DreamHack is ready to talk about the full schedule for their DreamHack Open events, six tournaments through the year with a total of $200,000 in prizes.
EIZO, HyperX, and Razer are proud to join DreamHack in presenting the DreamHack Open 2014 Tour with six live StarCraft® II: Heart of the Swarm® tournaments across Europe. The best Starcraft II pro-gamers from around the globe will have the opportunity to compete for a total of $200,000 being awarded as well as earn their place in esports history as the next DreamHack Open Champion.
DreamHack Open 2014 will feature the same core format that fans and players have come to know and love in the 2013 year; including completely open sign-ups as well as the much praised final eight players show. With a newly added stop in Moscow, each DreamHack Open stop will qualify four players to the tour-ending Grand Finals hosted at DreamHack Winter. To make it to the final championship at DreamHack Winter, every single player will need to prove themselves at a live tour stop. More information on the format can be seen on the infographic below.
Click the image for a larger version“DreamHack Open had an explosive ending in 2013 with Team Liquid’s TaeJa concluding a year of domination with a victory over StarTale’s Life. We are very excited to see how the stories will unfold in 2014.” says DreamHack CEO, Robert Ohlén “Of course none of this would be possible without the support of our sponsors, so we are thrilled to welcome back EIZO and HyperX, as well as welcome Razer and thank them for making 2014 the biggest year for DreamHack Open yet.”
The full list of dates, tournament format, and broadcast details can be found below. DreamHack Bucharest signups have already begun, so click here to get your name in to participate in the first stop of DreamHack Open 2014!
DreamHack Open Dates
DreamHack Bucharest 26-27 April, Sala Polivalenta, Bucharest, Romania
DreamHack Summer 2014 14-16 June, Elmia, Jönköping, Sweden
DreamHack Valencia 18-19 July, Feria de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
DreamHack Moscow 13-14 September, Stadium Live, Moscow, Russia
DreamHack Stockholm 26-27 September, Stockholm Globe Arenas, Stockholm, Sweden
DreamHack Winter 2014 27-29 November, Elmia, Jönköping, Sweden
Format, Prize Money, and WCS Points
For 2014, DreamHack Open will feature a very similar circuit format to 2013. Each Open tour stop will feature sign-up for open participation of up to 96 players, a mixture of professionals as well as amateurs. All competitors will compete in 3 group stages to narrow down to 16 players, and from here the competition will become single elimination best of 3, with a best of 5 grand finals. An important note is this year we will align with the StarCraft II World Championship Series (WCS) system, and shift from using round-robin group stage format to dual tournament group stage format. We are proud to continue partnership with Blizzard Entertainment and the StarCraft II WCS competition in offering 4,000 WCS points for every DreamHack Open Tour stop. The top four players of each open tour stop will qualify to the DreamHack Open Grand Finals to be hosted at DreamHack Winter 2014.
DreamHack Open Tour Stops Bucharest – Summer – Valencia – Stockholm – Moscow
Total: $25,000 and 4,000 WCS Points, top 4 qualify to DreamHack Winter Grand Finals 1st place: $10,000 Runner-up: $5,000 3rd/4th: $3,000 5th-8th: $1,000
From April 26-27th, DreamHack will return to Sala Polivalenta for the second year. In 2013 DreamHack Bucharest featured what may have been the most stacked open tournament the StarCraft community saw in 2013, and we are very excited to return. Be sure to sign-up today to guarantee your spot in the competition, or purchase a spectator pass to catch all the action live from the audience.
The official hotel for DreamHack Bucharest is the Intercontinental Hotel, find details for booking rooms at preferential rates here. For information on travelling to the event information can be found here.
They're also doing stuff with SVT again if you happen to live in Sweden and watch television.
As with 2013, fans will be able to tune into all DreamHack Open tournaments for free in 720p thanks to our partner Twitch. DreamHack is also proud to continue our partnership with SVT, and will feature streaming on SVTplay as well as have all grand finals shown on Swedish Television.
For every DreamHack Open Tour stop fans will be able to tune in to follow the group stage and bracket stage for free and in 720p HD thanks to our partner Twitch. Each stop will feature a world class team of commentators, hosts, and personalities to make sure you don’t miss a minute of the action. We intend to continue to revamp our broadcast and make use of a greater pool of commentators and personalities to present StarCraft matches in a way never before seen by the StarCraft audience. The best group stage games will be selected and commentated, and the final 8 players will battle it out on stage for the title of DreamHack Open champion. The live stream will be available at http://www.twitch.tv/dreamhacksc2.
DreamHack is proud to continue our partnership with SVT for DreamHack Open. This will mark the 5th year of DreamHack working with SVT to broadcast esports to a greater audience. A livestream will be available on SVTplay.se and each grand finals will be broadcast on SVT’s Television channels.
Gotta love Dreamhack! Thanks for coming back I hope mvp wins one simce he doesnt have a DH title yet, I also wish TaeJa does well and dominates winter again. Im quite skeptical about hosting one in russia
excited, and maybe Nani will play at DH summer or stockholm, keeping my hopes up for him, to get distance and then return after katharsis (go travel and be relaxed, enjoy life, stop being online for a while) ;-) want to follow na/eu-players that in ro16+ro8 really can play on that level, on par with the best koreans and in crunch times :-) gogo NA+EU !!
On March 28 2014 02:08 R1CH wrote: Still planning to host in Russia?
What is wrong in Russia for you, bro ? Would like to hear your explanation of that "problem" , no offense , just curious.
I'll go out on a limb and say it might be because of the Russia/Ukraine situation
that's the first thing that comes to mind for me anyway
It would be pretty stupid to abandon hosting a tournament in russia because of that. Because everyone, investing just a little time to explore the backgrounds of this "crisis", knows, that russia is not the only one to blame here.
On March 28 2014 02:08 R1CH wrote: Still planning to host in Russia?
What is wrong in Russia for you, bro ? Would like to hear your explanation of that "problem" , no offense , just curious.
I'll go out on a limb and say it might be because of the Russia/Ukraine situation
that's the first thing that comes to mind for me anyway
It would be pretty stupid to abandon hosting a tournament in russia because of that. Because everyone, investing just a little time to explore the backgrounds of this "crisis", knows, that russia is not the only one to blame here.
the world is black and white! you didn't know that? let's not go there again great news for sc2 and esports in general, hope to see something like jd vs stardust or sjow vs life or leenock vs naniwa again! dreamhack always delivers, maybe with happy in moscow? would be awesome.
On March 28 2014 02:08 R1CH wrote: Still planning to host in Russia?
What is wrong in Russia for you, bro ? Would like to hear your explanation of that "problem" , no offense , just curious.
I'll go out on a limb and say it might be because of the Russia/Ukraine situation
that's the first thing that comes to mind for me anyway
It would be pretty stupid to abandon hosting a tournament in russia because of that. Because everyone, investing just a little time to explore the backgrounds of this "crisis", knows, that russia is not the only one to blame here.
Well they're clearly not abandoning it so there's that, I'm just saying that ifI were to cancel a tournament in Russia for one reason, that would be the reason.
Not watching dreamhack russia. Also I won't ever buy any products that are promoted on dreamhack Russia. Hopefully more people will solidarize with Ukrainians. Thank you for your support.
Interesting Im guessing BlizzCon is before DH Winter grand finals thing as no WCS points to be given there? I heard a rumor that BlizzCon is confirmed already for this year so im guessing that is true. Hoping this doesn't get in the way of any other tournaments aka GSL so we can have the best of the best playing :D
Only downside to this great announcement is they are using the same venues as last years tour? Be a bit more cool if they could change it up every year, of course always uses Sweden as the base But maybe Portugal could use some love? Or Italy? Or England etcetc, many destinations in Europe Using same ones year in year out seems a bit bm, especially when one of them is Russia where it is so much paperwork to get into the country.
I think I might choose Dreamhack Stockholm as the event to attend in a Frog Costume. I do need to finish that bet by the end of the year, Stockholm as good as any place to do it since the Season Finals were cancelled.
On March 28 2014 03:09 Dinotramp wrote: I think I might choose Dreamhack Stockholm as the event to attend in a Frog Costume. I do need to finish that bet by the end of the year, Stockholm as good as any place to do it since the Season Finals were cancelled.
Let me know ahead of time and I'll make sure I go as well
On March 28 2014 02:08 R1CH wrote: Still planning to host in Russia?
What is wrong in Russia for you, bro ? Would like to hear your explanation of that "problem" , no offense , just curious.
I'll go out on a limb and say it might be because of the Russia/Ukraine situation
that's the first thing that comes to mind for me anyway
Yea, maybe the fact that there are often Visa issues when going to Russia?
Really glad to see that DH goes there as they don't have that many eSports events, really wish they'd go to Canada as well to make up for NASL going down. Those guys literally only got an MLG in 08 and a few NASL events in the last few years.
@JessicaSc2: Yea lets fuck a Swedish company for bringing an event to a country that rarely has any and fuck Russian eSports fans for the country they were born in as well as giving Sponsors the message to not support Dreamhack in the future. Sounds great!
On March 28 2014 03:02 JessicaSc2 wrote: Not watching dreamhack russia. Also I won't ever buy any products that are promoted on dreamhack Russia. Hopefully more people will solidarize with Ukrainians. Thank you for your support.
I sympathize with the Ukrainian people, but I'm not going to boycot an esports over it. But do what you want I guess.
On March 28 2014 03:02 JessicaSc2 wrote: Not watching dreamhack russia. Also I won't ever buy any products that are promoted on dreamhack Russia. Hopefully more people will solidarize with Ukrainians. Thank you for your support.
I sympathize with the Ukrainian people, but I'm not going to boycot an esports over it. But do what you want I guess.
Dreamhack is purely commercial event. Yes it have a "mission" of promoting esports but mostly for their own good. Yes they will leave money in Russia - venue and crew costs, but they will also take money off Russia (sales, tickets) so it's hardly supporting Russia in any way. Summary: there is no reason to hate Dreamhack or Russian fans because of that event.
PS. I wonder if JessicaSc2 will stop buying Blizzard games and others LOL
On March 28 2014 03:02 JessicaSc2 wrote: Not watching dreamhack russia. Also I won't ever buy any products that are promoted on dreamhack Russia. Hopefully more people will solidarize with Ukrainians. Thank you for your support.
I sympathize with the Ukrainian people, but I'm not going to boycot an esports over it. But do what you want I guess.
If your country got invaded would you like that everybody just didn't care? Democratic nations should stand together against the tyranny. Doing dreamhack in Russia is like saying to everyone: nothing important is happening! Carry on! What if Russia annexes more Ukraine? Or the whole Ukraine? Will you still pretend that nothing is happening? What a farce. Russia should be thoroughly boycotted and ignored at least for now until the tensions get calmer.
On March 28 2014 03:09 Dinotramp wrote: I think I might choose Dreamhack Stockholm as the event to attend in a Frog Costume. I do need to finish that bet by the end of the year, Stockholm as good as any place to do it since the Season Finals were cancelled.
Let me know ahead of time and I'll make sure I go as well
What you mean do some sort of awkward LR meetup with me dressed as a frog so you can get picture evidence?
On March 28 2014 03:02 JessicaSc2 wrote: Not watching dreamhack russia. Also I won't ever buy any products that are promoted on dreamhack Russia. Hopefully more people will solidarize with Ukrainians. Thank you for your support.
I sympathize with the Ukrainian people, but I'm not going to boycot an esports over it. But do what you want I guess.
Dreamhack is purely commercial event. Yes it have a "mission" of promoting esports but mostly for their own good. Yes they will leave money in Russia - venue and crew costs, but they will also take money off Russia (sales, tickets) so it's hardly supporting Russia in any way. Summary: there is no reason to hate Dreamhack or Russian fans because of that event.
It's not about the money. It's about the location. You cannot just pretend that nothing is happening.
On March 28 2014 02:08 R1CH wrote: Still planning to host in Russia?
If not, and if they're craving a cool climate that's hungry for starcraft then hint hint nudge nudge Canada wants more SC2 action!
Its probably pretty expensive for them since they are a Swedish company to fly all the way to Toronto. Makes much more sense to have these events in poorer areas like Russia/Romania/Poland because the labor/infrastructure is probably a lot cheaper than up here. Although I guess Moscow is the most expensive city on the list of their 2014 events by a pretty large margin but I guess its safer than going to some second tier, Katowitze type city in Russia.
On March 28 2014 03:02 JessicaSc2 wrote: Not watching dreamhack russia. Also I won't ever buy any products that are promoted on dreamhack Russia. Hopefully more people will solidarize with Ukrainians. Thank you for your support.
I sympathize with the Ukrainian people, but I'm not going to boycot an esports over it. But do what you want I guess.
Dreamhack is purely commercial event. Yes it have a "mission" of promoting esports but mostly for their own good. Yes they will leave money in Russia - venue and crew costs, but they will also take money off Russia (sales, tickets) so it's hardly supporting Russia in any way. Summary: there is no reason to hate Dreamhack or Russian fans because of that event.
It's not about the money. It's about the location. You cannot just pretend that nothing is happening.
Sure. Have fun boycotting every event you like and let the rest of us enjoy a hopefully exciting tournament.
[Don't forget to boycott the WCS events in Germany, we sell a lot of weapons to dubious nations.]
On March 28 2014 03:02 JessicaSc2 wrote: Not watching dreamhack russia. Also I won't ever buy any products that are promoted on dreamhack Russia. Hopefully more people will solidarize with Ukrainians. Thank you for your support.
I sympathize with the Ukrainian people, but I'm not going to boycot an esports over it. But do what you want I guess.
If your country got invaded would you like that everybody just didn't care? Democratic nations should stand together against the tyranny. Doing dreamhack in Russia is like saying to everyone: nothing important is happening! Carry on! What if Russia annexes more Ukraine? Or the whole Ukraine? Will you still pretend that nothing is happening? What a farce. Russia should be thoroughly boycotted and ignored at least for now until the tensions get calmer.
If Russia decides to annex all of Ukraine then that's boycott worthy. So far, they taken the part that wants to be Russian anyway. Should we boycott the united states too? Iraq and Afghanistan were invasions, but no one wants to boycott them.
On March 28 2014 03:09 Dinotramp wrote: I think I might choose Dreamhack Stockholm as the event to attend in a Frog Costume. I do need to finish that bet by the end of the year, Stockholm as good as any place to do it since the Season Finals were cancelled.
Let me know ahead of time and I'll make sure I go as well
What you mean do some sort of awkward LR meetup with me dressed as a frog so you can get picture evidence?
Precisely that except it would be extremely not-awkward
If Russia decides to annex all of Ukraine then that's boycott worthy. So far, they taken the part that wants to be Russian anyway. Should we boycott the united states too? Iraq and Afghanistan were invasions, but no one wants to boycott them.
I'm shocked that you should compare the two. First of all they were a NATO interventions. And the NATO countries didn't annex or plan to annex any of the part of these countries. The U.S. has withdrew all forces from Iraq and the full withdrawal is in process in regards to Afghanistan. Ukraine-Russia situation is a completely different matter. I won't go into details now but you just don't invade an annex other countries because a certain majority lives there.
just in case anyone thinks about attending the bucharest event, don't go to the hotel they promoted in the op, that's literally the most expensive shit in the country. there's plenty of other options.
On March 28 2014 03:02 JessicaSc2 wrote: Not watching dreamhack russia. Also I won't ever buy any products that are promoted on dreamhack Russia. Hopefully more people will solidarize with Ukrainians. Thank you for your support.
I sympathize with the Ukrainian people, but I'm not going to boycot an esports over it. But do what you want I guess.
If your country got invaded would you like that everybody just didn't care? Democratic nations should stand together against the tyranny. Doing dreamhack in Russia is like saying to everyone: nothing important is happening! Carry on! What if Russia annexes more Ukraine? Or the whole Ukraine? Will you still pretend that nothing is happening? What a farce. Russia should be thoroughly boycotted and ignored at least for now until the tensions get calmer.
You'd still call Ukraine a democratic nation after their legitimately elected president got overthrown even though the necessary majority to put him out of office has not been reached in parliament and with right-wing facists in the government?
On March 28 2014 03:02 JessicaSc2 wrote: Not watching dreamhack russia. Also I won't ever buy any products that are promoted on dreamhack Russia. Hopefully more people will solidarize with Ukrainians. Thank you for your support.
I sympathize with the Ukrainian people, but I'm not going to boycot an esports over it. But do what you want I guess.
If your country got invaded would you like that everybody just didn't care? Democratic nations should stand together against the tyranny. Doing dreamhack in Russia is like saying to everyone: nothing important is happening! Carry on! What if Russia annexes more Ukraine? Or the whole Ukraine? Will you still pretend that nothing is happening? What a farce. Russia should be thoroughly boycotted and ignored at least for now until the tensions get calmer.
