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12-14.5. 2000 in Espoo, Finland.
info  version  1.10   [english].

* Organization preserves to the right to change the contents of this
document.

- 1. Escape? -

1.1   * What?
1.2   * Where?
1.3   * When?
1.4   * Prices

- 2. What we offer -

2.1   * What we offer
2.2   * Compos
2.3   * Prizes
2.4   * Schedule
2.5   * Raves
2.6   * Party network
2.7   * Equipment
2.8   * Food

- 3. Rules -

3.1   * Partyrules
3.2   * Comporules
3.3   * Disclaimer

- 4. Contact -

4.1   * Organization
4.2   * Ticket sales
4.3   * Contact
4.4   * Internet

- 5. FAQ -

1.  Who is Escape?

Escape is an "underground" demo scene party, held for the
first time. There is altogether room for ca. 100 computers. In
addition there will be raves at nights, held in the immediate
proximity of the party hall.

Because the party is held for the first time, we are want you
to tell us your opinions and suggestions. So that we would be able
to arrange a party best fit for you (see 4.3 "contact").

1.2 Where is Escape held?

Escape is held in Olari highschool, Espoo (Finland). The
school auditorium and cafeteria will serve as the party place. The rest
of the school is closed because of security reasons. The school was
built in 1993, so the building is new and modern. Notice that at the time
of the party the auditorium of course isn't an auditorium, the
seats will be taken out. See 4.3 for more accurate information on the
location of the party place.

1.3 When is Escape held?

The party will be held this year on the second weekend of May
(12.-14. (fri-sun)). The doors will be opened on friday the 12th of May at
8pm. The ticket salling from the door will end at 11pm therefore people
with computers should there by then. Normal tickets (without place for
a computer) can be bought also on saturday and sunday. The ticket selling
will always end for the night at 11pm. The doors will be closed on sunday
at 6pm. The organization will keep all the stuff left at the party place =)
You can ask for your forgotten stuff back afterwards.

1.4 How much does it cost?

The ticket prices are:

* A COMPUTER PLACE, includes a normal ticket needed for entrance, 50 FIM

* A NORMAL TICKET, includes the right to hang out at the party place
until 6pm on sunday, 30 FIM for men and 20 FIM for women.

The Organization will not be offering free food for you, so remember to have
some cash or food with you. (see 2.8)

2. What we offer

* for people with a computer place

* one electric plug (230V) (bring your own extension cords). The usage
of electricity might have to be limited. This is unlikely, though.

* one RJ-45 plug. If you insist on using BNC make sure you have a lot of
cable with you (we don't offer official BNC support we recommend that
you use UTP).

* one wooden extremely hard chair. We recommend that you bring your own
chair. But don't bring a big armchair that takes up a lot of room. A
comfortable office chair is a good choice.

* room on a table 80cm x 70cm (32" x 28") (width x depth). On some tables
the measurements are 70cm x 80cm, so the surface space on both is the
same.

* party network 10mbit/sec UTP.

* internet connection (112kb/sec) routed, so playing in the web propably
won't be possible. (NOTE. It is most likely that we get either 10Mb/sec
or 100Mb/sec Internet connection, not absolutely certain yet, though).

* to everyone:

* a big screen (600x900cm) to watch the compos and other neat stuff.

* raves at nights

* 10 toilets (separate for men and women)

* a brand new coffee machine. Makes coffee, espresso, cappucino and
hot chocolate.

* a candy bar machine, which sells mars, snickers, twix, dove and
bounty chocklade bars.

* infodesk/helpdesk

* a dataprojector (atleast 1024x768)

* audio 2x350W (2x15" mid-range + 2x18" subwoofer)

* a sleeping area (possibly even in a quiet place) if you are going to
sleep make sure that you have you sleepingbag and pillow with you.
Most likely the sleeping place is in the corner of the cafeteria.

* a chance to vote in compos.

* a few computers that are available for everyone (for voting).

* possibly a chance to order food through the organization (see 2.8)

2.2 Compos

(see 3.2 for rules)

* accelerated PC-demo compo

* non-accelerated PC-demo compo

* 64K PC-intro

* 2d graphics compo

* 3d raytrace compo

* WILD compo

* Animation compo

* Music compo

We'll possibly arrange some outdoor compos if somebody shows interest
towards them.

