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Dreamhack Winter 2010 is over

by duumed • 24 Nov 2010, 18:01 • News

All good things must come to an end and so does this Dreamhack, the tournament featuring players from the very top and the upcoming challengers, the tournament filled with drama and upsets, and most importantly the greatest Quake action we've seen in a while. Av3k's time as the Dreamhack champion is now over as he among the three members of the elite four went down in the first round of the playoffs and Cypher being the only one to advance further and eventually reaching the final. In the final Cypher had to face DaHanG, an American underestimated by many. Cypher in three maps became the new king of Dreamhack although DaHanG certainly put up a good fight. For the third place we had two online rivals battling it out in a thrilling 5-mapper. K1llsen came out on top and strenx had to settle for the 4th place which in tournament with this level of competition is a great achievement.

Final Standings

MSI Beat It:

rapha - $6,000 + MSI GT663 Laptop

Cypher - $3,000

strenx - $1,500
4th Russia

Cooller
5-6th Poland

av3k,

k1llsen
7-8th Italy

stermy,

DaHanG
9-12th United Kingdom

zsx,

Spart1e,

noctis,

dem0n
13-16th Netherlands

Vo0,

guard,

tox1c,

fazz

Kaspersky Championship:

Cypher ~ 4900 €

DaHanG ~ 1600 €

k1llsen~ 1000 €
4th France

strenx
5-8th Russia

Cooller,

av3k,

rapha,

stermy
9-12th Austria

noctis,

guard,

Krysa,

Spart1e
13-16th United Kingdom

GaRpY,

Vo0,

fazz,

p0ni

I personally want to thank Level Up TV for bringing us this amazing tournament with their video coverage! VODs of the tournament should be up soon so those who missed the live action check the this page to see what you've missed.

Links: Article, Tek-9 Preview, MSI Beat It video preview, VODs
Coverage: Tek-9,SK Gaming

103

Any one from crossfire going there? :P

#QL.et TDM/CTF/Duel eSports Club for sure

Parent

Nice :) have some guys from my school going there

Parent

where the fuck are ET lans with 10k prizemoney

good joke

Parent

that's only dollars too, RtCW Quakecon had over $40K prize in 2002 :[

Parent

rly nice :o

wicked, gonna be watching

epic ;)

sounds thrilling ^__^

is av3k back in good shape? :[

Will be awesome :-)

sweet

thankyou for the post duumed, good luck to all of my guys at the event and i hope you enjoy the stream!

cheers

Thanks for the perfect stream, good shit! :)

Parent

so guard is playing with the big boys now! is he sponsored by any mgc?

online kingdom

Parent

Nice game cooller vs guard :)

cool video

For those who are thinking 'why the hell isn't anything happening'?

Check http://www.stermy.com/Live/ for epic lulz.

awesome :D
DOES STERMY ACTUALLY STILL PLAY THE GAME??

Parent

70% rail hihi

omfg noctis sucks

noctis so unlucky @ dm13 :D

AND THE SC2?!

Mabye add SC2 content aswell :)

i don't care about sc2

Parent

i dont care about you, only SC2

Parent

Noone cares about sc2 here, gtfo.

Parent

learn to read comments, gtfo

Parent

Maybe go to animelunix gamers.com homo

Parent

lies

Parent

need infos about sc2 :<

Kaspersky antivirus?!

vo0gd <3

their show was really hilarious :D

yeah I didn't even notice it's been over 3 hours since the last quake match :D

Parent

yeah but i've to say they made it pretty entertaining, that makes the downtime less annoying.

and now are vo0 and garpy shoutcasting.
its great. :D

Parent

I still think 2vo0'd would have been better

Parent

watched the stream like 6 hours straight damn

gotta mention that Cypher hasn't lost a single map yet

dunno when ure comment was, but he played 2-1 vs strenx? ooooooor am i mistaken here

Parent

2-0

Parent

hmm oki. well finally strenx did decent on a LAN (BEAT IT thing then)

Parent

yep

cypher lost a map now to k1llsen :x

Parent

BAM!

Parent

strenx did decent on LAN before

Parent

never reached rly far. at least not often. i mean he rapes every zotac, but hasnt won a big tournement so far :(

Parent

So? He didn't win this time either.

Parent

top 4 at least (if im right?), wich he doesnt reach very often.

Parent

gotta mention that 2gd just won the lan

hue hue p0ni unexpected xD

sick performance by dahang on aerowalk against rapha

I hope av3k win . :D

I hope everybody is enjoying the stream! :)

is it youre project btw? anyway i think ure doing great jobs, ure quite new and already having 1700-1800 viewers today. stream is fantastic, not much problems. ischju is doing better and better too (tho u shud tell to watch more not to use the same words all the time - there you go etc. - ) but if its ure project just wanted to say very nice :)

Parent

Ischju really is an awful caster, made way to many mistakes

Parent

ya cuz hes new

Parent

No he really aint that bad.

