Dreamhack – The largest computer forum, which has been taking place in Yyonchoping, Sweden twice a year for more than ten years. The event is so popular that the number of visitors is calculated in tens of thousands, and every year this figure is increasing.
To plunge into the atmosphere this year was lucky enough for us.
► everything seems simple and understandable on the schemes, but it is easy for those who are at the festival for the first time.
Counter-Strike 1.6
Battle of the last slots
Championship Plantronics And Kingston , became one of the most anticipated tournaments in Counter-Strike 1.6 In 2012. And this despite the fact that the organizers significantly reduced the prize fund and moved away from the usual scheme, allowing only eight best teams to the main tournament, six of which were determined in advance.
This is important: Places in the tournament were booked Natus Vincere (Zeus, Edward, Markeloff, Starix, CeH9), Moscow Five (Ed1k, Dosia, Fox, Romjke, Hacker), SK Gaming (Robban, Face, Get_right, F0rest, Delpan), ESC Gaming (TAZ, Neo, Kuben, Loord, Pasha), Fnatic (Xizt, Gux, Friis, Moddii, Karrigan, Carn) and Winfakt (Fyrr73, Niko, Threat, Zneel, Khrystal).
► Swedes SK Gaming are one of the best teams in the world and a constant favorite of any championship. From left to right: Face, F0rest, Robban, Get_Right and Delpan.
The two remaining treasured places were played between the average in strength by the Swedish groups, guests from behind the ocean Brasil Gaming (Bit, BTT, FALLEN, FNX, SheMP) and Russian Virtus.Pro (Evil, Hooch, Kucher, Lex, Xaoc) and Znation (Aerodynamic, Hondroz, Little, Redman, Wake). Not everyone believed in the chances of compatriots – a couple of strong Swedish mixes and the “hard” Brazilians on paper looked stronger, but the Russians picked up and won both treasured quotas.
Sensation of the group stage
The main group tournament of the championship was played the next day. In the group A (SK, ESC, Winfakt, Virtus.Pro) clear favorites were Poles and Swedes from SK. If Winfakt One of them could still beat and go further, then the “virtuis” again got the title of unconditional outsiders.
A Virtus. Pro Meanwhile, they were not just surprised, but stunned the opponents with their game – in the first match against SK on de_TRain, they were in the score most of the time. In the second half of the Swedes due to personal skill F0rest And Get_Right , True, it was possible to equalize the score (14:14), but no more. The last two rounds went to the VP piggy bank, and we witnessed the first loud sensation of the tournament (16:14 on de_train).
► One of the last rounds of the tense struggle between Virtus.Pro and SK. All the attention of the team is riveted to the game Emil Akhundov (Kucher).
Poles from ESC , Having evaluated the power of Russians on the De_TRain map, they deleted it in the second round (and this is one of the strongest cards of the gentry!) and unexpectedly chose the extremely unexpected de_inferno for themselves. The attempt to surprise VP failed, the “bears” to the tournament, apparently, played more than one “PRACC” with the Poles, and the ESC game did not have a mystery to them. Fantastic victory Virtus.Pro – 16: 4!
If the reason for the damage to SK can be called the terrible form in which the team was located, then ESCs were quite combat -ready. Therefore, it is inappropriate to talk about the weaknesses of rivals – rather this “virtuis” showed a phenomenal charge to struggle and tactical literacy.
THIS IS INTERESTING: As part of Virtus.Pro are two experienced Ukrainians – Alexey Kucherov ( XAOC ) and Emil Akhunds ( Kucher ). Before that, the "yellow-plakit" worked in DTS And Kerchnet.
In the final, third, tour of the "bears" were checked for strength Winfakt. The game on de_tuscan went under a clear dictation Virtus.Pro, but having as many as five “match-punts”, the Slavs managed to play a draw (15:15).
► Swedes from Winfakt (Khrystal, Threat, Zneel, Niko, Fyrr73) – a team that can shoot at any time and play badly.
