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Picture from Assembly Summer 2012.

By Tuula Ylikorpi.

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Assembly Summer usually features around 5,500-6,000 attendees for the with about half of those taking part in the LAN party. It is referred to as a "demo party" due to its historical focus on demonstrating feats of coding, design and composition excellence, as various groups from around the world gather there to present their creations; fully fledged intro's rendered in real time which make up either a maximum of 1k of 4k bytes Alongside the demo scene, a culture of gaming grew into a culture of eSports, as Assembly has always been about competing in various forms with people who share the same passions as you do. Their strongest forté has always been the StarCraft 2 competition which holds a $25,000 prizepool this time around. With the support of the Finnish community, Assembly has the potential to grow into a steadfast LAN event for the entirety of the European Dota 2 scene.The format of the tournament will be two GSL style groups of four teams, where the two best teams of each group advance into a single elimination playoff. Teams can apply to be part of the tournament via an online form available here . Based on their application, 5-7 teams will be directly invited while further applicants may be requested to take part in an online qualifier in order to fill the remaining 1-3 spots. All applicationg are due, with the online qualifiers to be runThe actual tournament will run fromat Hartwall Arena in. As the Assembly Demo Party runs together with this tournament, participating teams are required to pay a. Regular entry tickets for the event cost 44€ while computer places run from 74-84€, however at this time all 2406 computer places have been sold out for some time already.While not a lot is known yet about teams intending to attend the event,have applied and are set to get a direct invite, as well asplanning to attend. FormerplayerAntti '' Saarenpää has also applied to be part of the event with a team made up of friends of his.The games will be casted on site in Finnish byJaakko 'Markkanen andBenjamin '' Läärä (formerly associated with teams likeand Rat in the Dark) has told us he will provide co-commentary depending on if he can fit it in between his military service.1st - 3,500€2nd - 1,500€3rd-4th - 250€