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crappen
Profile Joined April 2010
Norway1546 Posts
April 28 2013 15:13 GMT
#601
Given the timeframe DH had, it was pretty close to perfect. BO3 in semis is understandable given how many games had to be played in a single day.

I had no problems with stream, and when I did have problem, I had to refresh a few times to get it back to super quality with no lag.

Casters where absolutely amazing, cant complain at all, and InControl doing his thing is mandatory in any event imo, it really makes it seem more fun, and not so serious, reminding that this is a fun joyful event.
Killcani
Profile Joined October 2010
Sweden448 Posts
April 28 2013 15:15 GMT
#602
On April 29 2013 00:11 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 29 2013 00:05 Killcani wrote:
On April 29 2013 00:01 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:
On April 28 2013 23:46 Killcani wrote:
On April 28 2013 23:42 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:
On April 28 2013 23:40 Killcani wrote:
The format was actually pretty bad the days were very long with too many games. The mainstream on day 1 choice of games were bad aswell and it was really hard to know what was going on.


There's a lot to be said imo for what MLG did last time where there was a small number of players but you saw every game and basically every game was top level.

No I support dreamhack for having an open tournament and imo it's needed but it can be done way better. They should've been flexible with their stream schedules and choosen games were someone was facing elimination. They should've done regular updates on the brackets from liquipedia on stream as too who were dropping out and if possible doing recaps of the most important games like NASL did.

Day 2 was alot better and the finals were great.

+Great casters and host (Artosis<3)
+Good games
+Great player pool
+The only open tournament now?
+FREE 720p
+Awsome crowd and the stage looked amazing

-12+ hour days are too long (casters and players tired)
-Group system should change to GSLs system to keep the days shorter and no tiebreakers
-Better featured games on day 1
-Keep the stream updated on the storylines on day 1 and who is elimated by who and how (this needs to be fixed)


IMO there is no reason for an open bracket now that ameaturs already have somewhere to make a name for themselves in WCS Europe if they're good enough.

Has any random player from the open bracket ever actually made a name for themselves at a Dreamhack?


starnan with a top 4 placement in 2012 DreamHack Open: Bucharest and verdi got top 16 this dreamhack both of whom would never have gotten an invite. New blood is always going to come into the scene as long as its doing well.


And you consider those stories worth 25% of the tournament and us having to have best of 3's in the semi and quarter finals?

This can be fixed by using GSLs group system.
Aeroplaneoverthesea
Profile Joined April 2012
United Kingdom1977 Posts
April 28 2013 15:17 GMT
#603
On April 29 2013 00:15 Killcani wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 29 2013 00:11 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:
On April 29 2013 00:05 Killcani wrote:
On April 29 2013 00:01 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:
On April 28 2013 23:46 Killcani wrote:
On April 28 2013 23:42 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:
On April 28 2013 23:40 Killcani wrote:
The format was actually pretty bad the days were very long with too many games. The mainstream on day 1 choice of games were bad aswell and it was really hard to know what was going on.


There's a lot to be said imo for what MLG did last time where there was a small number of players but you saw every game and basically every game was top level.

No I support dreamhack for having an open tournament and imo it's needed but it can be done way better. They should've been flexible with their stream schedules and choosen games were someone was facing elimination. They should've done regular updates on the brackets from liquipedia on stream as too who were dropping out and if possible doing recaps of the most important games like NASL did.

Day 2 was alot better and the finals were great.

+Great casters and host (Artosis<3)
+Good games
+Great player pool
+The only open tournament now?
+FREE 720p
+Awsome crowd and the stage looked amazing

-12+ hour days are too long (casters and players tired)
-Group system should change to GSLs system to keep the days shorter and no tiebreakers
-Better featured games on day 1
-Keep the stream updated on the storylines on day 1 and who is elimated by who and how (this needs to be fixed)


IMO there is no reason for an open bracket now that ameaturs already have somewhere to make a name for themselves in WCS Europe if they're good enough.

Has any random player from the open bracket ever actually made a name for themselves at a Dreamhack?


starnan with a top 4 placement in 2012 DreamHack Open: Bucharest and verdi got top 16 this dreamhack both of whom would never have gotten an invite. New blood is always going to come into the scene as long as its doing well.