However, the draw did not prevent compatriots in sensationally get out of the first place of the complex group. The second was the ESC Gaming, the titled Polish five in full -time battle over the second step overcame SK (16:12 on de_train). Thus, after the first group, the Swedish representative office decreased by two -thirds, and Fnatic became the last "Scandinavian hope".
Group B was almost completely “ours” (Moscow Five, Fnatic, Znation, Natus Vincere), with Znation In the role of a clear outsider. However, after the feat of the "bears", it seemed, they could bring a rustle. But no – for all three games in the Znation group they scored only eleven rounds (2:16 vs M5, 2:16 against Fnatic, 7:16 against Na’VI).
► The last “acquisition” M5 is a very strong shooter Roman Abramov (Hacker).
M5 (Ed1k, Dosia, Fox, Romjke, Hacker) could spoil the nerves to the favorites, but they first failed the end of the meeting with Na’vi (Even the Round 1×5 rang won by Fox’s), and then completely collapsed in a battle with the formidable Fnatic (3:16 on de_nuke). The Scandinavians won the battle for the first place in the last round (16: 9 on de_mirage) and went to the ESC Gaming. And Na’vi “hit” the Russian creators of sensations.
► Sergey Stolyarov (FOX) by personal example shows that you should never despair – even if you are left alone against five.
To the delight of the local public!
Polish-Candinavian confrontation from the audience's point of view looked much more interesting. The Poles have more than once inferior to the bold youth from Fnatic, and now they had a great chance to take revenge.
► Polish ESC squad (from left to right: Pasha, Kuben, Neo, Loord, Taz). The most titled five in the history of CS this time I could not bring gold to my homeland.
On de_DUST2, the first map of the semifinals, the Swedes started for T-SIDE and won with a score of 12: 3. The chance of salvation at Neo And the company was only if the pistol was taken in the second half – they lose the second “pistols”, on de_DUST2 everything would be decided. Having gathered the will in a fist, the Poles managed to take the first round and even brought the score to 12: 8, but only. "Fanatics", taking a break, won the first card – 16:11.
► Pistolet round on de_TRain between fnatic Scandinavians and Poles from ESC. The main role in our picture is played by Richard Landstrom (Xizt).
The second was played by de_train – it would seem, a map where the Poles are simply obliged to equalize the score in the series. But Fnatic, starting for the attack (weaker side), drove along the “Honor Knights” and won the first half with a catastrophic score 13: 2. In the game for defense, the Swedes continued to miraculously – in one of the rounds Friis accepted three, and Moddii And Karrigan finished off the rest, thereby giving us the name of the first finalist Dreamhack Summer 2012. As they sometimes say in the world CS community, "Sweden Strong-Poland Wrong"
► semifinal meeting Virtus.Pro and Natus Vincere. At this stage there is no place for emotions – both teams are incredibly concentrated.
The second to the final made their way Na’vi , Saying "there are no sensations!"And the winners Virtus.Pro with a score of 2: 0 on cards (19:16 on de_train, 16: 2 on de_tuscan). The fives who lost the semi-finals automatically took the third or fourth places (the bronze match was not provided) and replenished their teams for 1817 US dollars.
Sweden – Ukraine 2: 1
The final was marked by restarts on De_Dust2 – the first map to play in the gamson. Ukrainians took the first half with a very slippery advantage (9: 6), which completely melted in the second half. Victory Fnatic with a score 16:11 – and 1: 0 in the final series.
After the first card played out, the team moved to the cinema Dreamarena Extreme , where the final was supposed to continue. Your humble servant proceeded there. While the teams tuned computers and tried to play out, the cinema was rapidly filled, and legendary appeared on the big screen Carn And DSN (commentators). Into battle!
► Arseny Trinozhenko (CEH9) and Richard Lanst (XIZT) are divided by their thoughts and expectations from the second final map.
