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Source http://www.esportsm.se/
Basically Telia, Dreamhack and Inferno online (a huge internet café) have announced a swedish esports championshop consisting of CS 1.6,SC 2, HoN, Street fighter and a football game.
There is over 400 000 SEK in the prizepool, i dont know how it is spread out over the games though. There will be 8 tournaments, 1 every month where the winner of every tournament qualifies to a grand final in Dreamhack summer. This tournament will be held annually.
So basically there will be a international event held in Sweden at Dreamhack winter and the Swedish championship which ends at Dreamhack summer!
Im super excited over this! Our country is going to spawn some serious supoer pro players with all the support the Swedish scene gets!
The way i understand it an esport arena called "Stockholm Esport Arena" has also been built which is over 400 square meters big and located in the centre of Stockholm. Some of the tournaments will be hosted there!
Google translated the article, enjoy
+ Show Spoiler +Swedish Championships Esport 2011-09-1, Stockholm. Inferno Online and DreamHack launches Swedish championship in five e-sports titles with eight Championship races and a national finals in June 2012. Inferno Online and DreamHack will jointly arrange the Swedish Championship in Esport during 2011/2012. Eight Official Championship races will be held throughout the country and the national finals will be played at DreamHack Summer 2012th Telia is deepening its commitment to Esport by supporting the SM as the first sponsor. SM in Esport is the continuation of the Inferno Online League, which now changes shape after three successful seasons. - In cooperation with DreamHack and Telia, we can create an even more comprehensive and consistent that strengthen Swedish Esport and becomes a platform for future Swedish esportstjärnor. Sweden has long been a leading country in Esport, but has long lacked a real Swedish championships, says Anton Budak, owner of Inferno Online. Two of the eight Championship races will be played on the official SM arena Stockholm Esport Arena. In the newly built hall of 400 square meters, next to Inferno Online at Odin, the audience will have a unique opportunity to follow esportmatcherna live. Five Official Game Events - 400 000 SEK in prize money In the first season that extends from October 2011 to June 2012, the Swedish championships consist of five games branches: • Counter-Strike 1.6 5 on 5 PCs • StarCraft II (SC2) 1 on 1 PC • Heroes of Newerth 5 on 5 PCs • Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition 1 to 1 XBOX360 • Soccer 1 on 1 TBA In addition to being Swedish champion will champions rewarded by a full SEK 400 000, divided into both Championship races and in national finals. Swedish championship based on a simple tournament structure. A contest each month from October to May. The winner of each SM-race qualify for the national finals. Finally, eight finalists will face off for the coveted title of Swedish champion. - SM in Esport is a step in the DreamHack development to refine esportsäsongen with two distinct seasons - a Swedish culminates at DreamHack Summer and an international season that ends at DreamHack Winter each year. With the SM, we are against all the Swedish players from beginners to professionals, says Fredrik Nystrom, Press Officer at DreamHack. SM 2011/2012: Events Calendar • SM-contest # 1 Stockholm Esport Arena Stockholm October 8 to 9 • SM-contest # 2 Gamex Stockholm November 3 to 6 • SM-race # 3 Inferno Online Norrkoping December 17 • SM-race # 4 TBA January • SM-race # 5 TBA February • SM-contest # 6 TBA in March • SM-race # 7 Stockholm Esport Arena Stockholm in April • SM-contest # 8 TBA May • national finals DreamHack Summer 2012 Jonkoping June 16 to 19 The entire tournament will be presented in detail on the new site www.esportsm.se where you will be able to follow all the events through news, photos, videos and social media. SM TV will offer live coverage of the key matches, and it will of course also be access to HLTV, demos and replays. ABOUT DREAMHACK DreamHack is the world's largest computer festival. DreamHack's core and the origin is the LAN party, with the two big festivals DreamHack Summer and Winter, where participants bring their own computer and connect to the internet in a huge local network. DreamHack is also Sweden's first consumer-oriented trade show / event / festival for computer games, computers and games consoles. These events are a platform for Esport, knowledge and creative contests, music performers, lectures by game developers and more. Web: www.dreamhack.seTHE INFERNO ONLINE Inferno Online Stockholm is the world's largest gaming center, according to Guinness World Records since 2010. Inferno Online do more than to rent computers. Everything from esports, the big game releases and events at Sergel Square has done Inferno Online to a central part of the gaming Sweden. At Inferno Online you will find the best games and can play with your friends every day of the year and round the clock on weekends. Web: www.infernoonline.com
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very exciting to see more tournaments popping up.
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Amazing, good for you guys. Love the choices of the games (not sure about the football game but to each their own  )
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Well of course someone else posts this about the same time I try to be useful for once.. xD
This is awesome, can't wait to see the awesome games that surely will come from this! :D Also, this event is perfectly timed with beginning just about a month after Stockholms first BarCraft <3
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Do you know if the qualifiers will be LAN-hosted or online?
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Dissapointing that it's a sweden-only thing, was hoping for a european GSL. None the less great initiative and appropriate that scandinavia finally gets an EPS equivalent.
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On September 02 2011 02:16 m0ck wrote:
Dissapointing that it's a sweden-only thing, was hoping for a european GSL. None the less great initiative and appropriate that scandinavia finally gets an EPS equivalent.
Apparently there will be two seasons/year, one Sweden only and one international ending at DH Summer and DH Winter respectively.
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This is so great, even greater one of the qualifer will be held in my city. Will be sure to participate ^^
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This is fantastic news, and not just for Sweden and Swedish players. Hopefully this will prompt other organizations in other countries to do something similar.
Of course, as a swede, I am looking forward to world-class games with incredibly talented and hard working players. Sweden fighting!
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this is great it could catapult Swedish e-sports.
question: is Stockholm e-sports arena bigger than the GSL studio?
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NicE! :D
Can't wait for this! Happy to live in sweden
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Good stuff ! Not surr why people say "why only sweden" , developing countries this way, and giving players stuff to train for and practice for helps the overall scene A LOT
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The games choice is surprinsingly amazing, it's legit as hell for esports and I hope it will be a big success
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Is it for public to just come and play or how is it organized for participants to play?
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On September 02 2011 03:13 Olsson wrote:
Is it for public to just come and play or how is it organized for participants to play?
It says in the announcement that it is for players of every calibre so i assume that anyone can sign up for the tournament and there will be some prequalifiers.
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Sounds cool. Glad to see this happening!
Glad they chose HON over LOL. =p Preferred if it was Dota though, there are so many Europeans and Russians who play Dota too. The potential viewership is so much greater imho.
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For the love of god, please come to Gothenburg! =(
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On September 02 2011 03:38 drdreggor wrote:
For the love of god, please come to Gothenburg! =(
Would be pretty surprised if they don't ^^ Hopefully they hold a tournament in Northern Sweden as well.
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On September 02 2011 03:38 drdreggor wrote:
For the love of god, please come to Gothenburg! =(
Seeing as they are coming to norrköping and jönköping it would surprise me if göteborg and malmö were not visited
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They chose HoN over DotA? I thought DotA was way more popular in Sweden. At least it's not LoL, though!
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Gogogo Gothenburg!!!
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On September 02 2011 05:23 vOdToasT wrote:
They chose HoN over DotA? I thought DotA was way more popular in Sweden. At least it's not LoL, though!
This start in october and Dota is not out yet, maybe next session.
Edit: And gogo for a event in Gothenburg
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Sweet! Looks good. JKPG is not too far from Gothenburg anyways.
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On September 02 2011 05:45 zasghu wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2011 05:23 vOdToasT wrote:
They chose HoN over DotA? I thought DotA was way more popular in Sweden. At least it's not LoL, though! This start in october and Dota is not out yet, maybe next session. Edit: And gogo for a event in Gothenburg
DotA has been out for many many years,. And it's still more popular than HoN in lan cafés.
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On September 02 2011 05:55 vOdToasT wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2011 05:45 zasghu wrote:On September 02 2011 05:23 vOdToasT wrote:
They chose HoN over DotA? I thought DotA was way more popular in Sweden. At least it's not LoL, though! This start in october and Dota is not out yet, maybe next session. Edit: And gogo for a event in Gothenburg DotA has been out for many many years,. And it's still more popular than HoN in lan cafés.
You are right, but LoL and Hon is the "in" game to sponoser now, and sort of big money in this tournament.
Also they would not like to have a player switch from Dota 1 to Dota 2 mid session. Even if the games are very alike there still quite out shadowed in media by playing the "lesser" version.
But on the real subject a nice SC2 tournament. Wonder what format they will be doing? Is it something like MLG where you get points by attending?
A worrying fact is that we don't have any SC2 player left in the country with Sjow also leaving(yeah a few is coming back like Thorzain).
Maybe let Haypro and Morrow battle it out?
It seams as they will have a International tournament during the fall that will be going on in the winter throw, maybe traveling throw Europe then.
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The way i understand it an esport arena called "Stockholm Esport Arena" has also been built which is over 400 square meters big and located in the centre of Stockholm.
Is it just me or is 400 sq meters not actually very big?
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On September 02 2011 06:35 FLuE wrote:Show nested quote +The way i understand it an esport arena called "Stockholm Esport Arena" has also been built which is over 400 square meters big and located in the centre of Stockholm. Is it just me or is 400 sq meters not actually very big?
It's big for being in the centre of stockholm, most have costed millions.