And you consider those stories worth 25% of the tournament and us having to have best of 3's in the semi and quarter finals?

This can be fixed by using GSLs group system.


And then play the first knockout round of day 1? If that works out for time I'd be okay with that.
StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
April 28 2013 15:18 GMT
#604
bo3's are sort of anticlimactic especially for semi-finals. I know they were short on time, but we really need to find a way to make those matches longer and please get rid of the dreaded coin-flip.
Lonyo
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United Kingdom3884 Posts
April 28 2013 15:18 GMT
#605
On April 29 2013 00:11 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 29 2013 00:05 Killcani wrote:
On April 29 2013 00:01 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:
On April 28 2013 23:46 Killcani wrote:
On April 28 2013 23:42 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:
On April 28 2013 23:40 Killcani wrote:
The format was actually pretty bad the days were very long with too many games. The mainstream on day 1 choice of games were bad aswell and it was really hard to know what was going on.


There's a lot to be said imo for what MLG did last time where there was a small number of players but you saw every game and basically every game was top level.

No I support dreamhack for having an open tournament and imo it's needed but it can be done way better. They should've been flexible with their stream schedules and choosen games were someone was facing elimination. They should've done regular updates on the brackets from liquipedia on stream as too who were dropping out and if possible doing recaps of the most important games like NASL did.

Day 2 was alot better and the finals were great.

+Great casters and host (Artosis<3)
+Good games
+Great player pool
+The only open tournament now?
+FREE 720p
+Awsome crowd and the stage looked amazing

-12+ hour days are too long (casters and players tired)
-Group system should change to GSLs system to keep the days shorter and no tiebreakers
-Better featured games on day 1
-Keep the stream updated on the storylines on day 1 and who is elimated by who and how (this needs to be fixed)


IMO there is no reason for an open bracket now that ameaturs already have somewhere to make a name for themselves in WCS Europe if they're good enough.

Has any random player from the open bracket ever actually made a name for themselves at a Dreamhack?


starnan with a top 4 placement in 2012 DreamHack Open: Bucharest and verdi got top 16 this dreamhack both of whom would never have gotten an invite. New blood is always going to come into the scene as long as its doing well.


And you consider those stories worth 25% of the tournament and us having to have best of 3's in the semi and quarter finals?

I consider them worth 100% of the tournament, since that's what the tournament is all about, hence why it's called the DreamHack Open.

If you want endless invite only tournaments, that's fine. Some of us would rather have Opens.
HOLY CHECK!
Aeroplaneoverthesea
Profile Joined April 2012
United Kingdom1977 Posts
April 28 2013 15:21 GMT
#606
On April 29 2013 00:18 Lonyo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 29 2013 00:11 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:
On April 29 2013 00:05 Killcani wrote:
On April 29 2013 00:01 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:
On April 28 2013 23:46 Killcani wrote:
On April 28 2013 23:42 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:
On April 28 2013 23:40 Killcani wrote:
The format was actually pretty bad the days were very long with too many games. The mainstream on day 1 choice of games were bad aswell and it was really hard to know what was going on.


There's a lot to be said imo for what MLG did last time where there was a small number of players but you saw every game and basically every game was top level.

No I support dreamhack for having an open tournament and imo it's needed but it can be done way better. They should've been flexible with their stream schedules and choosen games were someone was facing elimination. They should've done regular updates on the brackets from liquipedia on stream as too who were dropping out and if possible doing recaps of the most important games like NASL did.

Day 2 was alot better and the finals were great.

+Great casters and host (Artosis<3)
+Good games
+Great player pool
+The only open tournament now?
+FREE 720p
+Awsome crowd and the stage looked amazing

-12+ hour days are too long (casters and players tired)
-Group system should change to GSLs system to keep the days shorter and no tiebreakers
-Better featured games on day 1
-Keep the stream updated on the storylines on day 1 and who is elimated by who and how (this needs to be fixed)


IMO there is no reason for an open bracket now that ameaturs already have somewhere to make a name for themselves in WCS Europe if they're good enough.

Has any random player from the open bracket ever actually made a name for themselves at a Dreamhack?


starnan with a top 4 placement in 2012 DreamHack Open: Bucharest and verdi got top 16 this dreamhack both of whom would never have gotten an invite. New blood is always going to come into the scene as long as its doing well.


