Euskal Encounter 12 - BEC Bizkaia 2004 join the family!
Last update: Aug-31-2004
Scene
Out of contest wild and chiptune

Aug-31-2004

We've updated Euskal Encounter 12 results with two entries presented out of contest:

10korpia by trace/xplsv (chiptune)
Scene Wars - Storyboard Prealpha by HardNULL (wild)


General info
Talk audio files available

Aug-30-2004

Thanks to EnRedAndo show of Euskadi Digital, Euskal Encounter 12 talks' audios are available for download.


Games
GameGune and amateur games results released

Jul-30-2004

Game competitions results have been released.


Free Software
Freesoft and gamedev results online

Jul-30-2004

We've released Real Time Battle, Scripting, Hackit and Gamedev results.


Scene
Production links fixed

Jul-29-2004

Most of links to productions should work now.


Scene
Official compo results

Jul-25-2004

Ready!


Games
WC3 rules online

Jul-21-2004

We've just released WC3 rules online.


General info
Extranet

Jul-20-2004

We have just 'closed' the extranet on our regular internet server. You can't do any changes now.


If you're in the party, you must use party intranet to register for competitions and reading the latest news. www.ekparty.org


General info
Parking and car unloading

Jul-19-2004

On 21th access to parking pavilion will be free, so that you can enter with your car and go out after the unload.

From 22th on, access will have a fee (6 euros each time you take the car out of the parking), so if you want to unload your computer and go out you'll have to park your car outside BEC. So we suggest you come on 21th if you want to unload the computer from your car and go out, without parying anything.

Please, remember that you must get your identification, entering the partyplace from the entrance besides Ansio underway station.

You can get your identification starting on 21th at 10 morning.


Hardware
Modcase Prizes published

Jul-19-2004

The final prize list for the modding competiton is released. This year our sponsor will be REVOLTEC . The prize list can be viewed from the following link


General info
Barakaldo's service map

Jul-19-2004

A Barakaldo map with different services is now available, thankst to Azkon.


Games
Painkiller rules online

Jul-19-2004

We've just released Painkiller rules.


General info
How to arrive to BEC

Jul-19-2004

We've added some explanations for those who are coming by public transport to Euskal.


General info
Euskal Encounter 12 has been connected to the outside

Jul-16-2004

Today at 16:00 we've been connected to the internet by a mixed team of Euskaltel and Euskal Encounter organization technicians.


Scene
Jury votings have started

Jul-12-2004

Scene and Modding jury members can be voted ; to to so just login the extranet.

The voting will end on Sunday.


General info
Parking

Jul-09-2004

Finally, we can confirm that you'll have a cheap parking near the party.

You have full information on the installations page.


General info
Merchandise

Jul-09-2004

We've prepared a page with information about the merchandise you'll be able to buy at Euskal Encounter 12.

We hope you like it!


Scene
Votings page updated

Jul-09-2004

We've updated the votings page with updated information about the jury presentation meeting, to be held on thursday the 22th, at 13:00.

Be aware that it isn't mandatory to go to that meeting to be a jury member.

The deadline to be eligible for juries is this sunday (11), so please register as soon as possible! We depend on you to have good, plural juries.


General info
Bar service in the party

Jul-08-2004

We have confirmed a bar service during party days. It will open at 7:30 and close at 24:00 everyday.


General info
Party timetable released

Jul-08-2004

Finally we have released party's timetable. Give a look at it so you don't get surprised too late. Remeber that during the party you should check the party intranet for news.


Free Software
GNU/Linux install party

Jul-08-2004

We've just released information about this edition's GNU/Linux install party.

We hope that once more Linux veteran's help will be state-of-the-art so that many more people can learn and use a GNU/Linux system.


Games
Dance Dance Revolution rules

Jul-07-2004

Dance Dance Revolution competition rules have been released. We hope you'll participarte!


Free Software
Free Software dinner

Jul-07-2004

We've released Free Software dinner information. The dinner will be on 24th (saturday) at 13:30 in front of the general helpdesk, or at 14:00 in the restaurant.


General info
New talks

Jul-07-2004

We've added some new talks to our program.

The first will be a presentation of the new Ekintzaile program by SPRI. This is a program to help entrepreneurs to create their bussiness. If you're willing to do so, this talk will surely interest you (friday morning).