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wonderful news for swedish esports, would be so cool to see things like this popping up in a lot of other smaller countries as well
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lol a football game 
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This is great! A+ for eSports.
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400.000 SEK = 63.000 US Dollar
Probably about $16.000 going to SC2. This means each event will have a pricepool of about $2000.for SC2. Not the largest sum but still more than enough for a national championship. I'm looking forward to this.
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On September 02 2011 03:14 FreddYCooL wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2011 03:13 Olsson wrote:
Is it for public to just come and play or how is it organized for participants to play? It says in the announcement that it is for players of every calibre so i assume that anyone can sign up for the tournament and there will be some prequalifiers.
Hmm hope so. Really interested in this hope they come out with some info becaues it's not really clear on that point wheter its online qualifers or just to drop in and play there.
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This is so awsome :D Located close to where i live aswell :D
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I'm so happy for this. I'm going to start practicing really much SC2 from now on, hopefully they will come to Gothenburg (would be odd if not really, it's Swedens 2nd biggest city).
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On September 02 2011 06:41 Thesidu wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2011 06:35 FLuE wrote:The way i understand it an esport arena called "Stockholm Esport Arena" has also been built which is over 400 square meters big and located in the centre of Stockholm. Is it just me or is 400 sq meters not actually very big? It's big for being in the centre of stockholm, most have costed millions.
Yeah, just the fact that they made a place entirely for eSports in the center of the capital is amazing. I really hope this project is succesful, as we could see Sweden becoming the European home for eSports.
Some big bank accounts have been drained considerably to afford that place.
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Nice. Sweden has a lot of good players they deserve it.
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On September 02 2011 06:19 zasghu wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2011 05:55 vOdToasT wrote:On September 02 2011 05:45 zasghu wrote:On September 02 2011 05:23 vOdToasT wrote:
They chose HoN over DotA? I thought DotA was way more popular in Sweden. At least it's not LoL, though! This start in october and Dota is not out yet, maybe next session. Edit: And gogo for a event in Gothenburg DotA has been out for many many years,. And it's still more popular than HoN in lan cafés. You are right, but LoL and Hon is the "in" game to sponoser now, and sort of big money in this tournament. Also they would not like to have a player switch from Dota 1 to Dota 2 mid session. Even if the games are very alike there still quite out shadowed in media by playing the "lesser" version. But on the real subject a nice SC2 tournament. Wonder what format they will be doing? Is it something like MLG where you get points by attending? A worrying fact is that we don't have any SC2 player left in the country with Sjow also leaving(yeah a few is coming back like Thorzain). Maybe let Haypro and Morrow battle it out? It seams as they will have a International tournament during the fall that will be going on in the winter throw, maybe traveling throw Europe then.
I Believe there will be enough good players left to battle it out. I mean there are more good players in Sweden besides the players who have good sponsors and oppurtunities. People like Jimpo, Naugrim, Fury, Bischu, etc. will be there.
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On September 03 2011 04:35 Eee wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2011 06:19 zasghu wrote:On September 02 2011 05:55 vOdToasT wrote:On September 02 2011 05:45 zasghu wrote:On September 02 2011 05:23 vOdToasT wrote:
They chose HoN over DotA? I thought DotA was way more popular in Sweden. At least it's not LoL, though! This start in october and Dota is not out yet, maybe next session. Edit: And gogo for a event in Gothenburg DotA has been out for many many years,. And it's still more popular than HoN in lan cafés. You are right, but LoL and Hon is the "in" game to sponoser now, and sort of big money in this tournament. Also they would not like to have a player switch from Dota 1 to Dota 2 mid session. Even if the games are very alike there still quite out shadowed in media by playing the "lesser" version. But on the real subject a nice SC2 tournament. Wonder what format they will be doing? Is it something like MLG where you get points by attending? A worrying fact is that we don't have any SC2 player left in the country with Sjow also leaving(yeah a few is coming back like Thorzain). Maybe let Haypro and Morrow battle it out? It seams as they will have a International tournament during the fall that will be going on in the winter throw, maybe traveling throw Europe then. I Believe there will be enough good players left to battle it out. I mean there are more good players in Sweden besides the players who have good sponsors and oppurtunities. People like Jimpo, Naugrim, Fury, Bischu, etc. will be there.
Yeah there is a few good players. But as I mostly watch GSL, MLG and bigger EU tournaments. and you rarely see this players have success in them.
I just want some player I know skill of.
About the size of Stockholm Esport Arena. In live show "Rakt på med rakaka", did chat with the owner (or spokesperson) and he said would be possible have for 150 ppl.
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This sounds awesome :D IOS is always interested in esports finally they sponsored/made a big tournament
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Is it only limited to swedish players, or could there also sneak a couple of other Scandinavians in when they get good enough?
