagen and qualify into a bigger tournament later this year. 

Winner will also get a brand new tablet Viewpad 7 and great amounts of fame. 

Platform for the tournament has changed and is now played with PS3. You can read more details from our Fifa 2011 page.

Due to large interest in our Assembly Amateur Xbox tournaments we have decided to make some changes in several tournaments.

Super Street Fighter IV tournament was first planned to be played with random characters and more fun oriented rules but has now changed to more pro oriented so that we can solve the master of Streets in Assembly.

Ice hockey rocks! We have got so many participants and request for more slots in our NHL2011 tournament that we have decided to raise the amount of team slots from 8 to 16.

If you still hesitate about participating now its time to act! Browse to our tournament system and register to the coolest tournaments of the Winter 2011. 

Kaapelitehdas is located in central Helsinki, where there is a lot of traffic and not that many parking places available. It is very important that you get familiar with the travel instructions and alternative parking options.

Please read our travel to the party guide. Please pay extra attention to the one way driving routes near the venue.

Please note that there are no parking places available at Kaapelitehdas. There are some alternative parking options, but the best option is to come to the party, drop off your stuff and then drive your car to another parking location.

Looking for information on ASSEMBLY Winter 2011 in a compact form? We've got you covered. Check out our info leaflet (PDF, in Finnish), which has the party schedule, maps and key instructions for every party visitor.

You can pick up a printed copy at the party place when you arrive.

SETT is the official eSports news and streaming partner of ASSEMBLY Winter 2011. SETT will be streaming all eSports competitions and providing live Finnish play-by-play coverage of the action.

If you can't make it to the party, this is the best way to watch the tournaments!

We are happy to announce lots more to do at the party!

In collaboration with Kitarasankari.net we bring you the Guitar Hero Pro-competition! Join in and find out if you are best at GH at ASMW11! Visit the Kitarasankari booth for non-stop Guitar Hero action!

In collaboration with Suomen Tanssipelaajat we are proud to host the Machine Dance tournament! Do you have the moves? Join in and find out! Visit the Tanssipelaajat booth for around the clock dance gaming!

Ready to up the stakes? Join the Texas Hold'Em Poker tournament and see if your poker face holds up!

Break out the sweat in our in-door Soccer tournament! Ten teams enter, only one can win!

The schedule of ASSEMBLY Winter 2011 has been published!

Check out the times of the eSports tournaments, major events and be prepared for the best party of Winter 2011!

Counter-Strike:Source teams have been selected and group have been drawn! Tournament will kick off with Group A playing their first matches on friday 11.2 17:00 and Group B will start playing their matches at 21:00. More information about matches can be found here.

Group A

eXelon Gaming
 KOMMANDOU
UltraViolation
 Team Vodka

Group B

CKRAS-Gaming
 Team Immortal
Team Menace.fi 
 Vicious Crux

ASSEMBLY Winter 2011 is host to awesome Pro game tournaments. That's why we are adding a large grand stand in front of the stage so that you can watch the action at best seats in the house!

This means that we've removed a few unsold computer places from table row A. No changes are made to your computer places, the table row A is simply a bit shorter to make room for the grand stand. The first computer places in table rows A are now A1/9 & A1/33, A2/9 & A2/33, A3/9 & A3/33 and A4/9 & A4/33 i.e. places 1-8 and 25-32 don't exist anymore.

Please check out the party place map and computer place map for more details.

After a month of back and forth, the groups are finally completed. There were a number of cancellations, most prominently the Korean contingent of Rainbow and Cella, but there's still very much enough star power left attending to illuminate even the polar night of Helsinki. The latecomers aren't half-bad either, proven by the fact that they include, for example, Liquid`Tyler.

