Any thoughts as either an attendee or viewer please leave them here! :D

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This information has been split out of the [master thread](http://www.speedrun.com/esa2016/thread/t0kfo) to make it easier to read[/centre]

**__[Mass housing - Fortnox Arena](http://fortnoxarena.se/)**__:
Mass housing will be held inside Fortnox Arena and will be open between the 23rd of July and closing noon on the 1st of August. One of the two big halls will be split off in half and one of these sections will be used for mass housing. Our estimates are that it should fit 125-150 attendees. There are plenty of showers and dressing rooms. We will likely be able provide at least 5 private showers and a number of communal showers.

If there’s demand, we will use one or two of the dressing rooms as designated sleeping areas for females. **If you are interested in this, please contact flicky or Edenal.**

Mass housing is available to book as an option when you [sign up](https://www.biljettkiosken.se/event/160723-northernsky-esa2016), and air beds are available to purchase together with your mass housing ticket for an additional 150 SEK (subject to booking deadline). 

Discounted mass housing fee: 400 SEK 
Discounted mass housing fee (including air mattress): 550 SEK 
Late / On-site event registration: 750 SEK 
Late / On-site mass housing registration: 600 SEK 

__**Hotels**__:
There are two hotel options. You should compare location and rates and pick the correct one for you.

Hotel Reservations will be made by emailing the hotel or calling them. To get the discounted rate you need to make your reservation under the booking number/reference listed above. The discounted rate is different for each hotel. Prices include tax and gratuity.

The hotels are reserving 20 three-bed and 15 four-bed rooms each. It's first come, first served so get your reservations in early.

[Best Western Hotel Royal Corner](http://www.royalcorner.se/)
Liedbergsgatan 11
352 32 Växjö
Sweden
Phone: +46 470 70 10 00
Distance from Fortnox Arena: 1900 meters according to Google Maps.
Email: info@royalcorner.se

Single: 500 SEK per room per night 
Double: 700 SEK per room per night 
Triple: 900 SEK per room per night 
Quad: 1100 SEK per room per night 

Booking through email or by phone. Discount code: “ESA 2016”.
Last day for booking, 8th July.

[Scandic Växjö](http://www.scandichotels.com/Hotels/Sweden/Vaxjo/Scandic-Vaxjo/#.VqNBHHarRhE)
Hejaregatan 19
352 46 Växjö
Sweden
Distance from Fortnox Arena: 850 meters according to Google Maps.
Email: vaxjo@scandichotels.com

Single: 620 SEK per room per night 
Double: 720 SEK per room per night 
Triple: 870 SEK per room per night 
Quad: 1100 SEK per room per night 

Booking through email only. Discount code “ESA2016”.
Last day for booking, 26th June.

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**Announcing the ESA subscriber emote contest**[/center]

Traditionally, ESA has ended up filling it's subscriber emote slots with faces of regulars. Robo has had about six dedicated to him. They're kinda cool for a week then end up not being used for the rest of the year.

This year we want your help! We want to fill five emote slots with new and creative original emotes. There'll be a small voting group formed from event volunteers to select the ones we use during ESA2016! 

**Please consider the following things when you create your emote:**

⚫ How does it relate to ESA? Please write a 1-sentence justification!
⚫ Everybody loves memes!
⚫ Is your emote usable outside of the ESA channel? There is space for both inside-joke emotes and emotes that hold widespread appeal
⚫ Combos are good
⚫ Nothing that can be used to say the stream is boring :o ESA is HOYPE at all times.
⚫ You must submit 3 version in the standard twitch resolutions of 28x28, 56x56 and 112x112. The 112x112 must not be a badly scaled version of the 28x28 ;)
⚫ It should look good on both light and dark twitch themes
⚫ We are not looking for emotes of attendees, but ones of particular quality may be considered

The only strict rules on submissions is that they must not contain content that infringes the copyright of others and must adhere to twitch terms of service. Go wild!

**Submissions**
Please package your emote(s) in a zip or rar file and send them, along with a README file containing your name and justifications, to *questions@europeanspeedsterassembly.com*

Closing date is **Sunday 22 May** and the announcement will be made on **Sunday 29 May**.

