Starcraft 2 on terrestrial tv - Page 2

On April 20 2012 01:01 Morfildur wrote:
Sweden, the Korea of Europe. Has (arguably) the second best progamers in the world (after koreans) and the strongest esports scene...

I think it's time to move there :p

The esports tournament in Starcraft II, DreamHack EIZO Open Stockholm, is arranged this weekend 21-22 of april in Annexet (t/n the arena for the event) and is the beginning for DreamHack's esports season 2012. The competition is also the beginning for a deepened collaboration between DreamHack and Sveriges Television (Swedish national television).

Sveriges Television has broadcast esports from DreamHack twice a year since winter 2009. During 2012 there will be more live broadcasts of esports than ever before. Sveriges Television will broadcast live from five of DreamHack's competiotions during the year, beginning this weekend. This is to be compared with two events during previous years.

The goal is to primarily broadcast on SVT Play (t/n the online service), but this year SVT and DreamHack will also broadcast esports live on the terrestrial network in one of SVT's channels during the year.

- The interest for live broadcasts of esports is radpidly growing and we are very happy to be able to, in collaboration with SVT, offer more from DreamHack's competitions during the year. DreamHack prodcuces hundreds of hours of live broadcast esports every year and SVT will broadcast select parts of the best matches, says Tomas Hermansson, esports representative at DreamHack.

The first broadcast is this coming weekend, where SVT will broadcast the seven final games of the Starcraft II tournament from Annexet in Stockholm on SVT Play.

- SVT Play will be our exclusive media partner for the Swedish titles for the DreamHack EIZO Open tournament. They will also broadcast the most prestigious final matches in several international tournaments from our two big festivals DreamHack Summer and DreamHack Winter, says Fredrik Nyström, media representative at DreamHack.