The Replays

dreamhack — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:41:30 +0000

DreamHack Sapphire AMD Championship Valencia Invitational offered some really great games an now we are releasing the full replay pack for you all to enjoy!

DOWNLOAD HERE!

DongRaeGu wins

dreamhack — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:37:07 +0000

DreamHack Valencia Invitational took place last Saturday in the Veles e Vents building located in the Valencia Street Formula1 Circuit and the 33rd America’s Cup harbour. Eight world class StarCraft II were invited in this 100 000 SEK winner takes it all super tournament. It all came down to the final map between coL.MVP DongRaeGu and Mouz ThorZaIN, eventually the swede had to GG and DongRaeGu came out of the booth as the Champion. Both of them are now qualified for DreamHack Winter 2011, 24th to 27th of November, where 400 000 SEK is up for grabs.

1. DongRaeGu
2. ThorZaIN
3-4. HerO
3-4. Rain
5-8. HuK
5-8. NaNiwa
5-8. IdrA
5-8. LucifroN

Video On Demand are available at twitch.tv/dreamhacktv

LIVE LIVE LIVE!

dreamhack — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:52:09 +0000

The DreamHack Valencia Invitational is going live 14.45 today Saturday 17 September. Tune in to the live action on www.dreamhack.tv and watch 8 superstar players fight for the 100 000 SEK and the glory of being the very first DreamHack Valencia Invitational champion!

Live stream: www.dreamhack.tv
Photos: www.flickr.com/dreamhack
Twitter: www.twitter.com/DreamHack

Be sure to use the #dhlvc tag when you tweet from or abou the event. Selected tweets will be showed in the live stream

Starcraft according to Valencia

greykarn — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:39:23 +0000

How will the locals in Valencia treat our upcoming Invitational event in Spain? Our local partner Canales have asked them people in the in street.

Valencia match-ups

hellspawn — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:09:34 +0000

DreamHack Regionals Finals for South Europe and Valencia Invitational in StarCraft II to be played the 16th-17th of September. Official match-ups and match times released today together with the official host-duo Hailey Bright and James Harding.

This Friday, 16th of September, DreamHack South Europe starts at Veles e Vents in Valencia, Spain. It kick-offs with the Regional Finals in Counter-Strike 1.6, StarCraft 2 and Super Street Fighter IV AE where the best players from Spain, Portugal, France and Italy will battle it out to determine the Regional DreamHack-champions 2011 and also qualify for the Grand Finals at DreamHack Winter 2011.

In addition to the event, DreamHack will host the fourth event in DreamHack Sapphire AMD Championship – the Valencia Invitational. DreamHack have invited 8 of the world’s best players to fight for 100 000 SEK prize purse and also auto-berths into the main tournament at DreamHack Winter 2011.

Today we’re proud to announce the match-ups for Valencia Invitational. All matches are played best-of-3 and the Finals is played best-of-5.

Schedule / Match-ups 17th of September:
15.00 Round of 8 EG HuK (Protoss) vs. Mouz Thorzain (Terran)
16.00 Round of 8 Liquid`HerO (Protoss) vs. EG IdrA (Zerg)
17.00 Round of 8 Fnatic Rain (Terran) vs. Dignitas NaNiwa (Protoss)
18.00 Round of 8 MVP.coL.DongRaeGu (Zerg) vs. APSC2 LucifroN (Terran)
19.00 Semifinal #1 TBA
20.00 Semifinal #2 TBA
21.00 Grand Final TBA

15:30 Fan meeting #1 – Rain, NaNiwa, DRG & LucifroN
17.15 Fan meeting #2 – HuK, ThorZaIN, HerO & IdrA

Click the picture for a larger version

Maps:
TSL3 Metalopolis
Antiga Shipyard
ESL Shattered Temple
GSL Dual Sight
ESL Shakuras Plateau
Tal’Darim Altar LE
GSTL GSL TerminusRE

Each player will blindly veto one map from the pool. The maps will then be randomly chosen of those remaining.

Official hosts for the event will be Hailey Bright and James ‘2GD’ Harding. Bright, famous from Coin-op TV, Spike TV and self-professed ‘tech geek’ will be the presenter of the games and interview the gamers between matches. Esports celebrity James ‘2GD’ Harding will assist as the co-host throughout the event.

All matches will be livestreamed in three different languages: English, Swedish and Spanish. English stream in 720p will be available thanks to TwitchTV. Sweden’s largest and most influencing media outlet Aftonbladet will broadcast the show in Swedish – produced by Amok Studios. And for the first time, we’ll also feature a Spanish stream through Canal+ and produced by Canales.