Parent

Thanks mate.

I created Level Up TV back in November 2009 where we actually covered Dreamhack Winter 2009 in our first month. We've actually done quite alot of other big tournaments too including the summer event. But this is the first time we've had people live at the event in person i.e. tournaments like ESWC, ASUS were all done from home, and so we're all really excited about this one.

Unfortunately i personally couldn't be there this weekend to commentate, but i hope to attend the later ones when the trip is more viable. This weekend is being led by Cristian aka Trance, our "Technical Director" as he likes to be known. As for Ischju, i totally see where you're coming from - he knows he has alot to improve upon and because of that i'll happily support his desire to commentate quake live!

My thanks just go out to everybody who make themselves available to offer advice to me, those such as Tosspot from here at Crossfire. etc.

Parent

I've been a big fan of lvl^ since day one :p
Great job mate, keeping the game attractive for me :)

Parent

av3k and cooller obviously throwing games, BAN!

Parent

Was fun listening to zsx and strenx casting today tbh, had a good laugh :P

A great project, keep it up :)

Parent

not really cypher' best day.

I didn't expect rapha to win but great games!

could anyone send me an own3d.tv link from the grand final of the msi beat it tournament?
rapha won it, right?

can any1 sum up what just happened? all that cointoss stuff?

strenx and stermy think cooller and av3k were losing on purpose to get easier opponent in the playoffs

Parent

thx

Parent

weren't they? but it's nothing special, such things happen very often

Parent

well, the point is that winners of C and D groups are going to face rapha respectively cypher . Strenx and stermy think that av3k and cooller are throwing their matches in order to finish 2nd in their groups so they wont have to play rapha/cypher . Kinda emo if u ask me, and even if they were losing on purpose, I cant see any way to actually proove that they are doing it intentionally .

Parent

thx

Parent

not like Cooller hasn't done it before ;)

Parent

not like cooller was the only one doing it

Parent

i dont get all the drama about it, this happens in all tournaments with pre-known playoff spots in all games, in CS noone never cares when some top team loses to some underdog not to get on other top team which somehow got 2nd in their group in early playoffs(and that happens in pretty much every tournament). In real sports like football it's even worse.
If the tournament system allows such tactical opponent preference - why not to do it? honestly after re-watching the vod once again I rly cant say that cooller wanted to lose this more than stermy himself, it's just the 2nd who failed at losing while doing ridiculous gameplay things

Parent

try to re-re-watch it

Parent

just look at dm13 of the match stermy - cooller.
it's ridiculous.

plus what butchji said.

Parent

well, it was mistake of admins that they published full structure of brackets before finishing groups, they basicly offered them possibility to choose who they want to play. But, that dm13 prooves nothing, some moves from stermy were literally retarded which made them brilliant at the same time. If he failed those risky moves, and somebody would say "he is losing on purpose" it would be the same.

Parent

it was really obvious tbh, their interviews after it proved it further :-p

+everyone wants to be matched up with dahang :-pp

but ofc a tournament shouldn't be structured like that, banning them for reaping on misstakes even if they have some fuzzy rules about it would be wrong.

Parent

being matched up with dahang worked out well for cooller:DDDDDDDDDDD

Parent

ah didnt see, have neen drinkin 25/7 nonstop almostlol

Parent

lmao cooller out

e: and av3k too :D

could you post a newspost or something about the final standings when the tournment is over? :)

Parent

i'll probaly just edit this one

Parent

now strenx should eliminate rapha and stermy should eliminate cypher, that would be one of the most unpredictable quake tournaments ever

11:00 CET: Quarter Final 3 - strenx vs rapha

is this just starting now ?

edit: omg strenx

yes still the 1st map

Parent

Nice to watch QL. Almost as entertaining as ET.

Best news post for a while

omg

cypher is a goddamn machine

well i just wrote this in a journal, fuck me runnin was that sick from cypher XD

Parent

amazing tournament, thanks to the whole lvl up team!

over and out

Man, the coverage and random shit with vo0, stermy, av3k, zsx, 2GD, etc -> awesome

I feel bad for ischju :P

yeah the guests kind of stole the spotlight from him

Parent

he still did a great job :)

Parent

Expected more from vo0 :(

same :(

Parent

oh goodness, great show. i could watch the players and 2gd trolling for months. did anyone see cypher at lan ? I wonder if I was watching at bad times, because I didnt see him once.

He's in the grand final vs dahang, vod will be up in a day or so (they are all packed down, so will upload it tommorow)

Parent

not sure if you understood me correctly =d. i mean cypher in person, like giving interview or something.

Parent

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