DYA and DreamHack coverage compendium

[Kolapz]

Digital Youth Awards GameFest Singapore

Tournament schedule:
Semifinals: Friday, 26th November, 4PM PST / Saturday, 27th November, 01:00 CET
Finals: Saturday, 27th November, 4AM PST / Saturday, 27th November, 13:00 CET

Results/brackets:
Groupstage results and playoff bracket (http://www.sk-gaming.com/tournament/1097)

Streams:
Honcast stream (http://www.fileplay.net/channels/honcast/live)

Coverage:
GameFest coverage (http://www.gamefest.sg/)
Gosugamers.net coverage (http://www.gosugamers.net/hon/)
SK Gaming coverage (http://www.sk-gaming.com)
GameAche coverage (http://www.gameache.com/)
Honreplays coverage (http://www.honreplays.org)

Pictures:
Honcast gallery (http://www.facebook.com/pages/honcast/252327783115?ref=ts#!/pages/honcast/252327783115?v=photos)

DreamHack Winter 2010 Steelseries HoN Masters

Results/brackets:
Groupstage results (http://dh.playdh.com/event/dreamhack-winter-2010/steelseries-hon-masters/90/#/roundrobins)
Playoff bracket (http://dh.playdh.com/event/dreamhack-winter-2010/steelseries-hon-masters/90/#/brackets)

Streams:
Honreplays.org stream (http://www.gamereplays.org/heroesofnewerth/portals.php?show=page&name=heroes-of-newerth-honreplays-livestream&display=wide)
DreamHack streams (mostly non-HoN related) (http://live.dreamhack.se)

Coverage:
Gosugamers.net coverage (http://www.gosugamers.net/hon/)
SK Gaming coverage (http://www.sk-gaming.com/event/1775)
Fnatic coverage (http://www.fnatic.com/news/8291/Dreamhack-Winter-Coverage-Center.html)
GameAche coverage (http://www.gameache.com/)
Honreplays coverage (http://www.honreplays.org)

Pictures:
Fnatic gallery (http://www.fnatic.com/galleries/)

[Kolapz]

If you find any more useful links post them and I'll add them to OP.

If a stream starts, please let other people know. If there were pictures uploaded somewhere, please let other people know.

Sticky this for the next 3 days?

[M4v3rIcK]

Wednesday, 26th November, 07:00 CET / Thursday, 25th November, 10PM PST

Wednesday is the 24, so you are talking about friday 26 I presume...

[Kolapz]

Indeed I am :)

[ImmortalTecz]

Its 18:00 CET and no streams are up -.-

[Kolapz]

The times clearly say that they are when the tournaments start, not when any streams start. I don't expect anyone to stream some local swedish teams playing in the group stage of DreamHack. Results and schedules of those are available here: http://dh.playdh.com/event/dreamhack-winter-2010/steelseries-hon-masters/90/#/roundrobins btw. The real deal, the playoffs start tomorrow if I'm not mistaken. Not to be negative or anything, but there really isn't a game worth casting till like quarter-finals.

[Asway]

Awesome! I really hope Honcast actually streams the DH playoffs.

http://www.levelupyourgame.net/ Will be streaming the MSI Beat It and the DreamHack QuakeLive tournaments if anyone wants to watch some Quake.

[Kolapz]

Friday
21:00 Final: Heroes of Newerth

Source (http://www.dreamhack.se/dhw10/2010/11/25/dreamarena-schemes/)

[Xtermi]

Awesome! I really hope Honcast actually streams the DH playoffs.

http://www.levelupyourgame.net/ Will be streaming the MSI Beat It and the DreamHack QuakeLive tournaments if anyone wants to watch some Quake.

Thanks, i was watching it here http://www.own3d.tv/live/125 in german (and with a good looking german girl-commentator), but another stream is always nice \o

[Asway]

http://www.livestream.com/asway

Currently Streaming a TCM match.

[calm]

Turner Classic Movies?

[Asway]

Turner Classic Movies?

rofl

Ill stream more matches later.

[JowiPlays]

honreplays.org will be doing vods aswell, it would be awesome if u link us kolapz

[NC]

Breaky, please stop taking MySpace angle pictures and putting them on the DYA Facebook album.

[DetonatR]

Breaky, please stop taking MySpace angle pictures and putting them on the DYA Facebook album.

WOW i thought you were kidding!

[Asway]

Ill be streaming DreamHack matches through out the day

http://www.livestream.com/gameache

Be warned, quality isn't really the best but its better then nothing!