You'd still call Ukraine a democratic nation after their legitimately elected president got overthrown even though the necessary majority to put him out of office has not been reached in parliament and with right-wing facists in the government?
"after their legitimately elected president" that guy literally was a marionette of Russia, believing anything else would be naive. But sometimes, you have to stand up against things that just aren't right, and I guess ukraine basically did that.
Thing is that serious bullshit of West vs. East is being played on ukrainian fields. Esports is something that isn't and should not be a political topic. Words like "I don't support Dreamhack Russia" don't help any ukrainian guy. If you're really willing to help and not just stand by, go there, bring some food, give shelter to people who lost their home. Go and organize demonstrations in your respective home country to try motivating people to care! I'm a german guy, and we germans don't really have huge problems, so why should we care. That's a harsh truth, but that's how it is. Many discuss current political topics, in bars, in trains, when meeting up, but none of my friends nor myself actually tries to change something. a comment on TL.net about boycotting Dreamhack Russia helps exactly as much as a facebook like prevents cancer.
"after their legitimately elected president" that guy literally was a marionette of Russia, believing anything else would be naive. Also, I don't want to pull out weird comparisons, but Hitler was elected in germany with like 97% or so for his party. Following your logic.. no, I won't follow your logic since that's too constructed. But sometimes, you have to stand up against things that just aren't right, and I guess ukraine basically did that.
this is historically wrong on so many levels, i can't even laugh
"after their legitimately elected president" that guy literally was a marionette of Russia, believing anything else would be naive. Also, I don't want to pull out weird comparisons, but Hitler was elected in germany with like 97% or so for his party. Following your logic.. no, I won't follow your logic since that's too constructed. But sometimes, you have to stand up against things that just aren't right, and I guess ukraine basically did that.
this is historically wrong on so many levels, i can't even laugh
it's correct, but oversimplifying. I'm just trying to give that "legit president" quote a bitter taste. I know as good as you that this "election" didn't have any democratic elements and had lots of influences like violence, restrictions on other parties, terror etc.. I'm thinking about editing my post, since it's misleading (the "Reichstagswahl" of March 1933 was with ~40% for Hitler's party and in terms of the Weimar Republic legal) and too harsh at that point.
edit: just looked up. indeed that almost-100%-decision was about austria joining germany. my fail, and I am seriously sorry for that.
"after their legitimately elected president" that guy literally was a marionette of Russia, believing anything else would be naive. Also, I don't want to pull out weird comparisons, but Hitler was elected in germany with like 97% or so for his party. Following your logic.. no, I won't follow your logic since that's too constructed. But sometimes, you have to stand up against things that just aren't right, and I guess ukraine basically did that.
this is historically wrong on so many levels, i can't even laugh
it's correct, but oversimplifying. I'm just trying to give that "legit president" quote a bitter taste. I know as good as you that this "election" didn't have any democratic elements and had lots of influences like violence, restrictions on other parties, terror etc.. I'm thinking about editing my post, since it's misleading (the "Reichstagswahl" of March 1933 was with ~40% for Hitler's party and in terms of the Weimar Republic legal) and too harsh at that point.
edit: just looked up. indeed that almost-100%-decision was about austria joining germany. my fail, and I am seriously sorry for that.
Except that's not true. Atleast according to the final OSCE report:
"The presidential election met most OSCE commitments and other international standards for democratic elections and consolidated progress achieved since 2004. The process was transparent and offered voters a genuine choice between candidates representing diverse political views." http://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/ukraine/67015
"after their legitimately elected president" that guy literally was a marionette of Russia, believing anything else would be naive. Also, I don't want to pull out weird comparisons, but Hitler was elected in germany with like 97% or so for his party. Following your logic.. no, I won't follow your logic since that's too constructed. But sometimes, you have to stand up against things that just aren't right, and I guess ukraine basically did that.
this is historically wrong on so many levels, i can't even laugh
it's correct, but oversimplifying. I'm just trying to give that "legit president" quote a bitter taste. I know as good as you that this "election" didn't have any democratic elements and had lots of influences like violence, restrictions on other parties, terror etc.. I'm thinking about editing my post, since it's misleading (the "Reichstagswahl" of March 1933 was with ~40% for Hitler's party and in terms of the Weimar Republic legal) and too harsh at that point.
edit: just looked up. indeed that almost-100%-decision was about austria joining germany. my fail, and I am seriously sorry for that.
