DreamHack Regionals Finals for South Europe and Valencia Invitational in StarCraft II to be played the 16th-17th of September. Official match-ups and match times released today together with the official host-duo Hailey Bright and James Harding.
This Friday, 16th of September, DreamHack South Europe starts at Veles e Vents in Valencia, Spain. It kick-offs with the Regional Finals in Counter-Strike 1.6, StarCraft 2 and Super Street Fighter IV where the best players from Spain, Portugal, France and Italy will battle it out to determine the Regional DreamHack-champions 2011 and also qualify for the Grand Finals at DreamHack Winter 2011.
In addition to the event, DreamHack will host the fourth event in DreamHack Sapphire AMD Championship – the Valencia Invitational. DreamHack have invited 8 of the world’s best players to fight for 100 000 SEK prize purse and also auto-berths into the main tournament at DreamHack Winter 2011.
Today we’re proud to announce the match-ups for Valencia Invitational. All matches are played best-of-3 and the Finals is played best-of-5.
Schedule / Match-ups: 15.00 Round of 8 EG HuK (Protoss) vs. Mouz Thorzain (Terran) 16.00 Round of 8 Liquid`HerO (Protoss) vs. EG IdrA (Zerg) 17.00 Round of 8 Fnatic Rain (Terran) vs. Dignitas NaNiwa (Protoss) 18.00 Round of 8 MVP.coL.DongRaeGu (Zerg) vs. APSC2 LucifroN (Terran) 19.00 Semifinal #1 TBA 20.00 Semifinal #2 TBA 21.00 Grand Final TBA
15:30 Fan meeting #1 - Rain, NaNiwa, DRG & LucifroN 17.15 Fan meeting #2 - HuK, ThorZaIN, HerO & IdrA
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Maps: TSL3 Metalopolis Antiga Shipyard ESL Shattered Temple GSL Dual Sight ESL Shakuras Plateau Tal'Darim Altar LE GSTL GSL TerminusRE
Each player will blindly veto one map from the pool. The maps will then be randomly chosen of those remaining.
Official hosts for the event will be Hailey Bright and James ‘2GD’ Harding. Bright, famous from Coin-op TV, Spike TV and self-professed ‘tech geek’ will be the presenter of the games and interview the gamers between matches. Esports celebrity James ‘2GD’ Harding will assist as the co-host throughout the event.
All matches will be livestreamed in three different languages: English, Swedish and Spanish. English stream in 720p will be available thanks to TwitchTV. Sweden’s largest and most influencing media outlet Aftonbladet will broadcast the show in Swedish – produced by Amok Studios. And for the first time, we’ll also feature a Spanish stream through Canal+ and produced by Canales.
The star players for DreamHack Valencia Invitational have now been set after the Spanish star LucifroN defeated his brother Vortix this evening. The last two players presented are no other than the Korean stars HerO and Rain who will fight for the 100 000 SEK on the 17th of September.
Around the corner is DreamHack's second Invitational hosted at beautiful Veles e Vents building located in the Valencia Street Formula1 Circuit and the 33rd America’s Cup harbour. Tonight the Spanish Champion was decided between the two brothers LucifroN and Vortix. We welcome LucifroN to DreamHack Valencia Invitational and we are sure he will do an impact in the tournament. LucifroN is one of the most successful European WarCraft III players with great achievements, Runner up of Blizzcon 2008, ESWC Masters Cheonan 2009 Champion and winner of BlizzCon 2009 European Regionals.
DreamHack can present Team Liquid’s newest addition to Valencia, HerO. The feared Protoss player had a strong showing at MLG Raleigh and just qualified for GSL October Code A. The last player to be presented is none other than Fnatics power Terran Rain who lives in USA nowadays. He was the runner up of GSL Open Season 3 and have had strong showings at the last two MLGs.
The Chinese player Infi has unfortunately canceled his participation due to restructuring of TyLoo’s RTS division.