How they get sick in Sweden
CS 1.6 In Sweden, the discipline is very popular, so free places in the hall could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Before the second card, the leading finals threw several excellent headphones at Plantronics into the hall, which significantly revived the Swedish public, which, of course, supported Fnatic. For Ukrainians, only guys from Virtus were sick.Pro and the author of these lines, who somehow tried to support the Slavs in the close environment of the Swedish spectators. I must say that the Scandinavians, to their honor, were sick very tolerant and often applauded when one of the Ukrainians did Sick Headshot.
Ukrainians quickly lost the “knives” and started the attack. The first two rounds went into the piggy bank Fnatic , But the "Born to Win" won the key third. Victory in it gave them an economic advantage, and the Swedes, on the contrary, were forced to save and “merge”. In this vein, the whole first half of de_train passed – the Ukrainians synchronously reached one point, then without meeting special resistance. In the blue-yellow team, everyone was “at the level”, but they performed a little better than the rest Markeloff And Starix.
Na’vi won the first half with a score of 9: 6, and the Swedish spectators were quiet in the hall – but it finally heard our support. The second half did not change anything significantly: Fnatic in the attack acted sluggishly and uncertainly and quickly lost the second card – 7:16. The fate of the championship was decided on the "random" de_mirage.
► The second and third final map with CARN and DSN comments.
THIS IS INTERESTING: The teams played de_mirage in the group stage, and then turned out to be stronger Fnatic. This map is relatively new, the passages in it are narrow, and the quality of shooting comes to the fore, which will have a higher Swede.
So, in principle, it turned out – the “Danish department” of Fnatic ( Friis And Karrigan ) from the first rounds he pestered the defense of Ukrainians, who often fired. After the Scandinavians won the first half for the attack (11: 4), to bring the game to a general victory was a matter of technology. Victory Fnatic with a score 16: 7, and they become new champions Dreamhack Summer 2012. In addition to the championship title, the victory over Ukrainians brought Australian organization $ 7268 prize $ 7,268.
1st place- fnatic (Sweden) – $ 7268
2nd place- Natus Vincere (Ukraine) – $ 3634
3rd place- Virtus.Pro (Russia) – $ 1817
4th place- ESC Gaming (Poland) – $ 1817
► Best Frags of the Dreamhack Summer 2012 championship from Domeniktv.
Starcraft II
The second "Starcraft" tournament in the framework of Dreamhack Summer 2012 has become the most massive and popular. Judge for yourself – more than a hundred players from twenty countries of the world took part in it. Russia (POMI, Livezerg, Brat_ok, Titan, Turuk and Slivko) and Ukraine (White-Ra, Dimaga, Bly and Fraer) were also sent to Yyonchetoping solid landing.
128 participants from 20 countries
Certain hopes were assigned to Dimaga , Titan And Brat_ok. The rest was not enough either high -quality training or experience. One of the most discussed topics was Igor Turchin's trip ( Rox.KIS.Fraer ): Recently, the guy on the Web simply tears and swages-and Dreamhack was supposed to become a litmus piece of paper of its current level.
The organizers decided to repeat Bold idea April Dreamhack Eizo Open : 128 players divided into 32 groups. All the strongest https://golden-genie-casino.co.uk/ at the first stage went further, local amaters in quantity and a pretty Swede remained overboard Maddelisk , our Miss May.
It was not very different from the first and second group stage: the number of groups decreased to sixteen, but the difference, perhaps, was that the weakest tried to impose at least some semblance of a struggle to the strongest. However, this stage was the last for such notorious players as Merz , JYP , Bigs , Sjow , Elfi , HayPro. The Russians also occurred – Turuk And Pomi In their groups, they could not get into the two of the best.
► a computer and two bottles of cola – all that is needed for good results!
Thus, in the third and last (in front of the playoffs) the group stage, twelve protosss, fourteen grains and all the heels of terrane got; The words of experts that “our race” weakened are confirmed? But in each of the last eight groups a lot of interesting and tense matches was played. Separately, we want to dwell on groups B (Puma, Vampire, Cytoplasm, Fraer) and G (HUK, STEPHANO, MORROW, SLIVKO).
