EPTEmerald (who wrote what i'm about to post) has made a post about this where he explains the situation and he's reaching out to the SC/BW community for help. He asked me to post it here because he can't access his tl account or whatever.
"Last week we got the information that Starcraft has been removed from the Dreamhack tournaments. This event is the major event for every swedish Starcraft player and also several foreigners travel across Europe to take part of this huge and great experience.
As I do have contact with Martin Öjes at Dreamhack i have decided to organize a name-list asking them to please add Starcraft back to the Dreamhack tournaments. The text goes like this:
Starcraft is the best and most entertaining E-sports game after Counter-strike (some might argue about this and say Starcraft is THE most enjoyable game to watch.) With Starcraft 2 waiting around the corner the hype around Starcraft is now bigger than for years.
By putting our name to this list we disagree with your decision to remove Starcraft from this winter edition of Dreamhack. We demand a change - We demand Starcraft to be added back to the selected pool of games. We can compromise, lower the prize money if you so wish, only give prize money to 1st place. Do what you need to do, but PLEASE ADD STARCRAFT BACK!!!
The Starcraft community is so so strong when it comes to supporting the scene. Here in Sweden we already lost our hopes of ever getting a WCG qualifier as this years supposed one got canceled. We NEED Dreamhack!!! Please, if you ever thought about giving your vote for a good cause, this is the time to do it. Let's overwhelm Dreamhack with thousands of names.
NAME LIST IS HERE:
http://www.namninsamling.se/index.php?sida=2&nid=2556
Sign to the right:
Namn = Name
Stad/Ort = Town/Country
Then hit the orange button below.
I also ask everybody to spred the link to this forum thread to everybody you know... spam everybody in your msn list.
Help us to get Dreamhack back! "
EDIT: Not sure if this is supposed to be in the Brood War forum or in the Tournament section, I guess the mods can move it if they want to.
