I actually liked both events, but as a watcher of the streams I really appreciated the behind the scenes stuff, interviews of the players, crowd reactions, booths and so on of MLG Columbus. Until the Grand Finals you did not even see the location a lot, no informations about the players, the players area - nothing. I liked the last Dreamhack Stockholm Invitational so much more because of the stage with 2GD, player interviews and the funny YT videos of SC2 parodies during the breaks.

What I did not liked about both events: Bo3 even for the semi finals and placement matches and Grand Finals only Bo5. This is disappointing especially as lot of those matches were quite short and instead you had huge breaks.

HuK, I love you! You so have earned it! <3

leo23

United States3075 Posts

June 20 2011 23:33 GMT

#44

I could see the players and the crowd at all time! MLG

1ManArmy

Netherlands895 Posts

June 20 2011 23:37 GMT

#45

Both were amazing tournaments, alot of nerdchills this week!

MLG had that stylish smooth production feel + the amazing live enviroment. For me the live experience with the players actually interacting with eachother adds alot to the experience (Idra vs MC outside the booth.. MMA's Kamehameha, QXC's Interview, The Relay Race).

Dreamhack on the other hand had that summerish campy feel, with all those people in the Day9 Tent watching the games together. Even though the players were not visible, the casters/live audience still gave a good sense of importance and the games were amazing aswell. Alot of extremely epic macro games were shown. Glad to see Huk finally showing what he is capable of

Congratulations to him!

So yeah, both events were amazing, and that made me a happy spectator.

Skoop

United States214 Posts

June 20 2011 23:40 GMT

#46

seeing the players made mlg better for me

Zaucy

Sweden13 Posts

June 20 2011 23:43 GMT

#47

On June 21 2011 08:24 pinnacle wrote:
Both were great but I voted MLG because of the time difference for Dreamhack.

Then I should vote for Dreamhack because of the time difference. Invalid argument lol.

MLG: I wished there were more of a schedule of what players were up next, ect. It was very hard to keep track what players were going to play on what stream.

The both streams should have some little list of what to see (when they know what players & match ups). Me and my friends had problems knowing what stream would show what match without streaming both at the same time (but muting the other one we didn't watch at the time).

Also the MLG commercials was a lot louder than the stream it self, compared to DH commercials.

But we enjoyed both events very much!

Novalisk

Israel1818 Posts

June 20 2011 23:43 GMT

#48

MLG by a hair, due to more stage matches.

Meteora.GB

Canada2479 Posts

June 20 2011 23:49 GMT

#49

Both were amazing in their own respect, but I was so much more hyped about MLG and the drama surrounding it. I didn't really care about DreamHack all that much, but for MLG I spent the entire day watching the stream, especially on the final day. So MLG gets my vote.

Maliris

Northern Ireland2557 Posts

June 20 2011 23:54 GMT

#50

dreamhack since everything Americans do Europeans can do better

Zedders

Canada450 Posts

June 21 2011 00:00 GMT

#51

MLG, bigger more enthusiastic crowd. Lot's of drama too

StyLeD

United States2965 Posts

June 21 2011 00:02 GMT

#52

Losira vs MMA made for a better show than HuK vs Moon, so MLG for me.

I always appreciated the constant player cams, the fact that you didn't have to choose between 6 streams, the video feeds of the audience, Tastosis, the MLG-GSL ties, and the double elimination and championship bracket of MLG

Ghostcom

Denmark4783 Posts

June 21 2011 00:03 GMT

#53

the production made by MLG was so incredibly amazing and despite a slight thunderstorm (which they can't really be blamed for) flawless. So MLG got my vote, but dreamhack was pretty damn solid as well!

chesshaha

United States1117 Posts

June 21 2011 00:06 GMT

#54

I voted for both equally great, since they are different styles in tournament format.

When watching MLG, it is exciting to see any pro player who is new to MLG can make it from the open bracket to Championship sunday in a more forgiving double elimination american style bracket.
Dreakhack has a good old fasion world cup style, where group plays are first for the qualified players, then top players from each group moved into a single elimination bracket.

Both formats are nice, while we had about same amount of talents from the player pool comparing MLG Comlubus with DHS11. Not sure who had more spectators in person and from online streams.

baldgye

United Kingdom1109 Posts

June 21 2011 00:09 GMT

#55

On June 21 2011 06:33 Garth wrote:
Dreamhack cuz huk won.

this 1000x this :D HuK played amazing was great to see... though production wise I think that MLG has it

WightyCity

Canada887 Posts

June 21 2011 00:34 GMT

#56

mlg had better scheduling. never asked myself when is what and where . mlg had players in boxes witch i like alot! . i liked more the way the brackets worked and playoffs in dreamhack. Both are awsome. maybe a MLGhack would be interesting

Doppelganger

488 Posts

June 21 2011 00:34 GMT

#57

The 5 stream arrangement with lots of breaks and simultaneous coverage meant that I could only catch very few games live and had to wait quite a lot to see something. I liked MLG way more.

WightyCity

Canada887 Posts

June 21 2011 00:34 GMT

#58

oh yeah and finishing on a monday is proposturous. oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Switzerland367 Posts

June 21 2011 00:36 GMT

#59

MLG by far. The audience being in the same room as the players really makes a difference, both for the viewers (audience of course, but also stream) and players, the games were far better (i didn't see anything as entertaining as losira vs mma or losira vs mc on dreamhack).

Qaatar

1409 Posts

June 21 2011 00:46 GMT

#60

On June 21 2011 09:36 et wrote:
MLG by far. The audience being in the same room as the players really makes a difference, both for the viewers (audience of course, but also stream) and players, the games were far better (i didn't see anything as entertaining as losira vs mma or losira vs mc on dreamhack).

I totally agree. People keep saying how amazing the games from this Dreamhack were - every single game I saw was disappointingly not up to the usual standards of the players. From the terrible performances of the highly touted guys like Kas and Happy to the mediocrity displayed by Idra and Thorzain. I don't know what was going on this weekend, but it seemed like everyone, even the usually impeccable Koreans, were making mistakes left and right. Bomber's TvZ suddenly went down the gutter, and July was lackluster the entire event.

The only saving graces were MC's casting and Huk/Moon doing well.