[NC]

Can anyone to point me to DYA brackets?

[Anchovies]

Can anyone to point me to DYA brackets?

Will be determined later:

"The teams will be drawing for which group they will play in around 8pm PST on Thursday so we will not know who is playing who until then, but be sure to stay tuned for updates! The top two teams from each group will move on to play in the Semi-Finals the following day in a best of three format where they will compete for the $20,000 Prize Pool."

Source. (http://hon.esportmedia.com/2010/11/25/dya-event-coverage-information)

[NC]

Oh okay, thanks.

[JowiPlays]

will it be delayed asway?

[Asway]

will it be delayed asway?


Nope :) lol

I still need to do a ton of trouble shooting with my stream, hopefully I can do some changes and make it not so shitty. Oh and remove the 50user cap :(

[Asway]

http://www.gameache.com/2010/11/swindlemelonzz-we-plan-pulling-surprises-own/

:D

[JowiPlays]

we can cover it if you guys give us a chance add me my skype name is holyftw1, i believe jester contacting some one

[Kolapz]

Added honreplays and the gameache stream.

Also: Video interview with Freshpro (http://www.fnatic.com/tv/436/DH-Winter-FreshPro-Interviewed.html)

[Kolapz]

Added schedules for each round of Dreamhack. Added link to groupstage results and the playoff bracket.

[Kolapz]

Short report of the DreamHack tournament so far (groupstage and 1st round of playoffs) and what you can expect tomorrow!

http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/31412-DHW_Steelseries_HoN_Masters_in_full_swing

Honcast starts streaming DYA (http://www.fileplay.net/channels/honcast/live) at 10PM PST / 07:00 CET. That's in 5 hours!

Honreplays.org and Gameache.com starts streaming DreamHack (http://www.gamereplays.org/heroesofnewerth/portals.php?show=news&news_id=706162) at 01AM PST / 10:00 CET. That's in 8 hours!

Gonna go catch some sleep now :)

[Asway]

Cant wait! Tomorrow should be a good day!

[NC]

No live stream from HONCAST, I guess. Something about the internet being too slow

[Kolapz]

It's not their fault. DreamHack stream should start in an hour by honreplays.org (http://www.gamereplays.org/heroesofnewerth/portals.php?show=news&news_id=706162)

[Trixi]

Yeah, we're supposed to start in 30 minutes assuming our enemies show up in time.

[Kolapz]

http://www.fileplay.net/channels/honcast/live

They're live.

[kustodian]

Dreamhack stream has just gone live with the MSI vs NNSQ match.

Watch the Dreamhack livestream now! (http://www.gamereplays.org/heroesofnewerth/portals.php?show=page&name=heroes-of-newerth-honreplays-livestream&display=wide)

[S_SienZ]

http://www.gosugamers.net/hon/news/13780-dreamhack-winter-day-1

Sorry for the late coverage. Was REALLY tired yesterday (nearly missed my flight LMAO)

[RellikReyalp]

Drdz vs wahl at http://sv.justin.tv/honreplaysorg#/w/589087616 starting now

and Kung Fu vs XTU starting now at http://hon.esportmedia.com/live/

[Kolapz]

Have no idea why at DYA the eu+us teams were in 1 group and the asians in other. Doesn't make much sense.

Talking bout that it would be nice if Honcast could put the groups/brackets/results up somewhere since all the other coverage sites have no clue what's going on in Singapore.

[SmokeFx]

Dreamhack stream has just gone live with the MSI vs NNSQ match.

Watch the Dreamhack livestream now! (http://www.gamereplays.org/heroesofnewerth/portals.php?show=page&name=heroes-of-newerth-honreplays-livestream&display=wide)

Currently I'm watching Drdz vs Wahl.

FourCourtJester + Asway + Bdiz is the best shoutcasting combination I've heard ever in HoN.

More of them please :)

[Kolapz]

fnatic vs Binary Evasion (ex-Lack) Dreamhack Heroes of Newerth Semi Finals Bo3 Game #1 going live! - http://bit.ly/bDmiUm

[Kolapz]

Warning! Spoilers inside!
Digital Youth Awards Groupstage/Results/Schedule UPDATE!!! (http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/31416-DYA_Groupstage_done_all_Europeans_are_out)

[sebsic]

http://www.justin.tv/dreamhackmedia#/w/588147120/7

Quake finals at DH

[agayman]

screenshots of game scores possible? would like to know picks / scores.