The massive group stage of 64 players worth of bo3 play will be played completely in one day, Friday 11.2., and the playoffs from ro32 onwards on the following Saturday. The ludicrous amount of matches played demands an equally ludicrous set of casters to provide coverage. The caster lineup is currently looking like this:

• Martijn + Maven + TheBeard: GLHF.tv feat. thebeard.tv on-site - English, main stream
• TotalBiscuit: online/on-site - English
• SETT TV: on-site - Finnish
• Millenium TV: on-site - French
• Khaldor: online - German
• itzMorglum(starcraft2tv.pl): online -Polish

And finally, the groups and the groupstage schedule:

Group A : 11.2. 12:00->

Liquid`TLO

Menace.Fuzer

RoX.KIS.LiveZerg

Mayhemia

Group B : 11.2. 12:00->

Empire.Kas

aTn.DarKFoRcE

Lions.StyGGeN

gL.Mudis

Group C : 11.2. 12:30->

mouz.Naama

SK.jimpo

Empire.Forsen

Konna

Group D : 11.2. 12:30->

M.Tarson

myR.eNvious

RAGE.Welmu

Multani

Group E : 11.2. 12:30->

Liquid`HuK

RoX.KIS.Abver

MYM.SaSe

kiljardi

Group F : 11.2. 12:30->

ROOT.qxc

dignitas.merz

Ouga

gL.torecito

Group G : 11.2. 17:00->

aTn.Socke

RoX.KIS.Pomi

RAGE.ActionJesuz

Tuomio

Group H : 11.2. 17:00->

mouz.Strelok

M.LaLuSh

dwish.cast

Protosser

Group I : 11.2. 17:00->

dignitas.SjoW

Virus.Seinis

inF.RunA

Which

Group J : 11.2. 17:00->

mouz.MorroW

M.Adelscott

RAGE.Seala

TrueRandom

Group K : 11.2. 22:00->

RoX.KIS.BRAT_OK

M.DieStar

imakki

ZhuGeLiang

Group L : 11.2. 22:00->

Virus.Satiini

PwR.elfi

Gruang

Lions.Skruffy

Group M : 11.2. 22:00->

Liquid`Ret

srs.iNSoLeNCE

GG.Naugrim

Aktivisti

Group N : 11.2. 22:00->

dignitas.Naniwa

mouz.HasuObs

nD.Tripal

h4u.Drafter

Group O : 11.2. 23:00->

EG.DeMusliM

dignitas.Bischu

M.ToD

barian

Group P : 11.2. 23:00->

Liquid`Tyler

aAa.SarenS

EG.Grubby

/ Virus.Magik

Playoff schedule:

• RO32 (bo3): 12.2. 11:00 & 13:00
• RO16 (bo3): 12.2. 15:00
• RO8 (bo3): 12.2. 17:00
• RO4 (bo3): 12.2. 19:00
• Bronze match (bo5): 12.2. 21:00
• Grand Finals (bo5): 12.2. 23:00

All playoff matches for a round except a certain few RO32 matches will be played simultaneously, including the semifinals. This is the price to be paid for having 64 great players in the tournament, with a bo3 groupstage and no coinflips!

Playoff structure basis (X1 means the winner of group X):

A1 vs I2

B1 vs J2

C1 vs K2

D1 vs L2

E1 vs M2

F1 vs N2

G1 vs O2

H1 vs P2

I1 vs A2

J1 vs B2

K1 vs C2

L1 vs D2

M1 vs E2

N1 vs F2

O1 vs G2

P1 vs H2

The gaming events at ASSEMBLY Winter will be huge spectacle for all visitors!  Never before has Finland seen a gaming tournament on this level. The players for the tournament are coming from three different continents carrying their nation's flag with pride.

The StarCraft 2 tournament at ASSEMBLY Winter is hands down the best tournament ever in Europe. The players for this tournament are coming from South Korea, Canada, United States, Sweden and Germany to name a few. They are facing Finns and especially Santeri "Naama" Lahtinen who brought the victory home from DreamHack Winter winning Koreans and players by playing left hand. Naama doesn't have to carry out Finland alone, because all the top players from Finland are coming to challenge foreigners on this epic tournament.

On Counter-Strike: Source tournament the TOP-5 Finnish clans are facing each other. Especially the matches between old rivalries CKRAS Gaming and eXelon Gaming are going to be huge. These two teams have faced each others on Assembly finals before and eXelon is the current champion. But CKRAS is well prepared for them.