Streams:
English stream: www.dreamhack.tv
Swedish stream: www.aftonbladet.se
Spanish stream: www.plus.es

More information about DreamHack South Europe is available at www.dreamhack.es and information about DreamHack Valencia Invitational can be found at www.dreamhack.se

Lineup for Valencia

hellspawn — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:50:56 +0000

The star players for DreamHack Valencia Invitational have now been set after the Spanish star LucifroN defeated his brother Vortix this evening. The last two players presented are no other than the Korean stars HerO and Rain who will fight for the 100 000 SEK on the 17th of September.

Around the corner is DreamHack’s second Invitational hosted at beautiful Veles e Vents building located in the Valencia Street Formula1 Circuit and the 33rd America’s Cup harbour. Tonight the Spanish Champion was decided between the two brothers LucifroN and Vortix. We welcome LucifroN to DreamHack Valencia Invitational and we are sure he will do an impact in the tournament. LucifroN is one of the most successful European WarCraft III players with great achievements, Runner up of Blizzcon 2008, ESWC Masters Cheonan 2009 Champion and winner of BlizzCon 2009 European Regionals.

DreamHack can present Team Liquid’s newest addition to Valencia, HerO. The feared Protoss player had a strong showing at MLG Raleigh and just qualified for GSL October Code A. The last player to be presented is none other than Fnatics power Terran Rain who lives in USA nowadays. He was the runner up of GSL Open Season 3 and have had strong showings at the last two MLGs.

The Chinese player Infi has unfortunately canceled his participation due to restructuring of TyLoo’s RTS division.

THE STARS

Press accreditation for Valencia
All news and community sites that want to attend DreamHack Valencia Invitational need to contact Fredrik Nyström at fn@dreamhack.se for accreditation as soon as possible.

Buy Tickets Now!
Hundreds of European and Spanish eSports fans will have the possibility to attend the show live on-site. The tickets are available now! With the ticket you have access to the event from 14.00 to 23.00, meet your idols in fan meetings and attend the after-party. Tickets will be sold for 140 SEK, or €15, and available at bokning.dreamhack.se. Secure your ticket today, more players and information about the event will be released to you shortly.

Tournament page: DreamHack Invitational

Go to: bokning.dreamhack.se

DreamHack live on Aftonbladet.se

dreamhack — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:17:26 +0000

The fall season of DreamHack Sapphire AMD Championship will kick off in Valencia, Spain with an invitational tournament. DreamHack will invite eight world class StarCraft II-players who will fight in a one-day tournament in the beautiful Veles e Vents building located in the Valencia Street Formula1 Circuit and the 33rd America’s Cup harbour.

Just like the extremly sucessfull Stockholm Invitational the whole show from Valencia Invitational will be available by live stream at Aftonbladet.se. During Stockholm Invitational Aftonbladet broke all previous streaming records and we are sure that DreamHack Sapphire AMD Championship: Valencia Invitational will attract a huge audience once again.

The cooperation with Aftonbladet is a fantastic opportunity to once again show the large main stream public the amazing world of esports. We got great feedback and a lot of new fans during Stockholm Invitational and are very excited bring the DreamHack Experience to Aftonbladets audience, says Robert Ohlén, CEO of DreamHack.

DreamHack Sapphire AMD Championship: Valencia Invitational will feature a 100 000 SEK price purse, spots to the tournament season Grand Final at DreamHack Winter 2011, November 24-27, in Jönköping and will be completely covered by live streaming.

Valencia Invitational is arranged together with Canales Corporativos during the DreamHack regional finals for the Mediterranean countries 17th of September 2011. Regional Finals will not only be a Spanish celebration of games and digital culture but also a regional event open for Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian gamers competing in Counter-Strike 1.6, StarCraft II and Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition.

About Amok Studios
Amok Studios is a production company creating esport formats for webb-TV and traditional broadcasting for broad audiences. Amok Studios has previously produced, among others, the DreamHack StarCraft II Stockholm Invitational for Aftonbladet, the Grand Finals of DreamHack Winter-10, DreamHack Summer-10 and DreamHack Winter-09 for SVT (Sveriges Television), the Swedish Championships/FIFA-08 & -09 for TV4 Sport and Virtual Grand Prix-07 for TV4 +.

About DreamHack
DreamHack is the World’s Largest Computer Festival. DreamHack’s roots and core is the LAN party, with the major events DreamHack Summer and Winter, where participants bring their own computers and connect to the Internet in a large local area network which basically BECOMES the Internet by sheer scale. DreamHack is also Sweden’s first consumer-oriented trade show / event / festival for computer games, game consoles and computers. The events are a platform for tournaments in eSports, knowledge and creative competitions, concerts by famous music artists, lectures by game developers and much more. Website: www.dreamhack.se

About Canales Corporativos
Canales Corporativos a Spain based company specialising in developing strategies that connects the brands with their audience using, and understanding, the new tools available in digital media. Since 2009 Canales Corporativos is working hard to implement videogame concepts into communication strategies, pioneering the use of gamification and transmedia in Spain and developing DreamHack presence in Spain, and now throughout the Mediterranean Countries. Website: www.canalescorporativos.com

DreamHack Balkan

dreamhack — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:43:30 +0000

DreamHack is coming to South East Europe! We are very proud to announce that the world’s largest digital festival will have an event in Romania – DreamHack Balkan – which will will cover the countries in the Balkan region of Europe: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Serbia.