Except that's not true. Atleast according to the final OSCE report:
"The presidential election met most OSCE commitments and other international standards for democratic elections and consolidated progress achieved since 2004. The process was transparent and offered voters a genuine choice between candidates representing diverse political views." http://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/ukraine/67015
edit: Sorry didn't see, won't continue offtopic.
This part refers to the german Machtergreifung of Hitler, not to the election of the ukrainian president. Sorry for the un-clearance.
On March 28 2014 03:06 Pandemona wrote: Interesting Im guessing BlizzCon is before DH Winter grand finals thing as no WCS points to be given there? I heard a rumor that BlizzCon is confirmed already for this year so im guessing that is true. Hoping this doesn't get in the way of any other tournaments aka GSL so we can have the best of the best playing :D
Only downside to this great announcement is they are using the same venues as last years tour? Be a bit more cool if they could change it up every year, of course always uses Sweden as the base But maybe Portugal could use some love? Or Italy? Or England etcetc, many destinations in Europe Using same ones year in year out seems a bit bm, especially when one of them is Russia where it is so much paperwork to get into the country.
It would be stupid to abandon great working partnerships with tested locations. Building routine for these events allow them to expand to more locations and build larger local DreamHack groups.
On March 28 2014 03:02 JessicaSc2 wrote: Not watching dreamhack russia. Also I won't ever buy any products that are promoted on dreamhack Russia. Hopefully more people will solidarize with Ukrainians. Thank you for your support.
I sympathize with the Ukrainian people, but I'm not going to boycot an esports over it. But do what you want I guess.
If your country got invaded would you like that everybody just didn't care? Democratic nations should stand together against the tyranny. Doing dreamhack in Russia is like saying to everyone: nothing important is happening! Carry on! What if Russia annexes more Ukraine? Or the whole Ukraine? Will you still pretend that nothing is happening? What a farce. Russia should be thoroughly boycotted and ignored at least for now until the tensions get calmer.
You'd still call Ukraine a democratic nation after their legitimately elected president got overthrown even though the necessary majority to put him out of office has not been reached in parliament and with right-wing facists in the government?
How can people by so brainwashed/ignorant is beyond me. And you're not even from Russia so you don't have the excuse of not being able to know the real state of things. Yanukovich was removed from presidency by 328 deputies when only 300 was necessary. Majority of his own party supported his removal. Also, contrary to Russian propaganda, there are no fascists in Ukrainian government.
I could explain all of it in detail and provide sources and proofs but this is offtopic here. You can PM me if you want.
On March 28 2014 03:02 JessicaSc2 wrote: Not watching dreamhack russia. Also I won't ever buy any products that are promoted on dreamhack Russia. Hopefully more people will solidarize with Ukrainians. Thank you for your support.
I sympathize with the Ukrainian people, but I'm not going to boycot an esports over it. But do what you want I guess.
Funny thing is, most of the people in the area invaded are russian and welcomed the move...... So, boycotting doesn't really seem to be in anyone's best interest, since if u took a poll of the people truly effected, which has been done, most are in favour.
On March 28 2014 03:06 Pandemona wrote: Interesting Im guessing BlizzCon is before DH Winter grand finals thing as no WCS points to be given there? I heard a rumor that BlizzCon is confirmed already for this year so im guessing that is true. Hoping this doesn't get in the way of any other tournaments aka GSL so we can have the best of the best playing :D
Only downside to this great announcement is they are using the same venues as last years tour? Be a bit more cool if they could change it up every year, of course always uses Sweden as the base But maybe Portugal could use some love? Or Italy? Or England etcetc, many destinations in Europe Using same ones year in year out seems a bit bm, especially when one of them is Russia where it is so much paperwork to get into the country.
It would be stupid to abandon great working partnerships with tested locations. Building routine for these events allow them to expand to more locations and build larger local DreamHack groups.
Well ok, why would it be stupid to abandon the rest of Europe then? England Italy Germany (all be it they have IEM) France etc are all good locations that don't get used on tours much, no reason why they can't spread the love! Of course if say England drew less crowds than Romania then the following year you cut England, but to just keep the same places without trying others i think is a slight flaw.