Posts with tag dreamhack

DreamHack to feature its own WoW realm

by Eliah Hecht May 16th 2009 at 5:00PM

DreamHack, the world's biggest LAN party (according to Guinness), takes place in Sweden twice a year. They've just made an announcement of interest to us WoW players: at this year's summer event (June 13-16, assuming "Juni" means what I think it means), they'll have their own WoW realm. This is something that not many events have been able to do in the past. They'll be hosting an Arena tournament at the event, with prizes to be announced in the future.

We can expect the realm to feature premades and gear and enchant vendors, like previous tournament realms. They also mention "live showing of raids;" I'm not sure we've seen realms with premade PvE play before, so that should be interesting. More information on registration is going to be released "within the next few days;" we'll keep you posted. Is anyone thinking of competing at DreamHack? Has anyone gone before?

[thanks, Raful]

Filed under: Events, News items

Dreamhack leveling contest

by Eliah Hecht Nov 29th 2007 at 4:01PM

As Massively reported a little while back, Dreamhack, which bills itself as "the world's largest computer festival," will be hosting some pretty awesome WoW contests this year. The party kicked off today in Sweden, and Blizzard Europe recently posted some details on the contest they'll be running. The task is to see how high you can level in 20 minutes, using a new character of any race and any class.

Signups started at the Extreme Masters booth in Hall C at 4:00 PM CET, which was two hours ago (10 AM EST), and will go until 8 PM CET today and tomorrow at times to be announced. Qualifier times and rounds are also TBD, and the finals will be held Saturday from 7 PM to 9 PM CET at the Extreme Masters booth. Is anyone at Dreamhack or going to be attending? Will you compete? Also, if you are at Dreamhack, word on the forums is that both Vaneras and Thundgot are hanging out at the Blizzard/Intel booth in hall C (is this the same as the Extreme Masters booth?), and will be pleased to chat with you.

Filed under: Events, Contests, Leveling

Blizzard at DreamHack 2006

by Elizabeth Harper Nov 30th 2006 at 4:30PM

Blizzard Europe will be attending DreamHack 2006 -- the world's largest LAN party, taking place between November 30th (that's today!) and December 3rd in Jönkoping, Sweden. Starting on Friday, you'll be able to meet the Blizzard team starting Friday afternoon until the end of the conference on Sunday. For World of Warcraft fans, there will be an art contest, several leveling contests, a chance to play the WoW TCG with Ommra, and (of course!) a chance to play the upcoming Burning Crusade expansion. For a complete and up-to-date schedule of Blizzard events, check this thread.

Filed under: WoW Social Conventions, Blizzard

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