Day 1 of Dreamhack has concluded and the biggest surprise so far is Pandemic getting knocked down to the losers bracket for the first time ever in competition play. After quickly going down 0-2, the unconventional MoB TurtleForce lineup of hunter (Hamchook), warlock (Zizek), and holy priest (Xanderx) made some adjustments and fought back to beat Pandemic’s RMP team (Nitrana, Ecilam, Kintt), 3-2 in a thrilling series.

Although sometimes hard to follow and some of longer matches got quite repetitive with the resetting and drinking, the coverage of all the matches was quite enjoyable. A highlight is Nitrana’s series of warlock QQs while he was in the booth (’that warlock did 35k healing’). Hopefully some recordings of the matches will turn up.

As expected the North American teams dominated, winning all of their matches over their European opponents. Here are the standings after Day 1:

http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season2/wow/global_challenge_dh/rankings/

Tune in to day 2 to see if Pandemic can fight their way through the lower bracket to make it back into the finals.

Here is the schedule for day 2 (all times are in CET, which is +6 hours from EST):

http://www.esl-world.net/masters/masters_dreamhack_schedule/

To tune in try these links:

http://tv.esl.eu/de/esltv_stream/free/
http://127.0.0.1:6498/ms/asf/ESL.stream2/Octoshape?MSWMExt=.asf

Only change in the schedule is the Winner Bracket #2 match between MoB Turtleforce and fnatic.Insurrection which will be played on 12:00 CET (6:00 AM EST).

Finally, here is a link to some videos on demand (thanks, goopta!):

http://www.esl-world.net/masters/masters_dreamhack_vod/

Couple of notables about the videos: The ‘Nitrana’ interview by Carmac is actually Kintt/Nathan. MoB Godfather mentions another WoW tournament that will take place within 10 days…

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5 Responses to “Dreamhack Day 1 Concludes, Pandemic Takes a Tumble”

1. Alex Says:
   November 29th, 2007 at 5:42 pm

   Woot! Finally Zizek had his revenge on Pandemic! Kick some ass Turtle Power.

2. Zure Says:
   November 29th, 2007 at 9:03 pm

   Hunters are shaping up to be the counter to RMP, and I think are one of those classes that will do much better in tournaments than in seasonal play. They are just ridiculously strong against some comps, but pathetic versus others.

3. goopta Says:
   November 29th, 2007 at 10:48 pm

   its awesome how turtleforce made a comeback by…

   ………

   TURTLING!

   so sad to see a bunch of great players get usurped by some scrubs who camp RoL spawn.

4. Melliah Says:
   November 30th, 2007 at 2:47 am

   You can turtle in an arena?
   Stop making excuses for them! they proved their ability to win in previous tournaments now they can continue to do so by coming back from here.
   Quite seriously, if i ever hear another excuse made for pandemic i think my eyes will bleed

5. draed Says:
   November 30th, 2007 at 12:12 pm

   link containing localhost will work like a dream

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