E-sport at DreamHack was followed by millions of people in 2010 and is expected to grow further in the coming years. A few weeks ago we announced DreamHack’s total Prize Purse for eSports during 2011 and together with our partners SAPPHIRE, AMD, SteelSeries and EIZO we proudly present the details of this year’s tournaments in StarCraft II.

Five tournaments and SEK 800 000 Prize Purse

DreamHack SAPPHIRE AMD Championship starts in March with a online tournament and then continue with four physical events where the major festivals, DreamHack Summer 2011 and DreamHack Winter 2011 with the finals at DreamArena Extreme, will be the most prestigious and also have the largest share of the total prize purse of SEK 800 000.

A large part of the world’s elite are expected to come to Sweden to compete for the title of this year’s DreamHack Champion. The tournaments can be followed on site as well as online with several different types of live broadcasts.

DreamHack Sapphire AMD Championship

March: Kickoff Online Tournament, SEK 10 000 Prize Purse.

April / May: Swedish Tournament, SEK 100 000 Prize Purse.

June: DreamHack Summer 2011, SEK 200 000 Prize Purse.

September: European Tournament, SEK 100 000 Prize Purse.

November: DreamHack Winter 2011, SEK 400 000 Prize Purse.

All the winners in the first four tournaments will qualify for the finals at DreamHack Winter 2011. Open Qualifiers will be held online but also through International Qualifiers. More news, detailed information about the tournaments and the official tournament site will be announced shortly.



ABOUT EIZO

Eizo Europe AB is a European subsidiary of Eizo Nanao Corporation, a leading Japanese manufacturer of high-end visual display products with a wide range of LCD monitors. The image quality, long-term reliability, and innovative features of EIZO monitors make them the products of choice in many hospitals, financial trading rooms, air traffic control centers, back offices and design studios throughout the world. EIZO stands behind the workmanship of the FORIS and the FlexScan monitors with an industry leading five year warranty. EIZO is based in Japan and represented in over thirty countries by a network of exclusive distributors. Eizo Europe AB markets and supports the Eizo product line throughout Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Russia, the Baltic States and other countries in the CIS. Eizo Europe AB distributes the products through a network of resellers and distribution partners. Please contact the authorized EIZO distributor in your country for more details. www.eizo.se



ABOUT STEELSERIES

SteelSeries is a leading manufacturer of peripherals and accessories, including headsets, keyboards, mice, software and surfaces specific for gamers. SteelSeries has been on the forefront of professional gaming gear since its inception in 2001, thanks to continued innovation and product development in cooperation with leading professional gamers. All SteelSeries products are developed in cooperation with professional gamers to ensure optimum performance and durability. SteelSeries supports the growth of competitive gaming and electronic sports through professional team sponsorships and community support all over the world. For more information, please visit www.SteelSeries.com.



ABOUT SAPPHIRE

SAPPHIRE Technology offers the broadest range of graphics products based on AMD technology, and caters for the widest spectrum of users. Whilst the industry focus is often on the very highest performance products for the extreme user, SAPPHIRE is just as well known for cost effective products for mass markets and a whole range of solutions for the mainstream user.

Innovation, performance and value for money make SAPPHIRE the graphics supplier of choice. We were the first company to introduce silent cooling solutions based on heatpipe technology – and again first to introduce the revolutionary Vapour Chamber Technology, giving quieter and more efficient cooling to high performance graphics products with our Vapor-X cooling solutions. Product variations such as the high performance SAPPHIRE TOXIC range for the enthusiast and the silent cooled ULTIMATE families offer our users greater opportunities for performance tuning and quiet operation.

More recently, the company has made significant investment in additional resource to strengthen our presence in the mainboard and platform arena, and has already announced exciting new products. Over the years our reputation for quality and reliability has been unrivalled, and there is no better testament to this than the collection of over 2,000 independent press awards we have won worldwide in just the last few years.

www.sapphiretech.com

ABOUT AMD

AMD (NYSE: AMD) is a semiconductor design innovator leading the next era of vivid digital experiences with its ground-breaking AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Units (APU). AMD’s graphics and computing technologies power a variety of devices including PCs, game consoles and the powerful computers that drive the Internet and businesses.

www.amd.com