By submitting you are agreeing that ESA can use your emotes as a subscriber perk on the ESA channel for an unlimited time. We might buy you a hotdog in return :)

If you have any questions please use this thread so answers are kept together! Planks, who is coordinating the contest, will check often. Honest ;)

Examples of justifications are shown below for the emotes we are keeping

https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/emoticons/v1/55287/2.0
This is a drawing of the ESA squeaky pig that often appears on stream during ESA, it is fun and combos well with the big red button!

https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/emoticons/v1/55285/2.0
The big red button is a HOYPE emote of the button runners press that can be spammed at the end of runs

https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/emoticons/v1/55483/2.0
This is a drawing of Tompa, ESA's most enigmatic chat moderator, that can be used to say Hi! [It should be noted, we are **not** looking for more people emotes this year]

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http://www.speedrun.com/themes/dreamhack/cover-128.png
http://www.speedrun.com/themes/esa2016/cover-128.png

TLDR;
It's the same story as last time!

[SIGNUP HERE](http://www.speedrun.com/dreamhack/signup) It's really important

Submit 1 game submission per run category (links below) and book travel now for best deals ;)


**Dreamhack Summer Sat 18 June 2016 - Tues 21 June 2016**[/centre]
Speedrunning is returning to Dreamhack Summer in 2016 with a second Pre-ESA event! This marathon will be a hybrid live/online event with the opportunity for live runners to take part in races with online opponents and with scheduled online-only blocks to allow the speedrun attendees to experience the rest of Dreamhack to it's fullest!

**Submissions**
Submissions are being taken via one of two google forms depending on the part of the marathon you want to take part in. There is no hard deadline for submission but we request you respect a soft deadline of **21 May**, a month before the event. Late submissions may be accepted, but we'll be in the process of making a schedule.

As a rule of thumb, we are aiming for 16 hours of live runs each day, with 8 hours handled like an online marathon. Runs/races can be submitted up to 2 live players and 2 online players each.

[centre]**[Form 1 - Run submissions for live or live/online hybrid runs and races](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uGrV1NpPdoLjFGrcbUuKnfcmACp-X6oCC5_DLgO9P9M/viewform)**
**[Form 2 - Run submissions for online-only runs and races](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1A0ANgS7N4NQ03b6JPELy3xUVOtosjHwhFYyorDumQLo/viewform)**[/centre]
Anyone who previously submitted via the spreadsheet has had their details moved to the new forms.

[centre]**[View submitted runs here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SgLFwsrCzLU5lj_2UZ9-uS_miGSCPZcLq1kDtJ6lFqw/pubhtml#)**[/centre]
**Signup**
As with previous Dreamhack Speedrun marathons, we can cover your entry and mass housing costs if you are prepared to take full part in our event. Do not book a general admission ticket!

Please sign up using the [speedrun.com signup link](http://www.speedrun.com/dreamhack/signup) if you are planning on attending

There is a discord group for chat about the event, **[find the ESA Discord / Pre-ESA at Dreamhack group here](https://discord.gg/0TZ2NlveujtG22p1)**.

**Accomodation arrangements**
Plan to arrive as early as possible on Saturday 18 June. The stream will start in the afternoon on this day. 
Plan to depart around 12pm Tuesday 21 June. There is no activity on this day, only packing and cleaning. 

Mass housing will be available on Saturday, Sunday and Monday only. If you need to arrive early or depart late you must book a hotel in or around Jonkoping. You should bring your own sleeping equipment, an airbed, pillow and sleeping bag are reccomended. Limited airbeds might be available to borrow by prior arrangement and on request.

**Volunteers**
We will need some volunteers to help run the online portion of the event. See Edenal for details :)

**Travel**
Dreamhack provide a [full travel Q&A on their website](http://dreamhack.se/dhs16/about/travel/)

Planes: 
Best Choice: Fly to Gothenburg Landvetter and then take a **direct coach** (see Swebus below). 
Second choice: Fly to Copenhagen Kastrup and then book a train to Jonkoping Centrum.

Trains: 
Jonkoping is one change from Gothenburg, Stockholm and Copenhagen, [SJ.se](https://www.sj.se/start/startpage/index.form?l=en) has prices and timetables.. Upon arriving at Jonkoping Centrum you should go up the escalator, cross the footbridge to the main square and take [local bus 1](http://www.jlt.se/resande/linjer/l1) to Elmia (cash accepted). Alternatively, a taxi from the station is about €10. 