In the first, a sensation struck – "Hero of all online" Fraer He took first place, defeating Koreans Puma And Vampire! The Swede was no less unexpected from the second Cytoplasm. Group G could be safely deciphered as Great or call the death group – very strong played in it STEPHANO And Morrow , as well as strong Canadian protoss HUK , which was almost invincible one and a half years ago. Our Artem Garavtsov ( Slivko ) the names were not afraid, quite confidently defeated the first Zerg and Terran and relaxed only in the match with the Canadian. The defeat at the hands of the Russian almost deprived the “best European” Ilyes Saturi (Stephano) in the playoffs, so in his next games he was extremely assembled, did not make serious mistakes and as a result to scratch his first place. Artem became the second.
► Artem Garavkov (Slivko) does not fight for life, but for death against the Swedish terrane Morrow.
In addition to this duet, the groups overcame experienced Brat_ok and Dimaga. The latter (the best Zerg of Ukraine) many seriously considered one of the main favorites of the championship.
Harry Potter is not afraid of Bratkov ..
In the meantime, 1/8 of the playoffs, and three of our players, including the ambitious Fraer, had just begun to overcome it. Pavel Kuznetsov was unable to join them, who in three tense games lost to Polish Harry Potter Nerchio , Although the first match remained with the Russian.
► nerchio vs. Brat_ok – game for going to the quarterfinals.
Both players went to Leyite (the late stage of the game), but the Polish Potter set up a bunch of slow hosts of flocks and destroyers, to which Pavel answered with a bunch. Due to the constant drops – the transfer of small detachments to the GOGA base – Terran destroyed almost all the buildings Nerchio , And there was nothing left for him, except to attack the forehead.
The Pole could not win this last battle – the terrane overwhelming was too great on the combat limit. 1: 0 in favor FXO.Brat_ok. But Pavel failed to develop his success – in the following games Nerchio was a little rebuilt: in the second game he diversified his army with infectious fences, and in the third – by infectious and ultralisks, thereby turning the course of the duel. Acer.Nerchio steps on.
In the games of the rest of the pairs 1/8 the main surprise was the loss RET Swedish protoss Sase.
THIS IS INTERESTING: RET trained in Korea for a long time – it seemed that soon victories would spy, like out of a cornucopia ..
Representatives of only four European countries – Russia, France, Poland and Ukraine made their way to the quarterfinals. And in the four of the best came STEPHANO , Mana , Dimaga And… Fraer. “Someone, what kind of fraer?" – you ask. Yes, a player who was not heard about in European tournaments and who was not seen by the view – Dreamhack became his first foreign championship. In ¼ Fraer confidently defeated Sase, and previously dealt with another sensation – the Dutchman Harstema.
THIS IS INTERESTING: For the first time in many, many years, not a single South Korean professional-and there were seven of them, however, not the most top-ends-did not go to the quarterfinals.
► semifinal Ukrainian derby between Dimaga and Fraer.
Fraer – it sounds proud!
The first map of the Ukrainian derby ended in fifteen minutes – Dimaga with grablings and infectors simply gnawing the protoss army.
► STEPHANO in Sweden is so popular that the place for the fight with its participation had to be occupied in advance. But this is only the first round of playoffs!
In the second game Dimaga For too long he allowed himself to be “free” (to collect resources and build bases without creating the army), for which he was almost immediately punished. Competent Forsfields and excellent shooting stalkers brought Fraer’s victory. 1: 1, and everything was supposed to decide on Daybreak. The cost of this card was at least four thousand dollars – it was the difference between the second and third place. The decisive game was decently dragged on, and Fraer seemed closer to victory than Dimaga … if not for the timeless sentry.
► Dmitry Filipchuk (MTW.Dimaga) – the guy is simple, cheerful and, as they say, without show -offs.
It is very difficult to fight stalkers against a huge number of grabing and cockroaches without Forsfields, even considering how the Protoss used “Blink” effectively. The situation is at the representative Rox.KIS It became heavier and heavier every second, but it did not despair and continued to bite the Zerg by the tail. The spectacular interracial confrontation of Ukrainians ended in the victory of a much more experienced Dimaga, and he was the second Mana He went to the final.
