Not really, DH is way larger event than MLG. It isn't even close. If you ignore everything but the Starcraft 2 parts of MLG and DH, then yes, MLG isn't that far behind but overall, DH is huge.

zaii

Guam2611 Posts

June 21 2011 07:47 GMT

#102

On June 21 2011 16:41 Chenz wrote:

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Not really, DH is way larger event than MLG. It isn't even close. If you ignore everything but the Starcraft 2 parts of MLG and DH, then yes, MLG isn't that far behind but overall, DH is huge.

How many events does DH host a year compared to MLG? and totaly prize money?

And there's still the fact that MLG is a league and DH is just one or two huge LANS.

See that's why I said questionable.

gladheateher1337

164 Posts

June 21 2011 07:47 GMT

#103

MLG for sure

Krogan

Sweden375 Posts

June 21 2011 08:01 GMT

#104

It has to be that they were equal but in different ways I think.

Dreamhack:
Streams (Better quality and more)
Tournament format (more fair and can you say no extended series!)
Coverage (Didn't have to miss a single game)
Timezone (I am from Sweden so it was much easier for me to watch)
Huk

MLG:
Casters (Dreamhack had more but MLG had Tasotsis)
Schedule (streaming was more consistent)
Mainstage (only final game of Dreamhack showed player reactions when they won)
Sc2 focus
MC Antics

Sok4R

Germany124 Posts

June 21 2011 08:05 GMT

#105

Both had great games, but I go with DreamHuK

Mattes

Germany1116 Posts

June 21 2011 08:25 GMT

#106

MLG, cause of tastosis, double elimination and no stupid one bo3 in the semifinal and you're out.

(also it may be a luxory-problem, but i found 2 mlg-streams (red'n blue) better to handle, than switching between 5 streams to find the game that i find most interesting.

BertiliO

Sweden134 Posts

June 21 2011 08:38 GMT

#107

On June 21 2011 16:35 zaii wrote:
How does DH win Stream Stability? Black screens, plus lag whenever its ingame gives DH the win?

U must have 56k modem or something, the main stream and TB stream had no downtime for me. And about number 5 in your previous post, if you were watching the MLG C event there was alot of times the streams showed the same games. I have no clue why ur acting so defenive, both were great events.

RealRook

Czech Republic54 Posts

June 21 2011 09:03 GMT

#108

Free stream (MLGs was not intended to be free), every game game streamed,less commercials, more viewers, better players, better times for euros = DH was better

zaii

Guam2611 Posts

June 21 2011 09:09 GMT

#109

On June 21 2011 17:38 BertiliO wrote:

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Thats the thing i didn't have 56k and the DH streams were lagging. Not being defensive just wanted to state the facts.

On the MLG part yea i got that wrong, forgot the casters had breaks so they fused the streams.

flamekin

United States72 Posts

June 21 2011 09:20 GMT

#110

On June 21 2011 17:01 Krogan wrote:
It has to be that they were equal but in different ways I think.

Dreamhack:
Streams (Better quality and more)
Tournament format (more fair and can you say no extended series!)
Coverage (Didn't have to miss a single game)
Timezone (I am from Sweden so it was much easier for me to watch)
Huk

MLG:
Casters (Dreamhack had more but MLG had Tasotsis)
Schedule (streaming was more consistent)
Mainstage (only final game of Dreamhack showed player reactions when they won)
Sc2 focus
MC Antics

i actually prefer MLG's double elimination, which i think is more fair, and yielded more games. the reason there was no extended series because it went from group play to single elimination not that extended series bothers me too much
i would have liked to see bo5 for semi finals and third and bo7 for finals at dreamhack too :/

Blaec

Australia4289 Posts

June 21 2011 09:39 GMT

#111

MLG because of production, getting player interviews more often, seeing the crowd more often and the stream was more stable.

busbarn

Sweden984 Posts

June 21 2011 09:46 GMT

#112

MLG as a tournament without a doubt. They are purely a tournament and only three games which have a lot more potential. If they didn't do it better than dreamhack it would've been a shame.

DH Invitational > MLG Colombus 2011 > Dreamhack Summer > Dreamhack winter -- MLG 2010 > MLG Dallas 2011

in my experience at least

Baituri

Netherlands1501 Posts

June 21 2011 09:50 GMT

#113

Dreamhack was better for me.

+ It was at a better timezone for me, I did not have to ruin my whole sleep schedule.
+ Every! game was casted, I did not have to miss any of my favorite players.
+ MC Casting
+ Way better games, Dreamhack produced some amazing games.
+ Bigger talent pool.
+ Moon showed how good he is.
+ Relaxed atmosphere.
+ I also like to watch Quake, LoL etc. Halo and CoD are not interesting to watch.

- You didn't see the players.
- Justin.tv, I seriously don't get this. The majority of the people who watched Dreamhack were probably Europeans (Because of the timezones) and Justin.tv is still really bad in Europe.
- No Tastosis.

RenardDesMers

France76 Posts

June 21 2011 10:22 GMT

#114

I quite enjoyed Dreamhack, though not as much as MLG

Dreamhack pros:
+ more casters (day[9] of course but really enjoyed TotalBiscuit + TLO, even oGs.MC !)
+ better stream quality/stability
+ my timezone (ok it's a bad one, but still)
+ many players from europe that weren't in mlg

Dreamhack cons:
- website was very messy, finding schedules and streams from the website was not clear
- No post game interviews except for the finals
- Uneven quality of streams (day9tv was cool, totalBiscuit cast was nice but no other cam than the SC2 game, didn't quite like the others as much)
- players not on the main stage, without cams (=> less drama)
- stream idle times, also last rounds on a monday (at least finals were in the evening so working people could watch)
- justin.tv ads everytime you launched a stream

FaCE_1

Canada6186 Posts

June 21 2011 10:25 GMT

#115

MLG Colombus have my vote since I work on monday and I can't watch the semi-final / final

Karakaxe

Sweden585 Posts

June 21 2011 10:28 GMT

#116

I actually laughed out loud everytime the overlay guy writes something in Dreamhacks tournaments :D:D

Dreamhack did a few misstakes, the biggest one was no player + audience interaction.

Aristodemus

England2014 Posts

June 21 2011 10:32 GMT

#117

Dreamhack by a mile. Much higher quality stream that is free, you can watch any game you want to. Fair format for the players, and a very much higher quality set of players. The only thing that was better at MLG was having Tastosis. MC casting was amazing too