Additionally, we'll have Nacho González of GNU Spain, who will give some talks about Free Software, the GNU Project and Copyleft, in the thursday, saturday and sunday mornings.


General info
LAN and computer security are important

Jul-02-2004

As you'll already know, party network is fundamental for many of the party activities.

Due to that, we've included some very important suggestions about network security that you should quietly read on the What will I need? section.

We've also updated general rules so that network sabotage and other network atacks are now listed as an expulsion warning reason.


General info
Talks timetable

Jun-30-2004

We've just released information about the talks we're having this year. You can see that there will be plenty of them and quite different ones.


Scene
Demo size limit increased

Jun-29-2004

Due to most other demo competition rules allowing so (Breakpoint, ...), we've decided to increase demo competition size limit to 14 Mb.


General info
Monitor and left-luggage box loan

Jun-24-2004

We'll be accepting monitor loan and left-luggage box requests until July, the 2nd.


Scene
Invitation demo released

Jun-23-2004

rgba demogroup has released this year's invitation demo. The demo runs on Windows and Linux/i386.

We hope you'd like it!


General info
Party renders updated

Jun-21-2004

We've updated the renders of the party arena, with the latest changes.

The most noticeable is the 90 degree rotation of the party seats and big screens.


Scene
ppg and ZonaN flash invit

Jun-16-2004

PowerPuffGirls and Zona Neutra have released a flash invitation for Euskal 12. Be aware that it is 5,4 Mbytes.

A low quality version that only is 2 Mbytes is here.


GameGune
New GG site released

Jun-16-2004

We've developed a new look&feel for GameGune web section. We hope that the new information will be interesting.


General info
Scene and modding jury elections

Jun-14-2004

Everyone that whises to be a jury member for scene and/or modding juries, can register to be elligible inside the extranet, in scene section.

This year we'll have Demos, Music, Gfx2D, Gfx3D and Modding juries.

Please, be aware that the juries that will decide the final results for scene and modding competitions will be choosen between those who now register. On 12th july we'll be helding a voting to choose the juries out of them. It is very important that everyone interested in the competitions registers and votes to have well-weighted juries.


General info
Road and hotel map

Jun-11-2004

Azkon has prepared a Barakaldo map that shows how to reach BEC by road and where and what hotels are in the city. The map is 2,7 Mb.


GameGune
Lista de equipos GameGune 2004

Jun-08-2004

Acabamos de publicar los equipos que competirán en la GameGune 2004.

Los 5 equipos restantes saldrán de los siguientes clasificatorios:

Clasificatorio Palma de Mallorca (Lan)
Clasificatorio Bilbao (Lan)
Clasificatorio Sevilla (Lan)
Clasificatorio Tenerife Masters (Lan)
Clasificatorio Juegos21 (Online)


GameGune
GameGune 2004 GUI by Sonos

Jun-08-2004

Sonos has done it again and has designed a Counter Strike graphics interface for GameGune 2004.

Setup your Steam with CPL's official settings and GameGune 2004 look & feel!


General info
Scene seat unlocking changes

May-31-2004

Due to some technical problems, we won't be able to unlock the seats reserved for the scene tomorrow. We've changed the unlocking to June the 2nd, at 12:30 in the noon.


Scene
Java restrictions corrected

May-31-2004

We've changed compo machine description and Demo compo rules to clarify that native Java applications are allowed in the compo.


Free Software
Scripting compo rules online

May-27-2004

We've just released Scripting competition rules and prizes.

We hope that you'll like the new competition format, the same as in Euskal 9.


Free Software
HackIt and Real Time Battle prizes

May-27-2004

We've updated Real Time Battle and HackIt infopages with the prizes we'll be giving this year.


General info
Party network preliminary information

May-26-2004

We've just unveiled preliminary information about the party network and servers that will support all the events at Euskal.


GameGune
Free admission passes for CPL exhibition area

May-24-2004

If you're willing to assist to Cyberathlete® Extreme World Championships, you can get free admission passes for the large exhibition area here.

CPL will be held at Dallas (USA) from 28th july to 1st august, and GameGune winner will participate in the Counter-Strike competition.


General info
Scene seat unlock

May-19-2004

Updated

Due to the high occupation of the general available seats, we've decided to unlock the first 3 rows reserved for the scene on monday 24th, at 12:30 am.

The remaining seats will be unlocked on June 1st, as we announced some days ago.


