IEM V: the best frags

Hi, a few days ago one of the largest manufacturers of equipment for gamers, Steelseries presented fragmovie : "The Best Of: IEM5 World Championship - Presented by SteelSeries". In the fragmovie we can see actions of teams like Na'Vi, Frag-eXecutors or mTw. Author of this movie is Arsalan "SK" Khan (e-Motion Productions). In my opinion this fragmovie is the best (no special effects). World class.

Hit play below to view the best of IEM5 World Championship.

Music:

Pendulum- Watercolor

Pendulum- Witchcraft

Two Steps From Hell - Call To Arms

Source: hltv.org

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

Steelseries helps Japan

SteelSeries have announced that they will donate percentages of their next month's sales to help Japanese earthquake victims. We must know, that the earthquake in Japan killed over 8,800 people and the numbers are expected to rise significantly. The total recovery costs could reach $122 billion!! SteelSeries, whose design team collected inspiration from Japanese characters and culture, among other things, when naming their product line of gaming mice, have now decided to lend a hand to the victims affected by the recent catastrophes.

On the Steelseries website we can read:

"These influences were what made this SteelSeries product line the obvious category for this initiative. Throughout the next month, on every purchase of a mouse in the SteelSeries’ branded line of professional gaming mice, which include the 4 mice seen to the right, we will donate 25% of the proceeds to the Japanese Red Cross Society to aide in earthquake relief. We will also offer a 25% off discount of this product line in the SteelSeries Web Shop as an incentive to fuel our fundraising initiative. We hope our global community of gamers will help to drive this fundraising initiative or will aide in donations and support for victims by other means."

This gesture is to be applauded and should be replicated by other gaming companies.

Source: HLTV.org , steelseries.com

Dreamhack events for Starcraft II

Starcraft II is growing increasingly in the e-sports scene. One of the popular LAN organisation, Dreamhack has announced its plans for this game going into 2011.This Swedish organisation has announced a total prize distribution amount of 800,000 SEK (~$125,000 USD) for the year 2011. The main sponsors will be: Steelseries, EIZO, AMD and Sapphire (elite :D). On Dreamhack web site we can read:

"DreamHack SAPPHIRE AMD Championship starts in March with a online tournament and then continue with four physical events where the major festivals, DreamHack Summer 2011 and DreamHack Winter 2011 with the finals at DreamArena Extreme, will be the most prestigious."

"A large part of the world’s elite are expected to come to Sweden to compete for the title of this year’s DreamHack Champion. The tournaments can be followed on site as well as online with several different types of live broadcasts."

"All the winners in the first four tournaments will qualify for the finals at DreamHack Winter 2011. Open Qualifiers will be held online but also through International Qualifiers."

The tournaments:

Online Kickoff - 10,000 SEK (~$1,500 USD) prize pool, in March
Swedish tournament - 100,000 SEK (~$15,000 USD) prize pool, in April and May
DreamHack Summer - 200,000 SEK (~$30,000 USD) prize pool, in June
European Tournament - 100,000 SEK (~$15,000 USD) prize pool, September
DreamHack Winter - 400,000 SEK (~$60,000 USD) prize pool, in November

So promises to be a very interesting duel in the international arena !!

Source: fnatic.com, dreamhack.se