By pre-ordering the official TG 2010 mouse pad from QPAD you can win a lift trip inside The Viking Ship, including a photographing, and a QPAD 5K laser mouse.

Our crew will validate your address and other information when you are checking in. If the information is found to be invalid you will be rejected from the check-in queue.

Chillout and KANDU has arranged for the participants to go swimming at Ankerskogen for several years. Suitably enough for this year's theme, 2010 will be no exception!

The nominees for the Scene.org Awards for 2009 were announced this morning. Read on for more information about the awards, the nominees, and how to make sure you don't miss this year's award ceremony.

Are you still wondering how you're gonna stay alive during five days of continuous hacking? We want to remind you once again that The Gathering is offering you a ticket for three breakfasts and three proper dinners.

As of tomorrow (17th of March) at 1200 PTN will only be accepting payments made by either VISA or MasterCard.

First Hotel Victoria offers all attenders a special price during The Gathering 2010. The hotel is located in the city center of Hamar, only 50 meters from the train station and 1 km from Vikingskipet.

Berit Skog at NTNU has asked to do a survey on the participants of The Gathering. Unfortunately it's only available in Norwegian, sorry all foreign friends!

The Gathering has a Facebook fanpage! If you can't get enough of The Gathering at our official website (of course you don't!), we also have a Facebook page. You can join us at http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Gathering/263724429193.

This year The Gathering will have a delivered capacity of 30Gbit/sec. This is six as fast as the capacity of last year’s event of 5Gbit/sec.

The gathering is an event with a lot of people and a lot of sound. We've gotten several requests asking if some areas of the ship are more quiet than others, and we'll try to answer this now, as well as letting you know which areas will be colder than others.

If you're still looking for reasons to buy a Creative/demoscene ticket for TG10, look no further! Read about our Creative Lounge, and start planning for an Easter full of exciting seminars, cool people and frantic work to beat the competition deadlines.

The seating will begin the 1st of March, at 6pm CET, for groups of 30 or more. Read on for further details.

Large changes await you this Easter. When you arrive at The Gathering this year, you will find the stage in the middle of the "Viking ship".