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DreamHack Winter 2011 StarCraft II - Page 6
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hoepie
United Kingdom96 Posts
I hope! | ||
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Apom
France655 Posts
Event will be awesome regardless ! | ||
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OKMarius
Norway469 Posts
On September 30 2011 07:08 r!pp!n wrote: Haven't seen Moon play in awhile, will be interesting to see how he has progressed Afaik that's because he's been practising WC3. He qualified for WCG in WC3 a month ago or so. =/ | ||
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magnaflow
Canada1521 Posts
On September 30 2011 06:39 BigLighthouse wrote: I think it will be an amazing event, but I feel as if theyr too invite heavy at the moment. Its really hard to get new players coming through when tournaments become invite focussed sometimes. Still, big names are cool too I guess, gives the people what they want Even if there were no invites, the people that have been invited would make it to the top anyways so you might as well just invite them knowing that they will accept, rather then making them climb through a pile of games they will most likely win anyways. Also I feel that doing it this way a up and comer has a better shot of making a name for himself and showing people what he/she may be capable of. IE: Unknown player shows up to tourney, has amazing skill and an opportunity to show that, only problem now is DRG wasn't an invite and is Unknown's first opponent. | ||
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Starcraftplaylist
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Zer atai
United States691 Posts
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37024 Posts
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netsky4
Austria511 Posts
On September 30 2011 07:46 Starcraftplaylist wrote: I agree with Thorzain, no communist/socialist prize pool please... attract top players with high price pools... not $1 for everyone. Weirdly enough I quoted the same at Dreamhack Valencia and got flamed for hurting esports... Prize distribution seems to be better than the invitationals though Edit: OP cut out TB's face ô.Ô | ||
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Manical
Sweden42 Posts
On September 30 2011 06:52 bkrow wrote: I hope you get some revenge on DRG and take out #1 this tournament  That is a lot of money; a good spread and first place still gets ~$30,000, that is nice to see. I am interested to see the rest of the player list, but the players that have qualified so far look beastly! So much anticipation - maybe another DreamHuK? Or will the Koreans just roflstomp their way to victory.. No Korean have won the main Dreamhack tournaments yet(excluding the invitationals), even though people like Bomber, MC and July have attended. There's always hope! | ||
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LittLeD
Sweden7973 Posts
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DoomsVille
Canada4885 Posts
On September 30 2011 07:43 OKMarius wrote: Afaik that's because he's been practising WC3. He qualified for WCG in WC3 a month ago or so. =/ There are a few other WC3 tournaments he's playing in as well. But yea, he's in heavy WC3 mode. | ||
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Vildhjarta
Sweden126 Posts
On September 30 2011 05:34 labbe wrote: Yeah, cause national pride is soooo duuumb riight? If he feels proud about the fact that we have the biggest LAN-event in the world here, let him feel proud. It does not hurt anyone. Spoiler: Off topic + Show Spoiler + National pride is dumb. Being proud of something you have nothing to do with, (being born isn't exactly your own doing, neither that or the location of your birth) makes you look retarded. It doesn't hurt anyone..? wow kids these days. | ||
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GenesisX
Canada4267 Posts
Can't wait to see DRG play ^^ | ||
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Eee
Sweden2712 Posts
On September 30 2011 07:56 Manical wrote: No Korean have won the main Dreamhack tournaments yet(excluding the invitationals), even though people like Bomber, MC and July have attended. There's always hope! Yeah, DH Summer 2011 had Bomber, MC, July, Moon attending and DH Winter 2010 had oGs_TOP and oGs_InCa attending. With HuK winning DH Summer 2011 and Naama winning DH Winter 2010. | ||
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RahviN-
Norway18 Posts
National pride is dumb. Being proud of something you have nothing to do with, (being born isn't exactly your own doing, neither that or the location of your birth) makes you look retarded. It doesn't hurt anyone..? wow kids these days. Being pride of ones group-membership, wheter there is being a guy, a swede, a sc2-fan or a christian is only natural for humans. People like when other people have something i common, or when another person have something they can identify with, and there's absolutly nothing wrong with that. The error happens when people start flaming people of other groups (such in this example: a norwegian, a girl, a halo-player and a muslim) just based one their membership of other groups. Obviouly thats bad. Point being: Let the man root for his fellow countrymen, nothing bad in being proud of what you are/where you come from etc in itself As for the tournement: Sweet! Rooting 100% for you ThorZaiN, you'll get the better of DRG this time around;). Also really hoping for 2GD as a host, that guy is a total baller^^ | ||
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BigLighthouse
United Kingdom424 Posts
On September 30 2011 07:35 Eufouria wrote: I think they should also invite you. I doubt there are 50 players I'd rather watch instead of twice as many spoon terran games. I hope most Korean teams apply for this, also does anyone know if players have to pay for their own travel or not? You cant honestly imagine DH will be footing the bill for 64+ however many other events like LoL they might be having flights to Sweden do you? My head might actually explode if they were, in a good way of course, but it seems awful unlikely. Maybe we need another Marineking reddit! | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States44334 Posts
On September 30 2011 07:35 Eufouria wrote: I think they should also invite you. I doubt there are 50 players I'd rather watch instead of twice as many spoon terran games. I hope most Korean teams apply for this, also does anyone know if players have to pay for their own travel or not? But then it would be weird having a Thorzain vs. Thorzain finals, wouldn't it? | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States44334 Posts
On September 30 2011 07:53 Seeker wrote: No DongRaeGu? T-T.... What? He's number five on the list... And even if he wasn't already announced, he could be invited o.O | ||
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shawnyee
Sweden53 Posts
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AdreN-
United States503 Posts
On September 30 2011 06:07 Thorzain wrote: I agree with you that for a BYOC tournament I wouldn't payout to that many players (see MLG open bracket example from previous post, for instance). However, you do make a good point that if a tournament is 100% invitational there should be a larger % of players that get paid. I think most would agree that at least the 2nd place should have been paid in that tournament. IMO this tournament will have 64 good players, 32 really good players, 16 excellent players, and 8 great ones. Should the "excellent" players not get paid anything (I know this is a generalization, but you get the point)? I just think a larger spread of prize money creates more opportunites for players to actually do this as a profession. Right now if you aren't on a top team with a salary then you're either a slave in korea or a player outside of Korea that plays for "fun" and any money is just an added bonus.The thing is that in a 8 man invitational tournament there's bound to be 8 great players. I'd say give top 3 or 4 money. In a 64 man tournament held outside of Korea, most of the players are gonna be decent/good but not great. If you would have a 512 player tournament with most of those players being random BYOC guys at dreamhack, should top 128 get money? I think that the prize distribution should be relative to the skill of the players instead of the ammount of players. | ||
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