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with the major succes Dreamhack had with Starcraft 2 last winter, things already looked to be bigger this year. Well it seems it will be. Below are the announcement for Starcraft 2 in 2011
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StarCraft 2 plans 2011
DreamHack announce eSports plans in StarCraft II during 2011 featuring SEK 800 000 prize purse and continuous support from same partners as last year: SteelSeries, Eizo and Sapphire AMD.
E-sport at DreamHack was followed by millions of people in 2010 and is expected to grow further in the coming years. A few weeks ago we announced DreamHack’s total Prize Purse for eSports during 2011 and together with our partners SAPPHIRE, AMD, SteelSeries and EIZO we proudly present the details of this year’s tournaments in StarCraft II.
Five tournaments and SEK 800 000 Prize Purse
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 and also have the largest share of the total prize purse of SEK 800 000.
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.
DreamHack Sapphire AMD Championship
- March: Kickoff Online Tournament, SEK 10 000 Prize Purse.
- April / May: Swedish Tournament, SEK 100 000 Prize Purse.
- June: DreamHack Summer 2011, SEK 200 000 Prize Purse.
- September: European Tournament, SEK 100 000 Prize Purse.
- November: DreamHack Winter 2011, SEK 400 000 Prize Purse.
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. More news, detailed information about the tournaments and the official tournament site will be announced shortly.
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so now we have GSL, IEM, MLG and soon NASL, who all have big plans for the comming year. 2011 is gonna be insane
On March 01 2011 04:26 mufin wrote:
to anyone thats curious
800,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 126,376 USD = 91,360 Euros
10,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 1,579 USD = 1,142 Euros
100,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 15,797 USD = 11,420 Euros
200,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 31,594 USD = 22,840 Euros
400,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 63,188 USD = 45,680 Euros
Source: http://www.dreamhack.se/DHS11/2011/02/28/starcraft-2-plans-revealed/
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Sick! With all these tournaments only getting bigger it's gonna be a great year for SC2!
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to anyone thats curious
800,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 126,376 USD = 91,360 Euros
10,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 1,579 USD = 1,142 Euros
100,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 15,797 USD = 11,420 Euros
200,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 31,594 USD = 22,840 Euros
400,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 63,188 USD = 45,680 Euros
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Oh My God. And when I thought 2011 couldn't get any bigger...
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800000 sek = 90k euros according to some random online converter, this looks huge for europe, so many tournaments this year some sc2 pros are gonna finnish 2011 quite rich:D
Dont forget all the "small" eu lans with 5-7k prizepools in norway, italy denmark etc too:D
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Great tournament, great prizepool. But first online tournament with on 1000$ prizepool, strange...still excited!!! Go EU!
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great news, Dreamhack was awesome, but please make the award ceremony a bit more epic in line with the rest of the tournament :D
for those who are wondering: 800 000 SEK = 91 497 euro, 126 240 USD
[edit]damnit got outposted -.- :p
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siiiiiick prize pool! Wow. This is getting nuts.
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Looking forward to tuning in to even more great SC2 tournaments in 2011
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DHW, 60k USD???? WTF
I have to witness that
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So sweet, I'll definitely try to go next winter.
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This sounds so awesome. Just more proof that SC2 and e-sports in general has not yet peaked, especially with all these tournaments just exploding in size.
I, for one, am looking forward to games even more awesome than the ones played at the last Dreamhack. More MaNa vs Naama-esque games. More Korean invites. Heck, even more ActionJesuz would be cool.
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Wow, so many huge tournaments in terms of price money coming up. Awesome.
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Woho! I just hope the coverage is really good for those qualifiers and they have the power to set up a really good overall event. 
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E-sport at DreamHack was followed by millions of people in 2010 and is expected to grow further in the coming years.
Millions? For real? Can we see some metrics on this? Millions is a lot.
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On March 01 2011 04:26 mufin wrote:
to anyone thats curious
800,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 126,376 USD = 91,360 Euros
10,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 1,579 USD = 1,142 Euros
100,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 15,797 USD = 11,420 Euros
200,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 31,594 USD = 22,840 Euros
400,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 63,188 USD = 45,680 Euros
thank you for doing the math (also the others who got ninja'ed)
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The money *_*
Competition is going to be fierce that's for sure.
