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Yeah I really did enjoy this dream hack cast. good production and stream,nice casting and an awesome crowd too. I love theyway they were reacting to every single move in the game.
And what was really nice was they were keeping quiet at one point in the last match in the finals..thinking the players might hear the cheers, was quite cute. And then a message pops up on the stream saying "Noize? Yes please", implying the booth was sound proof, and the crowd started cheering.
And loved the "white-ra cares" message at the bottom during his interview lol. Cool fighting poses before the match, and some players looking goofy added to the comic effect :D. Overall a well done cast good job guys!
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Dreamhack is only better than gsl because there is a lively crowd so it doesnt feel like a ghost town, and the MC/interviewer WAS AWESOME. He needs to be EVERYWHERE.
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As already mentioned - same as in your standard ladder game, it's the little things that matter. White Ra cares, MC's "good brain/train", the setup for the interviews after the game (YES, finally someone figured that it might make a good impression if you put something there where the people could sit), the message-box on the right with the random puns.
Also the event was sometimes even ahead of schedule, something I wouldn't have believed to be even possible in the world of esports.
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lol 4 people trolling, mlg getting votes
Man DH was unbelievable. Props to the Swedes.
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I still think the GSL is better overall, but Dreamhack did one heck of a job with the budget they had.
Dreamhack's justin.tv stream was too choppy, and while the commentary was good in a technical sense, it didn't have the chemistry or friendly banter of Tastosis. The cameras were a bit off as well; the player camera was much too dark. The sponsor "square" on the right side of the screen was too intrusive as well.
Also, do people not notice the video montages that GOM produces on a daily basis? It must be very difficult to do that with only a 1-2 day notice. It's all the surrounding things that make a casual viewer want to view live SC2 as an e-sport. TSL is okay but it still feels like two people casting a replay.
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Yeah props from here aswell..
Nice after we had such a tough time on the MLG Dallas as a viewer, to see how an event actually can be runned..
Specially I wanna give thanks for the cool interviews.. With having the players just get right out of their booth and directly into an interview... Man, what a great idea! It made the whole event feel so comfortable, not only for viewers, but for players aswell.. Having couch interviews is pretty awesome man 
Anyways, I hope alot of organizations learn from this.. DHI is most definetly the most succesful finished event so fare in 2011, without a doubt in my mind!
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On April 13 2011 16:14 dartoo wrote:
And loved the "white-ra cares" message at the bottom during his interview lol.
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Yep DHI has the best production yet, totally awesome!
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I think this is the first esports event I've watched where I actually thought to myself "wow I'd really want to be there".
The atmospehere seemed great! Packed passionate crowd in not too big of a room so the noise had much more impact. It was like you're in a movie theater.
Couches on the stage for interviews, chill MC and commentators who weren't afraid of interacting with the crowd and cursing here and there.
Just looked very comfortable and laid back, really liked it!
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ye this tournament was so SMOOTH, problems fixed immediately, AWESOME commentary, stream quality and stability (FOR FREE!!!), you really cant ask for me. Only thing i didnt like was the fact that 100% of prize money went to the winner which is very cruel and i think every player can tell you they prefer spliting the prize money, especially with only 8 players attending
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On April 13 2011 05:10 On_Slaught wrote:
While I enjoyed watching this tourny, it is very unfair to compare it to massive endeavours like TSL, MLG, GSL, IEM etc. This tourny looked great for a few reasons:
1. The entire thing happened over the course of a few hours.
2. All of the players are top level. It's as if we skipped all the preliminary stuff in other tournies and jumped straight to the ro8.
3. Awesome crowd made everything more exciting.
Yes it seemed awesome, but objectively there is nothing that makes this tourny better than any others. 2nd place doesn't get anything... that is just bad imo. Yes the casting was fine, but it wasn't stellar. The obvs was almost "bad." I think a lot of people are looking at this with rose-colored glasses because they enjoyed the games and drama.
You know that the main purpose of this event was to check the production live.
We can clearly see increase of production value this year. Coin toss tournament was rather good but still had some hick ups production wise that were hammered down with this invitational.
Oh and also about "massive" endeavours like MLG and IEM or even TSL... Dreamhack main tournaments have more players that all those combined and they dont have to wait for a free PC to play their matches like in certain MLG this year.
Still i hope that for Summer and Winter tournaments DH Crew would copy some of the IEM ideas like contracted off-site streamers streaming the games that arent played on SC2 main stage. I heard there was 3 streams to chose from this time but i hope they will have at least 4-5 english streams for the main events. Of course the main stream getting the best games and some stream admin coordinating other stream's matches.
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I'm not really interested in attending regular LANs like the regular Dreamhack events, but now, the day after this amazing event, I feel like I want to go just to watch the SC2 tournament. 
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On April 13 2011 18:38 vrok wrote:I'm not really interested in attending regular LANs like the regular Dreamhack events, but now, the day after this amazing event, I feel like I want to go just to watch the SC2 tournament.
That's what I did last winter dreamhack, just went to watch sc2 and day9 though I'm from Netherlands its amazing, loved it.
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It was a beautiful thing.
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The only thing I would like to suggest that was done differently is that the prize money was distributed more fairly between the players in first and second place, possibly second place getting 25% of the total prize amount? Yes, only getting paid if you win the entire thing does make it very intense finals but I felt so bad for WhiteRa in the end.
Even though WhiteRa said he didn't care about the money and all he wanted was the community support I felt after such a stunning run through the brackets he deserved and actually being able to put MinChul up against the fence some sort of compensation for his efforts would have been nice.
Also a play off for third / fourth place wouldn't go amiss and maybe a little incentive for coming third as well? I dunno maybe I am asking too much for such a small invitational here. ^^
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On April 13 2011 16:31 Geolich wrote:
lol 4 people trolling, mlg getting votes
Man DH was unbelievable. Props to the Swedes.
Probably MLG staff with TL accounts. ¬_¬
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Fragbite is awful, and everyone posting on that site is really dumb.
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