In the meantime, Ukrainians in a tense PVZ decided who to collect whom, a representative Mousesports – Mana, defeated Grozny STEPHANO with a score of 2: 0 and became the first finalist.
GOG against Protoss in the battle for the championship
Final matches by Starcraft II, As in other disciplines, your humble servant watched in his room. But not on the network, as many probably thought. Swedish National Channel SVT 2 translated a decisive duel in prime time!
Imagine SC2 finals on Russian "Russia-1" , " Russia-2 "Or on Ukrainian" Inter "… you can? We did not succeed.
► Final between MTW.Dimaga and Mousesports.Mana. Comment by Mikhail Mirchuk (Miker) and Pavel Belov (Revolver).
Polish-Ukrainian derby ended in victory Mana (3: 1). It seemed to us that Dimaga was a little … burned out, or something, and in the final could not show the best that was capable of, although he won one card. Protoss Mana played in an aggressive style (something like Fraer’a style), but made less technical errors and, we will be frank, outplayed the Ukrainian. For his victory player Mousesports received a championship title, respect of the audience and fifteen thousand US dollars.
1st place- Mana (Poland) – $ 15,000
2nd place- Dimaga (Ukraine) – $ 7500
3rd place- Fraer (Ukraine) – $ 3750
4th place- STEPHANO (France) – $ 3750
Dota 2
_Thestornir along one of the most popular MOBA-IGR has become not as massive as the previous SC 2. Only sixteen teams, but among them there were such grands as Natus Vincere (Puppey, Dendi, XBOCT, LIGHTOFHEAVEN, ARS-ART), Darer (Artstyle, GodkillThemall, go [blin], mag ~, funn1k), Counter-Logic Gaming (Pajkatt, Mirakel, Akke, Misery-, Lacoste), Evil Geniuses (Maelk, Fear, Demon, Bulba, Universe), _mousesports (1437, Black^, Singsing, Sexybamboe, Comewithme) and MTW (Synderen, 7CNGMAD, SOCKSHKA, FUNZII, KEBAB).
According to the good old tradition, sixteen participants were competently distributed into four approximately equal groups. They were able to overcome the group stage mousesports , CLG , Na’vi , MTW , Quantic Gaming , EG , Darer And Absolute Legends. But only got into the semifinals Mouz , MTW , Na’vi And EG.
► Natus Vincere – the best team of the world in Dota 2, at the Swedish championship was in the role of the main favorite.
If someone saw this semifinal list a few years ago, I would immediately think that this is a Counter-Strike 1 tournament.6. But now Dota 2 in the eyes of the organizers of tournaments is much more attractive than the old “contra”, so all the best teams in the world have their own compositions in this discipline.
The semi -final between Na’vi And the Americans from EG were more interested in us than the German-French match MTW and Mouz. In the first game, Ukrainians “picked” Leshrac, Broodmother, Night Stalker, Windrunner, and EG – Shadow Demon, Enigma, Slardar, Ancient Apparition and Batrider. From the very beginning, overseas guests went forward in fragments, but the "born to win" managed to turn the battle of the battle and firmly take possession of the initiative.
► The first semifinal game between Na’VI and the Americans Evil Geniuses.
Ukrainians pretty “Perefarchi” (killed more mobs and earned more gold) of the enemy and brought their advantage to five frags (19:14). At the thirty -fourth minute heroes Na’vi Roshan killed and rushed into the last assault … The Americans could not do anything and wrote "GG" together. The second game was completely at one gate: the “evil geniuses” lost in fragments – 5:26, and lasted only 26 minutes.
► the same, in the same place, the second game.
The second finalists became the French MTW , who in a difficult meeting defeated Mouz with a score of 2: 1. Like the SC 2 final, Valve was broadcast on Swedish national television (just before Starcraft ). The author of these lines could not deny himself and in this pleasure.
