From assembly-list at assembly.org Wed Jun 26 21:33:30 2019 From: assembly-list at assembly.org (Assembly Events) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:33:30 +0300 Subject: [ASM] Assembly Summer 2019 (and some Winter 2020 info) Message-ID: Greetings from Assembly! Midsummer passed and Assembly Summer 2019 is drawing closer day by day. Below you can find some information and news about the upcoming event and demoscene activities. TICKETS & COMPUTER PLACES Remaining computer places were opened for sales last week. We made some tuning and increased the number of places available for K22 places and Standard+ categories. If you haven?t purchased a ticket for Assembly Summer yet, you can get yours here . Assembly Summer has been sold out in the last two years. Be in time to grab your tickets, otherwise you risk getting your tickets for your group. This Summer will be the biggest Assembly event in history with over 4400 computer seats available. Join the fun and experience the record event in 2019! Also check out the new family places: these are designed for those who want to visit Assembly with their family and have a cozy atmosphere with like-minded folks around during the party. The family seats are wider premium seats but with standard 100 Mbit/s network connectivity. TOURNAMENTS Our previously announced Overwatch professional tournament has unfortunately been cancelled. The professional tournaments which will be held at Assembly Summer 2019 are Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and ? fresh announced - Starcraft II! See more details at http://asusrogtournament.com/summer-2019 Overwatch casual tournament will happen even though the professional tournament won?t. Other casual tournaments are Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, PLAYERUNKNOWN?S BATTLEGROUNDS, League of Legends, Hearthstone and Pro Pilkki 2! The prizes consist entirely out of product prizes, amounting to roughly 5000 ? in value. Information about sign-up and schedule will follow during the summer. VIRTUAL REALITY VR-zone will make it again this year, with all the coolest and modern VR tech available out there. We will have few Finnish game developers showing their projects and upcoming VR games, which you have the opportunity to test and experience yourself. DEMOSCENE We have opened the registration for Assembly Summer 2019 Scene Lounge?s Let's make a Demo: Demo making workshop. Register here: https://forms.gle/xutXQBQYa2UDk9zC8 Have you ever wanted to challenge your shader coding skills or code live visuals on stage and be like a rock star? Now is your chance! Scene Lounge presents Shader Showdown at Assembly Summer 2019! In the showdown two coders battle against each other in live coding. You?ve got 25 minutes to impress the audience with your mad coding skills, while a DJ spins records for your inspiration. Audience gets to see both shaders coming together live, parallel and then choose the winner. Are you up for the challenge? Contact havoc at outlinedemoparty.nl with a topic ?Shader Showdown Assembly Summer 2019?. In the email, tell who you are and express your willingness to compete. More information here . COSPLAY Cosplay will be back at Assembly again: check out the competition and rules here https://www.assembly.org/summer19/program/cosplay PROGRAM Assembly Summer 2019 will feature countless activities including seminars, gaming tournaments, content creation workshops, competitions and much, much more! The final program is still a work in progress, but we?re steadily getting things done and under production. We?ll keep you informed, stay tuned and remember to keep an eye on our webpage . Check out the currently announced program here: https://www.assembly.org/summer19/program Hope to see you at Assembly Summer 2019! P.S. Our last important news item is at the end of this email. Whee! We have had numerous requests about Assembly Winter days during the past years. The participants have expressed that the time is not optimal (high school test weeks) and that the event is too short. This changes now: Assembly Winter 2020 will move to week 8, dates being 20. - 23.2.2020 (Thu - Sun). That is - four days of Assembly Winter with more suitable date! We look forward to launching the ticket sales later in the fall, we will keep you up to date about the winter event content and specifics. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: