DreamHack

Overview

About

DreamHack is a LAN party, a local area network gathering with demo competitions, gaming competitions and more. It's arranged twice annually at the Elmia exhibition centre in Jönköping, Sweden and also twice a year at Expolaris Congresscenter, Skellefteå, Sweden and holds the world record (as recognized by the Guinness Book of Records and Twin Galaxies) for the world's largest LAN party and computer festival.

Dreamhack hosts a large E-sport tournament at each of their LANs, which include: Starcraft 2, Counter Strike 1.6, Heroes of Newerth among others. As well as organizing the LAN event, Dreamhack is also responsible for arranging various Starcraft 2 invitational tournaments. The first one was held in Stockholm 12th of April 2011, which generated a great amount of interest from the Swedish media, especially the largest newspaper in Sweden, Aftonbladet, which streamed the event live.

In the year 2007 the founders of DreamHack received a diploma of honor from the municipality of Jönköping for being so important to business, education and society of the local community.

In September 2011 it was revealed that Dreamhack would be hosting the Swedish Championship in E-sports, alongside the gaming-café company Inferno Online. The championship will consist of 9 different tournaments throughout Sweden, with the finals being held at Dreamhack Summer 2012. The championship will include Starcraft 2, Heroes of Newerth, Counter Strike 1.6, Super Street Fighter IV as well as a football game, which hasn't been announced as of yet.

Events

2010-2011 DreamHack Events

Event	Date	Winner	Runner-Up	TL Articles
DreamHack Winter 2010	2010 (2010-11-25 – 2010-11-27)	Naama	MaNa	[ R&S]
DreamHack Stockholm Invitational	2011 (2011-04-12 – 2011-04-12)	MC	White-Ra	[ R&S]
DreamHack Summer 2011	2011 (2011-06-18 – 2011-06-21)	HuK	Moon	TL writeup
DreamHack Valencia Invitational	2011 (2011-09-17)	DongRaeGu	ThorZaIN	TL writeup
DreamHack Winter 2011	2011 (2011-11-24 – 2011-11-27)	HerO	PuMa	[ R&S]

2012 DreamHack Open

Event	Date	Winner	Runner-Up	TL Articles
DreamHack Open: Stockholm	2012 (2012-04-21 – 2012-04-22)	ThorZaIN	Polt	[ R&S]
DreamHack Open: Summer	2012 (2012-06-16 – 2012-06-19)	MaNa	DIMAGA	[ R&S]
DreamHack Open: Valencia	2012 (2012-09-22 – 2012-09-23)	TaeJa	ForGG	[ R&S]
DreamHack Open: Bucharest	2012 (2012-10-20 – 2012-10-21)	Nerchio	Bly	[ R&S]
DreamHack Open: Winter	2012 (2012-11-22 – 2012-11-25)	HerO	TaeJa	[ R&S]

2013 DreamHack Open

Event	Date	Winner	Runner-Up	TL Articles
DreamHack Open: Stockholm	2013 (2013-04-26 – 2013-04-27)	Leenock	NaNiwa	[ R&S]
DreamHack Open: Summer	2013 (2013-06-15 – 2013-06-17)			[ R&S]
DreamHack Open: Valencia	2013 (2013-07-19 – 2013-07-20)			[ R&S]
DreamHack Open: Bucharest	2013 (2013-09-14 – 2013-09-15)			[ R&S]
DreamHack Open: Winter	2013 (2013-11-28 – 2013-11-30)			[ R&S]

Trivia

Medals won per Race

Race				Total
Protoss	5	3	6	14
Terran	3	5	5	13
Zerg	3	3	7	13

Medals won per Player

Gold

HerO

Naama

-

MC

-

HuK

-

DongRaeGu

-

ThorZaIN

-

MaNa

-

TaeJa

-

Nerchio

-

Leenock

Silver

MaNa

-

White-Ra

-

Moon

-

ThorZaIN

-

PuMa

-

Polt

-

DIMAGA

-

ForGG

-

Bly

-

TaeJa

-

NaNiwa

Bronze

Ret

-

HerO

Fenix

-

SjoW

-

IdrA

-

Bomber

-

Rain

-

NightEnD

-

Monster

-

Stephano

-

fraer

-

TheStC

-

TargA

-

MaNa

-

StarNaN

-

Nerchio

-

monchi

-

Jaedong

Medals won per Country
Country				Total
South Korea	6	5	7	18
Poland	2	1	2	5
Sweden	1	2	2	5
Finland	1	0	0	1
Canada	1	0	0	1
Ukraine	0	2	2	4
Netherlands	0	0	2	2
USA	0	0	1	1
Peru	0	0	1	1
Romania	0	0	1	1
France	0	0	1	1
Norway	0	0	1	1
Austria	0	0	1	1

Medals won per Team
Rank	Team				Total
1.	Liquid	4	1	4	9
2.	mouz	3	2	1	6
3.	Acer	1	1	1	3
4.	TSL	0	1	1	2
4.	EG	0	1	1	2
4.	Millenium	0	1	1	2
7.	Fnatic	0	0	2	2
8.	coL.MVP	1	0	0	1
8.	oGs.SK	1	0	0	1
8.	FXO	1	0	0	1
11.	TtApollo	0	1	0	1
11.	FOX	0	1	0	1
11.	mTw	0	1	0	1
11.	Alliance	0	1	0	1
14.	Dignitas	0	0	1	1
14.	RoX	0	0	1	1
14.	QxG	0	0	1	1
14.	Mindfreak eSports	0	0	1	1
14.	XMG	0	0	1	1
14.	StarTale	0	0	1	1
14.	MVP	0	0	1	1
14.	Western Wolves	0	0	1	1

See also

• Major Tournaments

External links

• Wikipedia Page
• Official Site