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Today Dreamhack announced their 2012 circuits, It will be an international circuit consisting of 4 circuit events and 1 grand finals at the end of the year at Dreamhack Winter. The events will be in the same order as in last year, starting off with Dreamhack Stockholm, followed by Dreamhack Summer and then Dreamhack Valencia. The new addition this year will be the Bucharest stop in October.
It also seems that Dreamhack Stockholm dates will be coliding with MLG Spring Arena, although MLG Winter Arena still managed to be succesful when it was held at the same time as Assembly, Dreamhack is definately an event of higher caliber and Dreamhack Stockholm was one of the most praised events last year. It is left to see how the two organizers will be effected by this collission.
DreamHack Open – Stops:
DreamHack Open: Stockholm – April 21-22
DreamHack Open: Summer – June 16-19
DreamHack Open: Valencia – September 21-23
DreamHack Open: Bucharest – October 27-28
DreamHack Open – Grand Finals:
DreamHack Open: Winter – November 22-25
Source: http://www.dreamhack.se/dhs12/2012/03/02/dreamhack-announce-2012-dates-hello-stockholm-valencia-bucharest/
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i see a collision with mlg here
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On March 03 2012 05:49 towel wrote:
i see a collision with mlg here
Yes, I just added it to the OP.
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No games announced with the announcement, hopefully the non-major DreamHack events this year will feature more than one game.
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On March 03 2012 05:49 towel wrote:
i see a collision with mlg here
I beleive that it's a 6 hour difference between NY (UTC-5) and Stolkholm (UTC+1). I could be wrong here (Not always good at placing Euro cities in their proper time zones), but while they will be on the same day it's entirely possible they will not overlap time wise (Assembley and MLG Arena 1 for example didn't really overlap too heavily.)
If anything we may be getting glorious full days of Starcraft II action for a whole weekend. Especially if there is any sembalance of cooperation between the two events. While I would understand if there wasn't, it seems that running the tournaments at decent local times for each event will cause there to be not a whole lot of time where both events are live and counterprogramming/competeing with each other.
You see a collision, I see an opprotunity to watch starcraft from the second I wake up until I assume the keyboard face sleep position.
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On March 03 2012 05:51 Xacez wrote:
No games announced with the announcement, hopefully the non-major DreamHack events this year will feature more than one game.
This is true. Although It's highly likely that Starcraft 2 will be featured on the circuit, it will be pretty interesting to see which MOBA game they will pick and if they'll keep supporting CS 1.6.
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Assembly was held during the day mostly for EU times, iirc Dreamhack often goes late into the EU night.
MLG started in late evening for EU times, so there could be some schedule overlapping but not for a huge amount of time. The end of Dreamhack days may overrun with the beginning of MLG days.
Hopefully they will avoid each others time schedules completely but if it happens then so be it. I'll still try to watch both at once.
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I think it's great that Dreamhack tries to cover Europe with events, them and IEM are doing a great job I feel. 
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Looks great!
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On March 03 2012 06:00 darkcloud8282 wrote:
Pay per view?
Doesn't look like it, just like the MLG Open events.
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On March 03 2012 06:00 darkcloud8282 wrote:
Pay per view?
Not likely, especially with the highly critical article Hellspawn from rakaka wrote about MLG PPV model (Hellspawn works for Dreamhack). And Dreamhack has always had free full HD streams.
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It will probably split the same as mlg did. All of the top foreniers, barring stephano who will never leave europe and polt who likes europe as well, will go to mlg with all the top koreans.
Who knows really though very werid that they're conflicting with each other didn't they talk about this with each other before announced the dates? be worrying if they started fighting with each other but I think mlg will win it.
Sorry if my post seems a little inflammatory I mean that mlg will get anyone they want beacuse they'll pay the players way to the event. Before the players decide where to go thats got to be something big for them.
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Dreamhack stockholm was so awesome last year, me and two mates yelled "special tactics" in the crowd when 2gd was interviewing Whitera, best time ever ^^ Not even a slightest doubt about which event I will watch between this and mlg, dreamhack is just the bomb in terms of eSport events )
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No more Dreamhack Skellefteå? 
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Of all the weekends in a year, I find it amazing major events still clash. Is it a lack of communication?
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On March 03 2012 06:06 Necosarius wrote:No more Dreamhack Skellefteå?
I think they've dropped the "small swedish stops" for the "sm-stops" (Swedish Nationals).
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With e-sport getting bigger we really need some forum to avoid these scheduling conflicts
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Does anyone know if Valencia, Stockholm and Bucharest will be the small 8 man invitationals they've been doing or something of a different manner? I assume the Winter and Summer events will be their classic large events while the rest wil be smaller invitational but the event doesn't specify.
If the other ones are in fact just 8-man or so invitationals it doesn't seem like a huge deal that they would be conflicting with MLG Arena.
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On March 03 2012 05:56 battyone wrote:I beleive that it's a 6 hour difference between NY (UTC-5) and Stolkholm (UTC+1). I could be wrong here (Not always good at placing Euro cities in their proper time zones), but while they will be on the same day it's entirely possible they will not overlap time wise (Assembley and MLG Arena 1 for example didn't really overlap too heavily.) If anything we may be getting glorious full days of Starcraft II action for a whole weekend. Especially if there is any sembalance of cooperation between the two events. While I would understand if there wasn't, it seems that running the tournaments at decent local times for each event will cause there to be not a whole lot of time where both events are live and counterprogramming/competeing with each other. You see a collision, I see an opprotunity to watch starcraft from the second I wake up until I assume the keyboard face sleep position.
This.
The weekend of Assembly/Winter Arena was amazing. I woke up early in the morning East Coast time, watched Assembly, then had about an hour to go get food before Winter Arena started. Winter Arena ended for the day just as GSTL started, and as GSTL was ending KSL was starting, as was Assembly again, and then Winter Arena started back up.
I didn't have time to catch all the matches, but it was pretty awesome to have them on all day.
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