[primetimey]

DreamHack Videos on Demand:


http://www.gameache.com/2010/11/dreamhack-vod/

[FourCourtJester]

Dreamhack Heroes of Newerth Finals live at 9pm GMT +1, coverage with GameReplays.org and GameAche! Tune in to catch the biggest matchup you'll see today!

Replay archive of casts: http://www.gamereplays.org/heroesofnewerth/replays.php?game=58&show=event&id=384

[Psyqo]

So when does the next DYA match/stream start? The SK Gaming article says "04 PM PST" so does that mean 4 PM in the afternoon? I see a lot of military time listed for match starts so that one has me confused.

[Lil_Helper]

So when does the next DYA match/stream start? The SK Gaming article says "04 PM PST" so does that mean 4 PM in the afternoon? I see a lot of military time listed for match starts so that one has me confused.

In 7 hours.

[Lethargus]

Did EG play in dreamhack? Why do I not see them in the brackets?

[Bdiz]

goose eg is @ DYA and not DH, they went 3-0 in group stages and play vs impunity in semi finals

[Lethargus]

Thanks Bdizzle trying to support my boy I just don't know where to watch :P

[BadaBing]

This DYA thing is just the biggest fail ever.

Who the **** organizes a tournament with a prizepool of $20,000 and has such bad coverage? Why even host the tournament if you aren't going to promote the **** out of it?

Why put the 4 foreign teams in one group and have them play each-other BO1 style? They are competing for $20,000?! Why not at least try to ensure that the best team wins by doing BO3s? Its only 8 teams ffs!

Inviting the PMS girls and not having any coverage pretty much proves how dumb the organizers are :arma:

I hope that the DotA pros takes #1 and uses their airtime to trashtalk HoN.

/raaagequit.

[`dilatedmind]

hey is there any dya coverage?


I chcked the links for dya coverage and they only have dreamhack

[tamo]

idea: A real Grand Finale between EG and MSI. EG just need to make a stopover in sweden.

[Thermy]

This DYA thing is just the biggest fail ever.

Who the **** organizes a tournament with a prizepool of $20,000 and has such bad coverage? Why even host the tournament if you aren't going to promote the **** out of it?

Why put the 4 foreign teams in one group and have them play each-other BO1 style? They are competing for $20,000?! Why not at least try to ensure that the best team wins by doing BO3s? Its only 8 teams ffs!

Inviting the PMS girls and not having any coverage pretty much proves how dumb the organizers are :arma:

I hope that the DotA pros takes #1 and uses their airtime to trashtalk HoN.

/raaagequit.

BO1? It was round robin you ****wit. And its pretty obvious from the results that the 4 best teams got through the group stages anyways. Semis/finals are all BO3...

[Kolapz]

hey is there any dya coverage?

I chcked the links for dya coverage and they only have dreamhack

Ye, I linked all the sites that do HoN coverage etc. but to be honest there's little to no info coming out of Singapore. Not really sure what you're interested in but you can find Groupstage/Results/Schedule newspost is HERE (http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/31416-DYA_Groupstage_done_all_Europeans_are_out) and HERE (http://www.sk-gaming.com/tournament/1097). I am really not aware of any other coverage, except for the Honcast pictures (http://www.facebook.com/pages/honcast/252327783115?ref=ts#!/pages/honcast/252327783115?v=photos) on Facebook. Their livestream should also be up in about 4 hours with the semifinals.

[Kolapz]

DreamHack Winter 2010 Steelseries HoN Master Grand Finals starting ANY minute now!

fnatic.MSI versus Druidz.Qpad

Honreplays.org Livestream (http://www.gamereplays.org/heroesofnewerth/portals.php?show=page&name=heroes-of-newerth-honreplays-livestream&display=wide)

Swedish TV Livestream from DreamArena Extreme (http://live.dreamhack.se/channel/official/01_Svt/embedded.htm)

[Darkshine]

nvm.

[RellikReyalp]

watch honreplays stream everybody the swedish television cast is worthless full SD quality u cant see **** =P

[RellikReyalp]

i dont think honreaplays is allowed to cast this =( watch it at http://live.dreamhack.se/channel/official/20_Extreme/embedded.htm

U have english commentators and reasonable quality acctually.

[Darkshine]

http://www.ustream.tv/channel-popup/sdadssdsasd

[bOgcubed]

really...?

:\...

why cant honreplays cast it? no wtv type stream, and no external streams? the coverage for these events is so brutal

[Psyqo]

Why can't Honreplays cast this one??

[Kolapz]

Honreplays got ****ed for the stream at least for the first game.

