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I feel it's only natural and fair to give these guys their love that they deserve.
I can't express how much I loved this DreamHack and I would like to list what i appreciate about the event:
- the format: each player has to play at least 3 games before he is knocked out and the finals start on equal terms
- the planning schedule that they go by and you can plan to watch certain matches since you know when they will be played. Longer matches may delay that whole schedule but most of the time it was very useful.
- the casters: well I feel I don't need to talk that much here because they know WE LOVE THEM
- the upsets: and there was lots of them. I don't think anyones call of the top 16 was accurate.
- everything about the finals should be the standard from now on. The stadium, the polished graphics, the pulse meter, the clear player cameras, the fan support, the casters couch with discussions between the games, etc.
- the finals was both watchable in EU and USA, and that's important. The fact that it ended on Saturday and people can stay over the night to follow is very important.
- the ceremony was so emotional and the crowd was awesome, in fact
- the crowd, guys you made the event 10 times better. You cheered, you did not boo, you stayed till the end. Props for being loud and awesome.
- 1080 stream quality free
This is it, LOVE DREAMHACK, can't wait for 2012.
And some stream numbers from DH_Stats_Official on Reddit.
Concurrent viewers, average peak: 212,003
Concurrent viewers, highest peak: 559,664
Unique video views: 23,047,554
Absolute unique viewers: 17,332,113
Total Viewing Time (hours): 169,320 hours
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the in-between games discussion was awesome. a very elegant, informative and entertaining way to fill game set-up intermissions and giving the players a few minutes to compose themselves
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everything in dreamhack that was related to sc2 was awesome. tastosis is good, casters on the couch were good, fans are good. the other games not so much.
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i loved it when artosis made fun of Apollo when he didnt know his and tastless' mics were still kinda on
hahah hella laughed
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I really liked the pulse meter. Kinda cool. And Hero's pulse spikes like crazy sometimes. Holy Jesus lol
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It was definitely a good set-up, my only sadness was that it was held in Sweden, so most of the games were played while I was at work. But the casting was great, having a schedule was really, really nice to know what was being played on what stream. Set casters on set streams was also nice too; so I'm not flicking back and forth between streams like on MLG to try to find Tasteless.
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I agree with everything other than the pulse meter. For me it was just distracting from the game.
The thing I loved the most was the casters talking about the games on the couch bewteen them. Great way to kill time in a way that doeson't make the LR gain 5 pages of cringe over the bad host.
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This was such a great tournament and soooo much to watch ~.~ I still have to rewatch a lot of the games that I missed because there was so much going on and I had to leave my computer for an hour which led to 3 hours of new VODs that need to be checked O.O
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Just gonna made it short.
Bad stuff:
-Some stream issues with lag on the first 2 days,
-Uninteresting map pool imo
Good stuff:
-Everything else!
Where Dreamhack stands out to me is the stream quality (1080p), very little downtime, hardly any delays, stadium-like atmosphere at the finals like it was some football match, laid back and fun, yet profesional casting and finally great tournament format, maybe with the exception of some random draws and seeds.
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Great thread. Another thing to add was how fast all the games casted by Day9 and Mr. Bitters were uploaded. Especially for us americans who were asleep during many games! =D
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On November 27 2011 18:21 Dodgin wrote:
I agree with everything other than the pulse meter. For me it was just distracting from the game.
The thing I loved the most was the casters talking about the games on the couch bewteen them. Great way to kill time in a way that doeson't make the LR gain 5 pages of cringe over the bad host.
Distracting? Then don't watch at it lol
I really loved Dreamhack. I think esports needs more tournaments with a production value like this!
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On November 27 2011 18:25 Hayku wrote:Show nested quote +On November 27 2011 18:21 Dodgin wrote:
I agree with everything other than the pulse meter. For me it was just distracting from the game.
The thing I loved the most was the casters talking about the games on the couch bewteen them. Great way to kill time in a way that doeson't make the LR gain 5 pages of cringe over the bad host. Distracting? Then don't watch at it lol I really loved Dreamhack. I think esports needs more tournaments with a production value like this!
Actually I think it was distracting only because it was such a new toy for the viewers to play with. If it would became the standard we would look at it like the production bar.
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One of the best tourneys.
Only thing to improve is more alerts about who's playing the next series, especially in between games.
A lot of the time I was lost about who was playing and had to scour the forums - not a nice thingf.
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On November 27 2011 18:25 Hayku wrote:Show nested quote +On November 27 2011 18:21 Dodgin wrote:
I agree with everything other than the pulse meter. For me it was just distracting from the game.
The thing I loved the most was the casters talking about the games on the couch bewteen them. Great way to kill time in a way that doeson't make the LR gain 5 pages of cringe over the bad host. Distracting? Then don't watch at it lol I really loved Dreamhack. I think esports needs more tournaments with a production value like this!
I mean sure, people would probably get used to it. But the LR was talking more about the players' BPM than the game itself. I guess that's just because it is a new toy though.
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More love for the e-sports couch discussions, whoever thought of that is awesome! I like how we got the thoughts of all casters even though they werent casting, and also got tastosis some down time to relax between games.
The pulse meter was kinda cool too
Some of the camera work could be improved after matches ends, cause what you really want to see is the players face when they come out, and some of that was missed, but these were small issues. And 2GD should host really 
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On November 27 2011 18:36 dartoo wrote:More love for the e-sports couch discussions, whoever thought of that is awesome! I like how we got the thoughts of all casters even though they werent casting, and also got tastosis some down time to relax between games. The pulse meter was kinda cool too Some of the camera work could be improved after matches ends, cause what you really want to see is the players face when they come out, and some of that was missed, but these were small issues. And 2GD should host really
Absolutely THIS please, if anyone who works for Dreamhack reads this. PLEASE make sure the host is well suited for the event he is hosting!
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Only thing I regretted was not watching the Swedish stream when Twitch TV decided to lag the game to pieces. Dreamhack really should try to find another proxy streaming service for next event, If they even need one. People claiming that Dreamhack is the cause of the lag made me wanna cry.
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I'm guessing those stats are all streams of all games combined?
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Awesome tournament:
- Sick stadium
- Coach discussion
- No BS extended series to ruin the final
- High production
- Pretty good music
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On November 27 2011 18:40 Highways wrote:
Awesome tournament:
- Sick stadium
- Coach discussion
- No BS extended series to ruin the final
- High production
- Pretty good music
About the music, isn't MLG playing that generic music over and over again to not cross any pirating law? Is DreamHack allowed to play music in between games?
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