As most other parties, The Takeover will host a couple of competitions (compos). On this web page you can find all the necesarry information on the competitions.

The X'97 Takeover will host the following competitions:

a PC Demo Competition,
a PC Intro Competition,
a Graphics Competition,
a Raytraced Graphics Competition,
a Music Competition,
a House Competition,
a New Effect Competition,
a C64 Demo Competition,
a C64 Graphics Competition,
a C64 Music Competition,
several Surprise Competitions.

Some rules that apply for all of the above competitions:

A jury will make a selection of the entries which will be shown.
All entries must have a clear title (graphics included!) or production name.
Entries must not have been released before.
All entries in the competitions are released on the X'97 Takeover FTP site after the competition.
All entries are shown in the competition room.
The organisation reserves the right to cancel any competition when too little entries are submitted.
There will be both jury and public voting, except for the surprise compos and the C64 compo
(only jury).
No anonymous productions / competitions. Before each entry is shown / played the title and the
group, or artist / group, are shown on the screen.
Deadlines will be anounced at the party. Productions submitted after the deadline will not be
accepted.
Each demo group can enter the competitions with more than one production. At least one member
of the demo group should be present at the party.
Each artist can enter the individual competitions (music, house, graphics, and 4kb) only once.
Artists or a group member of the artist must be present at the party.
Prizes can only be collected at the party.
Prize money will be in Dutch guilders. Hardware and software prizes cannot be exchanged
for money.
For the contibutions we only accept entries stored on either 3.5" diskettes, or 5.25" for C64.
Diskettes cannot be returned.
Demos and intros must run from harddisk.
If a demo or intro does not run on the competition machine the organizers will try to contact
the makers to try and solve the problem before the competition takes place.
The competition machine will be rebooted between demo and intro entries.
When performing pre-calc, the intro or demo should clearly state so, including some sort of
progress bar, so we can be fairly sure the entry did not hang the computer.
The organizers have the right to refuse prizes to / disqualify entries from anyone who misbehaved
or did otherwise break the party rules.
The amount of prize money depend on the number of party participants, the quality of the entries
and the non-money prizes (hard/software).
Trojan horses, rip-offs and other childish entries will be disqualified.
Results will be placed on the X'97 Takeover home page after the prize ceremony.
For information on the C64 compos check out the C64 note released by TRC/Success.

The rules for The X'97 Takeover Demo Competition are as follows:

Maximum show time 15 minutes (boring scrolls or repeats will be terminated sooner).
Maximum total size of runable demo is 6 Mb uncompressed.
Demos are not allowed to unpack to harddisk or write to harddisk (other than configuration info).
The demo must have sound.
No pure animations allowed.
Supply exact boot configuration.

The rules for The X'97 Takeover Intro Competition are as follows:

Maximum show time 10 minutes (boring scrolls or repeats will be terminated sooner).
Maximum total size of runable intro is 64 Kb (65536 bytes) uncompressed.
Intros are not allowed to unpack to harddisk or write to harddisk (other than configuration info).
The intro must have sound.
Supply exact boot configuration.

The rules for The X'97 Takeover 4kb Competition are as follows:

Maximum show time 5 minutes (boring scrolls or repeats will be terminated sooner).
Maximum total size of runable intro is 4 Kb (4096 bytes) uncompressed.
The intro may have sound.
Supply exact boot configuration.

The rules for The X'97 Takeover Music Competition are as follows:

Maximum play time is 3 minutes (will be faded out after 3 minutes).
Maximum file size 1 Mb (1048576 bytes) uncompressed.
We play XMs with FastTracker, S3Ms with Scream Tracker 3 and ITs with Impulse Tracker.
Other formats will be played with the latest Cubic Player, unless you supply us with your own
player.
MIDI is not allowed.
Maximum number of channels is 32.
House entries are disqualified.

Since the Takeover organisers find it not fair that house music is always disqualified at other parties, they decided to host The X'97 Takeover House Competition. The rules for this compo are pretty much similar to those of the music compo:

Maximum play time is 3 minutes (will be faded out after 3 minutes).
Maximum file size 1 Mb (1048576 bytes) uncompressed.
We play XMs with FastTracker, S3Ms with Scream Tracker 3 and ITs with Impulse Tracker.
Other formats will be played with the latest Cubic Player, unless you supply us with your own
player.
MIDI is not allowed.
Maximum number of channels is 32.
Non-house entries are disqualified.

The rules for The X'97 Takeover Graphics Competition are as follows:

Each picture will be shown for 20 seconds.
Only handdrawn pictures allowed; rendered, raytraced or scanned pictures will be disqualified.
Latest version of SEA will be used to show, unless own viewer supplied.
Maximum resolution 800x600x16M.

The rules for The X'97 Takeover Raytraced Graphics Competition are as follows:

Each picture will be shown for 20 seconds.
Only rendered or raytraced pictures please! :)
Latest version of SEA will be used to show, unless own viewer supplied.
Maximum resolution 800x600x16M.

Some rules for The X'97 Takeover Surprise Competitions:

There will be only jury voting for these competitions.
These competitions will be awarded with a small prize.
Rules will be announced at the party.

martijn@pitel-lnx.ibk.fnt.hvu.nl