DreamHack Summer 2011 Recap

DreamHack Summer 2011 Recap

This memorable weekend of fun, excitement and great games has come to an end. Thousands of spectators, both live at DreamHack itself and watching the free high-quality live streams, witnessed countless strong performances and exciting upsets that produced some of the best games to have ever been played in StarCraft II.

The dust has settled. The dreams of 47 top StarCraft II players were crushed; one stood above the rest to claim the title and the 100,000 SEK first prize. After a nail-biting final, which went to the fifth game and was a true display of psychological warfare, Canadian Chris “LiquidHuK” Loranger and his protoss forces managed to narrowly beat the zerg swarm of South Korean Jang “Moon” JaeHo. Congratulations to the newly nicknamed “DreamHuK”, who withstood the pressure and showed amazing skill and stamina to remain undefeated throughout the Championship.


“DreamHuK” – the DreamHack Summer 2011 champion

Missed the finals, or want to relive some of your favourite moments from the event? You can find the final games and other epic VODs from the tournament casted by Sean “Day[9]” Plott and Shaun “Apollo” Clark in the live recordings archive on blip.tv/day9tv.


Third game of the finals in DreamArena - the atmosphere is getting more and more tense!

If you’re hungry for more content, you can also visit the DreamHack StarCraft II Justin.tv channel, where you will find even more games casted by none other than the Cynical Brit himself – TotalBiscuit. You can find some true gems in there, including a real treat for all Kratos Protoss’ fans: TotalBiscuit and oGsMC’s commentary of the LiquidHuK vs MTarson series!


They have already watched the finals - have you?

To see the full results of the BYOC qualifiers, group and playoff stages, as well as other interesting facts about the event, visit the DreamHack Summer 2011 Liquipedia page and the TLPro’s day 3 summary.

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I'm also going to quote Day9:

"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
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ThatGuy #629
ThatGuy
23/06/2011
lol best part of the tournament was July trying to takes HuK cheque :D
Moon had a much harder road, but HuK played amazing. That second game against July was just incredible.
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Karatheon #234
Karatheon
22/06/2011
I am going to Quote Day9 from the set live at Dreamhack.

"In Korea terran owns everything, in north America Zerg takes every tournament there, and in Europe Protoss is the undisputed champions. It seems that which race is OP depends on their timezone."

I know, it won't stop the imba criers from crying imba, but it might make some of the more sensible people around to think.
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Lamarq #795
Lamarq
22/06/2011
top 4, 3 koreans 1 canadian, 2 zergs, 1 terran vs. Protoss.

Protoss wins.

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Hmm
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Motor #782
Motor
22/06/2011
The fifth round was the most intense and the most glorious match I have ever witnessed. The moment when Moon said "GG" and the half second after it was... I cant describe it! 1200 people stood up in an instant and screamed their lungs out (me included), yelling "Huk! Huk! Huk! Huk!" and clapping their hands to the bone! I will remember that monday for years to come!
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Rebound #217
Rebound
22/06/2011
It was great, what more can i say
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Goosebumps #116
Goosebumps
22/06/2011
Yeah! next dreamhack right in my vacation!
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NEEK #532
NEEK
22/06/2011
I love that blizzard is now also covering the major events, they are probably the reason we had 90k people watching the finals
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Michael #930
Michael
22/06/2011
Maybe next time Blizzard could put a link to the stream in the client?

Please?
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Rave #243
Rave
22/06/2011
@Michael: JUst watch here all the time. There are all big and small Tournaments like NASL ,GSL, Dreamhack + Streams
http://www.teamliquid.net/events/
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ChopChop #432
ChopChop
22/06/2011
One evening I've bought a couple of beers, grabbed a snack and sat through the whole evening watching pros play Starcraft as if it was World football championship. Even my friend, who's not even aware of Starcraft joined to watch the finals.
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Heuristic #375
Heuristic
22/06/2011
Hey!

I know those handsome nerds on the first row!

Just Cause 2 t-shirt for the win!
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PontanK #249
PontanK
22/06/2011
AWESOME!!!!
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Kage #981
Kage
22/06/2011
Gratz to winner 8-)
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DreamFox #512
DreamFox
22/06/2011
It was awesome! DreamHack Winter 2011 <3 More StarCraft 2 and Day[9] <3
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ponderosa #781
ponderosa
22/06/2011
The Official Replay Pack http://goo.gl/LKDDY