DreamHack SteelSeries Lan Tournament - Page 2

On October 29 2010 06:19 Prixm wrote:


Haha, Americans.

What years are we talking about? Because as a viewer watching the stream last year all was fine from my end but might been otherwise there since I haven't competed at Dreamhack.

On October 29 2010 15:32 Anfere wrote:
i attended dreamheack twice with my dota team and won it, and i can say without a doubt that this lan is the most epic failure of all times, hope they can step it up with SC2 because if they do the same with SC2 than the other games, this will fail so much and after 2 or 3 editions the players will stop going just like they did for dota.

On October 29 2010 15:32 Anfere wrote:
The international qualifiers are all but a scam. My team won the qualifiers. The prize for winning the qualifiers was that Dreamhack will pay the trip of the team to attend the event and the registration fees to the lan. After paying the registration fees to the qualifiers and winning them, they told us that they won't be able to send us to dreamhack, no refound of the fees we payed to enter the qualifiers and a big facepalm. Official explanation, dreamhack had problems with their sponsors and external partners or what ever.

On October 29 2010 15:32 Anfere wrote:
Oh and since it's a BYOC format (bring you'r own computer) type of lan, you pay good money to take part to this shit.

On October 29 2010 15:32 Anfere wrote:
During the tournaments, players droped like 3 times through out the brackets which put us close to elimination since we had to play 4 vs 5 games, and during the finals we had so much technical difficulties and couldn't get to play a real game that the team we were facing on the finals just throw the games and played 4 vs 5 most of the time because of the lan network wasn't working well. We restarted a game like 3 times in a row after 6 - 8 min into the game already. We would probably won without the technical difficulties but since it was impossible to play a complete game, the other team just lost motivation and we won in a sad manner.

On October 29 2010 15:32 Anfere wrote:
If u though that blizzcon sc2 tournament was a failure, just wait and see dreamhack, for the viewers and for the players

The only good thing about it is that day9 will be casting.

On October 29 2010 15:32 Anfere wrote:
Oh and just an advise for the players going, if you win, prepare an invoice to claim you'r price and give it to them on sight hand to hand, so that you can receive you'r prize 3 to 5 months later, if you don't do so and send the invoice afterward, you can wait ages and ages for you'r prize money. And if you'r not part of an organization of any kind, you will most likely pay taxe's on it If you wait too much before sending the invoice they will deny you the money, there is a statement in their policy that says so care because they have a lot of shaddy stuff to use so they don't pay. Like if the team wins the finals at day 2 of the lan but doesn't attend the award ceremony/closing ceremony at day 4 of the lan, they won't get the prize money. Attending the ceremony is mandatory to receive the prize. And they never give it in person, but use a weird bank transfer invoice paperwork that takes ages for it. I know some players that never got their prize money.

On October 29 2010 21:26 Sheep_Chutney wrote:


Let me first introduce myself, nick is Chutney and I was one of the admins for dota, both of the years you mentioned if I remember correctly.

I do agree on some of the things you say both here and below, but you seem to take it way further than what is reasonable.

But before that, most of the problems that we had with the DotA tournament were due to problems in the dota-platform. Games being constantly dropped, players cheating, players not saving games, add-on programs not working properly etc etc. Compare that to SC2 which has a stable platform in battle.net.



That really sucks, I have no insight into that but I just can't imagine it happening the way you describe it. If that is the case then I'm really dissapointed with the way that was run. Unfortunately we, the tournament admins, have nothing to say or do about that.



Except for the "shit" part you are right.. not really sure what your point is though. Dreamhack is a computer festival with about 15,000 attendees.

Also, the grand tournament is on tournament computers, not byoc. The only byoc part is if you want to qualify for the last 8 spots on location.



I suppose you are mainly talking about the 2009 finals and in that case you summed it up nicely. Me and Ereskigal were angry as well. Let's just say that precautions are made so that that won't ever happen again.



Really? Not sure about the rest of you guys, but I'm sure as hell looking forward to top-players attending, having huge battles being casted by the worlds best shoutcasters, tons upon tons of games showing off what might be the coming weeks new cool strats, upsets in the form of unknown players coming in and showing their hidden talents... and if you are on location just add all the cool stuff you can do and see.



There really is _no_ other way of doing it that is legal. So not sure what point you want to make.




Anyway, I can close to guarantee you that this SC2 tournament is going to be awezome. I will eat my own mousepad (which I have had since 2005) if it fails.

On October 29 2010 22:43 Martijn wrote:
I so wish I could help cast this.

On October 29 2010 15:52 ParasitJonte wrote:


Off-topic. People need to stop doing this. Would you like it if people always wrote "Haha Swedes" everytime someone from Sweden makes a silly comment? It's just retarded.

There really is _no_ other way of doing it that is legal. So not sure what point you want to make.

On October 30 2010 01:49 Anfere wrote:
Just take the example of the Gathering in Norway, since you are from sweden i'm sure you know about it. They give the prize money directly after the final hand to hand. They are in the Guiness book record for having the biggest local network in the world with over 4800 comps, and dispite that, we attended 3 times and never suffured a disconnect while we perma disconnect in a way smaller network in DH.

Also, you sound a bit butt hurt about those "hotel costs" you say to have paid just to be able to claim your "prize" teddy bear on the fourth day of the ceremony.