I want to tell you a little bit about past DH Moscow, share emotions, e.t.c. I am really sorry for my bad english, i try to make it readable.
Im living in Nizhnii Novgorod. Its big city (population over 2millns), and we are in 400 killometers from Moscow. DH is my first premium event, that i visited. I got a lot of friends all over the Russia because of sc2, and when we understood that DH comes to Moscow, it was really awesome. I agreed with my friend that he will drive us to venue and back, and start to call my old SC2 friends, to meet there. Most of them already buy tickets. Russia - is a vast country, and for traveling through 1500 km (for example) must be compelling reasons. Dreamhack was it.
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Day 1
We arrived at the venue. 1st group stage already started, players were by the computers. The most disappointed thing was inability to watch the games. We just cant go in game zone, we dont have any stream in the hall. Watching stream on my phone, while game is happening in 5 meters, was the most stupid thing i ever did.
We really tired to stand by the players through 2 hours, and started to make some photos with progamers, whom we can to find. We have met a lot of russian players, whom we know only from FP streams on goodgame.ru (it is actually most popular sc2 website in Russia).
Me and my 4 friends actually comming to support our russian Emperor - Empire.Happy.
Happy in russia got a cult of personality like Stalin.(hope you will understand the comparison . This topic got more than 1 million views. We trusted in him, believe in him. A lot of spectators on the event stood for the emperor.
Me and friends understood: we need to do something with the stream. At the same time starts last game with Golden for out of the group.
There was Kingston stand, and it got 2 PCs. Someone plays SC2 there with each other (probably amateur SC2 cup). When we asked them to see how Happy plays his last game, guys even dont tell something.
F10+N
Happy wins. And he was in playoffs. After game, we run to the sc2 game zone, and loudly thanked him. I never saw for his 7 or 8 year career, how he smiling. And he did! Happy was Happy!
After games we also supported Happy on the streets of Moscow
(vpered imperator = gogo Emperor (Happy))
We arrived at the venue. 1st group stage already started, players were by the computers. The most disappointed thing was inability to watch the games. We just cant go in game zone, we dont have any stream in the hall. Watching stream on my phone, while game is happening in 5 meters, was the most stupid thing i ever did.
We really tired to stand by the players through 2 hours, and started to make some photos with progamers, whom we can to find. We have met a lot of russian players, whom we know only from FP streams on goodgame.ru (it is actually most popular sc2 website in Russia).
Me and my 4 friends actually comming to support our russian Emperor - Empire.Happy.
Happy in russia got a cult of personality like Stalin.(hope you will understand the comparison . This topic got more than 1 million views. We trusted in him, believe in him. A lot of spectators on the event stood for the emperor.
Me and friends understood: we need to do something with the stream. At the same time starts last game with Golden for out of the group.
There was Kingston stand, and it got 2 PCs. Someone plays SC2 there with each other (probably amateur SC2 cup). When we asked them to see how Happy plays his last game, guys even dont tell something.
F10+N
Happy wins. And he was in playoffs. After game, we run to the sc2 game zone, and loudly thanked him. I never saw for his 7 or 8 year career, how he smiling. And he did! Happy was Happy!
After games we also supported Happy on the streets of Moscow
(vpered imperator = gogo Emperor (Happy))
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Day 2
After night in hostel we went to look for whatman paper (big peace of paper, a1-a2). We found art shop near hostel, bought two paper, and marker. We already invented what we will draw on it. The first one was like this:
(land to the peasants, factory for the workers, Dreamhack for the EMPEROR)
Than we watched 3 super tense games against Fraer. We cant see anything again, like at the first day, but Happy wins, and get to the ro8. And it was incredible. People who was by his side (over 50!!!!) started to shout his name, and he smiles again . Can u imagine 50 people by the side of 1 player? Now i can .
We started to draw another poster. Show it to Happy, and he gave to us his autograph.
Everyone understood, that Happy was at a disadvantage against Jjakjji. 95% winrate vs T, pressed on us, but we knew, that Happy dont afraid him.
Public near the stage dont screaming a lot for other 3 games: everyone waits for the main one. And here is it! we prepared our posters, to meet him as much as warm as we can.
Me and my friend always watching how Happy playing on a big tournaments. And i cant remember, when someone supports him in other countries. Happy has always been against the crowd, Happy always forced to overcome the pressure. But yesterday was another day.
And i was on the official stream with my little poster :
Happy lost 1-2, as you know, and we went home to Nizhnii Novgorod (road takes for 6-7 hours). We really sorry for the empty seats, that we left on semifinals. We have nothing left inside us. We were disappointed, but we know, Emperor will show his power one day.
After night in hostel we went to look for whatman paper (big peace of paper, a1-a2). We found art shop near hostel, bought two paper, and marker. We already invented what we will draw on it. The first one was like this:
(land to the peasants, factory for the workers, Dreamhack for the EMPEROR)
Than we watched 3 super tense games against Fraer. We cant see anything again, like at the first day, but Happy wins, and get to the ro8. And it was incredible. People who was by his side (over 50!!!!) started to shout his name, and he smiles again . Can u imagine 50 people by the side of 1 player? Now i can .
We started to draw another poster. Show it to Happy, and he gave to us his autograph.
Everyone understood, that Happy was at a disadvantage against Jjakjji. 95% winrate vs T, pressed on us, but we knew, that Happy dont afraid him.
Public near the stage dont screaming a lot for other 3 games: everyone waits for the main one. And here is it! we prepared our posters, to meet him as much as warm as we can.
Me and my friend always watching how Happy playing on a big tournaments. And i cant remember, when someone supports him in other countries. Happy has always been against the crowd, Happy always forced to overcome the pressure. But yesterday was another day.
And i was on the official stream with my little poster :
Happy lost 1-2, as you know, and we went home to Nizhnii Novgorod (road takes for 6-7 hours). We really sorry for the empty seats, that we left on semifinals. We have nothing left inside us. We were disappointed, but we know, Emperor will show his power one day.
Thanks to all foreign players, that comes to Moscow. We will not forget you! Hope to see you again one day. Thanks for DreamHack team, for the holiday of e-sport. Hope its not the last time, when all sc2 russian community revives. Thank you all!
P.S. Very upset, that u could not hear crowd in the games. It was loudly, believe me