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On September 02 2011 06:41 Thesidu wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2011 06:35 FLuE wrote:The way i understand it an esport arena called "Stockholm Esport Arena" has also been built which is over 400 square meters big and located in the centre of Stockholm. Is it just me or is 400 sq meters not actually very big? It's big for being in the centre of stockholm, most have costed millions.
Uh no. 400 m² is 20x20 meters. There are tents bigger than that.
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On September 04 2011 21:13 Stromming wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2011 06:41 Thesidu wrote:On September 02 2011 06:35 FLuE wrote:The way i understand it an esport arena called "Stockholm Esport Arena" has also been built which is over 400 square meters big and located in the centre of Stockholm. Is it just me or is 400 sq meters not actually very big? It's big for being in the centre of stockholm, most have costed millions. Uh no. 400 m² is 20x20 meters. There are tents bigger than that.
And apartments at around 20m² goes for a million. So...
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Regarding the arena, fragbite.se recently did an interview with the owner of Inferno Online. Among other things they talk about the arena and what it's intended to be used for - and you also get a sneak peak at the building process.
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Always nice to see more tournaments going up, especially European ones, and in Scandinavia nonetheless.
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Is it only for swedens? I could easily see Finns traveling to those events by boat monthly.
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It has started, livestream here
Esport SM livestream
Meyera vs Vandroy right now, i'm rooting for my homeboy ViPro to win it all. Go ViPro!
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Swedish gamers deserve this.. they are the best e-sport country in europe! Farming the absolute best players in CS, quake, WC3, some of europe's best SC:BW and SC2 players and gave some of the best teams also.
Congratz you guys deserve this!
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good to see an internal event. starting to become like korea!
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Runa vs Meyera now, looking good for Meyera, Runa is playing too passive.
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Guh, why is the man making ultralisks?!
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Why is this not on TL tournament tracker?! And why is the stream not on the side? Even if it is not in english this should be available for sc2 audience?!
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lol me and sase every final calling it!
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On November 05 2011 01:50 Naniwa wrote:
lol me and sase every final calling it!
From Korea?!
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On November 05 2011 01:51 -Archangel- wrote:Show nested quote +On November 05 2011 01:50 Naniwa wrote:
lol me and sase every final calling it! From Korea?!
sure we will go there and win some easy money if the tournaments are big enough
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gah, i did not think Runa would win that, he was behind by so much.
and lol @ Nani, win code A plz.
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On November 05 2011 01:52 Naniwa wrote:Show nested quote +On November 05 2011 01:51 -Archangel- wrote:On November 05 2011 01:50 Naniwa wrote:
lol me and sase every final calling it! From Korea?! sure we will go there and win some easy money if the tournaments are big enough
Stay in Korea and win something there please!! :D
We need a new swedish/foreigner hero in Korea now that Jinro is slumping
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That 2nd game was ezpz for Runa, he is looking really strong.
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On November 05 2011 01:52 Naniwa wrote:Show nested quote +On November 05 2011 01:51 -Archangel- wrote:On November 05 2011 01:50 Naniwa wrote:
lol me and sase every final calling it! From Korea?! sure we will go there and win some easy money if the tournaments are big enough
Did Morrow quit the game or something? :>
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Got my motivation back.
It's time to kick some ass!
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my goal is to reach high masters before the end of the year and be able to qualify next year
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On November 05 2011 05:59 Ghad wrote:Show nested quote +On November 05 2011 01:52 Naniwa wrote:On November 05 2011 01:51 -Archangel- wrote:On November 05 2011 01:50 Naniwa wrote:
lol me and sase every final calling it! From Korea?! sure we will go there and win some easy money if the tournaments are big enough Did Morrow quit the game or something? :>
He's not in Korea.
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Day 2 going on now.
Cytoplasm - ViPro 2-0 =((
Second Match is currently Cytoplasm - Forsen 1-0
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Sjow vs Lalush in the finals now!
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no morrow no sase no naniwa ttttttttttttttttttt
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These commentators are horrible 
They missed some really critical moments in both semifinals.
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Link to the stream?
Also a link to the bracket please?
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gogo sjow
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I think SjoW forgot Siege tech, It's really late.
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Lol, four orbitals and casters are asking how SjoW is managing to keep his economy up -.-
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wow just awesome! This will get BIG! and Sweden is just getting bigger and bigger in the esports scene! I'm so glad!
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gogo Lalush, you deserve to be the Swedish Champion!
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Lalush should have won that game, really nice comback by Sjow.
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I'm surprised it took Sweden this long.
They've got such a killer eSports line up as it stands. o.e
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On January 29 2012 05:47 BlueBoxSC wrote:
I'm surprised it took Sweden this long.