And you consider those stories worth 25% of the tournament and us having to have best of 3's in the semi and quarter finals?

I consider them worth 100% of the tournament, since that's what the tournament is all about, hence why it's called the DreamHack Open.

If you want endless invite only tournaments, that's fine. Some of us would rather have Opens.


MLG wasn't invite only.

TheSir
Profile Joined February 2012
1830 Posts
April 28 2013 15:25 GMT
#607
Positive:
- NASL stream, just brilliant to have another high quality stream besides the mainstream and NASL is always a good bet. Bitterdam always deliver, huge props to them and everyone else at NASL. NASL and Dreamhack are a prefect match.
- Community streams, some weren't up to DH quality production (DH make a overlay next time so all community streams can use the same) but as always i appreciate the hard work those streamers do.
- 720p 60fps mainstream was great, shame twitch cant handle the load they now a days often get but the stream quality was once again great.
- Casters and hosts did a great job as usual. Fun interviews, good casting, good observing etc etc.
- Dreamhack sound guy, awesome dude!
- New main stage looked sick and a great show overall.
- Sick crowd and the roof blew off the building a couple of times.
- TL LR thread in the early quieter hours of the day

Negative:
- No player cams on screen in the Ro8, essential for me as a viewer. Those eye shots we saw a couple of times doesn't really work and looked like well thats all we can do.
- The overlay didn't do it for me, i dont like it. Some game you didn't even see it was a Dreamhack game cause the logo in the middle of the map (sweet feature) wasn't shown once because the map was big and players didn't use the middle. Scoreboard and mineral info on the bottom sucks, very bad way to show information and ill keep whining about it. There is a reason why almost all sports use scoreboards at he the top of the screen.
- Inconsistency with Gameheart features, some games we saw team logo's on the map and other games we didn't.
- Player colors, there were times that the player colors switched between maps and it can be confusing as fuck.
- No couch in the middle of the crowd, interviews after the match on a couch gives a more relaxed and less rushed vibe and make players look more comfortable cause almost every player is awkward as fuck to look at on stage/interviews.
- Stop doing interviews before matches, its stupid and dont make them walk through the crowd. Just introduce them one by one on the stage, let them shake hands and let them go in the booths. And here we go again, there is a reason why this (interviews before a match) doesn't happen in other sports. You think Jon Jones wanted to do a interview right before he walked in the octagon last night to smash Chael's head in? Hmmm nope, so just stop it.

But i had a great weekend and i know im nitpicking for the most part but if you show high standards like DH does, all there is left to criticize are small things.
zmsFlood
Profile Joined April 2013
Finland169 Posts
April 28 2013 15:27 GMT
#608
Such an amazing event, I felt the production was the best so far in any foreign tournament. The grand finals really was the frosting on the cake, the tournament deserved to end in such an amazing fashion. God I was rooting for Nani, as was probably everyone at dreamhack as well. Huge props to the audience for being so polite and showing their appreciation for the champion :D
twitter.com/laurifalck | I don't want to get you drunk, but, ah, that's a very fine Chardonnay you're not drinking. | TLO!
Dosey
Profile Joined September 2010
United States4505 Posts
April 28 2013 15:32 GMT
#609
On April 29 2013 00:25 TheSir wrote:
Positive:
- NASL stream, just brilliant to have another high quality stream besides the mainstream and NASL is always a good bet. Bitterdam always deliver, huge props to them and everyone else at NASL. NASL and Dreamhack are a prefect match.
- Community streams, some weren't up to DH quality production (DH make a overlay next time so all community streams can use the same) but as always i appreciate the hard work those streamers do.
- 720p 60fps mainstream was great, shame twitch cant handle the load they now a days often get but the stream quality was once again great.
- Casters and hosts did a great job as usual. Fun interviews, good casting, good observing etc etc.
- Dreamhack sound guy, awesome dude!
- New main stage looked sick and a great show overall.
- Sick crowd and the roof blew off the building a couple of times.
- TL LR thread in the early quieter hours of the day

