DreamHack just announced their 19000+ euro prize purse for the StarCraft II competition. Don’t forget we host the Benelux Qualifiers for this competition! If you want a chance to play for the prizes in the main competition, make sure you sign up!
Here is their complete statement:
StarCraft®: Wings of Liberty™ hit the world of gaming like a tsunami and the eSports community have already embraced it with open arms. Now the floodwave hits DreamHack.
DreamHack is now together with Sapphire, SteelSeries and Eizo announcing the official StarCraft II tournament: DreamHack SteelSeries LAN-tournament (DSL) at DreamHack Winter 2010 with a total prize purse 180 000 SEK where the DreamHack Champion grabs 100 000 SEK in cash.
– This is the largest single pay-out to a winning individual in the history of E-sports at DreamHack, said press officer Fredrik Nyström.DreamHacks use the classic DreamHack-format where you can qualify on-site, online, via international qualifiers and get a direct invite.
– E-sport at DreamHack is both for amateurs and professionals and we try to combine those two worlds into one. StarCraft II is world’s most popular e-sport game rightnow and we know that you all been waiting for us to announce what we will have in store for you all at DreamHack Winter 2010, said Fredrik Nyström, press officer at DreamHack.Day9 on-site providing professional commentary
DreamHack will also bring in Sean ”Day9” Plott to attend the event to provide excellent commentary from the tournament. Day9 will be shoutcasting the Grand Final game at DreamArena Extreme, produce Day9 Dailys on exciting spots at the event and also shoutcast a majority of the greatest matches from the main tournament Grand Final game is broadcasted at dreamhack.se (english stream) and SVT Play, swedish national television (swedish stream).StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will be the fifth game announced in the Grand Finals of DreamHack on Tour 2010 and the two best players will battle it out in a Grand Final at DreamArena Extreme infront of 1100 people in the audience and thousands watching online