They've got such a killer eSports line up as it stands. o.e
We've had it in other games before. The thing is, It's more united now because all games are under the same organisation (ran by Dreamhack and Inferno Online). So it's much more like an MLG (8 stops with smaller ammounts of prize money) and then the winners of these stops qualify for the big event at Dreamhack Summer with 400.000 SEK (which is around 50k dollars).
We've had circuits for Fifa (TV channel TV4 had something) and CS 1.6 (Inferno Online League, with 4 circuit stops and one big final) earlier.
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gratz Sjow, well played.
He just steamrolled Lalush in the last game.
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there is only one swedish champion.
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SjoW 3-1 Lalush.
Gratz to Sjow
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On January 29 2012 06:03 Naniwa wrote:
there is only one swedish champion.
I think that's Lalush ... just wait for the day when he's happy about the game balance!
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Jesus, Talking about SC2 in Swedish sounds so dammn retarded lol. I forgot how awful it sounds >_<.
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Even though there is better swedish players than sjow on paper, he consistently manages to win lots of major lan tournament with good prize pools. Like the gathering, IeSF and IEM 5 EU this year.
Gratz to sjow!
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in the winner interview Sjow said he's gotten his motivation back and he's been playing 10-12h/day the last 2 weeks.
He apparently changed his hotkeys back in december as well and he believes he has a better macro now because of that.
Will be interesting to follow Sjow this year, i hope he keeps practicing hard.
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Bout time Sweden had an official league/tournament. It's the second home to esports.
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The qualifiers are offline and there have been four of em so far. The Swedish esport newssite rakaka admins the tournaments and the major Swedish newspaper aftonbladet broadcasts every qualifier live.
The Swedish qualifier for wcg were made through this national bSwedish championship second qualifier which were won by cytoplasm. So he made it both into the national finals which will be held at Dreamhack this summer and a slot for WCG earlier 2011.
So there is 4 additional qualifiers left until the set of players is complete to the summer.
I've been at two of qualifiers live so far and they're simply amazing. Open for all players and hosted at local it-cafes. It really adds something to the Swedish scene we've missed for a very long time.
I were going to make a writeup about it all but since this thread already were made it saved me the trouble!
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they should really cast it in english, with some english commentators... listening to that crap on aftonbladet made me puke :X
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On January 29 2012 06:03 Naniwa wrote:
there is only one swedish champion.
Is it thorzain?
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Wish there was an english cast for this!
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Too easy for the Brusi.
Also, sadly they should stop forcing the swedish-only part of the commentating, it gets super awkward. At least call the units their proper names...
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On January 29 2012 06:03 Naniwa wrote:
there is only one swedish champion.
haha! ;-) <3
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On January 29 2012 10:47 Elem wrote:
Too easy for the Brusi.
Also, sadly they should stop forcing the swedish-only part of the commentating, it gets super awkward. At least call the units their proper names...
Guess it´s because Aftonbladet "owns (or maybe could be called the official partner)" the casting rights of EsportSM. Do not quote me on that but I talked to Hellspawn who is one of many that runs the show and he said that´s the way it is.
There will surely be quite alot of awesome games coming since there´s still 4 qualifers left until the finals at Dreamhack Summer. I myself will try to attend as many as possible except the one up in Umeå.
If anyone is up for joining the trip and lives nearby. Send me a PM and I´ll maybe give you a ride !
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Tohught I´ll just share this preview I made for our teamsite with you guys! It´s about the upcoming qualifier that will take place in Umeå, Sweden, this weekend.
![[image loading]](http://www.esportsm.se/images/1910-umea.jpg)
Enjoy the read!
![[image loading]](http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTWxuNHFc22853K9U1NBlLbX_yk4cQn4rggPHyRwgvaZ0U6droW) The chilly winds in northern Sweden does not stop out Esport fans to duke it out against eachother to earn one of the precious slots for the EsportSM finals hosted at Dreamhack this summer! Some will be travelling for several hours to reach Noliamässan who will host this upcoming qualifiers! So far ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/Zicon_small.png) inFSortOF, ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/Ticon_small.png) SjoW, ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/Picon_small.png) ViPro and Cytoplasm has qualified for the finals but still another four chances remain to fight for the 70 000 SEK prize pool! As usual Maven and Endarspire will be there to cover the event for Aftonbladet. This will hopefully be another awesome event in terms of planning and production. The Dreamhack tournament crew in cooperation with Hellspawn and Greykarn will never fail us! Team property will ofcourse attend and compete at this event! This time it´s Gillon who will get on his mount and ride off with the early morning sun in his back! With his northern fighting mindset he will probably overcome most of the awaiting opponents. Gillons comment on the qualifier: I think it will be a awesome event with a lot of fun meeting the other players. My ambition is ofcourse to win qualifier but there will be a lot of big names attending. Maybe I´ll get lucky and receive a juicy seed in the group play ^^.I definitely think that I got a good chance of winning the event but I´lll guess we just have to see how it goes. I will enjoy my stay in Umeå to fullest and I do not doubt that this will be a great experience for me. Some other names worth mentioning that will attend this qualifier: Naugrim Forsen Dignitas.Merz Dignitas.Bischu I think we can expect some really exciting matches with players of this caliber! Maybe there will come some udnerdog and snatch the slot from nowhere? Who knows!? Follow EsportSM at Twitter for the latest news and updated results! Also visit their website for the full player list and additional info (please note that site is in Swedish). And remember Gillon: Don´t belive in yourself. Belive in me who belives in you! //prOpTeodice teamproperty.net![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/HWNq5.png)
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The Swdish stream provided by Aftonbladet will be live from 16:45 CET starting with the FIfa 12 finals!