Team Fortress 2 is going to be huge too. All the major teams from Europe are coming the event to face each others again. Finnish-Swedish team Dignitas with their Finnish captain Rauli "Darn" Savela is trying to lead Dignitas to win this time, but he is facing the though
opponents from Finland. Both Blight Gaming and Power Gaming will try to force Dignitas once again to take runner ups prize and go for the glory themselves.

To spice things up SETT TV will shoutcast all the major matches from the event. SETT TV is bringing their old legend Teemu "wabbit" Hiilinen and with him you will see new faces with young enthuaism.

Make sure you book a computer place to make the most of this year's ASSEMBLY Winter. There will also be spectator passes on sale, so you really have to make sure to book a trip to the snowy Helsinki!

Let's cheer Finland to victory! Join us for ASSEMBLY at the Kaapelitehdas, in Helsinki Finland from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th of February! 

ASSEMBLY Winter 2011 is only a few weeks away and we've got a stellar line up coming up in the Pro gaming competitions!

The demand for ticket has been strong and we have now opened up more computer places for sale in the table row A. If you are looking for great spots, grab'em while they are free! Login to ticket sales to start.

CU at ASM!

Assembly Winter '11 Amateur tournaments are here. Prepare yourself for the biggest gaming competitions of the winter 2011.

This year we see competions in two different category, PC and Xbox 360. We play some old classics like Counter-Strike but also some Assembly newcomers like Fifa 2011.

If you want to have some fun or to test your skills before entering Professional competions these are your best bet. Stop just idling on your computer and start competing!

• Counter-Strike 1.6
• Counter-Strike: Source
• Heroes of Newerth

• Super Street Fighter 4
• Forza Motorsports 3
• NHL 2011 2on2
• Fifa 2011

Team Fortress 2 is one of the main eSport tournaments in Assembly Winter '11.

The time has come to publish the participants of the anticipated tournament.


Epsilon eSports
Pentaerytritolitetranitraatti
Power Gaming
RAGE.eSports
Team-Dignitas
Team Refuse
Team OS
The MIPC Organization

All the teams listed here will get invitation letter concerning their participation and final information about the event. Group seedings and final rules will be announced few weeks before the event.

Good luck for the participating teams!

Counter-Strike: Source is one of the main pro tournaments in Assembly Winter '11. The time has come to publish the participants of the anticipated tournament. It was very pleasant to see the amount of total applicants and that there were many new teams applying for the tournament.

Total of 7 teams are listed here; the last spot is handed out in two weeks time at the LanTrek Counter-Strike: Source tournament held in Ylöjärvi, Finland. We are also very proud to see that the international CS:S scene has taken interest of the Assembly. This year we have one international team competing from Norway.

 Team VODKA
Team Menace.fi 
CKRAS-Gaming
 Lions
eXelon Gaming
UltraViolation
 Vicious Crux

All the teams listed here will get invitation letter concerning their participation and final information of the event. Group seedings and final rules will be announced few weeks before the event. 

Good luck for the participating teams!

A player pool of 64 is bound to have some iterations before the action finally starts. Regretfully the Canadian compLexity duo of Stalife and Antimage have announced that they can't make it after all.

Replacing them will be two other very well known players, Cella and SarenS, who had their original applications lost en route.

The year has changed, which among other things means that the deadline for applying
for the Assembly Winter SteelSeries Challenge has passed. It must be said that the 
quality and quantity of the applicants surpassed the wildest expectations of the 
organizers. Spanning three continents and featuring a strong contingent from almost
every top-of-the-line team out there, the chosen players will definitely make for an 
outstanding tournament. 

The only regret that comes with strong applicants are cutting the ones that almost 
made it. Many more of those that applied could give the top names a run for their money. 
Don't despair if your name isn't listed even though you applied - with a player pool of this 
size cancellations are quite probable and you might be called to fight after all. 

63 players are listed here; the last spot is handed out in two weeks time at the 
LanTrek StarCraft 2 tournament in Ylöjärvi, Finland.