After the first two games, the score was equal. A decisive duel for $ 7,500 (the difference between the first and second places) turned out to be a protracted and tense. "FIRST BLOOD" was made by Ukrainians on Funzii Already at the beginning of the fifth minute, but after a few minutes MTW were found with an answer, and the score of fragments was 2: 1 in their favor. After small skirmishes at the beginning of the game, the teams calmed down slightly, and an equal and cautious game went. In the thirtieth minute, the score was only 8: 4, which is very rare for such a late time.
► decisive, third, final game Dota 2 Vengeance Cup. The winner will be the new champion Dreamhack Summer 2012
After MTW Called on the line PUPPEY , All their heroes rushed sharply on the attack on the lower line, which he tried unsuccessfully to defend Ars-Art (also known as smile). With his death, the situation with the Ukrainians worsened significantly – the heroes of MTW began to host on the Ukrainian base, breaking the building behind the building, while Na’vi was waiting for a good moment to fight back.
But when the Ukrainians lost the lower line, their fate was a foregone conclusion. A few minutes later, MTW finished off the second line and became winners Dreamhack Dota 2 Vengeance Cup.
1st place- MTW (France) –14,500 $
2nd place- Na’vi (Ukraine) – $ 7250
3rd place- Evil Geniuses (USA) – $ 3625
4th place- mousesports (Germany) – $ 3625
We hope that the defeat of Na’vi will be a good lesson for the team, because on the nose The International 2 , And this, of course, is the main tournament of the year, and there it will be necessary to show the best that is capable of.
Other disciplines
Of course, one cannot fail to mention other popular Moba-disciplines presented in Yyoncheping. So, in the main championship of 2012 on Heroes of Newerth (Sponsors performed Alienware And S2Games ) the victory was expectedly won Fnatic.RC. This team has long dominated Hon, and TT Esports they can not overthrow them from the pedestal. TT ESports became three other winners, Trademark And Blackfade. We also note the prize fund of the championship – $ 60,000, the largest among all disciplines Dreamhack Summer 2012.
► Fnatic against TT Esports in the final of the Heroes of Newerth Championship
League of Legends (Sponsors of the tournament MSI , Steelseries And Intel ), collected in his prize fund "total" $ 40,000. The champions became CLG (Wickd, Snoopeh, Yellowpete, Krepo, Froggen), who suddenly defeated in the final Moscow Five. It was Muscovites who were considered the main favorites of the finals, since before that they won a number of the largest LOL tournaments (IEM WC and TD.) But it did not work out ..
► The second game of the tense confrontation CLG and Moscow Five
Rapidly losing popularity (however, it does not cease to be a very interesting hardcore competition from this) Quake Live I did not wound up Dreamhack Summer 2012 special glory. It is a pity that the streams watched the spectators who were not enough, and the list of participants left much to be desired. The good old acquaintances met in the finale – an American Rapha and Belarusian Cypher. After three stubborn battles on three cards, the first. The reward for this achievement was $ 4284. Third place was shared by another representative of the United States Dahang And the Dutchman SC00T.
► Rapha vs. Cypher – “classic finale” of the strongest Kwirechers in the world
Old acquaintances met in the final of the tournament in Bloodline Champions. Two best teams in the world ( Razer. MIF And Mrdandiktory ) divided the prize fund at $ 10,000. Like the Kyiv finals of the first season Starladder , The DanDiktory Danes (MR2, Viktory, Dandido), who again confirmed their status of the best team of the world in this rather new, but very dynamic and interesting discipline, won.
It will be not enough?
Grandiose Dreamhack Summer 2012 , Of course, it was a success. The organization of the championships was, as always, at the highest level, and the best players in the world gave us a whole many tense and breathtaking games.
It is difficult to evaluate the performance of our fighters: on the one hand, the children from the CIS participated in the finals in five different disciplines, but on the other hand, all these finals were lost.
And you, dear readers, what players, teams and disciplines of the tournament would like to read more detailed articles? Write to us, and we will definitely take this into account when visiting the next Dreamhack festival. And not only his!