Honcast streaming DreamHack finals here
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sdadssdsasd

[Swamplord]

http://www.ustream.tv/channel-popup/sdadssdsasd

ty!
<3

[Darkshine]

They can't cast because the streamer dropped and players didn't want to remake the game since it took 50minutes to get started. They will probably cast game 2 and 3.

[Hamano]

Compared to this guy Breaky is the god of camerawork..

[onaprayer]

Compared to this guy Breaky is the god of camerawork..

the grass be greener on this side, said one goat to the other

[agayman]

maybe teams should start banning ss idk????

[Psyqo]

What a terrible game 1. Sheesh.

[Swamplord]

Stomped

[Elarrion]

Yes, this camera work has a lot of room for improvement! The fact that they take the view out of the game to show one of the players in the middle of a team fight is just incredible! Team fight starts - one guy dies - they take the camera and zooms in one random MSI/drdz guy - team fight continues and people die with the spectators unable to see....

[BadaBing]

BO1? It was round robin you ****wit. And its pretty obvious from the results that the 4 best teams got through the group stages anyways. Semis/finals are all BO3...

Since when can't you play BO3 in a round robin style tournament, mr. ****wit?

What they should have done, was to run a DBL elim BO3 tournament, instead of stacking one group with all the good/organized teams. DBL elim BO3 would have been so much better and the number of games would end up being about the same.

I also fail to see why it is obvious that the 4 best teams advanced. I find it funny that you believe that ICE with 2 ringers (with one guy being _completely_ random straight off the streets of Shanghai) are better than OK and TsoG (considering their LAN experience), but I guess that you are not the last clown that these forums will see.

[Kolapz]

DreamHack Winter 2010 Grand Final
fnatic vs Druidz Game #2 is LIVE

Honreplays Livestream (http://www.gamereplays.org/heroesofnewerth/portals.php?show=page&name=heroes-of-newerth-honreplays-livestream&display=wide)

[Hamano]

Are u GR people retarded? If the players say you are with too many, just leave the ****ing game?

[china]

I also fail to see why it is obvious that the 4 best teams advanced. I find it funny that you believe that ICE with 2 ringers (with one guy being _completely_ random straight off the streets of Shanghai) are better than OK and TsoG (considering their LAN experience), but I guess that you are not the last clown that these forums will see.

Overpow: lucky that chinese guy carry you guys.

[nOObmOnkey]

There is definitely room for improvements.

This is actually my first time watching a HON tournament live on stream, so I have no idea what a usual tournament environment is like, and my opinions might sound bit harsh.

Bad environment setup, players can actually hear live commentator. Even though not much info is leaked apart from pinging sound and kongor, the fact that you can hear people talking might actually put players off. They should have some sort of enclosed booth setup for soundproofing and temperature controls.

Boring commentating, being captain obvious, however this is also caused by the fact that they can't say mention anything tactical.

Awful camera work, like someone has mentioned. We don't want to see player's face in a middle of a team battle.

Being a long time e-sport follower of other games, this is just my personal opinion. I think there are too much unnecessary chatters in the game. You could say this is part of the DOTA culture, but I think this just adds unprofessionalism into the game, especially when you're bring this onto the big screen.

There needs to be some more stricter rules on using pause. Pausing randomly at 13:37 just for lawlz in a tournament.... wtf? And again too much chat goes on when there is a pause.

[RellikReyalp]

There is definitely room for improvements.

This is actually my first time watching a HON tournament live on stream, so I have no idea what a usual tournament environment is like, and my opinions might sound bit harsh.

Bad environment setup, players can actually hear live commentator. Even though not much info is leaked apart from pinging sound and kongor, the fact that you can hear people talking might actually put players off. They should have some sort of enclosed booth setup for soundproofing and temperature controls.

Boring commentating, being captain obvious, however this is also caused by the fact that they can't say mention anything tactical.

Awful camera work, like someone has mentioned. We don't want to see player's face in a middle of a team battle.

Being a long time e-sport follower of other games, this is just my personal opinion. I think there are too much unnecessary chatters in the game. You could say this is part of the DOTA culture, but I think this just adds unprofessionalism into the game, especially when you're bring this onto the big screen.

There needs to be some more stricter rules on using pause. Pausing randomly at 13:37 just for lawlz in a tournament.... wtf? And again too much chat goes on when there is a pause.


I agree that this was bad but it was especially bad for this kind of thing. It usually isnt this bad. The commentators was just meh among the worst i have seen the only "word" they could was ooooohhhhh.

