Sunday, March 27, 2011

Dreamhack 2011


Hi, today I say something about Dreamhack, one of the biggest event in Europe.

"DreamHack Sapphire AMD Championship sponsored by SteelSeries, EIZO and Sapphire AMD is the official StarCraft 2 tournament at DreamHack-events during 2011. Tournament consist of five tournament , one online and four offline (included qualifiers), and boost a total prize purse of 800 000 SEK – which equals around 120 000 USD. World’s best gamers will fight to play the Grand Final at DreamHack Winter 2011 24-27 November in Jönköping, Sweden. Tournament will have open qualifications and invite tournaments with professionals only. All the greatest matches will be broadcasted online by famous shoutcasters and eSports celebrities."-The main organizers

This year DreamHack is expanding, not only organizing their standard summer and winter tournament, but also three others. At 12 April we will see the second event, the Stockholm Invitational. He will kick off in the afternoon and will see a winner be crowned and take home little over €11.000 within a matter of hours! On top of that the two finalists will automatically qualify for DreamHack Summer, which will be held 18-21 June and will offer more than €20.000 in prize money.

On this event we will see the elite of Starcraft world. We would see, how e-Sport should to look.


Invited so far are:
-Min Chul “MC” Jang (South Korea, Protoss)
-Jonathan “Jinro” Walsh (Sweden, Terran)
-Greg "IdrA" Fields (USA, Zerg)
-Chris "HuK" Loranger (Canada, Protoss)
-Steffan "MorroW" Andersson (Sweden, Zerg)
-Aleksey "White-Ra" Krupnyk (Ukraine, Protoss) - Dario "TLO" Wünsch (Germany, Random) - We don't know actually

Of course, Dreamhack don't focuses only on the e-Sport. The event consists of several elements: Kreativ (many, many music and others performances), DreamStore (big electronics store) and DreamExpo (electronic fair).

You must see this!

Curio: DreamHack is the undisputed world largest LAN and at last Guinness world record there was 10 455 connected computers to network!! During 2009 DreamHack reached over 200.000 unique visitors with live activities around the World.

Source: fnatic.com, dreamhack.se



29 comments:

  1. Mind = blown

    How can you get that many computers together without them banding together to become Skynet?

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  2. that sounds cool, wish i were good enough for something like that!

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  3. Just thinking about the sheer processing power that will be located in one place is amazing. What if they all turned on cloud computing and ran protein synthesizers for 20 minutes? I bet they would find a cure for AIDS with that kind of speed!

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  4. won't make it thats for sure .___. hope theres videos of the huge tournament!

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  5. I used to play Starcraft 1 back in the day, but never got into S2. Good to see it's still going strong!

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  6. i fed your fish, now feed mine :D

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  7. sounds to be a good match. :D

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  8. Holy, lol.

    That's pretty heavy.

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  9. Still been meaning to get into SC2 a little deeper. Just haven't had the time/distracted by other games.

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  10. hahaha im with slamcakes, Judgement day is at Hand

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  11. Sounds crazy enough, ahaha too bad I won't be able to go. Broke ass ):

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  12. sounds like the best LAN party ever.

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  13. great stuff, why would anyone miss out on this?

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  14. Boy, wish I was a real good gamer. 120 large isn't chump change!!!

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  15. First time I've heard about this Dreamhack festival...

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  16. Sounds like an EPIC festival. I will visit it someday!

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  17. Used to be a Starcraft fanatic, havnt even played the new one though :/
    Sounds like an interesting event, shame we don't have stuff like that where I'm from.

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  18. I'm sorry for this long period of no-show on the blog but I had some health problems,'m sorry again

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  19. wow that is awesome. would be epic to be there.

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