17.30 CET finals in Super street fighter 4!
18.00 Quarterfinals of SC2 begins!
Semifinal #1 19.00 CET
Semifinal #2 19.45
Finals! 20.45!
More detailed info and stream:
HERE
Group standings and final scores: HERE
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More eSports! I need to visit Sweden.. who can help me out when I decide to go? :D
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Sick! Sweden is such a talented country.
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Excellent.
On February 19 2012 01:38 Bedrock wrote:
More eSports! I need to visit Sweden.. who can help me out when I decide to go? :D
You would probably want to go to Stockholm as it's the largest city and most big tournaments are held there
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Naugrim totally owned. Though I feel bas for Bischu, he needs to win a qualifier soon And very little crowd, a shame.
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Group A is finished. Forsen took first place (Beat ThorZaIN in groupplay), ThorZaIN took second place so they advance to semis. Group B (MorroW, Jimpo, StjarnaN, Mini) is being played right now.
Semis & Finals will be broadcasters 18:00 CET.
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Result from group B
Jimpo 2 -1 StarNaN
Morrow 2 -1 Jimpo
StarNaN 2 -1 Morrow
and all 3 players defeat Mini 2-0, so there's a 3 way tie currently
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Question: I´m from Denmark... Will i be able to participate in the tournament, or is it Sweed´s only?
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On April 30 2012 01:52 Zergmeister wrote:
Question: I´m from Denmark... Will i be able to participate in the tournament, or is it Sweed´s only?
Swedes only
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Has MorroW vs ThorZaiN already been played?
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On April 30 2012 03:40 Eee wrote:
Has MorroW vs ThorZaiN already been played?
No Star vs Forsen first (currently 1-1) and then Morrow vs Thorz after
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Why don't I live in Sweden ><
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Game 1 to Thorzain, took an hour and almost mined out Tal'darim. Standard
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Maddelisk and Maven are doing pretty well. First Swedish casters I didn't mute.
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I have to say watching Thorzain and Morrow play against each other...they basically have a similar style.......
and that means that every game will probably take 1 hour to complete....with almost no agression at all in early and mid game xD (I might exaggerate)
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First game was over an hour long. XD
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Final live know between ThorZaIN and Forsen.
ThorZaiN eliminated MorroW in the semis with 2-0 in maps.
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Why can't swedish tournaments ever make TL-threads, use the TL-calendar and apply for a featured tournament stream? They really should work on their PR.
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Thorzain won on Metalopolis. Forsen won on Shakuras. Score 1-1?
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On April 30 2012 05:47 VoirDire wrote:
Why can't swedish tournaments ever make TL-threads, use the TL-calendar and apply for a featured tournament stream? They really should work on their PR.
wtf i had no idea this was going on ^_^
edit: swedish commentary is so hard to get used to...
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On April 30 2012 05:53 onedayclose wrote:
Thorzain won on Metalopolis. Forsen won on Shakuras. Score 1-1?
Yes, score is 1-1
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On April 30 2012 05:56 nttea wrote:Show nested quote +On April 30 2012 05:47 VoirDire wrote:
Why can't swedish tournaments ever make TL-threads, use the TL-calendar and apply for a featured tournament stream? They really should work on their PR. wtf i had no idea this was going on ^_^ edit: swedish commentary is so hard to get used to...
Is swedish commentary quite common? It seems swedens biggest LANs are casted live in english.
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On April 30 2012 05:59 onedayclose wrote:Show nested quote +On April 30 2012 05:56 nttea wrote:On April 30 2012 05:47 VoirDire wrote:
Why can't swedish tournaments ever make TL-threads, use the TL-calendar and apply for a featured tournament stream? They really should work on their PR. wtf i had no idea this was going on ^_^ edit: swedish commentary is so hard to get used to... Is swedish commentary quite common? It seems swedens biggest LANs are casted live in english.
They're casted in Swedish as well.