The event will be organized by PGL (Professional Gamers League) and will take place between 29 and 30 October in Romania, featuring the best Counter-Strike 1.6 and StarCraft II players in the Balkan area.

The DreamHack Balkan 2011 event will start with National qualifiers in all participating countries, where the best Counter-Strike teams and StarCraft II players will be selected, and it will continue at the regional final in Romania.

The main attraction of DreamHack Balkan will be the Counter-Strike tournament, based on the most played game in the entire South Eastern Europe. The second official tournament will be organized for StarCraft II one that will select a rising star in the StarCraft II scene to compete in the DreamHack Winter 2011 event. Alongside the two official tournaments, the Balkan event will also feature side events for other games.

The best 2 Counter-Strike teams from DreamHack Balkan will compete in the Dreamhack MSI BEAT IT tournament, which will take place during DreamHack Winter 2011 (24-27 November, Jonkoping, Sweden).

The Dreamhack MSI BEAT IT will feature the following prizes:
1. 100,000 SEK + 5x MSI GT780 Laptops
2. 50,000 SEK + 5x MSI Motherboards
3. 30,000 SEK + 5x MSI Graphic cards
4. 20,000 SEK

There will be 16 participating teams in the MSI BEAT IT tournament, selected from qualifiers around the world:
01 SK Gaming – Invited DreamHack Summer 2011 Champions
02 DreamHack South Europe 16-17 September LAN
03 Beat IT Europa Qualifier 1 24-25 September Online
04 Beat IT USA Qualifier 1-2 October Online
05 Beat IT Europa Qualifier 2 8-9 October Online
06 Beat IT SEA Qualifier 15-16 October Online
07 Beat IT Europa Qualifier 3 22-23 October Online
08 Beat IT Europa Qualifier 4:1 28-31 October Online
09 Beat IT Europa Qualifier 4:2 28-31 October Online
10 Beat IT Europa Qualifier 4:3 28-31 October Online
11 DreamHack Balkan 29-30 October LAN
12 DreamHack Balkan 29-30 October LAN
13 DreamHack Qualifier TBA LAN
14 DreamHack Qualifier TBA LAN
15 DHW11 BYOC Qualifier 24-25 November LAN
16 DHW11 BYOC Qualifier 24-25 November LAN

The StarCraft II winner of the DreamHack Balkan will compete in the DreamHack Sapphire AMD Championship during DreamHack Winter 2011 which will feature a 400 000 SEK prize purse.

More information about the local qualifiers in the Balkan region will be sent out by the PGL partners in the following days. Watch http://dreamhack.pgl.ro for more informations

About DreamHack:
DreamHack is the world’s largest digital festival and holds the official world record as world’s largest LAN party in the Guinness Book of Records. During 2009 DreamHack reached over 200.000 unique visitors with our live activities around the World. DreamHack holds several festivals each year, BYOC Qualifiers and expos. The Spring Season ends with the Season Finals at DreamHack Summer and the Fall Season ends with DreamHack Winter. The major festivals take place during 4 days, 24-7. All of DreamHack’s festivals are alcohol and drug free and open to all ages

About PGL :
PGL is Romania’s biggest e-sport organization. Its activities go all year round, since 2002, consisting of national championships and qualifiers for the world’s biggest e-sport events. The largest PGL event is the Romanian Counter-Strike league, where hundreds of teams are competing each season for fame and prizes.

Svenska mästerskapen i Esport

dreamhack — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:03:28 +0000

2011-09-01, Stockholm. Inferno Online och DreamHack lanserar Svenskt mästerskap i 5 esporttitlar med 8 SM-tävlingar och en SM-final i juni 2012.

Inferno Online och DreamHack kommer tillsammans arrangera Svenska Mästerskapen i Esport under 2011/2012. Åtta officiella SM-tävlingar kommer att hållas i hela landet och SM-finalen kommer spelas på DreamHack Summer 2012. Telia fördjupar sin satsning på esport genom att stötta SM som första huvudsponsor.

SM i Esport är fortsättningen på Inferno Online League som nu byter skepnad efter tre framgångsrika säsonger.
- I samarbete med DreamHack och Telia kan vi skapa en ännu bättre och heltäckande liga som stärker svensk esport och blir en plattform för framtidens svenska esportstjärnor. Sverige har länge varit ett ledande land i esport, men har länge saknat ett riktigt svenskt mästerskap, säger Anton Budak, ägare av Inferno Online.

