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United States33713 Posts
Source: https://about.dreamhack.com/2020/05/01/an-update-to-our-2020-festivals/
DreamHack has announced that due to the Covid-19 pandemic, four of its 2020 live events will be postponed to later dates: Valencia, Dallas, Summer, and Montreal.
The ESL StarCraft II Pro Tour events that were originally scheduled to held at DH Valencia, DH Dallas, and DH Montreal will be replaced with online events.
DreamHack StarCraft II Masters and DreamHack Warcraft 3 Open
All DreamHack Starcraft 2 Masters and DreamHack Warcraft 3 Open stops of 2020 will be moved online, including the previously-announced stops at DreamHack Valencia, DreamHack Summer (War3), DreamHack Dallas, DreamHack Rotterdam (War3), and DreamHack Montreal. DreamHack is working together with ESL on a redesigned ESL Pro Tour for both Starcraft 2 and Warcraft 3 which is soon to be revealed for fans.
On May 02 2020 07:44 Heyoka wrote:Show nested quote +On May 02 2020 01:09 BisuDagger wrote:On May 02 2020 00:00 Waxangel wrote:On May 01 2020 23:47 BisuDagger wrote:
4 Dreamhack tournaments postponed + 4 (now online) tournaments to be held. While the postponement of this sucks, we are actually getting 8 tournaments instead of 4 if I am reading this right. Also, how will prize money be handled for the online tournaments? Or is it, online tournaments are for points only and Dreamhacks are for money only? The wording specifies only Dallas, Valencia, and Montreal will be going online (as their attached events are postponed). Leipzig (early 2021) might still be on the table.
DreamHack has announced that due to the Covid-19 pandemic, four of its 2020 live events will be postponed to later dates: Valencia, Dallas, Summer, and Montreal.
I read this quote and assumed "Valencia, Dallas, Summer, and Montreal" meant 4 tournaments, not knowing if Dreamhack Summer was some sort of tournament they planned on having. Thanks for clearing that up. ...We started working on a contingency plan for moving things online a little bit ago so we feel pretty good about what we can present but as Apollo mentioned, we will show everyone shortly. The events will still be for both points and prizes and we're not taking anything out of the overall total prize for the year.
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Canada8991 Posts
Can we at least open the EPT to Korean now that it's all online?
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Bisutopia19399 Posts
4 Dreamhack tournaments postponed + 4 (now online) tournaments to be held. While the postponement of this sucks, we are actually getting 8 tournaments instead of 4 if I am reading this right. Also, how will prize money be handled for the online tournaments? Or is it, online tournaments are for points only and Dreamhacks are for money only?
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United States33713 Posts
On May 01 2020 23:47 BisuDagger wrote:
4 Dreamhack tournaments postponed + 4 (now online) tournaments to be held. While the postponement of this sucks, we are actually getting 8 tournaments instead of 4 if I am reading this right. Also, how will prize money be handled for the online tournaments? Or is it, online tournaments are for points only and Dreamhacks are for money only?
The wording specifies only Dallas, Valencia, and Montreal will be going online (as their attached events are postponed). Leipzig (early 2021) might still be on the table.
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"All DreamHack Starcraft 2 Masters and DreamHack Warcraft 3 Open stops of 2020 will be moved online"
"DreamHack is working together with ESL on a redesigned ESL Pro Tour for both Starcraft 2 and Warcraft 3"
Sounds to me like doing all SC2 and WC3 related tourneys online now, that is for 2020.
Postponing of DH probably means for those other games (team games?).
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Ouch. A tough way to start off for the new Pro Tour. It doesn't seem like there were any way around it though. Hopefully Blizzard will assist the EPT financially, they should be making plenty of money with everybody quarantined in their homes.
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On May 01 2020 23:47 BisuDagger wrote:
4 Dreamhack tournaments postponed + 4 (now online) tournaments to be held. While the postponement of this sucks, we are actually getting 8 tournaments instead of 4 if I am reading this right. Also, how will prize money be handled for the online tournaments? Or is it, online tournaments are for points only and Dreamhacks are for money only?
The prize money is mentioned as staying the same for counter strike. It is not mentioned as staying the same for sc2 and wc3. So yeah looks like itll be reduced.
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Bisutopia19399 Posts
On May 02 2020 00:00 Waxangel wrote:Show nested quote +On May 01 2020 23:47 BisuDagger wrote:
4 Dreamhack tournaments postponed + 4 (now online) tournaments to be held. While the postponement of this sucks, we are actually getting 8 tournaments instead of 4 if I am reading this right. Also, how will prize money be handled for the online tournaments? Or is it, online tournaments are for points only and Dreamhacks are for money only? The wording specifies only Dallas, Valencia, and Montreal will be going online (as their attached events are postponed). Leipzig (early 2021) might still be on the table.
DreamHack has announced that due to the Covid-19 pandemic, four of its 2020 live events will be postponed to later dates: Valencia, Dallas, Summer, and Montreal.
I read this quote and assumed "Valencia, Dallas, Summer, and Montreal" meant 4 tournaments, not knowing if Dreamhack Summer was some sort of tournament they planned on having. Thanks for clearing that up.
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Absolutly understandable ((
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China6333 Posts
My guess would be some form of regional leagues like what League and Overwatch do.
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A shame of course, but it can't be helped.
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Katowice25012 Posts
On May 02 2020 01:09 BisuDagger wrote:Show nested quote +On May 02 2020 00:00 Waxangel wrote:On May 01 2020 23:47 BisuDagger wrote:
4 Dreamhack tournaments postponed + 4 (now online) tournaments to be held. While the postponement of this sucks, we are actually getting 8 tournaments instead of 4 if I am reading this right. Also, how will prize money be handled for the online tournaments? Or is it, online tournaments are for points only and Dreamhacks are for money only? The wording specifies only Dallas, Valencia, and Montreal will be going online (as their attached events are postponed). Leipzig (early 2021) might still be on the table. Show nested quote +
DreamHack has announced that due to the Covid-19 pandemic, four of its 2020 live events will be postponed to later dates: Valencia, Dallas, Summer, and Montreal.
I read this quote and assumed "Valencia, Dallas, Summer, and Montreal" meant 4 tournaments, not knowing if Dreamhack Summer was some sort of tournament they planned on having. Thanks for clearing that up.
Summer was going to have a WC3 event, which will also be moving online. We started working on a contingency plan for moving things online a little bit ago so we feel pretty good about what we can present but as Apollo mentioned, we will show everyone shortly. The events will still be for both points and prizes and we're not taking anything out of the overall total prize for the year.
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