Negative:
- No player cams on screen in the Ro8, essential for me as a viewer. Those eye shots we saw a couple of times doesn't really work and looked like well thats all we can do.
- The overlay didn't do it for me, i dont like it. Some game you didn't even see it was a Dreamhack game cause the logo in the middle of the map (sweet feature) wasn't shown once because the map was big and players didn't use the middle. Scoreboard and mineral info on the bottom sucks, very bad way to show information and ill keep whining about it. There is a reason why almost all sports use scoreboards at he the top of the screen.
- Inconsistency with Gameheart features, some games we saw team logo's on the map and other games we didn't.
- Player colors, there were times that the player colors switched between maps and it can be confusing as fuck.
- No couch in the middle of the crowd, interviews after the match on a couch gives a more relaxed and less rushed vibe and make players look more comfortable cause almost every player is awkward as fuck to look at on stage/interviews.
- Stop doing interviews before matches, its stupid and dont make them walk through the crowd. Just introduce them one by one on the stage, let them shake hands and let them go in the booths. And here we go again, there is a reason why this (interviews before a match) doesn't happen in other sports. You think Jon Jones wanted to do a interview right before he walked in the octagon last night to smash Chael's head in? Hmmm nope, so just stop it.

But i had a great weekend and i know im nitpicking for the most part but if you show high standards like DH does, all there is left to criticize are small things.

Wat?
Without interviews before the match, we would of never had the infamous "Fuck You" from FruitDealer.

That is worth a million terrible awkward interviews to get that one super hype moment that everyone cheers for.
kafkaesque
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Germany2006 Posts
April 28 2013 15:32 GMT
#610
On April 28 2013 23:15 Daumen wrote:
Since some time now ive been checking out the Crowd cheers on events (on the stream). Ever since everyone said that Katowice had such a great crowd, I noticed that this DreamHack had an AWESOME crowd especially compared to the last German event in Hannover wich was very dismal -.- (No idea if we Germans are less Cheery or if the Production Crew didnt set up the mics in a way that would allow the crowds cheer to be heard on stream).

But in the last years DreamHack and in the one before, the Swedish crowd used to Cheer to Korean Statements before they were translated, that was awesome and funny ;D It didnt happen this time ;<


German crowds simply suck.

It's pathetic, no matter what you watch or listen to, there's so little enthusiasm...

I've been to countless concerts, festivals and even two esports-events and although it's far, far, far worse for the latter (smelly, fat, unwashed nerd-clichés with stony faces and an absolute ineptitude for the English language), even at Rock am Ring people severely lack passion.

It's sad that the only thing that gets German crowds really emotional is football.
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Sonic Death Monkey
Profile Joined July 2011
Sweden991 Posts
April 28 2013 15:35 GMT
#611
On April 29 2013 00:25 TheSir wrote:
- The overlay didn't do it for me, i dont like it. Some game you didn't even see it was a Dreamhack game cause the logo in the middle of the map (sweet feature) wasn't shown once because the map was big and players didn't use the middle. Scoreboard and mineral info on the bottom sucks, very bad way to show information and ill keep whining about it. There is a reason why almost all sports use scoreboards at he the top of the screen.


Why is that? I thought it was the nicest SC2 overlay ever.
Aeroplaneoverthesea
Profile Joined April 2012
United Kingdom1977 Posts
April 28 2013 15:37 GMT
#612
On April 29 2013 00:32 kafkaesque wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 28 2013 23:15 Daumen wrote:
Since some time now ive been checking out the Crowd cheers on events (on the stream). Ever since everyone said that Katowice had such a great crowd, I noticed that this DreamHack had an AWESOME crowd especially compared to the last German event in Hannover wich was very dismal -.- (No idea if we Germans are less Cheery or if the Production Crew didnt set up the mics in a way that would allow the crowds cheer to be heard on stream).

But in the last years DreamHack and in the one before, the Swedish crowd used to Cheer to Korean Statements before they were translated, that was awesome and funny ;D It didnt happen this time ;<


German crowds simply suck.

It's pathetic, no matter what you watch or listen to, there's so little enthusiasm...

I've been to countless concerts, festivals and even two esports-events and although it's far, far, far worse for the latter (smelly, fat, unwashed nerd-clichés with stony faces and an absolute ineptitude for the English language), even at Rock am Ring people severely lack passion.

It's sad that the only thing that gets German crowds really emotional is football.


Same with England. Our football atmosphere's are pretty good (not Eastern European, Turkey or Argentina good) but good for Western Europe but at Esports event we're pretty flat.