Games
Counter-Strike rules

May-10-2004

Counter-Strike amateur competition rules have been published.


General info
Scene seat unlocking

May-10-2004

We announce that on June 1st, at 12:30 we are unlocking the seats reserverd and not yet occupied for sceners.

After that, anybody will be able to choose a seat in that area. Remember that it is possible to change your seat whenever you wish through the extranet system.


General info
Booths inside Euskal 12

May-05-2004

We've set up conditions for businesses and shops to run a booth on Euskal Encounter 12. Look at them following the link.


Games
General rules for game competitions

May-05-2004

We've released amateur game competition general rules.


Games
Games proposal for EE12

Apr-29-2004

This is the list of confirmed gaming competitions for EE12. The list is not closed yet. We wish to add more competitions, but just a few because we're short on time.

Confirmed games:

CS, 32 slots.
WC3 Frozen Throne, single player, 64 slots.
Need of Speed Underground, single player, 64 slots.
Dance Dance Revolution, single player, 64 slots.
Re-Volt, single player, 64 slots.
Call of Duty, 16 slots.

Besides that, for sure there will be a FPS compo (undecided yet), and we're considering other titles also.


General info
General rules addition

Apr-29-2004

We've added a new reason to receive a warning to our general rules for attenders. The new reason is to manipulate or change the wiring of our local network switches.

This is due to some local problems detected last year (multiple paths, network loops) that seem to be produced by manipulation of switches by people outside the organization. We hope this year these problems won't appear again. We remind you that if your local network cable is wrong we have technicians to solve the problem.

Thanks a lot for your help.


General info
Monitor renting on the party

Apr-28-2004

This year we're giving a monitor renting service, offered by XLAN. Monitors will be 17" Samtron 76E and the price will be 30 euros.

It is necessary to make a monitor request in the extranet, because there is a limited amount of monitors and they will be rented in request order.


Free Software
Linux renamed Free Software

Apr-27-2004

This year we've decided to change Linux zone's name to Free Software.

We've released Real Time Battle and Hack It contest's rules to open this section.


Misc
Game development competition

Apr-27-2004

We've just released game development competition rules. This is the first year that we're helding this competition.


Misc
Modding zone info online

Apr-27-2004

We've just released modding zone information. This year we'll held two different modding competitions: one for performance modifications and another for aesthetics mods.


General info
Preinscription form zone

Apr-21-2004

Due to an error in our software, attender preferred zone has been saved incorrectly for some time.

Please, check that your preinscription form has the correct zone, so that zone map has accurate info.

Thanks a lot.

Update: we've reset everyones zone, so that there is no wrong information. Please, choose one in your preinscription form. Thank you.


General info
We're accepting reservations

Apr-15-2004

Our reservation system is already accepting ticket reservations.


Scene
Presentation for international scene

Apr-05-2004

We've prepared a small presentation about Euskal and scene zone for people that doesn't know Euskal yet.

The goal is to have a briefing of the most important information about the party to help sceners know Euskal and convince them to attend :-)


General info
Party court renders

Apr-02-2004

We've redered some aproximate photos so that you can see how will look like the main court this year.

We hope this resolves most questions about the occupation map we've received.


General info
Rservations start

Apr-01-2004

It will be possible to make reservations starting on 15th april, at 12:00 CET.

We suggest you sign in the extranet, fill in preinscription data and organize groups beforehand, so that you haven't any problem to make a reservation the first day.

Remember that if you already have a Euskal 11 user, you don't have to create a new one this year.


Scene
Scene info online

Mar-31-2004

We've just put online information about scene section of Euskal.

You can check out the competitions we'll be helding, as well as rules, prizes, compo machine specs and more.


General info
We support Durango Party!

Mar-25-2004

As some of you may already know, this year there won't be Durango Party, a 1st-line spanish scene related party. We're very sorry about this, as we have supported Durango Party from its beginings and continue to do so now.

We want to show our support to Asociación Cultural Informática de Durango members in these difficult moments. We hope and invite them to held a Durango Party the next year, which will have our full support.

We also want to thank their generous effort organizing past editions, in which some Euskal organization members and many sceners had a so great time.


General info
General rules for attenders

Mar-22-2004

We've just put online the general rules fro attenders during the party, along the warning system that we started to use last year.

Please, read them and make sure you don't break them.

Thanks a lot.