I dont know why but the DH summers production was much better i believe they got one rly bad crew there. In swedish television with the swedish commentators the comments where just a tad better but they didnt haave hd quality just sd quality so it was not watchable. This time the swedish television crew that handled it all where given hell of alot less production money for this.

[Z1D]

Too bad Druidz couldn't field their whole team, disappointing to see the finals of such a major tournament basically come down to a pubstomp.

[Kolapz]

Would be nice if you guys could specify which stream you watched. It's really confusing since one of you seems to be talking bout the English DH stream, the other one about the Swedish one, then someone talks about the DYA stream and none of you about honreplays?

I wouldn't pay much attention to the Swedish TV stream since it's terrible and was terrible last Summer as well.

[Kolapz]

NEXT UP:


Digital Youth Awards Semifinals
4PM PST / 01:00 CET

Team EG vs iMpUniTy
Team xTu vs ICE

Honcast livestream (http://www.fileplay.net/channels/honcast/live)

[RuMpLeBRAZIL]

huahuehauhsuashuehaue no EU in LINEUP

VIVA O BRAZIL
VIVA O TRICIAN

[Machiavelli`]

So wait.. That means ICE beat EG?

[Flow]

So wait.. That means ICE beat EG?

No. o__o
EG is 3 - 0 among the round robin.

http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/31416-DYA_Groupstage_done_all_Europeans_are_out

[Machiavelli`]

No. o__o
EG is 3 - 0 among the round robin.
Then how come they are playing Imp? Weren't Imp 3-0 too?

[Lil_Helper]

So wait.. That means ICE beat EG?

No, the opposite.

[Flow]

Then how come they are playing Imp? Weren't Imp 3-0 too?

Nah IMP lost to a Malaysian team who apparently are dota pros.
they ended up to 2 - 0 but I wouldn't really count PMS as competition.

[Morphylua]

Well, if it is going to be EG vs ICE. EG would win for sure. The outcome is still unknown though. The two no-name teams might turn out to be good, who knows?

[Flow]

xTU looks decent.

[Lil_Helper]

Well, if it is going to be EG vs ICE. EG would win for sure. The outcome is still unknown though. The two no-name teams might turn out to be good, who knows?

Honcast streamed one of the SEA teams game. They weren't that good.

[Machiavelli`]

Nah IMP lost to a Malaysian team who apparently are dota pros.
they ended up to 2 - 0 but I wouldn't really count PMS as competition.
Oh Ok, thanks. I was worried for a bit :)

[Psyqo]

I was watching the Honreplays stream at the beginning of game 2 (watched the Honcast stream for game 1), and the chat amongst the players and all the streamers was one of the more unprofessional things I've seen broadcast. I know that referees appointed by these tournaments have ruined games in the past, but shouldn't there be a ref or a small committee of refs that decide how many streamers each shoutcasting company is allowed BEFORE the game, or even better way before the tournament? I would say that per company a max of 4 streamers would work, but I'd be fine if they limited it to 3.

Just watching the posturing and insults between Honreplays and Honcast really detracted from the professional environment that every eSport community should be striving for.

[Snoopy]

So wait.. That means ICE beat EG?
No, they play every team once. EG beat ICE

[Darkshine]

PMS seem to have performed really well.

[Snoopy]

I was watching the Honreplays stream at the beginning of game 2 (watched the Honcast stream for game 1), and the chat amongst the players and all the streamers was one of the more unprofessional things I've seen broadcast. I know that referees appointed by these tournaments have ruined games in the past, but shouldn't there be a ref or a small committee of refs that decide how many streamers each shoutcasting company is allowed BEFORE the game, or even better way before the tournament? I would say that per company a max of 4 streamers would work, but I'd be fine if they limited it to 3.

Just watching the posturing and insults between Honreplays and Honcast really detracted from the professional environment that every eSport community should be striving for.
Apparently there is this myth that spectators cause lag in the game.... Which may be true in these LAN tournaments... but, as GR pointed out, they had 6 people in most of the DH games, and it wasn't an issue until Phil pointed it out, GR needed 5 because of, 1 Streamer(se), Asway, FCJ, Bdiz, and Kustodian to record a VoD, so that we can bring a high quality video later on.

[Kolapz]

http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/31425-fnatic_beat_Druidz_crowned_DreamHack_champions

[Fuzzel]

Why do you even host a lan tournament with 10k (?!) prizepool if its only MSI + random trash? Such a waste.