Press accreditation for Valencia All news and community sites that want to attend DreamHack Valencia Invitational need to contact Fredrik Nyström at fn@dreamhack.se for accreditation as soon as possible.
Buy Tickets Now! Hundreds of European and Spanish eSports fans will have the possibility to attend the show live on-site. The tickets are available now! With the ticket you have access to event from from 14.00 to 23.00, meet your idols in fan meetings and attend the after-party. Tickets will be sold for 140 SEK, or €15, and available at bokning.dreamhack.se. Secure your ticket today, more players and information about the event will be released to you shortly.
1/9 - DongRaeGu, ThorZaIN + Apollo and TotalBiscuit
On the 17th of September DreamHack once again stands as host for a StarCraft II Invitational. This time in the beautiful Veles e Vents building located in the Valencia Street Formula1 Circuit and the 33rd America’s Cup harbour. Two more players can today be presented and also the two casters of the event that will guide us through the epic battles we have ahead.
DreamHack Valencia Invitational is less than three weeks away and four of the eight superstars have already been announced and it's time for two more players. As the 5th invited player DreamHack is proud to present the dreaded Korean Zerg Player DongRaeGu from compLexity.MVP who is the champion of LG Cinema 3D Special League and has had a very strong showing in GSTL and at MLGs. Our second Terran player for the tournament is no other than the TSL 3 Champion from Sweden, ThorZaIN. The Mousesport player is currently living in Korea to practice against the best and will most likely be lethal at Valencia Invitational.
The british duo of Apollo and TotalBiscuit to cast the games Shaun "Apollo" Clark has been with DreamHack StarCraft II since the start and is back yet with another caster who is no other than the very popular man in the hat John "TotalBiscuit" Bain. They were both casting DreamHack Summer 2011 but on different streams and we have seen over several tournaments that the combination is fantastic. DreamHack is proud to have Apollo and TotalBiscuit as commentators for DreamHack Valencia Invitational. The hosts for the show will be announced very soon, stay tuned..
On the 6th of September the two brothers LucifroN and Vortix will face off to compete for the spanish slot of the Tournament. They are both qualified for the DreamHack South Europe Regionals which is taking place during the same weekend 16-17 of September.
Buy Tickets Now! Hundreds of European and Spanish eSports fans will have the possibility to attend the show live on-site. The tickets are available now! With the ticket you have access to event from from 14.00 to 23.00, meet your idols in fan meetings and attend the after-party. Tickets will be sold for 140 SEK, or €15, and available at bokning.dreamhack.se. Secure your ticket today, more players and information about the event will be released to you shortly.
23/8 - IdrA and Infi to DreamHack Valencia Invitational + Show Spoiler +
The DreamHack Sapphire AMD Championship: Valencia Invitational is getting closer by the minute and we can now present another two strong players that are invited to the beautiful Veles e Vents building located in the Valencia Street Formula1 Circuit and the 33rd America’s Cup harbour.
We have already presented the DreamHack Summer 2011 champion HuK from Team EG and the Swedish super player Naniwa from Team Dignitas, today we are very excited to invite Xuwen Wang more know as Infi from Team TyLoo. Infi is no stranger to competitions at the highest level and his greatest achievement to date is a gold medal in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne at the grand finals of World Cyber Games 2009.
As player no 4 at DreamHack Sapphire AMD Championship: Valencia Invitational we are proud to once again invite Idra to a DreamHack event. Idra is one of the most popular players in the world and we are sure that he will be one of the top contenders to take the title in Spain the 17th September.
The remaining four players will be revealed shortly…
THE STARS
Buy Tickets Now! Hundreds of European and Spanish eSports fans will have the possibility to attend the show live on-site. The tickets are available now! With the ticket you have access to event from from 14.00 to 23.00, meet your idols in fan meetings and attend the after-party. Tickets will be sold for 140 SEK, or €15, and available at bokning.dreamhack.se. Secure your ticket today, more players and information about the event will be released to you shortly.
