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The Meteoriks Nominees 2026 (Friday)

The Meteoriks are an award show that honours the best demoscene productions of the previous year in different categories, such as Outstanding Technical Achievement, Best Soundtrack, Best Direction, New Talent, and more.

And we are excited to host the Nomination Gala live at MountainBytes again, before the Laureates will then be presented at Revision Demoparty on Easter!

After presenting the nominees, we will indulge in an extra-long demoshow, showing you all nominated productions!

Want to get an idea what awaits you? Have a look here at the previous year's nominees!

Live Event: Baumann Bergmann Pokinsson (Saturday)

Picture by Juliane Rudolf

All the way from Hamburg, we are delighted to welcome some old friends to MountainBytes: Baumann Bergmann Pokinsson are about to rock their first-ever gig in Switzerland!

Old friends? You will be surprised to hear that a lot of their (older) songs premiered in a little bar called "3 Zimmerwohnung" during evenings called "Tresenlesen" some 15ish years back. Those evenings were frequented quite heavily by local demosceners, before Anne, Poki and Gunnar went on to become every (German-speaking) gamer's favourite indie rock band, and we're absolutely over the moon to have them with us this year!

Hello Swiss BBP-fans who aren't demosceners (yet): We know you have been waiting for this opportunity for quite a while. You are of course more than welcome to join! The tickets for our event will be 35 CHF on Saturday past 6pm (20 CHF for people with low income), the band will play at 8pm for about an hour between our competitions, and you are welcome to stay before and afterwards and find out what our friendly nerd scene is about! Also have a look at our First Time Visitor Information and other pages, if you rather want to come prepared - ticket sale starts usually around Christmas time or January. As we are a small independent event, we are grateful about your preorder.

Prizegiving (Saturday)

No more morning-grouchy winners, or missing those that have to catch a flight or train: we close voting a little after midnight, so that we can announce the winners on Saturday night already before the last busses leave to the hotels!

This also gives us the opportunity to invite you to our...

Demo-Zmorge: Müesli, Gipfeli and Demos (Sunday)

No event can pride itself of its Swissness without some decent display of hospitality!

Note: Contrary to what the picture implies, the breakfast is mostly vegan apart from this corner of the table with local farm produce.

Join us for an extended breakfast on Sunday, where we not just serve you with some original Swiss Gipfeli, Müesli, Schoggi and more, but also watch a few relaxing and uplifting demos.

Please let us know before the event if you have any food allergies or limitations in what you can eat, we are happy to accommodate you.

Before we let you go back home, the sweetest treat of them all awaits you: A showcase of the results from our DemoLab Workshop!

Let's celebrate everyone who took part and produced (in many cases their first) demo. We watch and cheer for their releases together and of course, as honour demands, award them with the same prizes our compo winners received the night before.

Entry on Sunday is free for all!

We open our doors free of charge to our neighbours, to get an idea about our work and what the demoscene is about. Everyone interested is welcome to grab a gipfeli, watch some demos with us and ask questions!