View Full Version : Digital Youth Award US Qualifier (September 12 - 19, 2010)
MrOldShadow
08-06-2010, 09:07 PM
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Congratulations Team Loaded! (http://www.cevo.com/index.php?page=event&id=191)
The Digital Youth Award (DYA) has partnered with CEVO to run its United States qualifier for the digital sports category official international game title Heroes of Newerth (HON). Registration will open on August 10th at CEVO.com (http://www.cevo.com) and run through the 22nd. Starting on September 1st, 64 teams will battle it out in a double elimination bracket with the victor receiving an all expenses paid trip to the Shanghai Expo in China and to the DYA finals to be held the 25th-28th of November at Dreamhack winter.
The Digital Youth Award (DYA) Program at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai is a unique project created to promote and strengthen youth cultural exchange, friendship and education via various forms of digital entertainment. The program encompasses activities in two main digital categories, music creation and digital sports with two exhibition categories in robotics science and interactive fitness. Heroes of Newerth has been chosen as the official international game title, in which the country qualifiers in digital sports will take place. Produced by S2 Games, HoN has been one of the most anticipated titles of the year. It is a Dota-like game set in their previous game Newerth's universe.
REQUIREMENTS:
- All participants need to have a valid passport (6 mths before expiry date of the passport) and able to immediate complete a visa application upon winning the qualifier.
OFFICIAL DATES OF EVENTS:
Shanghai Expo - 15-18 of October.
Winter Dreamhack - 25-28 of November.
Brackets can be found Here! (http://www.cevo.com/playoffs/bracket.php?id=1070)
MrOldShadow
08-07-2010, 05:26 PM
For some reason when I posted this, it included a bunch of random question marks I've never included...any chance I can edit that out?
TLSHadow
08-07-2010, 05:31 PM
It's actually a government ploy to send five unarmed Americans into communist China to "survey" the nuclear facilities of Shanghai.
aminGo
08-07-2010, 06:22 PM
oldbr
MrOldShadow
08-07-2010, 07:20 PM
oldbr
<3 jajamingo
daggius
08-09-2010, 03:07 PM
post signup link pleez
MrOldShadow
08-09-2010, 11:41 PM
post signup link pleez
All in good time my friend...registrations are open TOMORROW, so there is no link yet.
Largent
08-10-2010, 03:10 PM
Registration is now open!
PS First!
MrOldShadow
08-10-2010, 09:26 PM
Registration is now open!
PS First!
Yes Sir!
aminGo
08-12-2010, 12:49 AM
give me and scott the prize for that
MrOldShadow
08-12-2010, 05:10 PM
give me and scott the prize for that
I don't think Scott is even old enough to get his own passport...:smile:
MrOldShadow
08-14-2010, 06:51 PM
Registration closes in 8 days. I wasn't given much time from DYA for the registration period. We have a good amount of spots still open guys.
MrOldShadow
08-15-2010, 10:09 PM
Bump.
Away`
08-24-2010, 03:06 AM
This is the guys who sent us to China last week, awesome dudes and a great event/idea overall. See you at dreamhack!
MrOldShadow
09-09-2010, 12:38 AM
The event is now live! One of the six teams will be awarded the grand prize!
Kolapz
09-09-2010, 08:08 AM
Wait, what? The tournament was supposed to be 64 teams but only 6 registered for it? Only 6 teams in North America want an all expenses paid trip to Dreamhack? Seriously, what the ****. Wake up North America. If this was held for Europe there'd be a thousand teams registered.
Shame...Disappointing...
It's the timing of it... the first day of the event is thanksgiving in the US, and you'd have to leave most likely a day or two before. Not many teams have 5 members that can say, "Hey folks, i'm leaving and skipping out on one of the biggest holidays of the year to play video games in Sweden, sorry!" and have their families be okay with it ~_~.
MrOldShadow
09-09-2010, 05:11 PM
Exactly.
Ragdish
09-10-2010, 12:55 AM
you can miss the "playing video game" and just go for "hey, i just won a trip to sweden for free so.. ye im going..."