Are football crowds in Germany that good outside of the Ruhr? I've never been impressed with Bayern's atmosphere. Perhaps you need more events in Gelsenkirchen and Dortmund? Also your Esports events are almost always at Cebit type events which are always crap for atmosphere no matter where they're held.
TAMinator
Profile Joined February 2011
Australia2706 Posts
April 28 2013 15:40 GMT
#613
Pros:
Free HD stream
Fantastic casters
Good Crowd
Entertaining DJ during breaks
Good distribution of races and countries
Good timing (during weekend etc)
Double stream
High quality production and useful time stamps/schedule/brackets
Entertaining extra content / hype content
120k+ Viewers

Cons:
Highly biased especially near the end with the casters (I know its the easiest way to build hype to support the local country men but I feel it was over the top and alienating to the koreans)
Possibly a better tournament system (they ended up literally flipping a coin to decide who got through for Luci, Yugioh and Strelok)

kafkaesque
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Germany2006 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-28 15:45:47
April 28 2013 15:41 GMT
#614
On April 29 2013 00:37 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 29 2013 00:32 kafkaesque wrote:
On April 28 2013 23:15 Daumen wrote:
Since some time now ive been checking out the Crowd cheers on events (on the stream). Ever since everyone said that Katowice had such a great crowd, I noticed that this DreamHack had an AWESOME crowd especially compared to the last German event in Hannover wich was very dismal -.- (No idea if we Germans are less Cheery or if the Production Crew didnt set up the mics in a way that would allow the crowds cheer to be heard on stream).

But in the last years DreamHack and in the one before, the Swedish crowd used to Cheer to Korean Statements before they were translated, that was awesome and funny ;D It didnt happen this time ;<


German crowds simply suck.

It's pathetic, no matter what you watch or listen to, there's so little enthusiasm...

I've been to countless concerts, festivals and even two esports-events and although it's far, far, far worse for the latter (smelly, fat, unwashed nerd-clichés with stony faces and an absolute ineptitude for the English language), even at Rock am Ring people severely lack passion.

It's sad that the only thing that gets German crowds really emotional is football.



Are football crowds in Germany that good outside of the Ruhr?


I don't know, as I don't follow football. But the folks at Schalke (Gelsenkirchen) and Dortmund always seem to have a blast. Should be similar for non-Ruhr areas.

Back to Dreamhack:

Pros:

+Apollo and Artosis
+awesome players
+sick production
+lower downtimes
+fucking hilarious host
+lots and lots of content
+NASL-inclusion
+enthusiastic crowd
+great games (though, to be fair, this is barely a credit to Dreamhack)

Cons:

- felt a little rushed at times, I'd have preferred a three-day-event
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Daumen
Profile Joined July 2011
Germany1073 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-28 15:49:48
April 28 2013 15:48 GMT
#615
On April 29 2013 00:32 kafkaesque wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 28 2013 23:15 Daumen wrote:
Since some time now ive been checking out the Crowd cheers on events (on the stream). Ever since everyone said that Katowice had such a great crowd, I noticed that this DreamHack had an AWESOME crowd especially compared to the last German event in Hannover wich was very dismal -.- (No idea if we Germans are less Cheery or if the Production Crew didnt set up the mics in a way that would allow the crowds cheer to be heard on stream).

But in the last years DreamHack and in the one before, the Swedish crowd used to Cheer to Korean Statements before they were translated, that was awesome and funny ;D It didnt happen this time ;<


German crowds simply suck.

It's pathetic, no matter what you watch or listen to, there's so little enthusiasm...

I've been to countless concerts, festivals and even two esports-events and although it's far, far, far worse for the latter (smelly, fat, unwashed nerd-clichés with stony faces and an absolute ineptitude for the English language), even at Rock am Ring people severely lack passion.

It's sad that the only thing that gets German crowds really emotional is football.


I agree so much with that last part that I had to make it bigger.



