Dreamhack 2012 Circuit Announced - Page 4

On March 03 2012 10:59 dignitasNewmaN wrote:
Funny how everyone assume Starcraft 2 will be played, they havent announced games yet..

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.

On March 03 2012 09:28 onedayclose wrote:


MLG has stated that they have attempted to talk to the other events (IE Dreamhack, IEM, Assembly, IPL, NASL, GSL, gaming conventions, excetera)
I can imagine some events have their sites booked well in advance and companies like MLG that are creating new events all the time lose. I do see MLG becoming the most presigious SC2 tournament to participate on the globe for these reasons.

1. They are willing to pay for all of your flight/hotel/transportation
2. Top 8 in Regional open online qualifiers gets #1 and seeded into Arena
3. Top 16 in Arena gets #1 and seeded into pool play for offline LAN. pool play = better player treatment
4. Top 8 in offline LAN gets #1 for next Arena, skips online qualifier, and gets seeded into the Arena
5. Open bracket at the offline event

On March 03 2012 14:41 Xeris wrote:
are these open tournaments or just 8 man invitational like last year ?

On March 03 2012 21:29 Longshank wrote:
It's remarkable that MLG yet again fails to communicate with the other organizers. First we had Assembly which MLG was completely unaware of it's existance, then regarding the MLG participants schedule for code A and now DH Stockholm. I'm not saying it's all MLG's fault but it's remarkable that it keeps repeating itself. It CAN'T be that hard to pick up the phone or send an email. It's not like there are that many major organizers to begin with.

On March 03 2012 15:49 Seraphone wrote:
Dreamhack has a poor reputation for paying stipends so given that MLG is paying 100% of the costs for players then I'm 100% sure Koreans will choose MLG over Dreamhack, which is all that really matters for viewers.