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Like last year, we offer combined tickets for Buenzli and Evoke. Get in to both parties with one single ticket! More info can be found here.

Just like in the past years, we bring you a lot of great competitions. We have a Demo Compo, a 64k Intro Compo aswell as a 4k Intro Compo, a Tracked Music Compo, a Streamed Music Compo, a Graphics Compo, a Wild Compo, an OHP Compo, a Surprise Compo and some Fun Competitions announced directly at the partyplace. Further, we have the Alternative Competition which is there for platforms which don't fit our hardware specifications (ie. C64, Amiga, Mac and other non-PC platforms).

There are some general rules about the compo, please make sure you read them:

• If a competition has less than 3 entries, we might cancel it (or pool it together with another competition).
• Entries have to be handed in or uploaded until the given deadline for each compo.
• Entries that don’t match any of the rules listed here or violate any laws (especially copyright and protection of minors laws) will not be taken into the compos („disqualified“). By entering an entry the competitor assures that by doing so he does not violate any third party’s right or law.
• The rules may be modified any time by the Buenzli staff.
• We are allowed to do a preselection in every competition (eg. if there are too many entries) based on the subjective impression by a to-be-formed jury
• We will release every entry at the party (upload to scene.org and various other FTP sites) unless the competition where your entry was supposed to take part in is cancelled or your entry has been preselected/disqualified.
• Creators of entries should be visitors at Buenzli (to give us the possibility to contact them in case of troubles). Due to a stupid error, we stated to accept email submission. Actually, we have decided to not allow them - but now it's too late to stop from it. We kindly request you to submit your entry through someone you know who's coming to Buenzli 13. If that's not possible and you already started/finished/planned your entry, we of course won't alienate you and kindly request you to contact us on how to submit and deadline info.
• We do public voting!
• You should follow KB's rules for bigscreen productions

For all competitions, we supply the following hardware:

You'll have the possibility to do testruns on the hardware. The profile of the machines could still improve, the list above demarks the minimum. When submitting your entry, you'll have to supply on which machine you'll want it to run on.

If for any reason you need a different setup, please supply your own hardware (C64, Amiga, Consoles, Mac, Linux, ...). Be sure that the hardware you supply has either a VGA-output, a cinch or scart connector to connect to the beamer.

the pc demo competition

• Has to run on our standard hardware setup (see above). If you need Linux or MacOSX, bring your own hardware.
• Sizelimit: 15 mb
• The demo must have a title, a file_id.diz and an infofile.
• Pure animation players will be rejected.
• The maximum playing length is 10 minutes.

The PC 64k-Intro Competition

• Has to run on our standard hardware setup (see above). If you need Linux or MacOSX, bring your own hardware.
• Size limit: 64kb (max. size of the executable)
• The intro must have a title, a file_id.diz and an infofile
• The maximum playing length is 10 minutes.

The PC 4k-Intro Competition

• Has to run on our standard hardware setup (see above). If you need Linux or MacOSX, bring your own hardware.
• Size limit: 4kb (max. size of the executable)
• The intro must have a title, a file_id.diz and an infofile
• Note that you may do test runs on the competition machine
• The maximum playing length is 6 minutes.

The Alternative Demo/Intro Competition

• Hardware: Bring your own hardware to run your demo/intro production. The more alternative the better! But remember to have either a VGA-output or provide something like an SVideo- or composite connector to connect to the beamer
• The production must have a title, a file_id.diz and an infofile.
• The maximum playing length is 10 minutes.

The Wild Competition

• In case you're doing some kind of animation, the following formats are allowed: DVD, DIVX, MPEG, AVI or MOV (preferably not, this sucks)
• If this doesn't suit you, bring along your own equipment.
• Your entry must have a title
• Everything is allowed (you could for example get on stage and sing a song).
• The maximum playing length is 10 minutes.

The Graphics Competition

• Allowed formats: JPG, GIF or PNG
• If you have alternative formats (like C64-pictures etc.) you should bring your own hardware. But remember to have either a VGA-output or provide something like an SVideo- or composite connector to connect to the beamer.
• Max. 800*600 (beamer limit) 24 Bit
• You'll need to bring at least three significat steps of the modeling/painting process
• The picture must have a title, a file_id.diz and you have to declare which programs you used to make the picture
• Pure scans are not allowed!
• The entries will be shown with the latest version of IrfanView
• Note that traced, "photoshoped" and pixelled pictures are in the same competition.

The Tracked Music Competition

• Size limit: 1.44MB (ZIP-packed)
• Allowed formats: MOD, S3M, XM, SKM, IT, MT2, MTM, RNS (Renoise), SID, ..
• No VST-Plugins allowed
• It has to be playable with a free available player (f.e. NO Rebirth). We'll use the latest XMPlay, MadTracker, Renoise or WinAmp for replaying (format dependant)
  If the format isn't supported by us (we support SKM, XM, MOD, S3M and IT), you have to bring along your own (but free available) player.
• Must be playable on standard hardware. For chiptunes (f.e. SID or AdLib) you should bring the necessary hardware (SID tunes might be played on HardSID)
• Songs that exceed 4 minutes will be faded out after that time
• Your tune must have a title, a file_id.diz and you have to declare which programs you used to make the song

The Streamed Music Competition

• Your tune has to be MP3/OGG-encoded.
• If this doesn't suit you, bring along your equipment (like a different freely available player or something).
• Songs that exceed 4 minutes will be faded out after that time
• It must have a title, a file_id.diz and you have to declare which programs you used to make the song
• The entries will be played with Winamp 2.91
• Your audience wants to be able to dance to your music, so make it rock!

The Surprise Competition

• The topic of this competition will be given out somewhen during the party. Remember, it's a surprise competition. You will have enough time to create a nice entry that will make you famous.

The Famous OHP Competition

• It started off last year as a fun competition, this time it's getting real
• What is it?
• We offer a OHP and you do the production for it
• Don't exceed 6 minutes playing time
• You're allowed to do whatever you want, except for the use of OHP-LCD screens an the like
• There will be material available at Buenzli to create an entry, but you're allowed to prepare everything at home
• Bring the music you want being played during you perform your entry with you, either as Audio CD or as PC-playable track.

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