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Well this is starting to sound like a broken record, but DH Stockholm was a great event. Even so I feel there are a few things that needs to be pointed out that can need some improvement. So I'll write down a few things that made it a great event and what things you might need to add/work on to make it even more awesome! This is from the prespective of a spectator on both day 1 and 2.
+ Venue. This was a great venue, the bar wasn't the most impressive but it had what was needed most, loads of beer.
+ Production. A well made production, timing was perfect with music after a game won etc.
+ Casters. I was really happy with the casters and the interviewer Incontrol, even the first day which had horrible games was handled in a great way. Semmler had a bad day 1, but did ok in day 2.
+ The format. This is great in theory as spectator since it grants a greater possibility for a unknown player to make it far and get some spotlight time. The format also gives a great potential for playerbase growth, which is great.
+ Music.
+ The crowd. Yes we were awesome. 
But all things were'nt great, but the most problems occured on day 1.
- Sound Checks are great. But long times of insanely loud music from the main stage during day 1 was pretty disturbing when you're trying to watch a game in the bar.
- Map Pool. To many maps, even if there were fun games from the new maps they created more problems then actually add anything to the event.
- Games day 1. I can't lie and say that they were good. Most games that were broadcast day 1 was bad, really bad. But there were some ok/good games. How ever this isn't something that you can change without trying to be more adaptive with the broadcasting schedule. Sadly sometimes this wont help if a player doesn't preform as expected, ex. Hyun vs Naniwa.
- Entertainment on the stream when there is a longer break or downtime. Day 2 was ok. But it shouldn't be hard to do some kind of rerun of like DH winter finals.
- Information on the groups/brackets. There should have been a screen with the brackets and results. Having to go to TL to get an update gets a bit annoying the 10th time in 10 minutes.
The thing that I think was the biggest problem was mediocre the player attendance. I'm not talking about the big skill gap but rather that there were so many slots that weren't filled. I don't know how much DH can do to change this since if a player doesn't want to go, few thing will change this fact.
Personally I think that if all the 128 slots would have been filled, day 1 would have provided better games to broadcast.
I just hope that all the DH events this year will be a success.
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Requesting a somewhat Music list of some of the things they played.
Semi-finals onwards would be appreciated if anyone knows a song it'd be nice if you chipped in
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I really liked it! Good jobb. Looking forward to more. Good casting, good interviews. Loved all the streams during saturday. Nice clear matches. Bad luck with the buggy map.
I'm torn on the "new maps" thing. I like new maps but known maps make better games.
Stream was excelent, some minor glitches in the day two when apollo introduced one player, we got a shot of the player, and then the casters. Was a bit weird. 
Good amount of money. Think thorzain will live good for a few months.
Could the music be more in sound level with the other sounds that would be great cus i had to turn the volume up and down to ensure I didn't disturb my neighbours. Also, how did you get hold of my spotify playlist to play in the pauses?
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I love you dreamhack, awesome content!
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great tournament so far the games could have been a bit better but everything else was just awesome
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Free 720p stream (even if not quite up to the 720p of others), nice player base, good casters, and really nicely scheduled so that those of us in the states could watch it too. Also I think the tournament format was fair, without double elimination redundancy, AND we got to watch all of the quarter & semi final games, instead of having to choose which stream we focused on.
Best free tournament out there, keep up the good work and thanks!
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it was a really good event is all i have to say
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anyone knows if there has been a replay pack yet? Or will be anytime in the future? 
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Great production as always!
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The WCS European Championship was a ridiculously good event - I was supposed to do other stuff but wound up watching everything. Perhaps not flawless, but I can't recall a more enjoyable event this year. Great work, Dreamhack.
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Best tournament I've seen so far. And I've seen very many tournaments. RedEye was great btw!
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What i didn't like:
- I missed Day9&TB&Incontrol (from the DH crew)
- RedEye was imho out of place. He could do a great host for a tv quiz show or stuff like that, not for a SC2 Tournament or for a (e)sporting event. A bit the same feelings i share for moletrap.
- The place half empty all the time (beside for the final) (not sure if too big place or not enough people, either way was painful to watch so many empty seats, compared to the dota2 invitational)
- After/pre match useless comments from apollo/artosis/tasteless etc... about maps/players.
-720+ stream was laggy as hell/unwatchable. No it's not my internet connection.
What i Liked:
- The format was very very good (much better than MLG)
- Perhaps it's a bit of patriotism (i'm european afterall). I liked to see only european talents. In other words i enjoyed a non korean top6.
- Seeing players enjoy themselves after the match (see grubby when he qualified)
- I enjoyed the 'podium' procedure more than the MLG one
What i loved:
- The production value gets a 10/10
- Best tournament i watched so far for content/value
- The "who is this"/thorzain fan videos were amazingly hilarious
can't wait to see what they are going to do in China and how many people actually shows up for that, seeing it's a so far out place for every european/american.
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didnt miss any of the people from the above post
redeye did a great job imho. no awkward moments or bad jokes as so many others do
DH once again did an outstanding job. imho they are doing the best hosting/production of sc2 tournaments right now
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Dreamhack Open: Vienna pls!^^
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DREAMHACK PLZ do WCS Global Finals! I loved the production of WCS EU finals (especially the map pick and veto).
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MLG, are you watching?
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On September 17 2012 07:52 Castigo wrote:
-720+ stream was laggy as hell/unwatchable. No it's not my internet connection.
it has to be your internet or your connection to twitch server...wasn't laggy for me one bit
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On September 17 2012 08:01 robih wrote:
didnt miss any of the people from the above post
redeye did a great job imho. no awkward moments or bad jokes as so many others do
DH once again did an outstanding job. imho they are doing the best hosting/production of sc2 tournaments right now
Agreed. There is no such thing as the ultimate caster core - everyone likes/wants something different - and this was a very solid group. RedEye may have not fit an "eSports" sterotype, but he did a LOT better than many other hosts.
DH raised the bar once again!
As some others have stated. I also liked seeing all the EU players battle it out together (not that I'm going to stop watching GSL or tournaments with a handful of Koreans etc).
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