2.3 Prizes

The winners of the compos will be rewarded depending on the current
financial situation. The amount will vary unless we get all the tickets sold.
The following chart will show you the possible amounts:

Entrys       |  Rewarded entrys

1  |  1
2  |  1
3  |  2
>=4  |  3

Compo       |  position/amount of money

PC-demo     |  1. / 600FIM
accel.      |  2. / 200FIM
|  3. / 100FIM

PC-demo     |  1. / 400FIM
non-accel.  |  2. / 200FIM
|  3. / 100FIM

64K PC-     |  1. / 300FIM
intro       |  2. / 200FIM
|  3. / 100FIM

Animation   |  1. / 300FIM
|  2. / 200FIM
|  3. / 100FIM

WILD demo   |  1. / 300FIM
|  2. / 150FIM
|  3. / 100FIM

Music       |  1. / 300FIM
|  2. / 150FIM
|  3. / 100FIM

2D GFX      |  1. / 300FIM
|  2. / 150FIM
|  3. / 100FIM

3D raytrace |  1. / 300FIM
|  2. / 150FIM
|  3. / 100FIM

5000FIM altogether

2.4 Schedule

Fri 12.5.2000        klo 20.00      doors are opened
23.00      ticket salling is over for the day
24.00      official opening ceremony

Sat 13.5.2000        klo 01.00      rave begins
05.00      rave ends
10.00      ticket salling for the day begins
12.00      deadline for all compos
15.00      music compo
17.00      3d raytrace compo
20.00      2d graphics compo
23.00      ticket salling is over for the day
24.00      wild demo

Sun 14.5.2000        klo 01.00      rave begins
05.00      rave ends
05.30      animation compo
07.00      PC-demo compo (non-accelerated)
09.00      PC-demo compo (3d-accelerated)
10.00      ticket selling for the day begins
11.00      voting ends
15.00      award ceremony
18.00      party is over

2.5 Rave party

There will be raves held near the party place. We're trying to get as
much effects and the best sound system we can. Raves will be held in the
immediate vicinity of the party hall. There will be a couple of top dj's
playing the music. Raves will be held on both nights (lasting about 4-5
hours each).

2.6 Party network

We're aiming to network the whole party with hubs and rj-45 cables.
The organizers offer everyone with a computer place a possibility to join
their computers to the network. Voting and submitting compo entries will
be done through the network. If you want join the network remember to bring
your own network cards and an rj-45 cable (the recommended length is 10
meters (about 3,5 ft)). We don't offer official BNC support, though there
might be some BNC plugs available. The speed of our party network will be
10 mbit/s and 112kbit/s to the internet (the city of Espoo has promised the
place an internet connection at the speed of 10-100 (?) Mbit/s. It should
be delivered in March, so if this will happend we'll have a faster internet
connection).

We assume that everyone who buys a computer place is able to connect
their computer to the network, but if you experience any problems contact the
info/helpdesk. We are not responsible for the functionality of the network.
Though we aim at building a flawless network so everyone would be happy ;).

2.7 Compo machine

* Intel pentium II 450Mhz
* 128Mb sdram
* Matrox g200 marvell (will be changed!)
* SB 16
* Real magic hollywood plus dvd decoder
* Windows 95/98, Dos 7.0, Redhat linux 6.0
* newest DirectX
* VESA 2.0 support
* Winamp (newest)

2.8 Food?

Escape organizing will be trying to arrange cooperation with a
near by pizza delivery company. What we're aiming is that when we get
at least 10 orders we'll forward them. This way we'll most propably get
the pizzas at a discount price.

You are free to bring your own fridge, which we recommend if you're
bringing your own food or drinks. Your third option is walk to the center of
Olari where there will be an S-market, Rimi and some kebab kiosk waiting for
you. There are also some pubs and restaurants, but we as the organizers don't
approve drunken behaviour at the party place so try to be reasonable.

3.  Party rules

* You are not allowed to bring any intoxicants (like cigarettes,
alcohol or drugs) to the party. Don't even try to sneak some in
because our security guys will go through your stuff.

* The organizers are always right.

* The organizers are not responsible for the stuff you bring to the
party place. You bring you own stuff at your own risk.

* Everyone is responsible for the damage they do. Whatever you break
you pay for it.

* All attempts to hack or otherwise harm the party network are not
looked the other way.

* We preserve the right to change the rules.

* Disobeying the rules  above will lead into immediate removal from
the party place.

* By taking part to the party you agree to follow the rules.

* Remember that you also have to follow  all the finnish laws during
the party (and before and after ofcourse ;). We are not at nomans-
land.

3.2 Compo rules

* General:

* All entries must be submitted before the deadline (Saturday 12am)

* Entrys must be submitted to our local networks ftp-server or on a cd-r,
cd-rw or floppy disk (max 2 floppies) to our infodesk.

* All entries (except for the wild demo) must be packed (allowed fomats:
zip, arj, rar, gz, bz2).

* Entries must not containt any illegal or ripped material.

* Entries must be never before published.

* We preserve the the right to publish your entries over the internet
and on the escape party cd.

* Compos can be entered also through the internet. The time and place
where the compos should be sent will be annouced later.

* All entries will be previewed. Only the 20 best entries will be shown
on the screen.

* We wish the resolution in the entrys wouldn't change while it's running,
because the dataprojector might encounter problems changing the
resolution quickly. It might be best to change resolution on a black
loading screen.