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I can't handle all this announcements <3
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On March 01 2011 05:03 SmoKim wrote:Show nested quote +On March 01 2011 04:26 mufin wrote:
to anyone thats curious
800,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 126,376 USD = 91,360 Euros
10,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 1,579 USD = 1,142 Euros
100,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 15,797 USD = 11,420 Euros
200,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 31,594 USD = 22,840 Euros
400,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 63,188 USD = 45,680 Euros thank you for doing the math (also the others who got ninja'ed)
No need to thank me, I did it for Esports...
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On March 01 2011 05:03 SmoKim wrote:Show nested quote +On March 01 2011 04:26 mufin wrote:
to anyone thats curious
800,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 126,376 USD = 91,360 Euros
10,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 1,579 USD = 1,142 Euros
100,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 15,797 USD = 11,420 Euros
200,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 31,594 USD = 22,840 Euros
400,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 63,188 USD = 45,680 Euros thank you for doing the math (also the others who got ninja'ed)
That could be a good 30k for dreamhack winter. could attract some koreans over
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Pretty sweet prizes. 2011 is indeed the year of Sc2.
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Yay! Now there is enough money for lots of coin-tosses!
Poor Bischu ;(
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On March 01 2011 05:15 raf3776 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 01 2011 05:03 SmoKim wrote:On March 01 2011 04:26 mufin wrote:
to anyone thats curious
800,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 126,376 USD = 91,360 Euros
10,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 1,579 USD = 1,142 Euros
100,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 15,797 USD = 11,420 Euros
200,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 31,594 USD = 22,840 Euros
400,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 63,188 USD = 45,680 Euros thank you for doing the math (also the others who got ninja'ed) That could be a good 30k for dreamhack winter. could attract some koreans over
Seeing how both Rainbow and Cella was supposed to be at Assembly Winter(much less prizepool) and with oGsTOP and oGsInCa at last Dreamhack, i think we will see Koreans there
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On March 01 2011 05:17 Weavel wrote:Pretty sweet prizes. 2011 is indeed the year of Sc2.
definitely the year where the scene is starting to get momentum. I expect next year to be bigger.
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DHW is going to be the biggest SC2 tournament in Europe 2011 by far, can't wait!
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Very nice, can't wait to see all the players showing up for these.
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On March 01 2011 05:02 JoshSuth wrote:Show nested quote +E-sport at DreamHack was followed by millions of people in 2010 and is expected to grow further in the coming years. Millions? For real? Can we see some metrics on this? Millions is a lot.
Technically it's probably correct, the event was partially aired on national television(and online at SVT play) so all streams, vods, live audience and whatnot for all events and all games...it adds up.
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Ok, that frackin' does it, I'm going to Dreamhack this summer.
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so many tournaments to follow. Cool though now all regions have more or less a a big time consistent tournament they can play in.
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On March 01 2011 06:10 Hellie wrote:
Ok, that frackin' does it, I'm going to Dreamhack this summer.
Does DH summer use the arena for games? Same as winter did? Was a nice locale, might be worth going if they have a good caster and use it again.
Will get a hotel room this time though, no fun being there without a computer outside of game hours. ^^
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Jesus there's a new $100k+ tournament popping up like every day........
ESPORTS
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And im going this year! Will be awesome ;-)
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wow great prizes, looks like western E-sports is really booming ! So happy ^^
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holy swedish meatballs batman
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Huge thanks to Dreamhack for supporting Swedish and global esport like this!
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This is great news but if they do it bo1 style up the wazoo like last time then meh, maybe I'll watch the finals.
