I went to DreamHack! [Pictures!]

Thalandros

Netherlands1151 Posts

June 19 2014 22:54 GMT

So I went to DreamHack! I don't feel like sleeping yet, so here goes!:
[Warning, pictures are made with a Nexus 4 phone, so photo quality isn't the greatest.]

I started going to the event Friday morning. We (Me and my father, who would accompany me in Sweden, not the venue itself) went to Malmö and then Saturday morning drove up to Jönkoping, where the actual event would be!

We ALMOST missed the ferry though. Glad we didn't:

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The weather was nice, the sight was awesome and I basically spent 6 hours (the length of the ferry) on the deck, laying down.
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At Malmö, we spoke to an employee who was going to watch the entirety of the Dota tournament, so I had a little chat with him. We were also there to see the Dutch score 5 - 1 against Spain, which was glorious might I add.

In Jönkoping, I put down my PC at my BYOC spot in the Elmia Hall C, and then went off to play. I competed in the ''open group stage #1'' as it's called and I got 2-0'd by SolO after being beaten 2-0 by SortOf. I was in a Z-only group, which is kind of sad considering my ZvZ is my weakest matchup. Oh well! Still was an experience of it's own and very fun to participate in.

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Oohh, the amazing 120hz monitors. Really really want one now. Sadly it didn't help me win, but playing was very fun and a good experience already!

After this and inbetween my games, I managed to go to the ''Fan-zone'' because at 14:00, the casters would go there and shake hands with us, and at 15:00, the players of Liquid would too! I got this picture with Nathanias:

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I've gotten a picture with more of the casters/players, but this is the one where I look the least terrible and also Nathanias is awesome.

After playing in Group stage 1, group stage 2 started, all still on day 1 and all of the awesome pro's were playing. I watched a bunch of games from people like Harstem, Jaedong, PiG, Scarlett, Dayshi, TLO, etc!
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In a row from right to left: JD, San, Golden, Balloon

So, once I had grabbed some dinner it was time I sat down at my PC and start playing some games myself.
Hall C, really awesome:
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One thing I'd really like to speak about is the night of Day 2 though. I just came back from eating pizza and was checking on twitter. I read about Richard Lewis being closeby and decided I'd 'drop him' a tweet asking if I could go and meet him. I've been a big fan of Unfiltered and really enjoyed reading his articles (about really terrible stuff that goes on in eSports unfortunately

) and he actually replied within 5 minutes, telling me to come to the Twitch player lounge. When I finally found it (wasn't on any maps) they told me he had just gone, and when I checked twitter he messaged that he'd be at the Scandic hotel 200 meter from the event. I went up there and I sat down and joined the discussion but mostly listened about political geography that was going on. Meeting and sitting at a table with him, Robert Ohlén, White-Ra and a couple of others was really neat and the conversation was unexpected but interesting, learned a lot about how dirty the UK has actually been in the past. Thanks, Richard.

Unfortunately I've got no photos of this but it was certainly a highlight of the weekend!

On the third and last DH:Open day I managed to try out the Oculus Rift on one of Komplett.se's sick computers. Really awesome. I don't have any pictures unfortunately, but it was really good!
I do have a picture of the event right afterwards though. Jaedong was walking around while Taeja was playing vs ''challengers'' for gaming gear I believe, so I snapped a picture with him. I look a bit awkward, but come on, it's Jaedong (also look at the fitting shirt.

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He's really awesome and his english is good (as he is expressing more in interviews aswell now) and it was crushing to see him lose so hard to Taeja, who went on to go for a perfect streak during the entire tournament.
Some finals photos:

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let's finish it off with some beautiful cosplay ladies and landscape from my journey back through south-sweden:

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Thanks for reading my trip to Sweden, DreamHack. It's my first but will very hopefully not be my last. I hope to come back next year and atleast get to stage 2 or something. It's an unforgettable experience and the openness and nice, comfortable area make it an awesome place to be at for any enthousiastic gamer/eSports fan.

Muffloe

Sweden6061 Posts

June 19 2014 23:28 GMT

Really cool pictures! The ones with Nath and JD are totally awesome ^^ And no shame in losing to Sortof, guy's a beast

Dreamhack always seems like such a blast, I should start going aswell.. hoping for a return of Squirtle tho(in that case 100%)

Nathanias

United States290 Posts

June 20 2014 00:30 GMT

:D was a pleasure to meet you man, glad you enjoyed the trip as much I did!

Kommatiazo

United States579 Posts

June 20 2014 02:15 GMT

On June 20 2014 09:30 Nathanias wrote:
:D was a pleasure to meet you man, glad you enjoyed the trip as much I did!

This is why you are the cooliest of the cools man

Also, gratz OP! So jelly! I REALLY REALLY want to make it to Sweden for a Dreamhack one of these days. Seems so worth it, even coming all the way from USA.

endy

Switzerland8970 Posts

June 20 2014 06:59 GMT

Congrats for taking a picture with the Dong, and nice shirt by the way!

RouaF

France4120 Posts

June 20 2014 09:49 GMT

Are you really tall or is the dong small ? :D Nice blog

Thalandros

Netherlands1151 Posts

June 20 2014 11:47 GMT

On June 20 2014 18:49 RouaF wrote:
Are you really tall or is the dong small ? :D Nice blog

For a korean zhe dong isn't that small actually, I'd say average. I'm just Dutch and we're kind of the tallest people out there

I'm 1,88Meter or 6'2 if you want to know!

On June 20 2014 11:15 Kommatiazo wrote:

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Nathanias, this shows why you're awesome

I came from the Netherlands, and even though the trip still takes one whole day by car (and ferry), and a LOT of money, it's just so worth it if you love eSports/PC gaming. Everyone, literally everyone at DH is nice. I haven't met a single hateful person there and the environment is just great. If you ever have the money/time to go to DH.. Please do it! Also, don't forget the scenery before Dreamhack if car is your choice of travel. Sweden's outdoors is very tree-ey but so pretty.

I did take a swim in that lake, it was a ''bathing place''

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