Welcome to Sunrise 2011
As you all know our beloved UK party Sundown takes a little break this year. I think we can all understand, that rc55 and his organising crew need to relax a little. What we can’t accept is the fact, that there won’t be a UK party we can look forward to.
Fortunately dotwaffle decided to take charge of this outrageous situation. With the help of some British friends, a ruthlessly efficient German organiser task force, a beer drinking Belgian and a Swedish radio star, he’s in the middle of preparing a party which will be so new and shiny you simply have to love it.
Features
- Posh, enterprise grade partying in a fancy hotel conference suite
- Multiplatform competitions
- Internet access
- Hilariously cheap rooms to sleep
- Indoor swimming pool and spa facilities to relax
- Bar with drinks and food
- Lots of bars and shops in the immediate area of the hotel
- Easily reachable by plane, train and car
- Room for more than 100 people
Date and Location
Sunrise will take place from 9.-11. September 2011 in Luton in the Windsor Suite of the Best Western Menzies Strathmore. The hotel is located on the beautiful St. Georges Square and is surrounded by lots of shops, bars and restaurants.
Entrance Fee
The entrance fee will be £40 for the whole three days. There won't be any single day tickets, sorry. ROAR, all sales are final.
Hotels
If you want to book a room at the Best Western Menzies Strathmore Luton Hotel, please have a look at the website bestwestern.com. There are currently very cheap rooms available:
- Single room: £78.20 (Friday £34.85, Saturday £43.35)
- Single room with breakfast: £86.70 (Friday £39.10, Saturday £47.60)
- Double room: £112.20 (Friday £51.85, Saturday £60.35)
- Double room with breakfast: £120.70 (Friday £56.10, Saturday £64.60)
Prices are subject to change without notice, so don't wait too long. If you call the hotel, rather than using the website, you will *not* get the best rate.
Included in the hotel price is access to the gym, swimming pool, sauna, steam room and reduced rate spa access. A limited amount of reduced price tickets for the pool etc will be available.
We've secured a number of rooms at the lowest possible rate, but if even this is too much, the EasyHotel in Luton is less than 50m from the hotel venue, and is currently offering rooms from only £50 (£25 each night, small room with double bed and no window). These can be booked through easyhotel.com.
Officially there is no sleeping area at the party place, and while we won't throw you out for sleeping, the hotel staff will most likely catch you bringing large amounts of sleeping bags, inflatable mattresses etc, so we heartily recommend staying in a local hotel, sharing with a friend if you need to.
Competitions
As expected from a demoparty, there will be competitions! Because we want everybody to participate, we're trying not to have too many rules and restrictions. Here's the list of the competitions - the individual rules are below.
- Photo
- Oldskool Graphics
- Freestyle Graphics
- Oldskool Music
- Freestyle Music
- WiLD
- Oldskool Demo
- Intro
- Demo
We'll have this monster here as a compomachine:
- AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
- 8GB DDR3 RAM
- 2 x ATI Radeon 6970 (2GB) in crossfire (able to disable if needed)
- Windows 7
- Ubuntu Linux 11.04
- 60GB SSD for quick reboots ;)
General rules
- Previously released material is not allowed. If you already contributed your entry at some other party or released your stuff over the internet before it will be disqualified.
- With contributing to a competition, you automatically agree that we'll spread your entry
- A competition may be cancelled if we don't get enough entries for it. And on the other hand we may apply preselection to a competition if we have too many entries for it.
Photo-Competition
- Show us what you can do with a camera.
- Slight post-production allowed (please provide the original photo)
Oldskool-Graphics
- Maximum resolution is 320 x 240 pixels with max. 256 colors
Freestyle Graphics
- You can use every graphics tool you want, compositings and renderings are allowed. No Photos!
- Maximum resolution is 1024x768 pixels with max. 32bit colors
Oldskool Music
- This is a cross-platform competition for all available machines <= 16bits
- Songs will be faded out after 4 minutes
- Maximum filesize is 1.44mb
Freestyle Music
- This competition allows anything that does not fit into the Oldskool Music competition - mp3/ogg/mod/xm/it... you name it!
- Songs will be faded out after 4 minutes
WiLD
- This competition allows anything that does not fit into the other Demo competitions - this includes videos and animations and live performances
Intro
- The small one!
- This is a competition for all platforms - filesize limit: 65536 bytes
Demo
- The big one!
- All platforms allowed
- Show us what you can do with unlimited(-ish) resources!
Remote entries
- Allowed for every competition!