Without further ado, the chosen players in no strict order:

 ST_Rainbow
 Liquid`Ret
 Liquid`TLO
 Liquid`HuK
 mouz.Naama 
 mouz.Strelok
 mouz.MorroW
 mouz.HasuObs
 mTw.DeMusliM 
 ROOT.qxc
 Empire.Naniwa
 Empire.Kas
 Empire.DieStar
 aTn.Socke
 aTn.DarKFoRcE 
 dignitas.SjoW
 dignitas.merz
 dignitas.Bischu
 M.Tarson
 M.LaLuSh 
 M.Adelscott
 RoX.KIS.BRAT_OK
 RoX.KIS.Pomi
 RoX.KIS.Abver
 RoX.KIS.LiveZerg
 coL.Stalife
 coL.Antimage
 PwR.elfi
 EG.Grubby
 myR.eNvious
 myR.ReYoN
 Virus.Satiini
 Virus.Magik
 Virus.Wibang
 Playzone.FuRy
 Playzone.Cytoplasm
 inF.RunA
 srs.iNSoLeNCE
 GLSkruffy
 GLMetalon
 OK.jimpo
 OK.Naugrim
 Menace.Fuzer
 h4u.Seinis
 h4u.Drafter
 RAGE.Seala
 RAGE.Welmu
 RAGE.ActionJesuz
 dwish.cast
 Forsen
 Pitro
 Gruang
 ArtVandelay
 Ouga
 imakki
 torecito
 Protosser
 Konna
 RiceRiceMaybe
 Multani
 ZhuGeLiang
 Kurafeissi
 TrueRandom

Last year at the ASSEMBLY Summer best of Europe challenged each others on massive tournament. Stickies where flying and miniguns song the famous song called Hard Rock Hallelujah. Soldiers where flying through air with rocket jumps and scouts ran faster than Carl Lewis at Olympics.

Tournament returns to Assembly Winter 2011 and again best from Europe are coming to meet each other again. We have received numerous amount of applications for the tournament and now we announce the first five of them.

There are still three slots left on the tournament. Make sure that you send your application in to the Finnish Winter War! The registeration is open to 30.12.2010

First invited teams are:

Epsilon eSports
Power Gaming
Team-Dignitas
Team Refuse
The MIPC Organization

We have received a lot of applications for the tournament and decided to announce eight more invited players.

We would also like to announce our partnership with LanTrek event that is taking place on 14-16th of January and has one spot up for grabs.

It is still possible to be invited and receive a spot that way as well, registration closes on 30th December and we will announce the rest of the invite shortly after. More information about the tournament and how to apply for a spot can be found here

aTn.Socke
Liquid.HuK
Empire.Kas
  eNvious
Playzone.Fury
Empire.DieStar
OK.jimpo
Playzone.Cytoplasm

Previously invited players

  ActionJesuz
dignitas.Bischu
aTn.DarKFoRcE
mTw.DeMusliM
PwR.elfi
Menace.Fuzer
  EG.Grubby
mouz.HasuObs
srs.iNSoLeNCE
dignitas.merz
mouz.Naama
Empire.Naniwa
ROOT.qxc
Virus.Satiini
h4u.Seinis
dignitas.SjoW

The registration has been open for some days now and already tons of great applicants have shown their interest. As a bonus for early birds who have already applied, the 16 first participants are already chosen into the tournament.

They are, in alphabetical order:

  ActionJesuz
dignitas.Bischu
aTn.DarKFoRcE
mTw.DeMusliM
PwR.elfi
Menace.Fuzer
  EG.Grubby
mouz.HasuObs
srs.iNSoLeNCE
dignitas.merz
mouz.Naama
Empire.Naniwa
ROOT.qxc
Virus.Satiini
h4u.Seinis
dignitas.SjoW

As you can see the players include a wide array of recognizable names from all around Europe and beyond, from Danish 6pools to solid American Terran power and a variety of constant top performers in European leagues. However one name might strike out to many: Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen, the legendary Orc player from WarCraft III has finally joined the fray for real on the StarCraft side of things, making his first major tournament appearance. Does he have a say against established top-tier players such as Naama, SjoW and DeMusliM? We'll find out in two month's time!

Remember, there is still time to apply, as the deadline isn't before the end of December, and there are still 48 more slots up for grabs.

Get ready for the main event of ASSEMBLY Winter 2011 - the SteelSeries Challenge in StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty!

StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty needs no introductions! This 2010 sequel to the award-winning 1998 real-time strategy game StarCraft now makes its ASSEMBLY pro tournament debut. Expect an exciting tournament of 64 top players!

In the true ASSEMBLY tradition the prizes are absolutely great! The winner of the tournament receives no less than three thousand euros in cash. Cash prizes are also awarded to places two through four, and places five through eight will receive a great package of SteelSeries gaming gear. The overall prize total exceeds six thousand euros!

The tournament fee for the SteelSeries Challenge is 50 € per player (incl. entry). Check the tournament pages for sign-up instructions.

More information about the SteelSeries Challenge

The Pro gaming tournaments for ASSEMBLY Winter 2011 are here! This year the prize total exceeds fourteen thousand euros!

Our main event for the year is the SteelSeries Challenge in StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty! This exciting tournament will see 64 players fighting for the grand prize of no less than three thousand euros!

But there's more! Pro tournaments with great prizes will also be held in Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source and Tekken 6. Don't miss these either!

Tournament fee is 50 € per player (incl. entry). The sign-up for the tournaments is now open and will stay open until 30th December 2010. See the respective tournament pages for sign-up instructions.

Social and amateur gaming competitions will be announced before the end of the year. Stay tuned!

More information about the Pro gaming tournaments

The ticket sales for ASSEMBLY Winter 2011 is now open. You can now order your tickets to best gaming party of year 2011!

The ticket prices are as follows:

• 50 € with a computer place
• 25 € without a computer place

Tor buy tickets you must first register in our ticket sales system. If you already have bought tickets to ASSEMBLY in previous years, you only need to log in and enter into the lottery. When it's your turn to buy computer tickets, you will be sent an e-mail with further instructions.

Advance tickets are only sold in the ASSEMBLY web shop. Any remaining tickets will be sold at the venue. Around 1000 computer places are available.

More information about tickets

The best party of the winter will take place at Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki from 11th to 13th February. At ASSEMBLY Winter 2011 you will find the best pro players, the most exciting amateur tournaments, top clans, more than 1500 participants and people to play with!

Advance tickets to ASSEMBLY will only be sold at our web shop. Registration for the tickets has begun a moment ago at the ASSEMBLY web shop.

If you've bought ASSEMBLY tickets earlier, all it takes is to log in and enter the lottery.

The ticket sales will begin on Sunday 12th December at 7:00 PM. First up will be big groups (with at least 15 tickets at a time). Others will get to buy their tickets a few hours later. You will be notified by e-mail when it's your turn to buy tickets.

Have you forgotten your password? No problem, it's easy to reset.

Welcome to the best gaming party of 2011 - ASSEMBLY at Kaapelitehdas from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th February 2011!

More information about tickets

The ticket sales for ASSEMBLY Winter 2011 will begin on Sunday 12th December 2010 at 7:00 PM. Get ready to order yours!

The ticket prices are as follows:

• 50 € with a computer place
• 25 € without a computer place

Tor buy tickets you must first register in our ticket sales system. Registration will begin on Wednesday 8th December 2010 at 7:00 PM. Registered users will receive their turn to buy tickets in random order. When it's your turn to order tickets, you will be sent an e-mail with further instructions.

Advance tickets are only sold in the ASSEMBLY web shop. Any remaining tickets will be sold at the venue. Around 1000 computer places are available.

More information about tickets

Finland's biggest and greatest gaming party is here again – ASSEMBLY Winter 2011 will take place at Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th February! We expect no less than 1.500 people with 1.000 computers to join us for an amazing weekend.

Whether you're a seasoned pro or a casual gamer, ASSEMBLY Winter has lots to offer! There will be loads of tournaments for both amateurs and professionals and the prizes are, as you'd expect, absolutely great. Stay tuned for more information about the tournaments and other party program!

Can't wait? Neither can we! To get a head start to the number one gaming event of the year, why not experience the best moments of ASSEMBLY Winter 2010 again through our photo archive?

It's time to put on your boxing gloves, fasten your seatbelt, lock and load – see you at ASSEMBLY Winter 2011!