CS:GO confirmed at DH Valencia

26-3-2013 19:42

The organisers behind DreamHack have announced that CS:GO will be one of the games played at the Valencia stop.

The Spanish stop on the DreamHack world tour will take place from July 18th to 21st at Feria Valencia, the same location of last year's event, which was won by Ninjas in Pyjamas.

It was in Valencia where it all started for NiP as it marked the Swedish team's first international victory in CS:GO and propelled them to embark on an unbeaten LAN run which, six months later, still lasts.

NiP won DH Valencia 2012

Even though the prizes that will be up for grabs at DreamHack Valencia are still unknown, it has been revealed that CS:GO is one of the five games that will be played at the event.

The news will be well received by the CS:GO community as it comes as a strong sign that the game could be played at the Summer and Winter DreamHack events.

Below you can find the list of games that will be played in Valencia:

StarCraft II

League of Legends

Counter Strike Global Offensive

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

Super Street fighter IV Arcade Edition

nice!

2013-03-26 19:43

Would be nice to watch GeT_RiGhT and f0rest play live someday.

2013-03-26 19:44

nice :D

2013-03-26 19:45

great news

2013-03-26 19:45

3 replies

no, DH Valencia was in September

2013-03-26 19:45

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instantly realised and editted just in time :)

2013-03-26 19:45

2013-03-26 19:46

obviously dreamhack summer + winter will INCLUDE csgo its not the game with the most viewers but its still enough for these tournaments.. and when we see csgo f2p we will gain even more viewrship if valve add dota2 like "watch" feature into the main menu.. and include the live stream directly on the front page to.

2013-03-26 19:54

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Super Street fighter IV Arcade Edition Wut???

2013-03-26 20:03

4 replies

maybe very popular games like call of duty for consoles here in italy ^^

2013-03-26 20:08

3 replies

Cause we (Italians) don't know a fuck about esport..

2013-03-26 20:18

same in France ^_^ most of my friends don't know a shit about cs, only cod

2013-03-26 21:41

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agree

2013-03-27 17:00

CSGO COD Street Fighter and no DotA2... seems legit

2013-03-26 20:12

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it's only DH valencia though, there was a time where sc2 was the only game there. In sweden, then event is way different

2013-03-26 20:42

Last time i watched dreamhack counter-strike 1.6. This year i will be watching dreamhack for league of legends...

2013-03-26 20:15

37 replies

a game even more casual and easy then csgo haha have fun

2013-03-26 20:51

36 replies

Him and the other 32 million active players sure have.

2013-03-26 21:12

35 replies

..no clue of what gaming should be about.

2013-03-26 21:34

34 replies

Having fun

2013-03-26 21:54

3 replies

They don't know what fun is.

2013-03-26 21:59

2 replies

Well that one's pretty subjective!

2013-03-26 22:01

1 reply

Objectivity is highly overrated.

2013-03-26 22:15

Gaming is just about competitive games.

2013-03-26 22:10

29 replies

This. On a serious note though, we're talking about competitive gaming, there has been no mentioning of other types of games.

2013-03-26 22:13

28 replies

I like a little game called tip the stripper!

2013-03-26 22:15

6 replies

validated 18+ though => not applicable here at HLTV.org mostly

2013-03-26 22:32

5 replies

haha ^_^ probably true :P

2013-03-26 22:44

4 replies

Where have you been by the way? :)

2013-03-27 00:47

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Last int event hat asked me as commentator was dh summer 2012, but that was the same weekend I got to run with he Olympic torch in London, easy choice ;p I do get the occasional FIFA or pes event, but alas, no csgo as of yet :( There were talks with CPH games but they went with redeye (ofcourse, I can only commend their choice, he's q fulltime cater and certainly better than me!)

