The party hall table space can be found for the computers and other equipment brought by visitors. No additional fee will be charged for using table space. In addition, the usual army of comfortable sofas will be available.

A part of the hall will be covered with carpets and quieted down to be used for sleeping. A complete silence will not be assured and other forms of accommodation are available but will not be provided by the party organising.

Food and drinks can be brought from the sales desk at the party place. Few markets, a grill and a pizza place are also located close by (check the map below). A nearby bus stop will allow visits to the Tampere city centre where several restaurants are located.

And what would a Finnish demoparty be without a sauna, which of two are provided hot-on-demand for the party people. Towels are, however, not provided so bring your own!

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The street address is Kirkonmäenkatu 15.

Bus lines 13 (Hermia) and 22 (Annala) can be used for travelling to the party place from Tampere city center. The bus stops nearest to the party place are marked in the above map. The bus ticket price is 2.50€.

Taxi fee from the city centre to the party place will be around 15€.

Foreigners: Tampere has an international airport providing connections to several major European and UK cities. Ryanair usually offers quite affordable flights to Tampere. If you need to travel from or to Tampere airport during the party weekend, please contact us (info@streamparty.org) beforehand and we will try to arrange someone to give you a ride. It is also possible to take a flight to Helsinki and travel further to Tampere by train.

Competitions will begin during the Saturday afternoon continuing until around midnight. Competitions are for showing off your talent be it a veteran or a newcomer so create something impressive for the applauses and deep respect. Alternatively just come by and enjoy the fruits of the hard work of the elites.

Be aware that the competition organisers reserve the right to change the compo rules at any time and disqualify any entries for any reason they see appropriate.

Remote entries are allowed only in demo and intro categories. For remote participation the production will need to be send to us before the first day of the party. No prizes will be paid for remotely entered productions.

The best way to contact the compo crew is to send an e-mail to the main organiser of competitions: raimo@streamparty.org.

High-end

• PC, Intel Core i7 920, Nvidia GeForce GTX 285, Windows 7
• MacBook Pro, 2.2Ghz Quad Intel Core i7, ATI Radeon 6750M

Low-end

• HP Mini 2140, Intel Atom N270, Intel GMA950, 1GB of RAM, Windows XP SP3
• Amiga 1200, 060/50MHz accelerator, 64MB of RAM
• Game Boy Advance
• Samsung Galaxy S
• Nokia N900
• Nokia N8

Oldschool

• Commodore 64 with 1541-II
• Game Boy Color

Note: Entries on platforms not listed above are welcome, but you'll have to contact us about it before the party and bring all the required hardware to the party place. In case it's not possible to connect the hardware to the video mixer, you might need to make recording of the production yourself.

We have three different demo competitions, one for each platform category listed above.

Maximum compressed file size is 128MB for high-end, 16MB for low-end and 1MB for oldschool platforms.

Time limit is 8 minutes.

Basically a 4kB intro competition, but you're also encouraged to make an entry below 4kB. Size of the entry will be shown on the big screen.

High-end and low-end platforms are combined. Tiny oldschool entries goes to oldschool demo competition.

Maximum uncompressed file size is 4096 bytes.

Time limit is 5 minutes.

Submit in a format that is playable by VLC media player (MPEG4 h264 recommended).

Time limit is 5 minutes.

Two different competitions seperated by style. Very danceable entries go to dance music competition and everything else goes to listening music competition.

A preselection will be conducted by compo organisers if the number of entries exceeds 10 in one category.

Submit as MP3 or OGG with a bitrate of at least 160kbps. You may include additional versions of the track in other formats (e.g. in original tracker format).

Time limit is 4 minutes.

Submit as PNG together with at least 3 plausible working stages.

You may use photos in your entry, but the picture must be primarily made of drawn or rendered elements.

The ticket price from the door is 25€ and 20€ if paid in advance, before 13th of may. An exception is made for visitors arriving from abroad as they are not required to pay the ticket in advance in order to get the lower price.

Please note that in order to attend the party you must receive an invitation! See below for information about invitations.

Stream is a non-profit event and all the gathered income after organising expenses will be paid as prizes to the competition winners.

Everyone who have attended previous Stream events are automatically invited. New attendees need to get an invitation from organisers or from someone who has already been invited.

This is not to restrict anyone from coming to the party. Everyone is more than warmly welcome as long as he/she shares our interest in the demoscene or digital art in general.

Every visitor has an account in our intranet system. Accounts are linked to RFID tags and are used to identify you at the sales desk. At the sales desk the RFID tags are charged for your purchases.

You can deposit credits at the info desk (NOT at the sales desk) and should you buy tickets in advance you may deposit credits at the same time.

It is possible to use your existing RFID tag (bus card etc.) alternatively you can buy a tag from the party. Our RFID readers read only the unique ID of RFID tag and do not perform any alterations.

The purpose of this arrangement is to minimise the need to handle cash. We hate cash!