[Danelaan]

Apparently there is this myth that spectators cause lag in the game.... Which may be true in these LAN tournaments... but, as GR pointed out, they had 6 people in most of the DH games, and it wasn't an issue until Phil pointed it out, GR needed 5 because of, 1 Streamer(se), Asway, FCJ, Bdiz, and Kustodian to record a VoD, so that we can bring a high quality video later on.


Yeah, but GR wasn't alone in this one. You were 6 or 7 while Honcast were 3 and the Sweden 2 or something like that. First, I don't think so many people are needed, with all due respect. Then, since there has been a lot of remakes, there was obviously a problem, even if it wasn't that, that was what the players wanted too, so I don't think all the trashtalk on IRC was needed.
Anyway, the GR cast was better than the HCT cast. ;p

[Kolapz]

I am not entirely sure if the DYA semifinals should be up in 5 minutes or in 24 hours. Again, not much info coming out of Singapore, unfortunately.

So Honcast livestream (http://www.fileplay.net/channels/honcast/live) of DYA semifinals EG vs iMp & xTu vs ICE either up in 5 minutes or 24 hours.

[Psyqo]

I believe it should be up any moment.

To recap for the timezone impaired:
4PM PST
7PM EST
1AM Central European
8AM Singapore

[Kolapz]

Ye, that's what I thought, but the honcast twitter says "Will be back tomorrow (Saturday) for the Semi-Finals at 4pm PST / 1am CET" so was confused if he thought Saturday PST time (which is Sunday CET time) or Saturday CET time (which is Friday PST time). :)

Checked it on the GameFest website, says Saturday, 27th, 8AM Semi-finals - so yeah, should be up soon. Sorry for the confusion.

[Danelaan]

According to a guy that looks to follow the thing on the justin.tv chat, breaky would have said 12 hours ago that the next cast would be ... now. But could be delayed because it's early there and they have to set up everything.


The "would" post.

[Kynarr]

http://twitter.com/#!/honcast

[Snoopy]

Yeah, but GR wasn't alone in this one. You were 6 or 7 while Honcast were 3 and the Sweden 2 or something like that. First, I don't think so many people are needed, with all due respect. Then, since there has been a lot of remakes, there was obviously a problem, even if it wasn't that, that was what the players wanted too, so I don't think all the trashtalk on IRC was needed.
Anyway, the GR cast was better than the HCT cast. ;p
Well thanks for the kind words about our cast. Always good to hear we did a good job. I only looked into the games chat and not the IRC, I didn't realize there was more to go on then did. My bad for talking without looking at all th evidence.
I understand we required a few more spots, We'll have to talk to our staff and see what went down and how we can cut down on our spec slots.

[Kolapz]

Yep, it'll be up shortly.

[Danelaan]

Well, when only GR is casting, I think that's ok. And even if there is only HCT, it must be ok too since they're not using as many slots as you. But there was the sweden tv there too.

[Kolapz]

Swapped the two tournaments in OP since DH is done. Added schedule for DYA and a groupstage results/playoff bracket link

[Kolapz]

Honcast livestream of DYA started

[Darkshine]

Toby is on crack.

[BobReloaded]

xTu looking good

[Psyqo]

Damnit, who sets up a LAN tournament with the casters so close to the players that the casters can't even talk about where the players are on the map? So frustrating.

[Kolapz]

Ye, xTu is interesting.

Not sure that where they sit or how close to the players they are plays a role, since they're on speakers there so the spectators at the actual LAN hear their cast - if I'm not mistaken.

btw. anyone wanna play a game of drink a shot every time breaky says "on the same token"? :)

[Darkshine]

btw. anyone wanna play a game of drink a shot every time breaky says "on the same token"? :)

Haha, was about to mention the same thing.

[Darkshine]

Wow, just wow.
That was the most epic game i've ever seen. And it was just game 1...
The ICE ringer is a beast.

[chaRx]

That SW on xTu kinda lost them the game.
I'd dare to elaborate that with proper itemchoices (aka some more surviva, behe heart & with their lineup a FWS as orb) & not being absent in a couple of teamfights, they wouldve won that game.

[Mike`]

btw. anyone wanna play a game of drink a shot every time breaky says "on the same token"? :)



How about everytime Tobi splooges in his pants.

[Z1D]

That sand wraith's item choices had me screaming at my monitor.

[Kimchi]

That SW on xTu kinda lost them the game.
I'd dare to elaborate that with proper itemchoices (aka some more surviva, behe heart & with their lineup a FWS as orb) & not being absent in a couple of teamfights, they wouldve won that game.

way to spoil the game retard. Next time don't state who wins or loses..