---

Also: about DreamHack: I rly liked Artosis this time, normally I dont rly like or dislike him, I see him as one of the top casters but at this Event he rly shined (for me) and was awesome, maybe it was the Apollo+Artosis combo? Im not sure, yet he was pure awesome that weekend!
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Emzeeshady
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
Canada4203 Posts
April 28 2013 15:50 GMT
#616
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Wpgstevo
Profile Joined August 2012
Canada79 Posts
April 28 2013 15:53 GMT
#617
Great event! I watched all that I could here in NA central time - understandably much of the content was on while I was at work, but not all (and maybe I got in a series or two at work :D). Thanks Dreamhack for doing what you do!
HolydaKing
Profile Joined February 2010
21254 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-28 16:03:11
April 28 2013 16:02 GMT
#618
On April 29 2013 00:32 kafkaesque wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 28 2013 23:15 Daumen wrote:
Since some time now ive been checking out the Crowd cheers on events (on the stream). Ever since everyone said that Katowice had such a great crowd, I noticed that this DreamHack had an AWESOME crowd especially compared to the last German event in Hannover wich was very dismal -.- (No idea if we Germans are less Cheery or if the Production Crew didnt set up the mics in a way that would allow the crowds cheer to be heard on stream).

But in the last years DreamHack and in the one before, the Swedish crowd used to Cheer to Korean Statements before they were translated, that was awesome and funny ;D It didnt happen this time ;<


German crowds simply suck.

It's pathetic, no matter what you watch or listen to, there's so little enthusiasm...

I've been to countless concerts, festivals and even two esports-events and although it's far, far, far worse for the latter (smelly, fat, unwashed nerd-clichés with stony faces and an absolute ineptitude for the English language), even at Rock am Ring people severely lack passion.

It's sad that the only thing that gets German crowds really emotional is football.

http://www.homerj.de/index.php?show=vods&play=3418

Not always true, although this tournament is the only expection i can think of. Specially that game. Having GoOdy in the grandfinals might have helped too.
Op
Profile Joined November 2012
73 Posts
April 28 2013 16:05 GMT
#619

The whole event was great.

I especially liked the fact that community streams helped to broadcast the games on the 1st day, so it was possible to watch almost any match you like. The only point of improvement here is that it is difficult to keep up on when which game will be played, whether it will be streamed and where.

Some points which could be improved in my opinion:
- It would be great if streamers would be able to announce via some common place (could be twitter as someone else proposed) which match will be coming up next on their channel, so you can go to the channel which has the match you would like to see. Or have some kind of dashboard on the web site with the streams and which games they are/will be casting
- I was rather disappointed when the DreamHack main stream ended on the first day, while there were still many games to be played in other groups and without giving an update on who advanced from the different groups

For the rest the whole thing was great, please keep up the good work !

TigerKarl
Profile Joined November 2010
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Last Edited: 2013-04-28 16:36:51
April 28 2013 16:36 GMT
#620
On April 29 2013 00:48 Daumen wrote:
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On April 29 2013 00:32 kafkaesque wrote:
On April 28 2013 23:15 Daumen wrote:
Since some time now ive been checking out the Crowd cheers on events (on the stream). Ever since everyone said that Katowice had such a great crowd, I noticed that this DreamHack had an AWESOME crowd especially compared to the last German event in Hannover wich was very dismal -.- (No idea if we Germans are less Cheery or if the Production Crew didnt set up the mics in a way that would allow the crowds cheer to be heard on stream).

But in the last years DreamHack and in the one before, the Swedish crowd used to Cheer to Korean Statements before they were translated, that was awesome and funny ;D It didnt happen this time ;<


German crowds simply suck.

It's pathetic, no matter what you watch or listen to, there's so little enthusiasm...

I've been to countless concerts, festivals and even two esports-events and although it's far, far, far worse for the latter (smelly, fat, unwashed nerd-clichés with stony faces and an absolute ineptitude for the English language), even at Rock am Ring people severely lack passion.

It's sad that the only thing that gets German crowds really emotional is football.


I agree so much with that last part that I had to make it bigger.

This statement is so blatantly wrong, that it hurts me physically. Video game tournaments should not be held at expos, and ESL/IEM rightfully suffer for their stupidity to continue this, but pretending that german crowds are bad in general is amazingly ignorant. Look at LCS, where the german crowd actually gets excited because the production is good. SC2 has got really disappointing production quality, considering where it started in 2010 and where it SHOULD be by now. I wouln't get excited for the joke of a production that IEM events offer.
But if you want to keep ignoring facts and come off as a racist douche, be my guest.
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