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On March 01 2011 05:14 mufin wrote:Show nested quote +On March 01 2011 05:03 SmoKim wrote:On March 01 2011 04:26 mufin wrote:
to anyone thats curious
800,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 126,376 USD = 91,360 Euros
10,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 1,579 USD = 1,142 Euros
100,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 15,797 USD = 11,420 Euros
200,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 31,594 USD = 22,840 Euros
400,000 Swedish krona (SEK) = 63,188 USD = 45,680 Euros thank you for doing the math (also the others who got ninja'ed) No need to thank me, I did it for Esports...
you mean: ESPORTS !
really a huge pricepool there! 800k swedish reasons for every team to make sure every single of their players can attend and therefore make it more than worthwhile to watch!
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This is huge!! Dreamhack will be so freakin' epic this year.
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And some people still are wondering why IdrA is leaving Korea...
East is the new West.
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Oh my god. It is so amazing that all these things keep popping up. Honestly i had a feeling that SC2 is going to be huge but honestly, all this is more than i think anyone could hope for.
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Sick! Might attend to DH this year :D
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This year will be my first DH, hype hype hype!
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On March 01 2011 07:05 EdSlyB wrote:
And some people still are wondering why IdrA is leaving Korea...
East is the new West.
Dont you mean West is the new East? 
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Altough the prizepool is the BIG eye catcher, i am more exited for the fact that they will have 5(!!!) Tournaments, with the 2 big ones(Summer and Winter) being the main events, like MLG national finals and IEM finals
so hyped for this, anyone i can sleep at in Sweden?
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IEM, MLG & Dreamhack. If these events don't overlaps then we are looking at a good number of events for players to compete in.
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On March 01 2011 08:06 SmoKim wrote:
Altough the prizepool is the BIG eye catcher, i am more exited for the fact that they will have 5(!!!) Tournaments, with the 2 big ones(Summer and Winter) being the main events, like MLG national finals and IEM finals
so hyped for this, anyone i can sleep at in Sweden?
DH has a large hall for sleeping in. ^^
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On March 01 2011 13:47 Yurie wrote:Show nested quote +On March 01 2011 08:06 SmoKim wrote:
Altough the prizepool is the BIG eye catcher, i am more exited for the fact that they will have 5(!!!) Tournaments, with the 2 big ones(Summer and Winter) being the main events, like MLG national finals and IEM finals
so hyped for this, anyone i can sleep at in Sweden? DH has a large hall for sleeping in. ^^
guess that could work too
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IEM Spoilers
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Maybe by the time Dreamhack is here we will finally see the play off matches of IEM
Brillant news for SC2, hopefully it was as entertaining as last year, and they have day9 and TLO casting <3
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Lots of tournaments.. Interesting year indeed.
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I have to go for november dreamhack, imagine how the SC2 scene will look in 9 months!?
AWESOME! Much love to the sponsors.
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On March 01 2011 07:11 FarbrorAbavna wrote:Show nested quote +On March 01 2011 07:05 EdSlyB wrote:
And some people still are wondering why IdrA is leaving Korea...
East is the new West. Dont you mean West is the new East?
Actually it works both ways.
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On March 01 2011 04:27 godemperor wrote:
Great tournament, great prizepool. But first online tournament with on 1000$ prizepool, strange...still excited!!! Go EU!
For us swedes 10k sek is quite alot of money
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On March 01 2011 18:36 SmoKim wrote:Show nested quote +On March 01 2011 13:47 Yurie wrote:On March 01 2011 08:06 SmoKim wrote:
Altough the prizepool is the BIG eye catcher, i am more exited for the fact that they will have 5(!!!) Tournaments, with the 2 big ones(Summer and Winter) being the main events, like MLG national finals and IEM finals
so hyped for this, anyone i can sleep at in Sweden? DH has a large hall for sleeping in. ^^ guess that could work too
I came from Denmark to DHW 2010, and I bought a guest pass, giving access to the sleeping area, which, as stated, is just a big hall you can sleep in. So bring sleeping bag and whatnot. But totally worth it.
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Wait, will krona boosting cause inflation??
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Are koreans invited?
I see many koreans coming due to big prize pool which will not be fun for foreigners
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thats a fair amount of money
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We dont need korea!
ESPORTS
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GSL needs to pick up their prizes to keep up with the competition next year :D
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On March 03 2011 04:46 baoluvboa wrote:
Are koreans invited?
