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via: DreamHack.se
Excerpt:
DreamHack will start 2014 with a bang in the beautiful city of Gothenburg where we visit Gothenburg Concert Hall, home of The National Orchestra of Sweden, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. DreamHack will host a StarCraft II showmatch in the main hall where over 1200 people can be seated. In the match, we’ll see the DreamHack Open Champion Young Seo ‘  TaeJa’ Yun from Team Liquid face off versus one of Swedens absolute top players, Marcus ‘ ThorZaIN’ Eklöf from Team EG who is the ESPORTSM Champion from 2011/2012 and DreamHack Open Winner from the stop in Stockholm 2012. The show match features a prize pool of $5,000.
 NaNiwa was invited first instead of ThorZaIN, but he declined:
DreamHack Gothenburg will host a variety of other events as well. Check the official post for more details.
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In before twitter shitstorm.
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Naniwa.... Why dont you accept these type of invites....
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According to some rumors, Naniwa declined back then because of Nationwars. Anyways, this will be brutal.
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United States23455 Posts
I don't see why there'd be a shitstorm. It's just a showmatch, and they gave Naniwa a chance first. Taeja has this easy against any European anyway.
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On January 11 2014 05:24 AmuseD wrote:
Naniwa.... Why dont you accept these type of invites....
He declined in favour of Nations Wars - to play for his (especially Swedish) fans. Then this happened. http://www.tv6.se/blog/naniwa/nationwar (English, no worries)
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Not much of an even showmatch in terms of skill and popularity.
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Russian Federation66 Posts
DreamHack opens 2014 with giving TaeJa $5,000.
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In other words, DreamHack invites TaeJa to Gothenburg to receive $5,000, prize ceremony included.
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I think they should give Thorzain the prize money if he takes a map.
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On January 11 2014 05:33 XaCez wrote:
In other words, DreamHack invites TaeJa to Gothenburg to receive $5,000, prize ceremony included.
only 4k, thorzain gets 1k just for being a swedish fan favourite.
Here's a ranking of the swedish players: http://aligulac.com/periods/102/?page=1&sort=&race=ptzrs&nats=SE
Thorzain wouldn't even rank top5
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On January 11 2014 05:32 Dalnore wrote:
DreamHack opens 2014 with giving TaeJa $5,000.
I don't know Kev, I wouldn't count out Taeja so readily.
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Awesome, a showmatch! Said to see thorzain getting destroyed though 
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Getting 1k for losing a series sounds sweet; I'm quite jealous.
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I'd love to see Thorzain pull a huge upset (it would certainly be a hell of a lot more entertaining), but this should be one-sided.
Also, this is why the EG-TL partnership was so bad. Not only were both teams thoroughly embarrassed in Proleague, it also destroyed the EG-TL rivalry. An EG vs. TL showmatch would have brought in so much hype and excitement back in 2011 and 2012, but not anymore. Dead rivalry
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Hopefully Thorzain can show... something...
more money for taeja bank plz
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United Kingdom50293 Posts
On January 11 2014 05:39 XaCez wrote:Getting 1k for losing a series sounds sweet; I'm quite jealous.
Hey I could lose to taeja and in style might I add, where do I sign up for this 1k
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On January 11 2014 05:44 Fusilero wrote:Show nested quote +On January 11 2014 05:39 XaCez wrote:On January 11 2014 05:35 JustPassingBy wrote:On January 11 2014 05:33 XaCez wrote:
In other words, DreamHack invites TaeJa to Gothenburg to receive $5,000, prize ceremony included. only 4k, thorzain gets 1k just for being a swedish fan favourite. Here's a ranking of the swedish players: http://aligulac.com/periods/102/?page=1&sort=&race=ptzrs&nats=SE Getting 1k for losing a series sounds sweet; I'm quite jealous. Hey I could lose to taeja and in style might I add, where do I sign up for this 1k
Oh yeah, planetary first into planetary range upgrade, into tanks and turrets on one base. Will not win, but won't go down without a fight either. 
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United States97276 Posts
On January 11 2014 05:42 Bagration wrote:
I'd love to see Thorzain pull a huge upset (it would certainly be a hell of a lot more entertaining), but this should be one-sided.
Also, this is why the EG-TL partnership was so bad. Not only were both teams thoroughly embarrassed in Proleague, it also destroyed the EG-TL rivalry. An EG vs. TL showmatch would have brought in so much hype and excitement back in 2011 and 2012, but not anymore. Dead rivalry
Yeah it's too bad. It used to be pretty exciting to see EG vs TL back in early sc2 but now it's just not the same. Even before the teams combined though I feel like the rivalry was already on life support. Liquid's Koreans just made it seem too one sided but at least there was still something there.
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Hm, this will be an interesting game! I doubt it'll be as one-sided as everybody is predicting.
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EPT
