source will be added as soon as it's on dreamhacks site :-)

Edit. Source added.

http://www.dreamhack.se/dhw09/news/998-250-000-kronor-i-sex-spel

Thats from september and seems that nothing changed at Quake Live, or am i wrong?

http://www.dreamhack.se/dhw09/news/1147-quake-forever-the-details

source added! :)

btw any chance tto contact you on irc or so?
got a few questions about the gameon nordic final

#dreamhack.quake at quakenet.
i'm blazeh there. Give me a shout if I can help you with anything.
Unfortunately I don't know anything about the Gameon finals, since it's ESL that arranges it. I'll gladly help you if I can though!

<3 blaze

<3

yayyyyy!

First time ever Quake tournaments are played on decent LCD's!

didn't dh use 120hz LCD's last time aswell? or was that a smaller dh? I remember someone posting a link where you could buy those monitors which had been used at dh in irc.

yeah we used them at dreamhack summer this year also. Although counter strike snatched most of the monitors to we only got to play the finals at 120hz lcds.
we're gonna have them for all games this time though.

can't think why a game like cs would require fast update rates ;)

I think you can :D
It just feels better with 120hz, much smoother. Doesn't really matter what game it is tbh :)

I was being very sarcastic ;)

bah, should've spotted it :(

Only 8k dollars? That's nothin bruhski

Well at least you can be sure you'll get the money, unlike some other organizations who promise crazy money and then never deliver. I hope they stream a lot of matches.

Awesome with LAN! Playing online would have been fail. Especially with the state of the Swedish servers (unless they've improved).

I recall hearing/reading that 2gd and Joe is casting the matches. Is this still on?

120hz :D:D:D

horrible prizes for an event that brings 10k+ ppl with a fee of like 100dollars...

I bet the WoW tourney prizes aren't all that horrible...

:(

wow's 50k SEK (cash / products)
QL 60k SEK (Cash / products)

Was afraid to look - good.

There were no fucking whine about the cash from that fucking awesome tournament ESL had in Dubai.
We've got an even bigger prize pool but still some of you fucking spoiled KIDS whine about everything. Sincerely GTFO.

There were no fucking whine about the cash from that fucking awesome tournament ESL had in Dubai.

there were plenty comments about it actually...

i dont really get why a1r-r41d and son1dow seem to be hating though :( i can understand that as a quake fan you would wish for bigger prizes, i am myself. but im sure the organizers/admins are doing their best to get the most money and the players knew what to expect anyway and still decided to play. the fact that in the past there have been bigger prizes for the same level of competition doesnt mean this wont be awesome aswell

roger, I kinda only found like 3-4 posts regarding the prizemoney. Guess I didn't read all of it then.

I think gamers in general should be happy that they actually can make money on games :)

I'm not hating, just expected WoW to have more; now I'm happy since it has less (not that it deserves any...).

I know :) That wasn't really pointed at you anyway. Soz :P

np, I didn't take it like that anyway, looked like a simple misunderstanding.

Goodie :D

I think it's a decent purse for the current times.

But you might find it a bit hard to get Social Security numbers from everyone, cause some countries really don't use them. I needed my German equivalent only once.

So it might be a good idea to make it an option to give you a passport or id-card number instead.

Yeah I had some troubles finding the correct translation of that. I think it'll work out though, they're gonna get some papers to fill in before they even enter the competetiton.

how many attendes had ESL dubai?

if you insist on comparing apples and oranges then around 10000 visitors were expected for the games convention in dubai. Pretty sure it was connected to the iem.

how much money was invested for BYOC facilities and casual gamers at ESL Dubai?

[rant]
You really need to understand this:

You can not simply go to someone who earns money in the gaming industry, say "We are really good at this game" and demand that they give you a share of their profits.

It's their money, the money gets payed by casual gamers for a BYOC LAN.
Pro gamers have no share in that. They should be happy that they get prize purses like this at all. If they want more money they should really consider getting a real career first, maybe even organize a LAN themselves. So then they can give all their profits to greedy gamers, instead of keeping it for they work they did.
[/rant]

ye ur just like the old guys in sweden, they tell young people to work for very low payment , "be happy to have a job"

thats not my point. my point is that they PROBABLY makes huge profits and they doesnt give back alot to the ones who makes it possible.

ye ur just like the old guys in sweden, they tell young people to work for very low payment ,

are you dense or something?
The gamers do not work for dreamhack, therefore they don't get to demand any payment. At all.
At best the gamers "work" for a team, but there is no contract with Dreamhack whatsoever.

they doesnt give back alot to the ones who makes it possible.

And those few pro gamers make NOTHING happen. Do you hoestly want to tell me people pay 100$ to see you or anyone play quakelive. really?

No, the tournaments are a little extra, a side attraction, which is worth the 60.000 + effort for organisation (possibly the same amount) but not more.

Are you really believing that if they cancelled all "Pro" tournaments, people would stop going to Dreamhack?
They don't need you to be there. Much the opposite, the competitive scene does need them.

Instead Dreamhack could invest the same amount of money to having a stage hire several livebands fur their visitors.

But they do give something back. They pay enough that almost all best players in the world are there and have great tournament, They care about getting 120hz monitors.
Why the fuck should they not profit from their work and throw the money at someone else? Just because those few feel they are "entitled" to it. Ridiculous.

People with your greedy ass attitude sometimes make me think they shouldn't have prize tournaments at all.

Ignore him. Some people are just ignorant. Don't waste your time on it. He will never admit he's wrong.

