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On November 28 2011 05:52 hmunkey wrote:Show nested quote +On November 28 2011 05:48 Loooui wrote:On November 28 2011 05:45 hmunkey wrote:On November 28 2011 05:42 Cereb wrote:
Over 500.000 concurrent viewers as peak?!?! Are you F****** S****** me?! That is so amazing! I am so happy ! ;D
Is this for real?!
Starcraft 2 on a stadium with half a mill concurrent viewers online?? You realise how few compititions actually get these numbers apart from the very top of sports competition?! This is incredible ! :D Finals was only around 70k when I was watching on the English stream so there's no way that number is accurate. Either the 500k figure was fabricated or the stats are very misleading. Don´t forget that the games also were shown on swedish national television, SVT. Yeah but even then 500k is way too high. SC2 was drawing the most viewers by far of all the games, so assuming around 120k total are through stream views (which is actually probably too high anyways, since the finals peak for Dota 2 was ~10k and SC2 was ~70k, with another 10k on Day9), 350k+ would have to be watching on SVT. Now I'm not Swedish so correct me if I'm wrong, but SVT operates several channels and DH was not being broadcast on their main ones, right? If it was, I guess the figure could be accurate. If not, there's no way. Sweden isn't really that big in terms of population and 3-5% of Sweden was not watching DH.
Dreamhack are usually pretty good with releasing accurate numbers. The dreamhack admin basically flamed MLG for releasing what he felt was deceiving numbers after second to last MLG. I don't think the numbers in the op comes from an official Dreamhack source (someone correct me if I'm wrong). They usually make a press statement some time after the event (maybe a week or so) with better definitions of what the numbers mean. Even if those are official numbers they are at best very preliminary and does lack in context.
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These stats are not official and fake! Can someone please remove them from the main page? The official stats will soon follow with a press release, please don't trust random reddit threads as credible information.
// Trance - Head of Streaming @ DreamHack
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This was a great event, congratulations to everyone involved in creating this and thanks to all sponsors! All you tweeters out there should show your support: @SteelSeries @AMDChannel @EIZO_Global @SapphireUSA
The one thing that could be improved I guess it the hosting on stage. Tejbz might be Swedish and everything but he should not be invited to do these things. Then again, I'm no 2GD fan either so I would not chose him for this. There has to be someone that can do this better than those two (my personal opinion of course). TB for host?
It has already been stated before but I do believe that DreamHack has permission to play all those songs that go on stream between games. And it makes a huge difference, much better than the generic songs sometimes used elsewhere.
Edit: Added personal opinion clause..
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Aside for the commented stream problems, all the whole event was perfect, from the time schedule (perfect for europeans) to groups rounds to the final tournament without looser bracket. Clean, fast and with plenty of possibilities for newcomers.
Also, amazing crowd in the main stage. As it is today, E-sports is gathering more people than many non mainstream sports.
Great job everyone on DH, just fix the stream glitches and it will be perfect
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On November 28 2011 20:59 dreamhackTV wrote:
These stats are not official and fake! Can someone please remove them from the main page? The official stats will soon follow with a press release, please don't trust random reddit threads as credible information.
// Trance - Head of Streaming @ DreamHack
Cheers for the clarification! Didnt sound right 
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On the host thing, I think it's safe to assume that Tejbz won't be allowed anywhere near an esport stage again and I personally think TB was born for this very task.
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Dreamhack winter was completely awesome, the finals were something quite special indeed.
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On November 28 2011 21:21 Longshank wrote:
On the host thing, I think it's safe to assume that Tejbz won't be allowed anywhere near an esport stage again
He won't (blaze is the Dreamhack QL admin).
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Dreamhack was an amazing event! Only bad thing I could think of is how unfriendly it is to Barcrafts across the world.
The time zones made the first day impossible for most North American Barcrafts and the long wait times in between games made it much more difficult to host an exciting event like MLG where games were happening non-stop.
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Great event, other than the hosting. Tejbz was the most socially awkward and cringy host to watch, and the bit where him and TB were co hosting was pretty awful too. The plott brothers or artosis would have made much better hosts, but then they seem to have a lot more confidence and ability with public speaking.
That said, watching some of the other tournament casters made me really appreciate how good the SC2 casters are, anybody see the street fighter?
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On November 28 2011 02:19 FrogOfWar wrote:Show nested quote +On November 27 2011 18:21 tarodotoxin wrote:
i loved it when artosis made fun of Apollo when he didnt know his and tastless' mics were still kinda on
hahah hella laughed What did he say?
Yes, what was being said please? :D
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I thought it was an interesting twist to add the pulse and heart rate of the players to the game screen. For some reason I want to keep seeing this.