Radioman
09-10-2010, 01:40 AM
It's the timing of it... the first day of the event is thanksgiving in the US, and you'd have to leave most likely a day or two before. Not many teams have 5 members that can say, "Hey folks, i'm leaving and skipping out on one of the biggest holidays of the year to play video games in Sweden, sorry!" and have their families be okay with it ~_~.
I think my family would be pretty excited if I got a free trip to Sweden. One missed thanksgiving isn't going to break up the family. Then again I'm Canadian so I don't understand the true thanksgiving experience.
My family comes from all over the country to our house for Thanksgiving, and we celebrate Christmas the same weekend due to cutting the costs of travel expenses mainly, so it's a pretty damn big deal ; o
Xtermi
09-10-2010, 11:42 AM
Wait, what? The tournament was supposed to be 64 teams but only 6 registered for it? Only 6 teams in North America want an all expenses paid trip to Dreamhack? Seriously, what the ****. Wake up North America. If this was held for Europe there'd be a thousand teams registered.
Shame...Disappointing...
http://steviepua.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/zsweeds.jpg
Kolapz is right, only 6\64 signups for this (**** the Lan).... SHAME, clearly there's no hope for HoN, it's dead :blac:
load is just too good and they are signed up, not like it matters
It's the timing of it... the first day of the event is thanksgiving in the US, and you'd have to leave most likely a day or two before. Not many teams have 5 members that can say, "Hey folks, i'm leaving and skipping out on one of the biggest holidays of the year to play video games in Sweden, sorry!" and have their families be okay with it ~_~.
You have the chance to win an all paid trip to Sweden to compete with the top of the world in one of your favourite hobbies. If your family tells you they are not okay with this, and even though it's paired with Christmas, i'd probably self-adopt to a new family which cares about your interests.
Just because it's video games, there are still a shitload of money on the line @ Dreamhack + you get to see the world and meet foreign people. Alone that experience and reward should be enough to let you skip Christmas + Thankgiving, besides. When you move out, your gonna have to skip some of these traditions anyways as your girl/wife probably wants you to attend to her Christmas/Thanksgiving with her family anways, so how you can say it's because of Thanksgiving is really something spectacular, but hey - it's your life & not mine :)
Milkshake_
09-15-2010, 04:25 PM
It's the timing of it... the first day of the event is thanksgiving in the US, and you'd have to leave most likely a day or two before. Not many teams have 5 members that can say, "Hey folks, i'm leaving and skipping out on one of the biggest holidays of the year to play video games in Sweden, sorry!" and have their families be okay with it ~_~.
Unless your family hates you or games, I don't see why this would be a problem.
Asway
09-20-2010, 01:14 AM
Largest prize pool to date and hardly no coverage :(
MrOldShadow
09-20-2010, 01:21 AM
Largest prize pool to date and hardly no coverage :(
HoNCast will be doing a Replay Cast of the Finals. They had some technical difficulties with the cameraman's game.
Asway
09-20-2010, 01:23 AM
HoNCast will be doing a Replay Cast of the Finals. They had some technical difficulties with the cameraman's game.
Not really talking about just the finals. What about the semi finals and the quarter finals? No need to cover them right? At least CEVO could of done some match recaps or some forum posts about the games.
And from my understanding, the technical difficulties was that Dan did not take a obvs slot..
Shanghai heer i cum!!!!!!!!!!
Asway
09-20-2010, 03:15 AM
shanghai heer i cum!!!!!!!!!!
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
DetonatR
09-20-2010, 04:13 AM
chu fighting!
Tamachan
09-20-2010, 04:29 AM
(ch)umad?
There's the LAN you dreamed of Chu :3
MrOldShadow
09-20-2010, 11:33 PM
Well done boys. I'll be speaking to all of you tonight.
Sorrow
09-21-2010, 04:33 AM
Bit dissapointing with the lack of teams.
But none could have done anything vs LOAD anyways. Prooooooooven again and again. And again.
Just put LOAD as winner @ Dreamhack also. No need for matches.
No teams out there has a chance to ever become number 1, LOAD has that spot, and in the US... hah... none of the teams over there, could even beat any swedish HoN teams.
Pft!
(Note: Joke - Dont let HoN die.)....
:p