I see many koreans coming due to big prize pool which will not be fun for foreigners
Nah, they'll just put up a lot of bo1 eliminations and coin flips. Should limit the Koreans success.
(joking)
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I'm going to definitely try out at least :/
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Wwowowowowow big big big news!
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sooo many tournies goin on for sc2 ~ dreamhack ftw
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This is awesome for eu players (:
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So, anyone still wondering why IdrA left Korea? :D
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Wow. I wonder if GSL is going to start upping their prize with all these tournaments coming out with huge sums
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how long does it take to get out of platinum and beeing able to compete for this? xD
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On March 03 2011 07:31 Jinsho wrote:
So, anyone still wondering why IdrA left Korea? :D
Nope!
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On March 03 2011 07:31 Jinsho wrote:
So, anyone still wondering why IdrA left Korea? :D
Hahahahahahaha
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Woah, that is pretty awesome!
So happy to see DH upping its prize money, i might actually go for DH winter as a spectator.
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Cool :- ) I'm soo going to dreamhack again, was a blast seeing all players live last winter. I never thought people like Day9 & Huk would come to cold Sweden ^^
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Ohhh my god that's sick! Just when I thought the 2011 announcements peaked.
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Soon, no-one will remain uninformed of Starcraft 2
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omg i must order tickets!
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Yesss but we still need more big tournies to keep coming and then professional leagues like proleague in Korea. But i'm optimistic . Now all they need to do is fix SC2 =_= lol.
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I would probably consider going to DHW if Day9 is commentating again.
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Will be buying tickets for the whole event this time, both times. Was there for the finals this winter and it was epic indeed.
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This will for sure bring over some great gooks!
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This is seriously why eSports is booming. And it feels awesome because I feel that it's all because of SC2.
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On March 03 2011 07:31 Jinsho wrote:
So, anyone still wondering why IdrA left Korea? :D
Doesnt make sense, hes gonna live in the US, not Sweden.
Tonnes of Koreans will play in these if they dont clash with GSL too badly.
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On March 04 2011 16:59 Liquid`Jinro wrote:Show nested quote +On March 03 2011 07:31 Jinsho wrote:
So, anyone still wondering why IdrA left Korea? :D Doesnt make sense, hes gonna live in the US, not Sweden. Tonnes of Koreans will play in these if they dont clash with GSL too badly.
He came to IEM didn't he? Obviously he is gonna try and go to EU tournaments as well.
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Sweden33719 Posts
On March 04 2011 17:11 Roflhaxx wrote:Show nested quote +On March 04 2011 16:59 Liquid`Jinro wrote:On March 03 2011 07:31 Jinsho wrote:
So, anyone still wondering why IdrA left Korea? :D Doesnt make sense, hes gonna live in the US, not Sweden. Tonnes of Koreans will play in these if they dont clash with GSL too badly. He came to IEM didn't he? Obviously he is gonna try and go to EU tournaments as well.
Yes, but he could come to IEM from Korea too lol
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Anyone know when the semifinals and or finals will be? Educated guess is semi on the 20th and final on the 21?
Me and a friend are traveling there just for the day but we have to sort vaccation and stuff from work...
anyone?
Regards
/Cop
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i just might attend if they invite some koreans. might.
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On March 04 2011 17:29 Liquid`Jinro wrote:Show nested quote +On March 04 2011 17:11 Roflhaxx wrote:On March 04 2011 16:59 Liquid`Jinro wrote:On March 03 2011 07:31 Jinsho wrote:
So, anyone still wondering why IdrA left Korea? :D Doesnt make sense, hes gonna live in the US, not Sweden. Tonnes of Koreans will play in these if they dont clash with GSL too badly. He came to IEM didn't he? Obviously he is gonna try and go to EU tournaments as well. Yes, but he could come to IEM from Korea too lol
GOM wasn't always flexible for him. Remember dreamhack last year where he was invited, they said they would help him out with scheduling and then didn't and he had to withdraw?
