Dreamhack, the world's largest LAN party

by Kalle on the 27th November 2009

Dreamhack, the world's largest LAN party, opened it's doors for around 10,000 attendees yesterday in Jönköping, Sweden.

Over the last couple of years things have really changed at Dreamhack. When I was there five years ago, people were just playing games, now e-sports is growing into the new "cool" thing. This year SVT (Swedish Public Service Television) is even covering the event, which they will send live today at 14:00 CET. The finals of today will be Quake, 21:15 and Street Fighter 22:30, and tomorrow WOW, 19:00 and Counter Strike, 22:00.

Having arranged Starcraft tournaments here at Lavasoft, we would have loved to be there to try out the preview of Starcraft II, but unfortunately we have to work. If you are at Dreamhack, please try it for us and leave a comment below, and remember §4.8, you may not sleep under the table :P.