* You are free to choose whatever name to the package your entry will be
sent in, though maximimum number of letters is 8+3 and it must be
compatible with the ISO-9660 standard.

* The package must contain the following .nfo file:

\\                                                   xz//

This entry was shown at escape 2k and it came in X place

Name of group or artist: ____________________

* PC-DEMO compo (accelerated):

* Maximum resolution / colours: 1024x768 / 32bit.
* Minimum resolution / colours: 640x480 / 16bit.
* 3d opengl or direct3d
* The demo must not write anything on the hard drive.
* The maximum size of the unpacked demo is 8Mb.
* One demo / group.
* Pure animation files are not accepted.
* A nosound-mode required
* The operating system must be either DOS, WIN32 or Redhat linux.
* The maximum lenght is 6 minutes, demos that are over six minutes
long will be disqualified.
* You should be able to quit the demo with escape ;).

* PC-DEMO compo (non-accelerated):

* Maximum resolution / colours: 640x480 / 32bit.
* Minimum resolution / colours: 320x200 / 256 colours.
* The demo must not write anything on the hard drive.
* The maximum size of the unpacked demo is 8Mb.
* One demo / group.
* Pure animation files are not accepted.
* A nosound-mode required
* The operating system must be either DOS, WIN32 or Redhat linux.
* The maximum lenght is 6 minutes, demos that are over six minutes
long will be disqualified.

* 64K PC-intro

* Maximum size (unpacked etc.) 64Kb
* Must not write anything to harddisk
* OS either DOS or WIN32
* nosound mode required
* only one intro/group or coder

* 2D graphics compo:

* The maximum resolution / colours: 640x480 / 24bit.
* Allowed formats are: JPG, BMP, GIF, TIF, TGA.
* No scanned, ripper or raytraced images.
* The package must contain 5 images. Two of the finished picture (a signed
one and an unsigned one) and 3 that show different phases of the
creation process.
* Only one picture per artist.
* Every image will be shown for about 20 seconds on the screen.

* 3D raytrace compo:

* The maximum resolution / colours: 640x480 / 24bit.
* The pictures must be calculated by computer.
* Allowed formats are: JPG, BMP, GIF, TIF, TGA.
* The package must contain 5 images. Two of the finished picture (a signed
one and an unsigned one) and  3 that show different phases of the
creation.
* No scanned, ripped or hand-drawn images.
* Only one picture per artist.
* Every image will be shown for about 20 seconds on the screen.

* Music compo:

* The music can be made in any way you wish, but it has to be in mp3
format when you deliver it to us.
* The maximum length of the song is 4.5 minutes, the song can be longer,
but it'll be stopped after 4.5 minutes
* Only one song per one artist or group.
* The package must include an instruments.txt file in which is a list
of the instruments and programs used.
* Maximum of 192kbps.

* Animation compo:

* The maximum lenght is 4 minutes.
* The maximum resolution is the maximum resolution of MPEG1.
* The maximum size is 50mb.
* Please don't send any animation through the network.
* Allowed framerates: 24, 25, 30 fps.

* Wild demo:

* Nothing is censored. Everything is allowed as long as none of the
general rules are broken.
* Entry must be submitted on a VHS casette or on a CD-ROM in MPEG1-
format.
* The VHS -casettes must be in PAL-format (unless you enjoy watching
snowflakes :).

3.3 Disclaimer

Escape organizing is not responsible for anything you may come up
with. We don't guarantee anything that is written in this file. And we are
also not responsible for problems, damages or losses caused by the
alternation of this file. The organizers, the highschool of Olari nor any
of the personnel is responsible for any damages, material or non-material.
We don't cover for the equipment stolen. Keep your eye on them. YOU CAN'T
BLAME US FOR ANYTHING.

4.  Contact

4.1 Organization

Antti Halko a.k.a grazer
grazer@stc.cx
Anjankuja 3 B 107
02230 ESPOO, Finland
GSM 050-330 9431
tel. (09) 8817 4610

Juuso Korhonen a.k.a matrim
antelope@nettilinja.fi
Keulakuja 6 D 9
02320 ESPOO, Finland
GSM 040-750 4439
tel. (09) 801 1080

Lauri MΣkinen a.k.a nemonic
l.makinen@pp.inet.fi
Juhannustie 5 F
02200 ESPOO, Finland
GSM 050-383 1683
tel. (09) 455 1781

4.2 Ticket selling

http://escape.stc.cx/

You can call Antti Halko (09) 8817 4610, if you want buy tickets and
you dont't have access to the internet.

(see 1.4)

4.3 Contact

Party place:

Escape 2000
Olariniityntie 4,
02230 ESPOO

5.  FAQ

* I'm a llama, can I come to the party?
- NO!

* Will there be any escape t-shirts?
- If there's demand for t-shirts, yes.

* Will the internet connection work ok?
- Yes, if the city Espoo renews the connection in time.