On July 23 2013 00:54 BusteD wrote: It's kind of sad that there will be no stop at all in Germany this year... Great for the polish fans though
There is still WCS Season 2 Grand Slam somewhere here. And next years CeBit could easily host WCS the season finals too but if they do more suits then probably not.
From USA you can easily buy tickets for USD 600-700 return (and much less if you're lucky/East Coast) - I would recommend not buying them to Katowice as this screws the prices big time for many airlines.
Try Cracow (KRK) or Warsaw (WAW), eg. ORD to Katowice (KTW) on 14-16 March is USD 930, KRK is 80 km away - price is USD 682. And I wasn't doing any fancy search - just the simpliest query.
I can help with searching a flight to Poland if need be. I travel a lot and have some history with searching pretty sweet flight deals. PM if necessary.
More tips and tricks (especially for people not from Europe): 1) Low-cost airlines really work in Europe. Finding the cheapest flight might include a travel to eg. London and a flight to Katowice on another ticket. Also it's a great way to visit some other European cities; 2) From Cracow or Warsaw it's very easy to arrange a ticket to Katowice for a bus (eg. www.polskibus.com) or train (eg. www.intercity.pl); 3) Looking for some cheaper flight options check also Prague and main German cities.
TL; DR: Tickets to Poland are not expensive and you have to most important thing to buy them very cheap - time before the event.
I still remember how loud they got cheering for Nerchio last time. Also, has IEM ever been to Sweden or has Dreamhack threatened to beat them with bats if they invade Dreamhack turf?
On July 23 2013 05:42 DavoS wrote: I still remember how loud they got cheering for Nerchio last time. Also, has IEM ever been to Sweden or has Dreamhack threatened to beat them with bats if they invade Dreamhack turf?
No, IEM and DH have not been in the same country yet; IEM had stops in Germany, Ukraine and Poland (and outside of Europe ofc.) and Dreamhack was in Sweden, Spain and Romania. France has ESWC and Iron Squid, who are also not going into other countries.
On July 23 2013 04:44 Waxangel wrote: wow tickets to poland are expensive -_-
You want to only fly to Warsaw / Cracow from the US. Not Katowice.
Carmac will there be entry fee this time? last time due to the high interest there were some problems with huge lines, people were w8ing 1-3h in freezing cold only to get informed that arena is full. That sucks especially for foreigners, who may pay for the trip and not be able to even enter the venue