DreamHack EIZO Open Stockholm - April 21-22, 2012

DreamHack

Sweden46 Posts

March 22 2012 16:25 GMT

The first event of DreamHack EIZO Open will be held in the European Capital of eSports - Stockholm, Sweden. On April 21-22 we open the doors to Annexet in direct connection to Ericsson Globe, where we have room for over 2,300 people in the seated audience. DreamHack EIZO Open is a two day experience with two unique flavors. Ticket release 14.00 CET Tuesday 27th of March.

Buy spectator tickets here!
Tickets are released 14.00 Tuesday March 27 Local Swedish Time

DreamHack is back in Stockholm with The World’s best eSports Show. This time we move to a bigger venue, Annexet (part of Stockholms no.1 Sports- and Entertainment District Stockholm Globe Arenas) with 2,300 individual seats. DreamHack will offer a two day experience with two unique flavors.

Day 1 opens up with the group stage in a tournament area where the audience can get up and close to the players, watch matches on-site and meet the Stars in fan meetings etc. Day 2 is a full StarCraft stage-show as seen on DreamHack Invitational in 2011, but now upgraded and improved, for example with a 12 metre 16

-projection screen! Both days are included in the ticket price of only SEK 199.

EsportBar at Location
The BarCraft phenomenon is growing stronger by minute and at DreamHack EIZO Open Stockholm you can have the full BarCraft experience at the venue, thanks to EIZO. The Esport Bar is serving beer, wine, soft drinks and food during both event days. It will be located on the second floor, on a huge balcony, where you can easily watch the whole show. You will of course find some special eSports drinks on the menu and the area will be reserved for 18+ people only.

Free HD broadcast powered by Twitch.TV
If you can’t attend the event you can still watch the whole show. DreamHack EIZO Open Stockholm will be broadcasted in HD for free over the Internet available for all fans that can't be on location, additional languages and community streams will be available.

Event info:
Tournament: DreamHack EIZO Open Stockholm
Tournament sponsors: EIZO, Sapphire, AMD, Twitch.TV
Tournament Game: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Venue: Ericsson Globe Annexet
Date: 21-22 April
Opens: 10.00 CET, 21st of April
Ends: 24.00 CET, 22st of April
EsportBar: Oh yes
After-Party: You bet!
No. of seats: 2,300
Ticket price: 199 SEK

Concept Arena pictures:

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Full resultion pictures are available at www.dreamhack.se

Spectator ticket: How do I attend the event and watch it live
DreamHack will release a limited number of spectator tickets to DreamHack EIZO Open: Stockholm. Each Spectator ticket grants access to the event 10:00-24:00 each day. It also includes a personal seat in the Stage Show (Sunday 15.00-24.00), and access to meet the Stars in fan meetings, food & beverage stands, on-site activities like sponsor booths and the possibility to watch matches in our Tournament Area. If you’re 18 years or older you have the possibility to attend the Esport Bar and the After-party as well.

The Spectator ticket will be available for SEK 199 + service charges (20-30 SEK) and is paid with credit card (VISA / MasterCard) through Sweden’s largest ticket retailer www.ticnet.se. Ticket release is 14.00 CET Tuesday 27th of March. First come, first served.

Important notice: First day, 21st of April, not featuring the Stage show, will have limited no. of slots, due to fire regulations and arena limitations. And if you want to attend both days, you need to select that option when booking your ticket at Ticnet.

Competitor ticket: How do I register and compete in the tournament
DreamHack will release a limited number of Competitor tickets to the the StarCraft II tournament at DreamHack EIZO Open: Stockholm. Tournament will consist of 3 group stages in order to qualify the best players to the final single elimination playoffs. The first group stage holds 128 players, the second group stage holds 64 players and the third group stage holds 32 players. The final 16 players will play a single-elimination bracket.

The tournament fee to attend the tournament will be SEK 300 and is paid by credit card (VISA / MasterCard) through our website: bokning.dreamhack.se. Ticket release is 14:00 CET Tuesday 27th of March. First come, first served.