Buses: 
[Swebus](http://www.swebus.se/SwebusExpress_com/) provide buses directly to Dreamhack from the following points. Use ‘Dreamhack Elmia’ as your destination to check availability with the promotion code 'DHS2016':
Stockholm, Södertälje, Nyköping, Norrköping, Linköping, Mjölby, Ödeshög, Gränna, Ulricehamn, Borås, Göteborg, Karlstad, Kristinehamn, Gullspång, Mariestad, Skövde, Tidaholm, Mullsjö, Gränna, Värnamo, Markaryd, Örkelljunga, Helsingborg, Lund and Malmö

Swebus also run many extra services to Jönköping Centrum from where you can take a local bus or taxi.

Swebus buses all have power points and free wifi.

**Dreamhack Winter 26-29 November**
A long time waiting, but I can finally confirm DHW15 speedrun marathon is happening :-D

The main speedrun schedule will run 15 hours each day with the last scheduled run starting before 1am. Overnight will be the 'bonus stream' where we can show off other unusual categories and games! 

There is a complimentary package available to people signing up to take part in the speedrunning exhibition area. We can cover your entry and mass housing costs if you are prepared to take full part in our event. 

**Submissions**

Please **first** confirm your attendance by signing up here: 

vvv
**[DREAMHACK SIGNUP FORM](http://goo.gl/forms/ClHrDicFyQ)**
^^^

Once you have done that, please submit as many runs/categories as you like via the following:

vvv
**[RUN SUBMISSION FORM](http://goo.gl/forms/NJovpM3unu)**
^^^

Submissions will remain open provisionally up until **October 18**, with a schedule published before November. Please confirm your attendance in this thread when submitting as we only have a short amount of time to stream. If you are coming you should have at least one run scheduled. We will close signups if it looks possible that people attending will not get a chance to run.

Please fill in the form once per run being submitted. If you’re submitting a race (up to 2 player vs) then please agree this with your buddy and then submit only once. We’ll endeavour to include as many people as possible in the main stream.

The atmosphere at DHW is relaxed and I encourage you to submit the categories that are the most fun to show off.

**Chat group**
We have a #DHW15 group chat in the ESA discord group. You can join that group with [this invite code](https://discord.gg/0TZ2Nlveujx8eu5f) :)

**Tech!**
We need capable volunteers to keep a handle on the speedrunning stream. Anyone who is available for the full event should contact Planks for the additional details, particularly if you've helped at a past ESA. 

**__Q&A__**

**BOOK YOUR TRAVEL NOW!** 
Plan to arrive as early as possible on Thursday 26 Nov. The stream will start in the afternoon on this day.
Plan to depart around 12pm Sunday 29 Nov. There is no activity on this day, only packing and cleaning.

Mass housing will be available on Thursday, Friday and Saturday only. If you need to arrive early or depart late you must book a hotel in or around Jonkoping.

**Airbeds?**
ESA owns a number of airbeds that should be available. Details later. Please bring your own if you can so that those travelling from far are able to use the ones available.

**Stream Location?**
[twitch.tv/dreamhackspeedrun](http://www.twitch.tv/dreamhackspeedrun)

**Bags**
A storage area will be made available for personal belongings.


**Travel**
Dreamhack provide a [full travel Q&A on their website](http://dreamhack.se/dhw15/about/travel/)

Planes: 
Best Choice: Gothenburg Landvetter and direct coach (see swebus below). 
Second choice: Copenhagen Kastrup and train to Jonkoping Centrum.

Trains: 
Jonkoping is 1 change from Gothenburg, Stockholm and Copenhagen on the trains. You can then take local bus 1 to Elmia or a taxi (approx 10 eur). [SJ.se](https://www.sj.se/start/startpage/index.form?l=en) has prices and timetables.

Buses: 
[Swebus](http://www.swebus.se/SwebusExpress_com/) provide buses directly to Dreamhack from the following points. Use ‘Dreamhack Elmia’ as your destination to check availability with the promotion code 'DHW2015':
Stockholm, Södertälje, Nyköping, Norrköping, Linköping, Mjölby, Ödeshög, Gränna, Ulricehamn, Borås, Göteborg, Karlstad, Kristinehamn, Gullspång, Mariestad, Skövde, Tidaholm, Mullsjö, Gränna, Värnamo, Markaryd, Örkelljunga, Helsingborg, Lund and Malmö

Swebus also run services to Jönköping station where you can take a local bus/taxi.

Swebus buses all have power points and free wifi.