![]() From that time on, DreamHack has consistently hosted StarCraft II every year, creating multiple tournaments for it, as well as helping with the production of WCS European Finals and WCS Nordic Finals.Ģ011 was a year of great success for the Swedish SC2 scene. In 2010 November, DreamHack officially declares StarCraft II as one of their main titles and EIZO, AMD and Sapphire sponsor them to host the first ever DreamHack Winter tournament in StarCraft II. Not only did he do it once, but the first season of Code S January in 2011, he placed in the top 4 once again, marking his feat as the only foreigner ever to do so in Wings of Liberty. To this day, no single foreigner but Jinro has managed to place in the top 4 of the GSL Code S Championship. Arguably the most significant feat in 2010 however, was that of Jinro when he placed in the semi finals of the GSL Open Season 3. Not only that, but we saw many other players from Sweden place high in most of the premier tournaments such as SjoW placing 5th at 2010 MLG Pro Circuit: Raleigh. Within 2010, Sweden had already made a name for itself on the StarCraft II map by taking home premier tournaments such as IEM Cologne 2010 by MorroW and 2010 MLG Dallas by non other than Jinro. Once Wings of Liberty was officially released, it became a huge success in Sweden. He unfortunately lost to White-Ra, the eventual champion, in the Rounds of 16. Jinro was invited to join the HDH Invitational as a replacement for Lumi who withdrew. Swedish players had some success in the early days of the beta, taking home some daily-cups and placing in some early-day beta tournaments. To this day SaSe for example is regularly invited to China to play SC2 events, as he is loved by the local public for having been a Warcraft III champion in China.įirst Beta Tournaments, who made the switch, who was famous back then. On an e-sports aspect, all these players did relatively well and once they made their switch to SC2, they were immediately recognized by the public for their prior WC3 experience. Sweden also had many significant Warcraft III Players that eventually made the switch to StarCraft II (most in the Beta) such as SaSe, ThorZaIN, Seiplo(Who also formerly played professional CS) and NaNiwa. However, this came only with minor success. In StarCraft: BroodWar Sweden also had a small strike force with players such as Jinro, Bischu, HayprO and MorroW, giving the world a go for their money. Throughout the early and mid 2000's Sweden was most well known for their CS skills, being the "Korean's" of CS when comparing it to StarCraft: BroodWar. From hosting the world's biggest Lan party ( DreamHack) to being world champions in Counter Strike. Prior to even the announcement of SC2, Sweden had a good background with e-sports and it was practiced everywhere. So I'm pretty bored out of my skull.History of the Swedish SC2 pro-scene Background: Pre-beta times ![]() I don't feel very hungry, so no gobbling down my sweets I can't read a book, 'cause my head hurts so much it's hard to concentrate on the words I can't play any video games on my computer, because staring at the screen (which is pretty close to my face) hurts my eyes after a while so I usually just go upstairs, lay down on the couch and watch old movies that I've seen a kajabillion times before. Yet when I am actually forced to be home, I wish that I wasn't sick so I could get out of the house and do something! But I can't, so I wander around the house listlessly, looking for something to do. It's strange, but whenever I'm feeling fine, I always wish that I could go home and relax, maybe level up an alt, pig out on some junk food, etc. It's flu/cough/cold season again and I've been running a fever, had a sore throat, and hacking my lungs out since Sunday, so I've been confined to my house so that I can rest. In the meantime, we'd like to give you a sneak peek at the wrap-around cover of the first issue, featuring a confrontation in Icecrown Citadel that's been a long time coming - and as a "thank you" for subscribing and for your patience while we wrap things up, you can down Thank you for subscribing to the World of Warcraft Official Magazine! We're hard at work putting the finishing touches on our debut issue, and we're excited that we'll soon be able to share all of the cool features and community-centric stories we've put together. If you purchased your magazine but failed to receive an email, then this information is relevant to you! Even if you didn't purchase a magazine there is a surprise! Just a few minutes ago though, I received an email regarding the magazine. When I and the other customers ordered the magazine, Blizzard had given an estimate of 8 - 10 weeks for delivery. ![]() Some of you may remember a while back a blog I had posted about the new World of Warcraft Magazine that Blizzard was producing. ![]()
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