On April 30 2012 05:47 VoirDire wrote:
Why can't swedish tournaments ever make TL-threads, use the TL-calendar and apply for a featured tournament stream? They really should work on their PR.
Hopefully they will start doing "Rakt på med Rakaka" again, so I can call in and whine about it.
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Rakaka should acknowledge this tournament and have Thorzain take over half the homepage if he wins.
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On April 30 2012 06:02 onedayclose wrote:
Rakaka should acknowledge this tournament and have Thorzain take over half the homepage if he wins.
RAKAKA founders + some of the writers are the organizers of this. That's why it's so stupid because RAKAKA barely covers the Swedish National Championship in esports. T_T
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Can´t they just cast in English? It sounds stupid when they mix English with Swedish(so called svengelska), and I can hardly imagine a person not familiar with English watching this. The gaming lingo is in English, don´t force it. Their voices are easy to listen to though.
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I believe Thorzain just won. Interview likely in Swedish.
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GGWP Thorzain, now go deal with the muttas
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More big tournaments? Always good news.
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On April 30 2012 06:45 DivinO wrote:
More big tournaments? Always good news.
This is a local tournament, It's like an NFL, but for eSports in Sweden.
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On April 30 2012 06:06 Eee wrote:Show nested quote +On April 30 2012 06:02 onedayclose wrote:
Rakaka should acknowledge this tournament and have Thorzain take over half the homepage if he wins. RAKAKA founders + some of the writers are the organizers of this. That's why it's so stupid because RAKAKA barely covers the Swedish National Championship in esports. T_T
Well, gosugamers.se is ignoring it completely.
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On April 30 2012 06:49 VoirDire wrote:Show nested quote +On April 30 2012 06:06 Eee wrote:On April 30 2012 06:02 onedayclose wrote:
Rakaka should acknowledge this tournament and have Thorzain take over half the homepage if he wins. RAKAKA founders + some of the writers are the organizers of this. That's why it's so stupid because RAKAKA barely covers the Swedish National Championship in esports. T_T Well, gosugamers.se is ignoring it completely.
Well Gosugamers.net's focus is on the international crowd so It's understandable. , but RAKAKA's focus is the swedish crowd so they sould definately be focusing on it a lot more. Bringing interviews, pictures, hyping it up etc.
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On April 30 2012 06:06 Eee wrote:Show nested quote +On April 30 2012 06:02 onedayclose wrote:
Rakaka should acknowledge this tournament and have Thorzain take over half the homepage if he wins. RAKAKA founders + some of the writers are the organizers of this. That's why it's so stupid because RAKAKA barely covers the Swedish National Championship in esports. T_T
The "Rakaka founders + some of the writers" are busy organizing this event. I don't think it's stupid that Rakaka lacks coverage of the event if the majority of staff behind it organizes esportsm, right?
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proud swede here! looking forward to these tournaments, especially the cs1.6 ones.
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On April 30 2012 07:05 Wakerius wrote:Show nested quote +On April 30 2012 06:06 Eee wrote:On April 30 2012 06:02 onedayclose wrote:
Rakaka should acknowledge this tournament and have Thorzain take over half the homepage if he wins. RAKAKA founders + some of the writers are the organizers of this. That's why it's so stupid because RAKAKA barely covers the Swedish National Championship in esports. T_T The "Rakaka founders + some of the writers" are busy organizing this event. I don't think it's stupid that Rakaka lacks coverage of the event if the majority of staff behind it organizes esportsm, right?
Not sure if sarcasm...
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On April 30 2012 07:05 Wakerius wrote:Show nested quote +On April 30 2012 06:06 Eee wrote:On April 30 2012 06:02 onedayclose wrote:
Rakaka should acknowledge this tournament and have Thorzain take over half the homepage if he wins. RAKAKA founders + some of the writers are the organizers of this. That's why it's so stupid because RAKAKA barely covers the Swedish National Championship in esports. T_T The "Rakaka founders + some of the writers" are busy organizing this event. I don't think it's stupid that Rakaka lacks coverage of the event if the majority of staff behind it organizes esportsm, right?
On April 30 2012 07:05 Wakerius wrote:Show nested quote +On April 30 2012 06:06 Eee wrote:On April 30 2012 06:02 onedayclose wrote:
Rakaka should acknowledge this tournament and have Thorzain take over half the homepage if he wins. RAKAKA founders + some of the writers are the organizers of this. That's why it's so stupid because RAKAKA barely covers the Swedish National Championship in esports. T_T The "Rakaka founders + some of the writers" are busy organizing this event. I don't think it's stupid that Rakaka lacks coverage of the event if the majority of staff behind it organizes esportsm, right?
