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Didn't see this news on TL and I thought it was worth mentionning : there will be no replay pack for DH Tours.
Apparently, in their opinion, the work needed to extract the replays was not worth the low demand.
+ Show Spoiler +It's not like they had enough staff to supervise ro16 anyway...
Official tweet :
Reddit thread :
http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/35sxv3/dreamhack_will_not_be_releasing_replays_from/
EDIT : Adebisi reaction :
On May 13 2015 21:10 Adebisi wrote:
Hey guys,
This tweet was pretty poorly worded so I apologize for that.
Its a combination of lack of interest in the past (its often been a few hundred downloads if that) and limited resources and moreso time on our end that we did not collect replays this time. We couldn't recruit as many admins as we usually have and because of the nature of the tournament and event we need to get the PC area converted for other games and then tear it down (after the last finals ends at midnight we tear down the entire stage and are out of the venue by 3am). When there is 32 matches going at once, sorting through all replays to remove all ladder games and other warmup games even if we help automate some parts with SC2Gears is a lot of work.
We're going to make sure we have replay packs for the upcoming SC2 tournaments this year.
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your Country52798 Posts
"Low interest" might be a slightly incorrect statement... but oh well.
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Personally I love replay packs. Analysing replays is so much easier and less time consuming than watching a vod with all the redundancy added.
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There goes my respect for DreamHack.
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That's one of the most pathetic excuses I've ever seen. Everyone is interested in replays and also how do they know that people weren't interested before the tournament even started?
Other than that it's no news that dreamhack doesn't give a fuck about sc2 anymore.
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Really showing they care. haha Maybe next time they will just shut down the tournament due to "low interest"
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Cute excuse. Next time admins will have to go to the swimming pool right ?
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I'll just quote what messioso posted on Reddit here for reference:
Just for a reference, the download amounts from the recent IEM tournaments.
Toronto ~ 10k
Taipei ~ 12k
World Championship ~ 15k
This doesn't factor in that websites like spawningtool also add our replays to their systems and I can't track that. I also cannot verify download stats for a few of the mirrors I have used, and some people may have downloaded from multiple mirrors.
There is a demand, in my opinion.
I'd agree with his opinion.
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However if they are pressed for manpower, it's much more useful to invest the time into getting enough admins to oversee the games instead of releasing replays.
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Guess all of their production value went to waxangels salary or something
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Well they can't be pressed for an admin for FanTaSy vs HyuN, why should they be pressed for replays. Does DreamHack even care about SC2 now because I'm certain there was plenty of interest in replay packs for previous DH events
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On May 13 2015 20:52 PhoenixVoid wrote:
Well they can't be pressed for an admin for FanTaSy vs HyuN, why should they be pressed for replays. Does DreamHack even care about SC2 now because I'm certain there was plenty of interest in replay packs for previous DH events
Losing Ohlen and not being the main game wasn't important they said.
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On May 13 2015 20:52 PhoenixVoid wrote:
Well they can't be pressed for an admin for FanTaSy vs HyuN, why should they be pressed for replays. Does DreamHack even care about SC2 now because I'm certain there was plenty of interest in replay packs for previous DH events
Weren't they always pretty late, like a month after the event finished? Maybe that's influenced it, since IEM puts their replays up a few hours after the grand final and their numbers are great.
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Dreamhack seriously needs some PR advice
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You can always argue "low interest" when not providing something hahaha.
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Where exactly did they make a survey to find out that the community has a "low interest" in replays?
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There's low interest because they are always very slow at releasing
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Canada1637 Posts
Hey guys,
This tweet was pretty poorly worded so I apologize for that.
Its a combination of lack of interest in the past (its often been a few hundred downloads if that) and limited resources and moreso time on our end that we did not collect replays this time. We couldn't recruit as many admins as we usually have and because of the nature of the tournament and event we need to get the PC area converted for other games and then tear it down (after the last finals ends at midnight we tear down the entire stage and are out of the venue by 3am). When there is 32 matches going at once, sorting through all replays to remove all ladder games and other warmup games even if we help automate some parts with SC2Gears is a lot of work.
We're going to make sure we have replay packs for the upcoming SC2 tournaments this year.
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Nice reaction, Adebisi. 
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