Två av åtta SM-tävlingar kommer spelas på den officiella SM-arenan Stockholm Esport Arena. I den nybyggda lokalen på 400 kvm, intill Inferno Online vid Odenplan, kommer publiken ha en unik chans att följa esportmatcherna live.

Fem officiella spelgrenar – 400 000 kronor i prispotten
I första säsongen som sträcker sig från oktober 2011 till juni 2012 kommer Svenska mästerskapen bestå av fem spelgrenar:

Counter-Strike 1.6 5 mot 5 (PC)
StarCraft II 1 mot 1 (PC)
Heroes of Newerth 5 mot 5 (PC)
Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition 1 mot 1 (XBOX)
Fotbollsspel 1 mot 1 (TBA)

Utöver att bli Svensk mästare kommer mästarna premieras med hela 400 000 kronor, uppdelat på både SM-tävlingar och i SM-finalen.

Svenska Mästerskapen bygger på ett enkelt turneringsupplägg. En tävling varje månad från oktober till maj. Vinnaren i varje SM-tävling kvalificerar sig till SM-finalen. Slutligen, kommer 8 finalister göra upp om den åtråvärda titeln som Svensk mästare.
- SM i Esport är ett steg i DreamHacks utveckling att renodla esportsäsongen med två tydliga säsonger – en svensk som kulminerar på DreamHack Summer och en internationell säsong som slutar på DreamHack Winter varje år. Med SM vänder vi oss mot alla svenska spelare från nybörjare till proffs, säger Fredrik Nyström, Pressansvarig på DreamHack.

SM 2011/2012: Evenemangskalender
SM-tävling #1 Stockholm Esport Arena, Stockholm 8-9 oktober
SM-tävling #2 Gamex, Stockholm 3-6 november
SM-tävling #3 Inferno Online, Norrköping 17 december
SM-tävling #4 TBA januari
SM-tävling #5 TBA februari
SM-tävling #6 TBA mars
SM-tävling #7 Stockholm Esport Arena, Stockholm april
SM-tävling #8 TBA maj
SM-final DreamHack Summer 2012, Jönköping 16-19 juni

Hela turneringen kommer presenteras i detalj på den nya siten www.esportsm.se där man kommer kunna följa alla tävlingar genom nyheter, bilder, videos och genom sociala medier. SM TV kommer erbjuda livesändningar från de viktigaste matcherna, och det kommer självklart också finnas tillgång till HLTV, replays och demos.

Two players and two casters

dreamhack — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:56:30 +0000

On the 17th of September DreamHack once again stands as host for a StarCraft II Invitational. This time in the beautiful Veles e Vents building located in the Valencia Street Formula1 Circuit and the 33rd America’s Cup harbour.
Two more players can today be presented and also the two casters of the event that will guide us through the epic battles we have ahead.

DreamHack Valencia Invitational is less than three weeks away and four of the eight superstars have already been announced and it’s time for two more players.
As the 5th invited player DreamHack is proud to present the dreaded Korean Zerg Player DongRaeGu from compLexity.MVP who is the champion of LG Cinema 3D Special League and has had a very strong showing in GSTL and at MLGs.
Our second Terran player for the tournament is no other than the TSL 3 Champion from Sweden, ThorZaIN. The Mousesport player is currently living in Korea to practice against the best and will most likely be lethal at Valencia Invitational.

THE STARS

The british duo of Apollo and TotalBiscuit to cast the games
Shaun “Apollo” Clark has been with DreamHack StarCraft II since the start and is back yet with another caster who is no other than the very popular man in the hat John “TotalBiscuit” Bain.
They were both casting DreamHack Summer 2011 but on different streams and we have seen over several tournaments that the combination is fantastic. DreamHack is proud to have Apollo and TotalBiscuit as commentators for DreamHack Valencia Invitational.
The hosts for the show will be announced very soon, stay tuned..

On the 6th of September the two brothers LucifroN and Vortix will face off to compete for the spanish slot of the Tournament. They are both qualified for the DreamHack South Europe Regionals which is taking place during the same weekend 16-17 of September.

Buy Tickets Now!
Hundreds of European and Spanish eSports fans will have the possibility to attend the show live on-site. The tickets are available now! With the ticket you have access to event from from 14.00 to 23.00, meet your idols in fan meetings and attend the after-party. Tickets will be sold for 140 SEK, or €15, and available at bokning.dreamhack.se. Secure your ticket today, more players and information about the event will be released to you shortly.

Tournament page: DreamHack Invitational

Go to: bokning.dreamhack.se