Still rakaka has had reporters that weren't even organizing the event were present at the circuit stops in the past (iceman, lalush, bobhund). none of these work for dh, still they couldn't be arsed covering the events. another major problem is that they're hardly promoting these events, by simply hyping these events up on rakaka they could've easily had a few hundred more viewers. sadly the coverage/promotion is almost nonexistent. I'm well aware that fragbite covered this event very well, but sc2, hon, sf4 fans hardly visit fragbite. and most often when rakaka puts up a notice on their site about the esport sm stops it's way to late. they either put the notice up the same day/in the middle of the night before. which is way to late, and you just can't reschedule stuff.
And sure I understand that greykarn, hellspawn and ponderosa are superbusy, as well as that rakaka lacks manpower (help they've been like half dead for the last 9 months, don't understand why they don't recruit some new writers). But I'm also heavily under the impression that some of them just slack a lot, for example in February a local event was held in gothenburg (gbg esport open) which was fairly succesful, has ~100 spectators (the room was almost packed), there were shootouts with CS pro delpan, they had decent commentators and a pretty good setup. Even though both Iceman and Lalush was there not a single interview was made and not a single word about it was mentioned on the website. Like hell, if want esports to grow we can't have our biggest esports site just ignoring everything that's happening. T_T
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Fragbite looks to have been covering it; surprised no one mentioned the site....are people here really that out of touch with other places on the internet?
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On April 30 2012 08:32 divito wrote:
Fragbite looks to have been covering it; surprised no one mentioned the site....are people here really that out of touch with other places on the internet?
Thing is most sc2, HoN, SF4 players barely go on fragbite, since its initially a cs site. but you're right, even though there coverage has been cs centric they still cover the other games to a certain extent. props to fragbite for their efforts this weekend, although I'd love to see interviews with more than just cs players (still can't blame them, there where two events in Stockholm this weekend and they managed to cover both, at least the cs side).
btw, people reading this, do not miss my rant which was the last post on the previous page!
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I think we (swedish starcraft fans) are in desperate need of a community to cover swedish esports for swedes. We are perhaps the most successful non-korean starcraft nation and we have no real identity/community what I know of.
We a bunch lots of sites covering starcraft, but they don't even seem to link to each others events.
Gosugamers isn't that active and focus almost solely on international starcraft.
Rakaka is more of a tabloid that focuses more on headlines than actual content.
Fragbite is more of a Counter-strike site.
Where was/is all the interviews/updates of swedes competing in korea? (Jinro, Naniwa, Sase, Morrow, Cytoplasm, Haypro). Where is all the interviews of swedish weekly cup winners? Why doesn't anyone report from all the swedish bar craft events? Why aren't there anyone creating TL threads/Calendar events of Swedish tournaments?
Could Dreamhack be the swedish starcraft hub we need? It has the reputation, the organization, the sponsors and the incentive to make swedish starcraft grow.
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On April 30 2012 08:40 Eee wrote:Show nested quote +On April 30 2012 08:32 divito wrote:
Fragbite looks to have been covering it; surprised no one mentioned the site....are people here really that out of touch with other places on the internet? Thing is most sc2, HoN, SF4 players barely go on fragbite, since its initially a cs site. but you're right, even though there coverage has been cs centric they still cover the other games to a certain extent. props to fragbite for their efforts this weekend, although I'd love to see interviews with more than just cs players (still can't blame them, there where two events in Stockholm this weekend and they managed to cover both, at least the cs side). btw, people reading this, do not miss my rant which was the last post on the previous page!
Nyheter24-gruppen (Fragbite) hosted the stream, it's natural for them to have a great coverage of the event and they indeed deserve props for doing a great work.
I'm Wake, newswriter for Rakaka and I can only give you my perspective, you know. I apologize on my behalf if I've been inactive. All I can say is that it's very hard to find the right writers for the content that Rakaka wants to provide. It is indeed more of a tabloid & and yes we spend energy focusing on headlines rather than content, that's pretty much the the thing with Rakaka.
You keep on mentioning Rakaka writers showing up at different events and not giving any interviews. Have it ever crossed your mind that these individuals attend events as themselves sometimes? LaLush is a Starcraft 2 player, man. He attended one EsportSM qualifier to play, not to interview. Don't expect everyone to always walk around with a camera and a microphone just cause they got the Rakaka logotype written in their forehead.
When it comes down to the actual coverage on the event online, we've put up streams on our website. Have you visited esportsm.se? They did an amazing job covering the event themselves with interviews. Rakaka put up streams & information at the top of the website but when there already are so much great work made on Swedish, why re-do it for the purpose of just putting a Rakaka-logo over it?
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To be fair Fragbite has been stepping up their non-CS related content a lot lately, people should give them a chance and show interest in the SC2 stuff they do.
Rakaka could do with more activity but other than that they're great.
If you want something else/more dont be afraid of starting a site yourself
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