EPTThe only thing that is bad in this video is TLO and dApollo acting like 9 year olds on the sofa. The rest is just EPIC.
DreamHack - Appreciation Thread - Page 7
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ceaRshaf
Romania4926 Posts
The only thing that is bad in this video is TLO and dApollo acting like 9 year olds on the sofa. The rest is just EPIC. | ||
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bbm
United Kingdom1320 Posts
But massive props to the saturday finals, really was a massive deal. So much better than every other final on a sunday night. | ||
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qoou
Norway145 Posts
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JustPassingBy
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isn't this the stage where everybody hoped to see starcraft 2 one day? then that day was this week! | ||
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ceaRshaf
Romania4926 Posts
HuskyStarcraft Mike Husky Someone please host an esports event in a stadium on the west coast and I'll fill it with fans myself T_T. So awesome. MLGSundance Sundance DiGiovanni @ @HuskyStarcraft you have a deal. Oho, someone is stepping it up. | ||
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mark05
Canada807 Posts
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Goshawk.
United Kingdom5338 Posts
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TotalBiscuit
United Kingdom5437 Posts
On November 27 2011 22:18 Fuchsteufelswild wrote: My goodness, yes, I meant to mention that. THANK YOU TOTALBISCUIT, for saving that so naturally. Bravo! That was not expected. I thought he was just bringing me up to ask a quick question before introducing the other casters but it became apparent that he was struggling. I'm not sure that roasting him a bit over CoD and such was the way to go but the crowd seemed ok with it. | ||
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Bobster
Germany3075 Posts
Roundtable analysis between games was amazing, BPM measure was fun, stage was great, crowd was appropriately enthusiastic and the finals were a nailbiter. Yeah, I totally loved it. :D | ||
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Presidenten
Sweden777 Posts
On November 27 2011 22:41 TotalBiscuit wrote: That was not expected. I thought he was just bringing me up to ask a quick question before introducing the other casters but it became apparent that he was struggling. I'm not sure that roasting him a bit over CoD and such was the way to go but the crowd seemed ok with it. Never seen anyone handling a live crowd like TB, just superb | ||
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True_Spike
Poland3420 Posts
Like this: And the crowd there was ten times smaller than yesterday's. | ||
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SmoKim
Denmark10304 Posts
On November 27 2011 21:12 AlternativeEgo wrote: Don't forget to tweet and show some appreciation to the major sponsors too: @SteelSeries @AMDChannel @EIZO_Global @SapphireUSA Share the love. <3 what he said, SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!!!!!!!!! | ||
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Darksteel
Finland319 Posts
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Hookzqt
Sweden40 Posts
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marcesr
Germany1383 Posts
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Presidenten
Sweden777 Posts
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WightyCity
Canada887 Posts
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Gourmand
Canada101 Posts
 , the format and the fact that the final was on the saturday was really awesome!But for me what i liked the most compare to every other tournament was the casters couch between the game at the end. For the first time i was not going c'mon get those game restarted faster, in fact i would have take more talking between the games no problem! The only laking thing was the camera choice between game, they didn't alway use the right one or took some time to change when different people were talking. To everyone involved in Dreamhack, thank you! | ||
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Busmusen
Sweden13 Posts
Being at the live event however was an pleasure. | ||
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Badboyrune
Sweden2247 Posts
). But since it was fixed for the last day I assume they figured it out in the end and will be better prepared for the next time.I felt that another issue was Totalbiscuit feeling a bit out of place in the casters couch between the games. I'm a huge TB fan but with the setup they had for the casters couch with taking turns analysing the game I felt he didn't add nearly as much as Day9, MrBitter and Apollo who are all very good analysts. Some people also brought out the hosting as an issue. I didn't actually watch that part myself since I don't usually enjoy those parts of any show. I do feel however that you could address both these issues by having Totalbiscuit hosting the even. He has one of the best announcing voices in all of esports casting, brings huge amounts of energy and is overall very articulate and well spoken. He could then transition into being a host of sorts in the casting couch, asking the other casters questions. I think this way would seem a little more organized and would help bring all casters into the roles they are the best at. The last negative thing I can think about is the location. I know there's probably not anything anyone can do about this, I doubt dreamhack are going to change their venue after all these years, but Jönköping is just really quite a small town to host an event as big as this. For most people it will be quite a way to travel there and when you get there and when you get there the few hotels that can be found in the somewhat nearby area will almost certainly be fully booked which means that there will be no way for you to stay the night. Sadly this means that it's hard to attend the event unless you are also attending the LAN, which in my book is quite a shame. If they had hosted it in a bit bigger city like Stockholm or even Gothemburg I doubt there would have been a single free chair in that stadium. I realize that moving it is hardly an option, but one can still dream. That's pretty much it for the negatives for me, the rest of the event was fan-bleeding-tastic. I'm not going to bother comparing if it was better or worse than other big events like the MLGs, IPL or NASL. I do think Dreamhack needs to be given some huge props for being innovators though. I feel like the other events are going with a quite similar formula of get casters, get booths, get a convention centre, get some hosts and then go ahead and run the event like that while trying to perfect that formula. Obviously there's nothing wrong with that and I've enjoyed all those events greatly. Dreamhack however seems to really be pushing the limits though and being the ones that try to add additional features into the standard formula. This event they moved themselves into a big stadium, which was awesome and bringing in a whole new level of venues to esports. They added the caster couch making absolutely full use of all the great casters they brought there as well as making the dead time between games, that is usually quite dry and boring, almost as entertaining as the actual games. Even such a small thing as the heartbeat monitors adds another level of depth that I think we will see much more often after this event. Obviously there were many more positive points than these, but those were the ones that stood out to me. As I said before though, pretty much everything except the three points I mentioned above was really great. I already can't wait for the summer event! | ||
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