- Just mail us your entry - we'll take care of the rest! You won't get any prizes though :(
Timetable
Friday
- 16:00 Doors open
- 20:00 Some nice and warm opening words
- 21:00 DeathBoy live act
Saturday
- 15:00 Deadline for the Music Competitions
- 16:00 Deadline for the Graphic Competitions
- 17:00 Deadline for Intro and Demo Competitions
- 18:00 CoLD SToRAGE live act
- 21:00 Big-Fat-Compo-Night (bring your top hat and monocle)
- 00:00 h0ffmann live act
Sunday
- 11:30 Prizegiving Ceremony
- 14:00 Doors Close
Travel and Parking
Sunrise is easily reachable by car, train and plane. If you travel by plane, we recommend checking momondo.com for cheap fares.
By car:
If you use the Luton rail station car park on Friday after 6pm you'll be able to get parking at the following rates:
- Friday 6pm - Midnight: £2
- Saturday: £2
- Sunday: £2
Not bad for railway parking! The shopping centre (Arndale) will be at full rate, so we heartily recommend the railway multistory car park.
By plane (Stansted Airport):
We've got offers of lifts from Stansted to save you the trip via London, please let us know if you want to join this.
By plane (Heathrow Airport):
Get on the Piccadilly line, get off at "Kings Cross St Pancras". Make your way to "Thameslink" or "First Capital Connect" and get a ticket to Luton - should be approximately £8 depending on time of day. At Luton (NOT Luton Airport Parkway!) it's a 1-2 minute walk to the hotel.
By plane (Gatwick Airport):
Find your way to the station, there are trains roughly every 15 minutes or so to "Luton" or "Bedford" - get on one of these (you'll need a ticket before you get on). Prices are variable depending on the time of day, check nationalrail.co.uk for times/fares, but you're looking at £22.90 based on today's pricing. At Luton (NOT Luton Airport Parkway!) it's a 1-2 minute walk to the hotel.
By plane (Luton Airport):
Either take a taxi to the "Best Western in Luton" (approx. 5 mins) or get the free transfer bus to the Luton Airport Parkway station. Buy a ticket to Luton, it's one stop, about 2-3 minutes travel, usually platforms 2 or 4. Should cost approx. £2.40
By plane (Exeter Airport):
Well, you've gone to completely the wrong airport for this party. You are on your own now. Good luck!
Organisers
Who's crazy enough to organise a brand new demoparty in the UK? Those people are!
- dotwaffle (Lead)
- D.Fox (Planning, Coordination)
- Madame (Planning, Text, PR)
- FRaNKy (Competitions, Belgian)
- Havoc (Competitions)
- Haohmaru (Competitions)
- Ziphoid (Web, Hosting, Live Radio Broadcast)
We're still looking for people to help us. Contact us if you're interested!
Visitors registered so far
Ziphoid / SceneSat^Brainstorm 
D.Fox / Digital Overflow^Paradise 
FRaNKy / RBBS
Madame / TUM 
dotwaffle / ASMTV
parapete / Fearmoths
cyraxx / mett!
Deltafire / #ukscene
Devistator / DualCrewShining
Gasman / Hooy-Program^AY Riders 
Felice / LowRes magazine
h0ffman / Unstable Label
spiny / torment 
71M / 71M 
TMC / ROLE
calanish / none
aXL / Hellfire
pmc / Retro
Havoc / Lineout
nytrik / cocoon
rc55 / unstable label
Subi / Desire
Vampire / TZT
Vesula / TZT
Riox / Desire
velo / approximate 
jenni / happy carnivores
Keito / Alcatraz
CiH
The_Laird / Jagfest UK 
Bruno / Branco
Stuckie
Octopi
m0d / 3ln
Ne7 / Triad
edhellon / resource
FATfrost / Monk/Angels
RMK
Carbon
Haohmaru / discomeats^tAoA^Liverdance
sqwasrd
Tolle
Topy44
evilpaul / Ate Bit
Max and Jackie / Retro fans
sheijk
danbee / pixelhum
FlashBlue / RBBS
kb / colour N-toxic8n
doz / crtc
Max+Jackie / Demo Freaks
cryptic / approximate
leblane / happy carnivores
Devlin
sheijk
sekhu
DeathBoy
Chayat
BuZz
Sack
stavros / burningsmell
CoLD SToRAGE
Rhino / Torment
Hitman / Code HQ 
master / silents
airwalk / kefrens^infect
strobo / stellar
megatron / TRSI^haujobb