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On March 04 2011 17:29 Liquid`Jinro wrote:Show nested quote +On March 04 2011 17:11 Roflhaxx wrote:On March 04 2011 16:59 Liquid`Jinro wrote:On March 03 2011 07:31 Jinsho wrote:
So, anyone still wondering why IdrA left Korea? :D Doesnt make sense, hes gonna live in the US, not Sweden. Tonnes of Koreans will play in these if they dont clash with GSL too badly. He came to IEM didn't he? Obviously he is gonna try and go to EU tournaments as well. Yes, but he could come to IEM from Korea too lol
will you play in their Swedish tournament comming up :D?
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Oh my god this is so amazing, might very well take a trip to the next Dreamhack myself!
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On March 04 2011 17:29 Liquid`Jinro wrote:Show nested quote +On March 04 2011 17:11 Roflhaxx wrote:On March 04 2011 16:59 Liquid`Jinro wrote:On March 03 2011 07:31 Jinsho wrote:
So, anyone still wondering why IdrA left Korea? :D Doesnt make sense, hes gonna live in the US, not Sweden. Tonnes of Koreans will play in these if they dont clash with GSL too badly. He came to IEM didn't he? Obviously he is gonna try and go to EU tournaments as well. Yes, but he could come to IEM from Korea too lol
Does that mean that you can come to dreamhack etc as well? ^.^
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I'm so going again! Without computer and with a Zerg-Outfit this time. :D
I hope that Jinro shows up for his Swedish fans. <3
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Indeed Dreamhack was awesome last winter! I just hope that this time they'll make more room in the Dream Arena so that everyone can watch the finals!!
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On March 04 2011 16:59 Liquid`Jinro wrote:Show nested quote +On March 03 2011 07:31 Jinsho wrote:
So, anyone still wondering why IdrA left Korea? :D Doesnt make sense, hes gonna live in the US, not Sweden. Tonnes of Koreans will play in these if they dont clash with GSL too badly.
Will you? (Please say yes!)
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Wow 1/4 million prize pool! thats amazingly epic! DH was my favourite tournament last year, such exciting play. Hopefully this year is just as good
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woa holy shit so much money
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Sweden= Huge E-sport money prizes, Blonde ladies, Vikings, Max hamburgers and JINRO! <3
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Jinro you slapptask, return to the Motherland for Dreamhack this year and pwn it up!
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Are any of you thinking what I am thinking?
![[image loading]](http://media.jnytt.se/resources/news/2009-09-25160535-KinnarpsArenaKamera_small_600.jpg)
Think Greykarn (one of the gaming admins) talked last year about how they dreamed about being able to get the arena filled with 7000 people watching SC2. I honestly think that DH could fill it. Would be soooo much exposure and PR for SC2 and DH I believe.
Will try to dig up the Greykarn interview...
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This tourney is going to be awesome. I heard Huk saying he may go? I thought he was going for sure.
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This price pool is crazy! Maybe one should train for this Dreamhack?
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On March 09 2011 03:59 Zombieling_Yami wrote:
Sweden= Huge E-sport money prizes, Blonde ladies, Vikings, Max hamburgers and JINRO! <3
They way you say it makes it look like MAX hamburgers are actually eatable..
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On March 25 2011 23:11 Rylaji wrote:Show nested quote +On March 09 2011 03:59 Zombieling_Yami wrote:
Sweden= Huge E-sport money prizes, Blonde ladies, Vikings, Max hamburgers and JINRO! <3
They way you say it makes it look like MAX hamburgers are actually eatable..
The way you say it makes it look like MAX hamburgers aren't actually godly.. :O
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Would be nice if Blizzard actually did something to promote this, like what Riot did with the LoL stream.
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On March 09 2011 08:18 Kairo wrote:Are any of you thinking what I am thinking? Think Greykarn (one of the gaming admins) talked last year about how they dreamed about being able to get the arena filled with 7000 people watching SC2. I honestly think that DH could fill it. Would be soooo much exposure and PR for SC2 and DH I believe. Will try to dig up the Greykarn interview...
Please make it happend!
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Hardly any details about DHW 2011 so far (as far as SC2-tournament & casters).
The main question I want to see answered before I buy tickets: will Day[9] be swooning us with his casting? Does anyone know?
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