8/8 - NaNiwa & HuK ready for DH Valencia Invitational + Show Spoiler +
DreamHack Valencia Invitational
Two of world’s best players invited to DreamHack Valencia Invitational 17th of September. MLG Dallas-champion Naniwa and DreamHack-champion HuK will attend the event and compete for the SEK 100 000 prize purse. Also, venue tickets, released today.
Stockholm Invitational was a huge success for eSports in Sweden. Event got best possible community feedback, mainstream media like national television, radio and print magazine covered the event and the tournament and tournament results were amazing with korean oGs MC grabbing the first spot and the SEK 100 000 on the line.
Two Protoss Champions attending the Event In September 17 we’re planning the next edition of DreamHack Invitational format where we’ll invite 8 of world’s greatest StarCraft II Gamers to compete in Valencia, Spain just next to Mediterranean sea. Today we’re announcing the first two invited players to the event.
It’s the 21-year old swede Johan ”NaNiwa” Lucchesi from Team Dignitas. MLG Dallas champion and ranked as the best player in Sweden right now. He will be joined by the DreamHack Summer 2011 champion Chris “HuK” Loranger, called “DreamHuk” after his latest DreamHack-event, but also a verbal 22-year old Canadian protoss-player and true fan favorite from Team Liquid. Tickets release today 18.00 CET Hundreds of European and Spanish eSports fans will have the possibility to attend the show live on-site. We are today releasing a limited number of tickets where you get a seat in the audience, access to event from from 14.00 to 23.00, meet your idols in fan meetings and attend the after-party. Tickets will be sold for 140 SEK, or €15, and available at bokning.dreamhack.se. Secure your ticket today, more players and information about the event will be released to you shortly.
DreamHack Sapphire AMD Championship is a 5-event StarCraft 2 circuit organized by DreamHack and sponsored by SteelSeries, Sapphire, AMD and EIZO. Please visit our partners below:
22/7 - First player for DreamHack Valencia decides today + Show Spoiler +
In September DreamHack will host Valencia Invitational with 8 of world’s greatest players attending. Today we’re proud to reveal the first information and the first player to be announced today 22th of July in a Showmatch.
Valencia Invitational is still a By-Invite-Only event to please the audience on-site and millions of fans around the world that watch it live on livestream. DreamHack select players based on achievements but also popularity and earlier DreamHack participation.
Same format as Stockholm Invitational – one Spanish player Just like, Stockholm Invitational, we’ll have 8 players playing a single elimination bracket, starting 15.00 CET and Grand Finals 21.00 CET. All matches are played BO3, except the Grand Finals played in BO5. A slight difference from the Stockholm event will be that one tournament slot is reserved for a Spanish player.
- In order to provide the Spanish StarCraft 2 community some extra excitement we decided quite early in the process that we need one slot for the local community, says Tomas Hermansson, Head of eSports at DreamHack.
The Spanish player will be decided today, 22th of July, in a showmatch at 16.00 CET between the two best Spanish players Pedro “LucifroN” Moreno Duran and Juan ‘Vortix’ Moreno Duran. Both of them had a WarCraft 3 career before they started to play StarCraft 2, with LucifroN having the best international results, winning ESWC Asia Masters and runner-up at BlizzCon 2008
- They are brothers and they got the skill to upset the professional players in the Invitational tournament. Vortix play Zerg and Lucifron Terran and we have an interesting TvZ to look forward to, says Manuel Jiménez, Head Admin at Canales Corporativos, DreamHack’s local partner in Spain.
Everybody can watch the showmatch via livestream at www.dreamhack.es. Only Spanish commentators will be available.
In the upcoming weeks we’ll announce more and more information about Valencia Invitational, including invited players, commentators, tickets and streams.
Fan special for Swedish fans Until release, we have a fan special for all Swedish StarCraft 2-fans. The three first Swedish fans that book a flight ticket to Valencia for the event dates will receive a special treat from the DreamHack organizers. - Free entrance to the event - Special seat in the audience - VIP-dinner with Pro Player’s and DreamHack - Special goodies from DreamHack & Sponsors Send a copy of your flight ticket to fn@dreamhack.se
Tickets to the event will be released in the beginning of August. Find all necessary information at our Tournament page.
DreamHack Sapphire AMD Championship is a 5-event StarCraft 2 circuit organized by DreamHack and sponsored by SteelSeries, Sapphire, AMD and EIZO. Please visit our partners below:
Today we are very excited to present that the fall season of DreamHack Sapphire AMD Championship will kick off in Valencia, Spain with an invitational tournament. DreamHack will invite eight world class StarCraft II-players who will fight in a one-day tournament in the beautiful Veles e Vents building located in the Valencia Street Formula1 Circuit and the 33rd America’s Cup harbour.
-After the fantastic success with Stockholm Invitational and DreamHack Sapphire AMD Championship at DreamHack Summer 2011 it feels amazing to kick start the fall season with Valencia Invitational. We can’t wait to welcome all StarCraft-fans to a DreamHack-event again, says Robert Ohlén, CEO of DreamHack.
DreamHack Sapphire AMD Championship: Valencia Invitational will feature a 100 000 SEK price purse, spots to the tournament season Grand Final at DreamHack Winter 2011, November 24-27, in Jönköping and will be completely covered by live streaming.
Valencia Invitational is arranged together with Canales Corporativos during the DreamHack regional finals for the Mediterranean countries 17th of September 2011. Regional Finals will not only be a Spanish celebration of games and digital culture but also a regional event open for Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian gamers competing in Counter-Strike 1.6, StarCraft II and Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition.
Detailed information regarding tickets, players, live stream and schedule will be available on www.dreamhack.se shortly.
About DreamHack DreamHack is the World’s Largest Computer Festival. DreamHack’s roots and core is the LAN party, with the major events DreamHack Summer and Winter, where participants bring their own computers and connect to the Internet in a large local area network which basically BECOMES the Internet by sheer scale. DreamHack is also Sweden’s first consumer-oriented trade show / event / festival for computer games, game consoles and computers. The events are a platform for tournaments in eSports, knowledge and creative competitions, concerts by famous music artists, lectures by game developers and much more. Website: www.dreamhack.se
About Canales Corporativos Canales Corporativos a Spain based company specialising in developing strategies that connects the brands with their audience using, and understanding, the new tools available in digital media. Since 2009 Canales Corporativos is working hard to implement videogame concepts into communication strategies, pioneering the use of gamification and transmedia in Spain and developing DreamHack presence in Spain, and now throughout the Mediterranean Countries. Website: www.canalescorporativos.com
I really, really, really hope that DreamHack will get 2GD on a plane to Valencia to do the player interviews - just like the last DreamHack Invitational!
And yes - this looks awesome as always DreamHack!
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ptbl United States. July 09 2011 00:08. Posts 2178
On July 09 2011 00:05 TheSilverfox wrote: I really, really, really hope that DreamHack will get 2GD on a plane to Valencia to do the player interviews - just like the last DreamHack Invitational!
And yes - this looks awesome as always DreamHack!
They need to get 2GD so he can bash MLG : PPP
So awesome, Dreamhack I luv you <3
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TheSilverfox Sweden. July 09 2011 00:14. Posts 1895
On July 09 2011 00:41 Karakaxe wrote: Hmmm, now that I think about it... are there actually any Spanish sc2 pro gamers?
From the top of my head i can recall LucifroN (former WC3 pro) who previously played on Team FnaticMSI but now hes on team Aprender. Theres more solid Spanish players im sure but none of them on the top of the EU SC2 Tournament scene for now.
Best of luck to all players showing up in Valencia
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