DreamHack Open Prize money distribution
SEK 150 000

1. SEK 70 000 +Direct Qualification to DreamHack Winter 2012
2. SEK 40 000 +Direct Qualification to DreamHack Winter 2012
3. SEK 20 000 +20 points
4. SEK 20 000 +20 points
5-8. 12 points
9-16. 5 points

DreamHack Eizo Open Stockholm: Official Maps

Each player will have two blind vetos. The played maps and order will be random generated

Dreamhack Shakuras Plateau – Cross/Close-by-air spawns – building blockers at mainbase ramp
Dreamhack GSL Daybreak GSL version with the limited forward third base – building blockers at mainbase ramp
Dreamhack GSL Metropolis . GSL version with Creep on islands – building blockers at mainbase ramp
Dreamhack ESV Cloud Kingdom – building blockers at mainbase ramp
Dreamhack ESV Ohana – building blockers at mainbase ramp
Dreamhack ESV Vicious – All spawns enabled – building blockers at mainbase ramp
Dreamhack ESV Frigid Pass – All spawn enabled – building blockers at mainbase ramp
Dreamhack Antiga Shipyard – cross spawn only -gold bases exchanged to neutral – fixed lower right base so pylon power cant reach natural from third’s cliff – building blockers at mainbase ramp
Dreamhack Metalopolis – gold bases exchanged to regular bases – cross and close-by-air enforced spawns – building blockers at mainbase ramp

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DreamHack EIZO Open Fan Award
It´s a free HD stream, but we know that many fans wish to support the tournament and the players, you can now do this by using the social micropayment system Flattr. All donations will go directly to the DreamHack EIZO Open Fan Award.

The winner of DreamHack EIZO Open Fan Award will be determined by YOU, the fans at location and all those watching the stream online. The player with most votes will be awarded all the donations, we at DreamHack have already put in 10 000 SEK to start it all up.

The voting for players will be launched during the event, donations are welcome as of now!

Donate to the DreamHack EIZO Open Fan Award here!

Read more on how to travel and stay in Stockholm and more details regarding the DreamHack EIZO Open at www.dreamhack.se

Jiddra

Sweden2685 Posts

March 22 2012 16:36 GMT

Looking good!

Killedbydeath

Sweden37 Posts

March 22 2012 16:38 GMT

Sweet! Gonna try to make it!

arQ

1033 Posts

March 22 2012 16:39 GMT

Amazing stuff.

Sorry if I'm slow, but are only the Ro16 and on played at the event on-stage?

robih

Austria1086 Posts

March 22 2012 16:42 GMT

wow
only 128 tickets, and first come first serve

are spots for pros reserved?

Kaoru

France150 Posts

March 22 2012 16:44 GMT

Definitely the best event in Europe, with the best Organization !

Good Luck for your Circuit :!

phanto

Sweden708 Posts

March 22 2012 16:45 GMT

European Capital of eSports - Stockholm, Sweden
don't forget "capital of Scandinavia". :D

looking forward to this!

narkissos

198 Posts

March 22 2012 16:46 GMT

On March 23 2012 01:45 phanto wrote:
European Capital of eSports - Stockholm, Sweden
don't forget "capitol of Scandinavia". :D

looking forward to this!

lol, my thoughts exactly

Eee

Sweden2712 Posts

March 22 2012 16:50 GMT

Here's a picture of the venue where the event is going to be held at:
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kovac

Sweden123 Posts

March 22 2012 16:53 GMT

#10

ohh yeah within walking distance baby

ASUS_Kinc

Sweden19 Posts

March 22 2012 16:56 GMT

#11

Love the venue and the concept renders of it, looks like it is going to be an amazing event and tournament! Cant wait

tnud

Sweden2233 Posts

March 22 2012 16:56 GMT

#12

On March 23 2012 01:50 Eee wrote:
Here's a picture of the venue where the event is going to be held at:
+ Show Spoiler +

To be fair it's the smaller building next to the big white thing =P
Renting globen itself would be overkill

HYPE! Definitly gonna watch.. might even travel there to see it live.

Eee

Sweden2712 Posts

March 22 2012 16:57 GMT

#13

On March 23 2012 01:56 tnud wrote:

Show nested quote +

To be fair it's the smaller building next to the big white thing =P
Renting globen itself would be overkill

HYPE! Definitly gonna watch.. might even travel there to see it live.

It's the building that's connected to Globen isn't it?

It's still kind of Globen ;P

TheSilverfox

Sweden1928 Posts

March 22 2012 16:59 GMT

#14

On March 23 2012 01:50 Eee wrote:
Here's a picture of the venue where the event is going to be held at:
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This is a bit misleading - the event is at Annexet, just next to the Globe. It's not inside the big Globe Arena.

Here's a small picture of that building:
http://www.globearenas.se/content/images/arena/ANX_SA_100622_52_254.jpg

+ This will be amazing - I'll definitely come!

Elem

Sweden4717 Posts

March 22 2012 16:59 GMT

#15

Holy shit I wouldn't ever have dreamed that SC2 would be shown at Annexet o_o would've thought somewhere on Kungsholmen or near Liljeholmen! Globen nästa, so hyped! :D Gonna try to snag a competitor pass for sure!