Not wasting as such, mostly done with my work for today, just waiting if something important comes in.

and sometimes it's fun to rant and sometimes to see people struggle and make fun of them. It's my vice, I guess :>

you should be teaching

worked as a tutor for school kids for two years. was good fun.

Although sometimes I had to restrain myself from making fun of some idiots too much :P

In math:
Me: Hey, you are doing that wrong, at that point you have to add, not subtract.
Kid: No no, our teacher told us today we should add and your colleague said the same last week.
Me: I am sure you misunderstood your teacher, because it would lead to a wrong result. And she told me you didn't have the topic last week.
Kid: No, I know I'm right.
... and the discussion go on...


I think you need to be a fucking buddhist monk to not make fun of him.

So I didn't :]

hehe, always thought that if I became a teacher I would be making fun of students all the time

well, if it's just about teaching them easy stuff and they fail it's quite easy to stay serious and patient.

But it's when they try to make up or excuses or even better try to show of when it gets hilarious. :D
Can recommend for a job when you're a student.

well, if it's just about teaching them easy stuff and they fail it's quite easy to stay serious and patient.


that's where I'm doubting myself =D
And thanks for the offer, I'm most probably going to pass, tho :)

I cant say that I agree with you. Almost half a million Icelandic moneys for first place sounds pretty nice to me!

Doubt you'll have to worry about prizemoney anyway

:)

10000*820= 8200000 sek

+ everything else they sale
+ all sponsors

and whats the total prize purse for all tournaments ? around 400000-500000 SEK?

yea.. they really gives back alot to the gamer.

They give more than you do.

It's the nature of ESR though, those who do nothing whine on those who do something.

DreamHack is a company.
Companys like to make money.
Companys usually have moneys comming in.
Companys usually have moneys going out.
Do you really think DreamHack make 8.2M SEK just because of the Esport tournaments at DreamHack Winter 2009?

DreamHack is the world largest computer festival, it might not be the Esport event with largest prizes. Its two totally different things.

You are allowed to state you're opinion, but please, pay planet earth a visit before doing so, its kinda nice actually.

Oh yea, 10 000? That's so year 2007.

i see, you must agree that the prizes are kinda bad then?

I think an idiot. Do you have any idea how much it costs to fund the event?
I actually doubt they make much profit. I sure hope they do so they can keep organising these awesome tournaments.

no since i bet almost everything is sponsored.

Get a clue. Elmia is free!

thats one.
whats more?
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they need to hire guys who fends off retards like you on the internet

yepp and i want you to be cool

... ever thought about the expenses? arena / equipment / staff, just to name a few.

except that i dont make a huge profit of that.

So I assume that if you won money in a tournament, you would give all that money back to the community?

no ill put them on my education and help other ppl to get a better life.

If you won't give the money back to the community, why do you whine about a company that at least gives some of it back?

isnt there more important things than money?

You whined about the money.

yes i said i though the prizepool is way too small for a event like this.
Something wrong with it ? i cant see the comparison with your argument

You said they don't give enough money back to the community, even though you'd give even less money back if you got some. Hypocrite anyone?

a1r-h34d

can any1 tell me how much is 25k of sek in EU?

no google in your Internet?

if you want to do _rough_ calculations for SEK to € use 10SEK = 1€

wtf is up with this money hype? when did gaming become only about the money?

Money is nice as it will bring more 'top' players who try to earn some money for it and more money brings more attention so also more people playing the game.

Atm I think the pricemoney has become realistic in compare to the prices in the early 2000s. It will get better in time, but slowly.

I play the games for fun as I don't have the talent to ever make money with it :D

I was gonna write a comment similar to yours.

the money spent on gaming tournaments in an event like this is marketing and nothing else. quake doesn't have a large mainstream following and to even get this much money for a very mainstream event is actually very gracious of the organizers.

if we had the same pro gaming situation as in Korea (the only real pro gaming scene) this amount of price money wouldn't be much and would probably not attract the best players. as it is now, 60k is a good amount for the current situation.

can someone just shoot these whiner off?

fuck money ... any updates regarding streaming matches? and dont use no-internet as an excuse, its sweden ffs :)

I'm working on it..

don't worry, problem solved!

great!! cant wait for this to start.

gotta love how the people whining about the prize money won't get anyway near it anyway.

its not really about that

maybe if they give out the entire million and give money to everyone in top 30...

But no, greeedy Dreamhack owners want money for working.... How unjustified is that?

Not at all, thats again not my point, but they could have given back so much more if they wanted, and yes becks, players that attend the ql tourney DO WORK AT dreamhack.

sure they could give.

But I very much diagree about the "back" part, cause I am sure players like fox have gotten a lot more from Dreamhack that they ever gave to them, and you really don't see him complaining.

and yes becks, players that attend the ql tourney DO WORK AT dreamhack.

yeah, well, a1r-r4id if I took my laptop go to Dreamhack and answered a few mails from work, I too, would WORK AT dreamhack. Maybe I should do that, because apparantly that gives me the right to demand payment...

What people need to understand is that Dreamhack didn't start as an eSport festival, that side of Dreamhack has developed only the last couple of years. At it's core it's just a huge LAN where gaming enthusiast can hang out and have fun.

The eSport arm of Dreamhack is growing every year but it's still just one aspect of Dreamhack as a whole. Hopefully it will grow bigger but right now this is what we can expect.

Another thing people should keep in mind is that Dreamhack hosts 2 major events (DHW and DHS) and a series of smaller LANs every year. If you sum all the money they give out every year it's quite a lot.

I agree with you, but still i think the prize pool is way too small for an event like this even if its not just e-sport.

Just my opinion.

I see what you did there!

Shitty monitors...

considering its on shitty monitors

seeds, groups, anyone ?