DreamHack Winter with $35,400

20-9-2010 17:04

The DreamHack organizers have divulged information about their biannual tournament, proclaiming $35,400 for the winter edition.

DreamHack Winter 2010 will take place at Elmia, in Jönköping, from 25-28 November, with 32 teams involved in the Counter-Strike competition.

A staggering prize purse of $35,400 has been announced for the tournament, including a gift card provided by the car auction company KVD worthy $14,100 which will be handed out to the first-place finishers.

The tournament will see eight groups of four teams, where top two advance to the playoffs. mTw, who won DreamHack Summer 2010 after beating H2k in the final, have been given direct access to the main tournament.

Whichever team manages to seal first place at DreamHack Skellefteå will receive a wild card to the main tournament, while the organizers will distribute more wild cards to several professional teams.

As usual, international and online qualifiers will be held throughout the world, as well as the BYOC tournament on site.

Just like DreamHack Summer 2010, the grand final will take place in the DreamArena Extreme which is able to house over 1,000 spectators.

DreamHack Winter 2010 prize distribution:

1. $14,100 + gift card worthy $14,100
2. $4,250
3. $2,800

nice

2010-09-20 17:06

wow thats a nice first prize then..

Nice prize!

2010-09-20 17:08

najz!

hope coL send the guys

2010-09-20 17:09

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i think they will

2010-09-20 17:24

very nice !

Crazy shit

2010-09-20 17:12

huge prizes $_$

2010-09-20 17:14

Nice ^^

2010-09-20 17:15

14 + 14 for 1st and 4 for 2nd? ? ? ? ? ? ?? PATHETIC...

2010-09-20 17:18

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is it?

2010-09-20 17:21

You kids do realise that a $14,000 voucher for a car between 5 isn't that much money. roF. If they want to benefit they need to spend twice what they are receiving, unless they want to split a car 5 ways.

2010-09-21 04:40

oh, your saying more money is pathetic no you are.

he is saying that maybe 2nd place should get more money. cause its 28k for 1st or 4k for 2nd, should maybe me 1st-20k, 2nd-10k

2010-09-20 17:46

2010-09-20 17:45

Agree, or maybe some money for 4-8 places.

2010-09-20 18:42

+1 the way Arbalets tournaments reward their participants is by far better imo

2010-09-20 18:46

yeah kinda ridiculous...14k+14k and then 4k... needs some change

2010-09-20 19:42

It's 4.25k don't make it sound worse than it is

2010-09-21 13:26

losers are losers. Go get a job if you want everyone to get a fair ammount of cash for playing a fucking game. Would be more fun to watch if everything went to the winning team instead.

2010-09-21 15:56

Nice price :-P

2010-09-20 17:20

i am coming

2010-09-20 17:27

let's come together xD

2010-09-20 18:43

wild difference between 1st and lower places... not very good for the runer-up teams :P

2010-09-20 17:32

hmm ok.

2010-09-20 17:33

its almost like ALL IN for the top teams in this.

2010-09-20 17:34

omg, that first place prize is sick

2010-09-20 17:36

oh :D

Go Lions, Xizt for MVP.

2010-09-20 17:41

MONEY FTW!

2010-09-20 17:44

Millenium are qualified for France.

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qualified for France? :-D

2010-09-20 17:53

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? The French WCG qualifier also gave a slot for DH Winter for the second team.

2010-09-20 18:47

Nice deal they've made there :)

2010-09-21 17:25

He meant to represent France, geez...

2010-09-20 19:01

nice prizZze !!

2010-09-20 17:56

omfg awesome prize for 1st place, I guess this is going to be one of best DreamHack event EVER!! ohh and finally now mistake with name of event ;) I think we wont see more newspots abaout DH from nixon, huh? ;>

2010-09-20 17:57

2010-09-20 17:59

I think it will be huge motivation to win and will be good for competitiveness :)

2010-09-20 18:06

Excuse me, can anyone tell something about gift-cards?

2010-09-20 18:09

its for a swedish car auction firm www.kvd.se/ i guess they can buy themselves a LAN van or something ;D 7 kronor = 1 $ btw

2010-09-20 18:13

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Oh, thanks :)

sell gift card for like 8K? xD

2010-09-20 21:33

wOooohoo

2010-09-20 18:18

sucks that the $14k is on a gift card. i wonder if they can use www.cardwoo.com and get cash xD

2010-09-20 18:21

nice!

2010-09-20 18:25

nice prize gl all teams!

2010-09-20 18:32

gl coL

2010-09-20 18:34

YEAAA <3 DreamHack

2010-09-20 19:07

wow nice pri[z]es :o

2010-09-20 19:11

"staggering prize purse" staggering sounds so used regarding news about prize purses :D

I do like the ring of it :)

2010-09-20 19:13

what a prize ! :O)

2010-09-20 19:20

EG GOT THIS :D

2010-09-20 19:23

gift card for what though?

2010-09-20 19:26

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Including a gift card provided by the car auction company KVD worthy $14,100 re-read :)

2010-09-20 19:37

6 replies

So the winners will have to buy a crappy car?

2010-09-20 20:04

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Yeah, something like that :P

2010-09-20 20:08

well that sux, these guys spend half their time on planes. Not much need for a car.

2010-09-20 20:55

if all players use their cards for one car, they would be quite good one, then sell it and share money or use it as 'clan bus' to drive to country LAN parties ;)

2010-09-20 22:22

14k isnt that crappy when u're talking about an auction, but anyways cash would be much better.

2010-09-20 23:01

In Scandinavia it is.

2010-09-20 23:13

If the organization reduces the 1st prize, and increase the 2nd prize DH should become more competitive.

That doesn't really make any sense, as it is now it will work as a motivation boost to win it all. I really like the idea of a big first prize and alot lesser second, third place prizes, i think it will make the motivation to win the tournament higher and thus more competitive.

2010-09-20 20:00

In my opinion its not fair the difference between the 1st and 2nd prize. I think 2nd prize should be 1/2 of 1st prize, for example. The motivation should be higher (fair imo). It is not fair in my opinion, the prize difference between the winning team and a team that took second place and fought, probably as much as they took first.

2010-09-26 21:53

2010-09-20 19:45

Make gift card real money and spread it over top3 if its a Steelseries giftcard ok.. but this?

2010-09-20 21:04

yeah, 14,000 $ of steelseries spread out of 5 players. thats nice, I'd buy 2000 mousepads and use it as a carpet, oh wait! nice brain mate. swedish auction website has pretty much everything and Im sure you can sell that for about the same price.

2010-09-20 21:55

dude wtf man ? :'(

2010-09-20 23:18

what the hell would you buy from SteelSeries for $2,800?!

2010-09-20 22:25

wish we had tournaments with at least half of those prices in southamerica :(

2010-09-20 22:58

go coL

2010-09-20 23:00

send it to my account.

2010-09-20 23:04

nice! vilden lives there!

2010-09-20 23:21

Its gonna be one hell of tournament ! !

2010-09-20 23:44

2010-09-21 01:16

Crappy prize. 14100 dollars is great, but $14100 for a used car website? LOL Only thing decent for a team would be to buy a used van to LAN around europe.

2010-09-21 01:40