Assembly demo party

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The Assembly demo party is an annual demoscene event in Finland. The main organizers of the event are Pekka Aakko (Pehu of Accession) and Jussi Laakkonen (Abyss of Future Crew).

The first Assembly was held in July 1992, in Kauniainen. It was organized by the Amiga demo groups Complex and Rebels, and the PC demo group Future Crew. The staff grew into a large non-profit group of individuals known as Assembly Organizing. Through the 1990s, Assembly grew so large that even exposition halls no longer sufficed, and only the largest of sports arenas met the partygoers' needs. In 1999 they rented the largest sports arena in the country, Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, with over 5000 visitors and 3500 computers on the ice rink. In July 2005 the party was held for the 14th time.

1 Competitions
2 See also
3 In the press
4 External links

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Competitions

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The party includes multiple competitions, including but not limited to:

combined demo
64k intro
4k intro
vocal music
instrumental music
drawn graphics
oldskool music/graphics/demo
fast graphics
short film (which replaced the wild compo and animation compo in 2004)
video game developing compo

Entries are submitted by demogroups and individual artists and are rated by judges. All demos which are deemed to be of a high enough standard are then shown on a big screen. Entries which break the competition rules (e.g. use copyrighted material, aren't suitable for the category to which they are entered) are disqualified. People who are present at the arena then vote for the entries, and the results are published on the Assembly website. The entries are usually made available by the artists at scene.org or on the artists own website.

In recent years, Assembly has broadcast content from its in-house media effort AssemblyTV to local and national TV networks, as well as producing web streams for people to watch live over the internet - spots for hundreds, if not thousands of viewers are catered for and these streams have been watched all over the world, not just in Finland.

Assembly will be having it's 15th birthday in the year of 2006 and will be celebrating it live at the party.

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