2013-03-27 14:22

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Yeah, well, it's redeye :)

2013-03-27 15:33

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For sure, oh and dunn is very good too Add to that rizc wisemnhunt and he occasional joeM if he doesn't have to do another game, and its hard to squeeze in there as I only have a fraction of the time those Guys have for casting :p My house, gf, friends, soccer and job take up too much time to spend much on gaming :p

2013-03-27 20:20

EDIT: Wow, I'm still kinda sick and did not re-read my comment, I meant Gaming isn't just about competitive games. It's funny though, a person saying that a "strategy" game (I know it's not really a strategy game) is easier than an FPS. I mean, LoL requires full teamwork, knowledge of all the champion's abilities , items, and there's way more tactics possible in that game than in CS:GO, it's not easier. It's easier than other moba's, that's for sure.

2013-03-26 22:24

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First of all, how you can call LoL a strategy game is simply beyond me, then please explain how there are more tactics in LoL than CS:GO? Sure you have to know the champion's abilities (which you learn in less than a week and are often similar to each other), then items, etc. you learn very quickly. In CS:GO, the freedom you're given makes the game intricate and the skill ceiling very high. You don't have that freedom in mobas, which ultimately make them easier and noob-friendly.

2013-03-26 22:31

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Sure you have to know the champion's abilities (which you learn in less than a week and are often similar to each other) There are 111 champions, each one has 4 abilities, plus over 80 items, if you add the three different lanes and all the possible roles and combinations you can do, it can be complex. In CS:GO, the freedom you're given Go A or B? Or hold one of the three spot in those bomb sites? Not to mention that the difficulty of your match is based on whatever champions the other team picks and your inability to know all of their usual strats because of the big amount of different combinations and lane swaps that a team can have. It's not like CS, where you know that at least one round they are gonna fake rush B because they have done it in the past in that map.

2013-03-26 22:51

14 replies

Time wasted. Go play LoL with the other kids, punk.

2013-03-26 23:34

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Why so mad? LoL is most played game in the world at the moment. And I play both (cs and lol), and i can say "LoL is more tactical than cs". Indeed. :D

2013-03-27 00:34

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nice fake flag, fallen

2013-03-27 11:20

he pwned yo retarted sAucer.

2013-03-27 11:12

You forgot champions with 2 forms, which has 7 skills (nidalee, elise, etc.)

2013-03-27 00:33

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I don't play LoL so I wouldn't know. But makes sense since DOTA2 has several +4 abilities heroes.

2013-03-27 01:13

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I have to reply, There are some valid points, but define me that how can you carry 16 round in a map alone in CSGO, its alot easier in LoL/Dota/HoN, to carry alone as i was meant to say, and the situtation about picking in lol/dota/hon, is about unpicking or making their skills useful or to counter them, And in CSGO you are just gonna unpick nip,esc gaming or VG? And what about when you are loosin 13-0 in csgo, yes you can still be abble to win it, how about dota lol or hon? In dota if Winning team is leading, lets say by 25-0 and all the tier towers are down, id said its impossible to get up from there. But as last point i have to write down is, That you cant COMPARE A MOBA AND FPS GAME; SERIOUSLY :TLDR

2013-03-27 12:50

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And in CSGO you are just gonna unpick nip,esc gaming or VG? In CS you veto their best map. And what about when you are loosin 13-0 in csgo, yes you can still be abble to win it, how about dota lol or hon? In dota if Winning team is leading, lets say by 25-0 and all the tier towers are down, id said its impossible to get up from there. What you just said: CS:GO is easier, DOTA2 is harder.

2013-03-27 14:20

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Nope, in CSGO its harder to maintain the position of winning, in DOTA2 You can just go back to jungle or keep ganking, nothing hard there when enemy cant do a s*it about it.

2013-03-27 15:25

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Basically any game that works on a basis of rounds is easier both for teams and individuals. Obviously because in CS:GO the only advantage a winning team has is a lot of money in their pocket, not spent into items to have an even bigger advantage. That's what makes it easier for teams, they can screw up one round and come back the next one or two rounds after that. Once you screw up in LoL in two or three fights for example, you have little to no chances of getting back from it unless the opposing team doesn't know how to use the advantage.

2013-03-27 15:42

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Yes, exactly, that what i was saying all the time, but as i stated before, You cant COMPARE MOBA and FPS games.

2013-03-27 16:09

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2013-03-27 17:26

You can, but obviously only in certain ways.

2013-03-27 19:16

you probably never played in a minimum competitive aspect in counter strike :P

2013-03-27 17:06

ROFL people here have still this retarded thinking that cs is the most skilled game ever created. ROFL wake up its not 2000 anymore. Starcraft is and was always much harded. Cs is just like the most simple game. Noob friendly is cs. Moba games are higher. Jesus christ poor fps gamers...

2013-03-27 07:29

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I could agree that 1.6 would be some steps below those games (like really close). Mainly because there were more tactics (more boosts and tactical spots), you weren't rewarded as much per kill and you'd have to buy ammo and make decisions upon that, if you would wall spam or not etc But definitely not CS:GO. $1.5k for a knife kill, or $900 for a shotgun kill, ammo is free, almost no wall-banging etc etc

2013-03-27 14:25

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I think I should go ahead and just do it. youtube.com/watch?v=z9pD_UK6vGU is now something for me, without it, I will never be able to read HLTV again :(

2013-03-27 17:27

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I'm surprised that you've not taken it before, seeing how you play CS:GO.

2013-03-27 17:50

2013-03-26 20:17

nice, gl.

2013-03-26 20:18

Great news :)

2013-03-26 21:02

Not surprising. What I really want to see is another eSports conference like they had there last year, the one that ReDeYe moderated. I remember he said afterwards that the main thing it lacked was a lack of pro players giving their own input. Perhaps this year they'll hold it again and have a panel featuring some pro players.

2013-03-26 21:10

Interesting, GameGune usually happens around that time.

2013-03-26 21:15

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my chance to cast perhaps, if the good full time casters are taken by one event, I could go to the other :P

2013-03-26 22:17

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I'm not sure if I would like to be known as the guy who casted that game where xisco killed three team-mates. (assuming he will make an appearance this year)

2013-03-26 22:26

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I'd just love to visit gamegune at least once :P casted it twice from the studio of KaosTV but being there live is entirely different ofcourse + free trip to spain, always a plus :D

2013-03-26 22:43

Hahaha ye, gotta miss GameGune and their CRT monitors :D

2013-03-27 04:17

It's a week later, euskal.org/

2013-03-27 11:29

Do we know if they are likely to confirm CS:GO as a tournament?

2013-03-27 15:09

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Considering the last two GameGune tournaments had a prize pot of 22,500€, which by the CS:GO community is considered a major tournament, it would be stupid by them not to hold one.

2013-03-27 15:44

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I was just making sure it was in my "LAN Diary" on Google documents.

2013-03-27 16:57

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I should have worded my comment better. There is no info if there will be a CS:GO tourney, it's only an assumption.

2013-03-27 17:06

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I know, I'm just asking. I've marked it on the diary just in case, if it does, then I have it earmarked, if it doesn't then no harm done :D

2013-03-27 18:08

Great news =)

2013-03-26 21:24

now need prizes more than 15 k

2013-03-26 21:30

2 replies

Go away...

2013-03-26 23:19

ROFL thirld world win

2013-03-27 10:20

why league of legends this game sucks so hard and its everywere

2013-03-26 21:31

1 reply

Maybe a 30-million active community and insane amounts of money in it might be the reason? :)

2013-03-27 19:31

super puper street fighter omfg

2013-03-26 21:40

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 god, why??? rageface.ru/faces/face-why.png

2013-03-26 21:41

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why not? There is more COD online player than CS:GO, and both 2 are not competitive games.

2013-03-27 16:16

Nice! Hopefully a bigger prize pool this time!

2013-03-26 21:47

all started for nip back then. As of yesterday nip has 70-0-0 lan MAP wins and 49-0-0 matches wins

2013-03-26 22:05

hope to see you there

2013-03-26 22:16

Great news ^^

2013-03-27 02:47

easy money for NiP again

2013-03-27 02:53

Great News, csgo growing up, lets support csgo

2013-03-27 02:55

1 reply

hahahaha

2013-03-27 04:21

>League of Legends >Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 >Super Street fighter IV Arcade Edition whut tha fook? i thought we are in europe, were people play competitive games at cybersport champs.

2013-03-27 05:46

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competitive games =/= cs:go

2013-03-27 10:21