As the winter continues here in Finland (-25o C, 1-1.5m of snow) and there was nothing else to do than sit inside with our computers. At that point we knew it was time for other LAN event – ASSEMBLY Winter 2013.
ASSEMBLY Winter is the second largest LAN event in Finland, which is held every year in Helsinki.
ASSEMBLY isn’t just gaming. It is coming together with friends and spending time with them. As Finland is a really big country, it can take over 16 hours to drive from southern end to northern end.
For this reason, it is not so common to meet your online friends in real life. ASSEMBLY is an answer for this.
This year the gaming competition has taken a small step backward as there wasn’t any major international tournament. Last year we had a luxury to host the ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament with over 1.5 million people watching the show from various streams. This year we ended up streaming from four streams in Finnish.
While the tournament itself was a little bit smaller this year, the atmosphere inside the LAN was superb. We made our very own Harlem Shake. The Internet police Marko “Fobba” Forss also attended the LAN and spent time with the visitors. We also had a luxury to watch the best Finnish movie ever made, Iron Sky, from the big screen. Overall ASSEMBLY Winter was success for us all.
The results from the tournament:
StarCraft II
1. Vesa “Welmu” Hovinen (750 €)
2. Santeri “Naama” Lahtinen (500 €)
3. Samuli “elfi” Sihvonen (250 €)
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
1. TOOMUCHVIDEOGAMES (1500 €)
2. from roihuvuori hoods (1000 €)
3. partyastronauts (Norway) (500 €)
Tekken Tag Tournament II
1. The_Emperor (600 €)
2. killerdoll (300 €)
League of Legends
1. Negative Attitude (1200 €)
2. one for one v2 (800 €)
3. 64 North (500 €)
