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

Copenhagen Games 2011

One of the most popular event in Europe, Copenhagen Games will take place from 21st to 23rd April. In contrast to the previous edition of the event this year in Copenhagen we can expect the elite of the European Counter-Strike. Probably more than 700 gamers from many countries will concentrate in Øksnehallen (Copenhagen ofc).The main sponsors are: Sennheiser (:D), Roccat, Sandberg and... Earpollution :). On the gratuities for the best players spent 47,000 euros!!! The competition is addressed to players of Counter-Strike, StarCraft II, and... Counter-Strike: Source. Of course we will see many, many other games like Fifa, Heroes of newerth, Battlefield or mobile games :) The main activity at this event is of course the gaming tournaments. Besides the great main BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) tournaments there will be tournaments for people coming in from the street. You must be there!

The amount of rewards at Copenhagen Games 2011:

Counter-Strike 1.6 - 20.120 euro
Counter-Strike: Source - 20.120 euro
StarCraft II - 6.700 euro

As we can see the young brother of CS 1.6 , CS Source equaled with him. In Europe are more and more organized tournaments ,where CSS is the main game. Could it be the successor legendary CS 1.6? Maybe. We remember the situation after a few weeks ago, when the French section of ESL directors decided to remove CS from the EPS (European Pro Series) list of games , giving the place for CSS. We only know one thing: if CS Source overtakes the popularity of CS 1.6, this will be the revolution for FPS's e-sport.

And you, what do you think about CSS? Is he worse\better than Counter Strike 1.6??

Source: frag-executors.com, copenhagengames.com