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we came from Switzerland with a friend. A 15 hour trip... SO WORTH IT!!! It's the first time I attend this kind of event but I'm pretty sure it's one of the best it has been out there... everything was running pretty smoothly and one thing made it just freakin' awesome: the crowd. I don't know if its swedes that are such cool people but the atmosphere in the DreamArena Sapphire on saturday... geeez, it was INCREDIBLE! Had nerdchills during almost the whole time... It was perfect!
I SO want to go back there ASAP!!
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The Music on the streams were the best thing of the whole even imo.
On November 27 2011 19:44 SimDawg wrote:
I'm 100% sure they're not allowed to broadcast those songs without paying for them, and I'm 99% sure they're not paying. If you wanted to screw DH over all you'd need to do is send an email to a record label with a link to the DH VODs. MLG does it right and uses music from a service.
That said once esports get bigger all this music on streams and music at tournaments will have to stop completely. For now no one has noticed.
As a lof people have been saying youre the one being 100% wrong here. US law does fortuneatly not apply to Sweden.
http://www.stim.se/en/CREATORS/How-STIM-works/
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On November 28 2011 22:26 Nutm3g wrote:
Great event, other than the hosting. Tejbz was the most socially awkward and cringy host to watch, and the bit where him and TB were co hosting was pretty awful too. The plott brothers or artosis would have made much better hosts, but then they seem to have a lot more confidence and ability with public speaking.
That said, watching some of the other tournament casters made me really appreciate how good the SC2 casters are, anybody see the street fighter?
Would you mind pointing out what was wrong with my hosting (which was unplanned and not supposed to happen anyway) and my public speaking abilities? I would like to improve for future events and constructive feedback would be useful.
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On November 28 2011 23:03 TotalBiscuit wrote:Show nested quote +On November 28 2011 22:26 Nutm3g wrote:
Great event, other than the hosting. Tejbz was the most socially awkward and cringy host to watch, and the bit where him and TB were co hosting was pretty awful too. The plott brothers or artosis would have made much better hosts, but then they seem to have a lot more confidence and ability with public speaking.
That said, watching some of the other tournament casters made me really appreciate how good the SC2 casters are, anybody see the street fighter? Would you mind pointing out what was wrong with my hosting (which was unplanned and not supposed to happen anyway) and my public speaking abilities? I would like to improve for future events and constructive feedback would be useful.
I think your public speaking abilities are great. Youre pretty much the perfect guy for talking before matches, introducing players etc. DH should get rid of the other guy was doing the introduction of the players etc. Blunders like thinking the translator is nightend (lol?) should not be ok.
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I loved it, only gripe I had was Tastosis kept talking about GSL and it really put me off because I've seen them do the same in other foreign tournaments.
Dreamhack Fighting! I hope you set a new standard for tournaments around the world.
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On November 28 2011 23:03 TotalBiscuit wrote:Show nested quote +On November 28 2011 22:26 Nutm3g wrote:
Great event, other than the hosting. Tejbz was the most socially awkward and cringy host to watch, and the bit where him and TB were co hosting was pretty awful too. The plott brothers or artosis would have made much better hosts, but then they seem to have a lot more confidence and ability with public speaking.
That said, watching some of the other tournament casters made me really appreciate how good the SC2 casters are, anybody see the street fighter? Would you mind pointing out what was wrong with my hosting (which was unplanned and not supposed to happen anyway) and my public speaking abilities? I would like to improve for future events and constructive feedback would be useful.
I really enjoyed you being part of the hosting. You bring something to the show no one else does and this is REALLY enjoyable. I was sitting in the middle of the crowd and I was not the only one feeling that way, for sure.
I didn't like at all the main host guy tho... I think the way he was speaking was really akward... didnt get any of his jokes and I tend to think he's a little too full of himself... being good looking and making random taunts about call of duty > sc2 or whatever isnt enough...
Keep it up TB!
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On November 28 2011 23:23 MistraL958 wrote:
I didn't like at all the main host guy tho... I think the way he was speaking was really akward... didnt get any of his jokes and I tend to think he's a little too full of himself... being good looking and making random taunts about call of duty > sc2 or whatever isnt enough...
Keep it up TB!
As cruel as it was, I'll treasure the look I saw on his face when I compared CoD to Angry Birds on stage :> I have nothing against the guy, actually I feel a bit sorry for him, he was not a good fit and I think he realised that fairly early on.
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On November 28 2011 22:18 Paladia wrote:Show nested quote +On November 28 2011 21:21 Longshank wrote:
On the host thing, I think it's safe to assume that Tejbz won't be allowed anywhere near an esport stage again He won't (blaze is the Dreamhack QL admin).
Good to see 
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