DreamHack Dallas postponed to Aug 14-16

Ziggy

South Korea2107 Posts

March 19 2020 09:13 GMT

Apollo's post on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/fl734x/esl_pro_tour_2020_updates_re_dh_dallas_jonkoping/

Heyhey all, posting this on both SC2/WC3 reddit pages for overview transparency. I wanted to write to you regarding the news that just was announced that DH Dallas & DH Jonkoping are both being postponed. [...]

Well firstly, I know a lot of you here have been around for some time in esports now and you'll know that we are living in an era that we really haven't seen before, which comes with a ton of new challenges we haven't faced and certainly didn't have processes for. Either way we wanted you to know that the entire of the ESL & DH teams are working around the clock across all of our products in an effort to create a heavily adaptable environment to enable us to still help esports to move in the right direction during these times.

The coronavirus is a really serious topic that is having huge impacts on lives across the world and we need to make the right decisions during these times. IEM Katowice was no doubt very difficult to work through for multiple reasons for us as you know but during these times it's important we make these calls. Specific to the news then that both DH Dallas (SC2 competition) & DH Summer in Jonkoping (WC3 competition) are postponed I just wanted to write to you that even though these tournaments are not flat out cancelled & are only postponed we understand what this means for the planning of our ESL Pro Tour in 2020. We had actually planned to announce all qualification details (formerly challenger) for all upcoming SC2/WC3 events this week to provide the next steps for all players & fans to plan towards but we've now decided to bench this for the time being. What we are doing now is taking a closer look into our tour for the remaining of the year to reshuffle & organize plans, we are currently also exploring other content ideas to keep you entertained up until DH Valencia takes place. Right now our schedule for SC2 & WC3 looks like the following.

StarCraft II

DreamHack Valencia SC2 Masters: July 3-5

DreamHack Dallas SC2 Masters: Aug 14-16

DreamHack Montreal SC2 Masters: Sept 11-13

Unannounced Masters: December 2020

Unannounced Masters: January 2021

IEM Katowice Masters Championships: Feb/Mar 2021

Warcraft III

DH Warcraft Open Jonkoping: WC3 Challenger: Aug 6-9

ESL Warcraft Challenger @ IEM Melbourne: Aug 22-23

DH Warcraft Open Rotterdam: WC3 Challenger: Oct 16-18

Unannounced Championship: Dec 2020

If there are any further significant updates we will be the first ones to let you know and also explain the thought process behind it as best as we can. Please do follow on twitter the following accounts from both ESL & DH: /ESLSC2, /DreamHackSC2 & then for WC3 /ESLWarcraft, /DreamHackWC3 for official updates. By the way, we are super happy with the success of the weekly ESL Open Cups we've installed and hope you continue to play, watch and cheer for more big gabe wins.

TelecoM

United States10892 Posts

March 19 2020 09:21 GMT

Seems like a smart move by DreamHack, everything is being cancelled / postponed, I hope this madness ends soon.

Shuffleblade

Sweden1903 Posts

March 19 2020 09:49 GMT

Well, here is to hoping any of these events can happen. I know from personal experience that Sweden is doing a very shitty job of containing this epidemic and from what I hear USA is even worse. Experts say that if we get a positive outcome it will be over this summer but if not it can continue through summer and then get worse as the temperature plummets in fall and thus continue to complicate matters for a long time.

pvsnp

7676 Posts

March 19 2020 10:36 GMT

Definitely a wise move in the face of the current situation. Sucks to delay the tournament, of course, but public health has to take precedence.

yht9657

1810 Posts

March 19 2020 10:54 GMT

Well at least the outbreak is contained relatively well in China and Korea so we can still get some Starcraft going on this year.

JustPassingBy

10776 Posts

March 19 2020 12:00 GMT

Quite optimistic to postpone it to the middle of August. Things will definitely have calmed down by then, but I wouldn't count on the situation having improved to the degree that having events with 30000+ people is wise.

Serimek

France2274 Posts

March 19 2020 17:49 GMT

If Summer and Dallas can be held, it's going to be an insane month of SC2!

DoctorFoxer

United States191 Posts

March 19 2020 21:11 GMT

On March 20 2020 02:49 Serimek wrote:
If Summer and Dallas can be held, it's going to be an insane month of SC2!

Summer is not the same as Valencia, which is a separate Dreamhack!

Drfilip

Sweden592 Posts

March 19 2020 21:49 GMT

They have preliminary new schedule. Yay!

Sorry to side track a bit.

On March 19 2020 18:49 Shuffleblade wrote:
Well, here is to hoping any of these events can happen. I know from personal experience that Sweden is doing a very shitty job of containing this epidemic and from what I hear USA is even worse. Experts say that if we get a positive outcome it will be over this summer but if not it can continue through summer and then get worse as the temperature plummets in fall and thus continue to complicate matters for a long time.

From personal experience I can say that Sweden is doing quite a good job at handling the pandemic, seeing as containment never has been the goal. I know of no country that has a containment goal. Every country has got a flattened peak goal. People are to get sick for herd immunity to kick in and protect the risk groups. The lack of vaccine is what makes containment a non valid strategy. Had there been a vaccine, then you would have been able to contain the ill and vaccinate the healthy.
That the capitalist system is failing is not a fault of the governments.
South Korea is doing well in big part because of the culture, not the government. The culture is what makes their government's actions successful. Every country's action is both in relation to their resources and the public culture.