Misc
PcCity Party news

Mar-22-2004

We've received some news about PcCity Party;

On March 26th, world cycling champion Abraham Olano will be at PcCity Party from 18:00 to 21:00 signing autographs.
He will give 3 bicycles to the first 3 people buying a Fujitsu Siemens computer.

Additionally, Modding Party 2004 attenders will benefit from discounts on event sponsor products (Intel, Advent, Fujitsu Siemens, LG, Hércules, Saphire, Logitech, Plantronics, Shuttle eta Creative)

PcCity Party will be held on March 26th in San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid). More information:


General info
General information online

Mar-18-2004

General information about Euskal Encounter 12 is now available, featuring place, dates, facilities and other info.


Misc
Retrocomputing interest group

Mar-16-2004

A retrocomputing interest group has been created among Euskal attenders, mainly by 8 bit computer freaks.

Check full announcement in spanish here.


General info
New website design

Mar-15-2004

We've just set up this year's definite website design. The old fixed-width format has been exterminated, and the new design adapts itself to navigator window size.

We hope you like it :)


General info
Euskal Encounter 12 place

Mar-10-2004

We're confirming that this year Euskal will be held in Barakaldo, at the new Bilbao Exhibition Centre.

Please remind that you'll be able to reserve entrance tickets starting on 15th april.

Finally, we'll be setting up our new website with a new fresh design and full information about the 12th edition by the end of march.


General info
PcCity Modding Party - Euskal Encounter 12 collaboration agreement

Mar-10-2004

Due the interest raised by PC CITY MODDING PARTY a collaboration agreement has been made with Euskal Encounter 12:

Euskal Encounter offers 20 entrance tickets for this year's edition and PC City Modding Party will be able to have Euskal modding compo manager for its jury members.

So we announce that we're offering 10 tickets to the best 10 classified mods decided by the jury, and the other 10 will be drawed among all participants...


Scene
Euskal 11 production makes into best European prods

Feb-19-2004

Euskal Encounter 11 winner demo, "Grafikal Jihad" by Mankind, has been nominated in Scene.org Awards for best graphics. Additionally, a demo by Spontz, 2nd at Euskal democompo, is nominated in Breakthrough Performance category.

Scene.org yearly Awards' winners are chosen using an online voting system by an expert jury and are given during Breakpoint.

Stravaganza, Boah and rgba are other groups nominated in previous years that attend Euskal.


GameGune
Gamer community awards 3 GameGune participants

Feb-16-2004

esReality released this weekend 2003's best Counter Strike, UT2003 and Quake3 players' list.

Winners are chosen with a voting in the most inportant e-sports webs: Cached.net, ClanBase, Cyberfight, Gamer.TV, Gamers.nu, Radio iTG and now defunct shackES.

Awarded players include 3 Euskal Encounter attenders. SpawN played in Counter Strike tournament with mtw.se team, and Lauke and Forrest were 1st and 2nd in UT2003 tournament.

Not too bad, since there was no Quake 3 tournament. ¡3 out of 4!


General info
Reservation start for Euskal 12

Feb-10-2004

Seat reservation for Euskal Encounter 12 will be opened on 15th April.

There will be 2560 seats for computers available; this is 512 (+25%) more than in Euskal 11.


General info
Euskal Encounter 11 photos

Feb-10-2004

We've just set up a gallery with past year's photos.


General info
Survey about seat selection

Feb-10-2004

We've set up a survey in our forum about seat selection system. We're interested to know if you think our current system is good or you prefer another one.


General info
Euskal Encounter 11 video

Feb-05-2004

We've just released Euskal Encounter 11's video. Get it clicking the link. Video is in Xvid + AC3 format and 23 Mb in size.


General info
Euskal 12 forums started

Jan-26-2004

We've just set up Euskal Encounter 12 forums. Old threads have been archived in read-only mode.


General info
Euskal Encounter 12 website is online

Jan-20-2004

We've just set up Euskal Encounter 12 website. We'll be adding information to it in the following weeks.


Euskaltel: batzen gaituena - lo que nos une

Party extranet

Occupation map

Sponsors

SPRI - Sociedad para la Promoción y Reconversión Industrial
BBK - Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa
Bizkaiko Foru Aldundia - Diputación Foral de Bizkaia
GameGune: Euskal Encounter game competition
CPL Summer 2004 Extreme Championship
Euskalamiga Party System 1.2.4

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