EPTDreamHack - Appreciation Thread - Page 8
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Clarityxo
Scotland174 Posts
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andytb
United Kingdom180 Posts
On November 27 2011 22:33 ceaRshaf wrote: 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. Off camera the sofa was a total love in. On camera it was sensible. This is cool with me and the fact a wide shot picked a little up... Meh ;-) | ||
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FluXxxx
Germany57 Posts
this event was awesome, so awesome that they can hardly improve it!? what do they want to do next? open-air? filling a soccer-stadium? unplugged? | ||
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alyselol
100 Posts
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Derez
Netherlands6068 Posts
- Twitch.tv is still a problem. It's simply not good enough to run a major tournament on, I can't remember a single tournament using twitch/justin that had no issues. - More (code S/A) koreans would have made the tourney more fun to watch for me personally. A couple of code A/B koreans, who then proceed to take the trophy home doesn't exactly make it feel like one of the 'highest' level tournament out there. | ||
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BigLighthouse
United Kingdom424 Posts
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Gackt_
335 Posts
Good things: -HQ Streams and lots of them -The pauses between the matches in the finals included something entertaining with the panel. -Mr.Bitter, what a guy! a GREAT addition to Tastosis and Day9. WAY better than having JP or DjWheat or whatever together with Day9. -Tastosis was there! Really appreciated! -Huge prizepool made the event even more interessting. Bad things: -Streams dying, having major issues at the first day making the event unwatchable was sad. -Totalbiscuit, I dont know why that guy is there, he is simply just not good enough. It's a silver league guy commentating pro-games. I find it pretty insulting sometimes towards other people that are so much better that could've had the job. - That Swedish Tejbz guy was a total flopp, cant entertain an audience with that accent, it's just NOT possible, people think it's some kind of a joke when he opens his mouth. - Not the biggest korean names were there, but some things cant be helped. Overall a great event! MLG is a little better imo, but the open bracket they have on MLG and more korean invites makes it more interessting for some reason. | ||
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Marke
Sweden279 Posts
Games are Games and games are awsome, but i was at dreamhack finals live and i must say most awsome! | ||
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TERRANLOL
United States626 Posts
90% of the time I tuned into the stream, there weren't any games being played. I just got a lot of commercials. I also didn't like how every time I got onto reddit someone was comparing dreamhack to "western tourneys" and saying how they needed to step it up. There really are a small number of tournaments altogether, you could really just drop the anti-american prejudice from the idea altogether and be more specific. Other than that I liked everything about it. I would have enjoyed it a lot more if there were more korean players. I understand a lot of these European players are very talented, but I don't know much about them and I have a hard time relating to just the names. | ||
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TheDougler
Canada8309 Posts
+ Show Spoiler [my one complaint] + Too bad that Tejbz guy kept on turning up on screen. Other than him it was the best SC2 event so far. (With MLG and IPL both hot on it's heels of course) | ||
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TotalBiscuit
United Kingdom5437 Posts
On November 28 2011 00:07 Gackt_ wrote: -Totalbiscuit, I dont know why that guy is there, he is simply just not good enough. It's a silver league guy commentating pro-games. I find it pretty insulting sometimes towards other people that are so much better that could've had the job. At least get my league right if you're going to flame me and don't take offense on behalf of casters you don't know. | ||
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VoirDire
Sweden1923 Posts
3 free 720+ HD streams with VODS afterwards. Everything on schedule. Great casters. Great music. What could be better: Optional player POV would be awesome, at least in the final tournament. Reaction cam as in GSL. The format. I'm not that excited about double pool play. I suggest bigger initial groups and a and dual elimination tournament bracket. A dedicated host to speak and fill down time between matches. | ||
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MasterZilla
Sweden234 Posts
Friday Pros: - Almost everything. We were very happy with Friday overall Cons: - Only the casters currently casting on the main stage were really accessible to watch, Apollo/TBs cast was in the noisiest and smallest area at the site and the final caster pair were casting from a private room. Saturday Pros: - Dream arena was well built and worked well for watching the final games - DH staff did fix all the issues that on-site spectators had Cons: - Not possible to watch any casts live until the semis, unless you wanted to stand in the chaos that was the Apollo/TB cast - Very little room around the players meant that all the people wanting to watch the games created a cramped crowd around them - Very hard to know what was going on, who were playing and what the score was when watching the players - In the dream arena, they had a tendency to shine very bright spotlights at the audience during the games, making it extremely hard to watch the big screen if you sat in the front (they did fix this however!) Overall, I was happy with the event, but they need to try to have an area for people who are visiting to watch the casts, even if they just put up some monitors with the stream. We traveled down only for the SC2 event, and missing a large part of Saturday made us a bit cranky. Also, if they have the finals in the same arena next yer, I will bring some warmer shoes. Sitting on ice, covered with only a thin carpet, meant my feet were frozen after 6 hours of sitting still. Anyways, I would recommend people to visit these events if they have the chance. It's quite an experience, and staff tends to work hard with resolving any issues that pop up. | ||
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SeaSwift
Scotland4486 Posts
On November 28 2011 00:07 Gackt_ wrote: -Totalbiscuit, I dont know why that guy is there, he is simply just not good enough. It's a silver league guy commentating pro-games. I find it pretty insulting sometimes towards other people that are so much better that could've had the job. - That Swedish Tejbz guy was a total flopp, cant entertain an audience with that accent, it's just NOT possible, people think it's some kind of a joke when he opens his mouth. These are the only two things I disagree with. Caster taste is subjective etc so I can't really tell you your opinion is objectively wrong, and I couldn't put it any better than TB himself 3 posts above me. The reason Tejb was really bad was not because of his accent. It was because he knew nothing about the game or even the names of the casters, hadn't prepared at all, is awkward, tries to be funny and fails and just gives the impression of being a douchebag. Again, not because of his accent. | ||
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TheDougler
Canada8309 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. That sounds epic, is there a youtube clip of this? Also TB, the "ARE YOU REEEEAADDDY FOR THE FFFFIIIIIIIIINAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALS?" was AWESOME! Seriously got me so pumped. | ||
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Raidern
Brazil3811 Posts
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SKYFISH_
Bulgaria990 Posts
-not the best selection of casters sorry, dreamhack | ||
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Twitchzor
Sweden33 Posts
It's also unfortunate they didn't get a good view on the crowd as well since they mostly filmed those seats that were "closed". This is how it really looked and felt: http://imgur.com/a/bRLcX Note it's packed on the upper left as well. I had constant chills and adrenaline during the finals it was awesome! *edit* Here's a video clip / angle that wasn't showed on Stream giving a better video on the crowd. I hope it's not ISP-based. http://svt.se/2.155436/svt_e-sport#video2246952=2619250 *edit 2* another clip on youtube | ||
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SpiffD
Denmark1264 Posts
On November 27 2011 23:41 Clarityxo wrote: 2GD to host the next one, apart from that DreamHack was fucking superb. I'm going to try and make the trip for DH Summer. This. As many have pointed out, the host was kind of awkward. Get 2GD and the event would be perfect. | ||
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Pippi
Sweden540 Posts
On November 28 2011 00:17 TERRANLOL wrote: I didn't like all the downtime between games. 90% of the time I tuned into the stream, there weren't any games being played. I just got a lot of commercials. 90 % herooooowww. Dunno when you watched, but they had 3 streams running with 1 hour for each match. There maybe was a max of 10min/h? I was just about to write that I it was so much content... | ||
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