[Deityh]

Epic game.

spoiler
SW wp np. Going direct damage but not getting shrunken against 2 kuldras, ws and repulsor.

[chaRx]

way to spoil the game retard. Next time don't state who wins or loses..

ppl read this thread who aren't watching the games :|?

[Phelann]

did anyone cover the eg vs impunity match? sounds epic

[Deityh]

No and we wont get to see replays either. Which is kinda ****ing ridiculous.

[Z1D]

Breaky and Tobi must have access to the replays on the garena server. Wonder if they'll have time to do a replay cast before they leave? Lets hope so.

[Deityh]

Are Garena replays compatible with normal system? Would rock if they are uploaded somewhere.

[Anchovies]

Are Garena replays compatible with normal system? Would rock if they are uploaded somewhere.

They are, as they use the same patching system as international HoN. I remember downloading a replay from the garena HoN forums and it worked fine. Hopefully, someone will post the replays on the garena forums.

[The_Thrill]

Apparently there is this myth that spectators cause lag in the game.... Which may be true in these LAN tournaments... but, as GR pointed out, they had 6 people in most of the DH games, and it wasn't an issue until Phil pointed it out, GR needed 5 because of, 1 Streamer(se), Asway, FCJ, Bdiz, and Kustodian to record a VoD, so that we can bring a high quality video later on.

The issue wasnt due to lag. It's that there is a bug that occurs on servers once the spectator slots fill to capacity. So you wouldn't have had a problem with 18/22, but when the 3 people from Honcast showed up, it messed the server up. Now you know.

[Snoopy]

The issue wasnt due to lag. It's that there is a bug that occurs on servers once the spectator slots fill to capacity. So you wouldn't have had a problem with 18/22, but when the 3 people from Honcast showed up, it messed the server up. Now you know.
http://blog.mattalgren.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/knowing-is-half-the-battle.jpg

[RellikReyalp]

Wondering what breaky and tobi is talking about couse i cant find any dreamhack stream streaming them but maybe i cant find everyone =P.

I wonder who who have trolled them =P

[JowiPlays]

well honreplays.org was streaming dream hack all day yesterday

[Deityh]

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[RellikReyalp]

well honreplays.org was streaming dream hack all day yesterday


yeah i saw that but breaky and tobi is talking about that they are being streamed at dreamhack which i am pretty sure they arent exept maybe on some of the computers of the ones who are on dreamhack.

[Kolapz]

http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/31429-Team_EG_beats_ICE_wins_DYA

[kustodian]

If anyone is interested all the replays from both events sorted by rounds can be found here:

Digital Youth Award HoN Tournament (http://www.gamereplays.org/heroesofnewerth/replays.php?game=58&show=event&id=391)

Dreamhack 2010 Winter HoN Tournament (http://www.gamereplays.org/heroesofnewerth/replays.php?game=58&show=event&id=384)

[Darkshine]

Any idea when the VODs from DYA will be up on fileplay?
I guess we'll have to wait until breaky flies back home?

[Snoopy]

Any idea when the VODs from DYA will be up on fileplay?
I guess we'll have to wait until breaky flies back home?
Either that, or Breaky is uploading them before he leaves.
I think the twitter said they are going to be uploading before leaving

[Deityh]

Thanks GR and whoever the dude is that delivered.

[twiSTA]

I was watching the Honreplays stream at the beginning of game 2 (watched the Honcast stream for game 1), and the chat amongst the players and all the streamers was one of the more unprofessional things I've seen broadcast. I know that referees appointed by these tournaments have ruined games in the past, but shouldn't there be a ref or a small committee of refs that decide how many streamers each shoutcasting company is allowed BEFORE the game, or even better way before the tournament? I would say that per company a max of 4 streamers would work, but I'd be fine if they limited it to 3.

Just watching the posturing and insults between Honreplays and Honcast really detracted from the professional environment that every eSport community should be striving for.

Gr and Honcast were allowed to cast cause we both teams agreed to it and wanted them to do so to give something back to the community. And this was after i spoke to Smak_ and Asway. It was only supposed to be SVT casting it since Honcast announced a while back that they were not going to DH to cover this event since DYA was going at the same dates and they decided to cover that insted. None the less we had a chatt in the teams and made it possible for them to be able to cast the games that we played. Now to cover the whole situation about the specs and what not, the reason we whined about the ammount of people that joined was due to the fact that if you have a game up for too long and people keep joining and leaving cause they forgot to fix something or what so ever, the game will get bugged and you wont be able to start it or do anything about it. And thats exactly what happend for 3-4 games, we were supposed to start those games at 21.00 GMT+1 sharp, we delayed it by a good 1 hour and the DH crew kept telling us to get the games going over and over, we didnt want to delay the games any longer and we both (druidz and fnatic) decided to ask GR to cut down the manpower cause we didnt want another server bug and delay the tournament any more then we already had. There was no hate from HCT to GR or even trying to get GR staff out. Cause they have some hate towards eachother or what so ever, it was us the players who decided to tell GR to cut the manpower and not HCT.

[onaprayer]

Gr and Honcast were allowed to cast cause we both teams agreed to it and wanted them to do so to give something back to the community. And this was after i spoke to Smak_ and Asway. It was only supposed to be SVT casting it since Honcast announced a while back that they were not going to DH to cover this event since DYA was going at the same dates and they decided to cover that insted. None the less we had a chatt in the teams and made it possible for them to be able to cast the games that we played. Now to cover the whole situation about the specs and what not, the reason we whined about the ammount of people that joined was due to the fact that if you have a game up for too long and people keep joining and leaving cause they forgot to fix something or what so ever, the game will get bugged and you wont be able to start it or do anything about it. And thats exactly what happend for 3-4 games, we were supposed to start those games at 21.00 GMT+1 sharp, we delayed it by a good 1 hour and the DH crew kept telling us to get the games going over and over, we didnt want to delay the games any longer and we both (druidz and fnatic) decided to ask GR to cut down the manpower cause we didnt want another server bug and delay the tournament any more then we already had. There was no hate from HCT to GR or even trying to get GR staff out. Cause they have some hate towards eachother or what so ever, it was us the players who decided to tell GR to cut the manpower and not HCT.

thanks for clearing it up.
I wasn't around for the finals, but I'm glad it worked out the way it did, so the viewers had multiple options of who to watch. Appreciate the teams cooperation in setting things up. I had alot of fun casting/streaming the earlier DH matches (4am and all ^_^).
Shoutout to #1 Asway and of course all those who participated in dreamhack, whether it was online or in person.

[DetonatR]

Gr and Honcast were allowed to cast cause we both teams agreed to it and wanted them to do so to give something back to the community. And this was after i spoke to Smak_ and Asway. It was only supposed to be SVT casting it since Honcast announced a while back that they were not going to DH to cover this event since DYA was going at the same dates and they decided to cover that insted. None the less we had a chatt in the teams and made it possible for them to be able to cast the games that we played. Now to cover the whole situation about the specs and what not, the reason we whined about the ammount of people that joined was due to the fact that if you have a game up for too long and people keep joining and leaving cause they forgot to fix something or what so ever, the game will get bugged and you wont be able to start it or do anything about it. And thats exactly what happend for 3-4 games, we were supposed to start those games at 21.00 GMT+1 sharp, we delayed it by a good 1 hour and the DH crew kept telling us to get the games going over and over, we didnt want to delay the games any longer and we both (druidz and fnatic) decided to ask GR to cut down the manpower cause we didnt want another server bug and delay the tournament any more then we already had. There was no hate from HCT to GR or even trying to get GR staff out. Cause they have some hate towards eachother or what so ever, it was us the players who decided to tell GR to cut the manpower and not HCT.

Was really great of you guys and the other teams who made it possible for people to actually stream/cast the matches even when they weren't in Sweden. It's amazing to me that at a huge LAN event over on the other side of the world people were still able to organize coverage from home to actually do live casting, etc.

[JowiPlays]

thank you twista ur so kind
and regarding ur previous post i stopped all spam if that will make u feel better and yes we are professional right.
our ts3 is starting next week and we will do our best to be even more proffesional and ofcourse no all chat ^^

[Asway]

Id like to personally thanks the players who allowed GameAche.com and GameReplays.org to cast their matches. It means a lot.

[aminGo]

asway #1 as always especially with manners

[Snoopy]

http://www.gamereplays.org/community/index.php?showforum=3311

I'm currently uploading the livecasts we did a few hours ago of eG vs IMP. Game one is up (http://www.gamereplays.org/community/index.php?showtopic=707783), the rest should be up within two hours.

[Darkshine]

From Honcast twitter, posted an hour ago :

"Directly uploading VODs to fileplay right now, should be up shortly"

[Lungs]

Dya vods...


So much screaming lol :devo: