Super Smash Bros. Melee comes to Dreamhack!

[pokemon64ism]

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Today, the world famous European eSports festival Dreamhack announced that Super Smash Bros. Melee will be at Dreamhack London 2015 and Dreamhack Winter 2015! The two tournaments will have a combined $50,000 prize pool, with $20,000 for Dreamhack London 2015 and $30,000 for Dreamhack Winter 2015. Dreamhack London 2015 will have only a singles event, while Dreamhack Winter 2015 will host a singles and doubles event.

Additionally, many of Europe's best will be in attendance at Dreamhack London 2015, including Armada, Ice, and Professor Pro. Dreamhack has acknowledged that Dreamhack London 2015 will take place at the same time as the recently announced HTC Throwdown. ”We had planned this event for a long time, just like HTC, and even if this is an unfortunate collision of dates, we see this as a possible to build the Smash community in both North America and Europe.” said Christian Lord, Head of eSports at DreamHack. They have even stated that they would gladly invite the top 2 players from Dreamhack London 2015 and the HTC Throwdown to Dreamhack Winter 2015 and provide travel and accomidation for them!

Dreamhack London 2015 will be streamed on GeekyGoonSquad from September 19th-20th at the Copper Box Arena in London, England. Full details and registration for the event can be found here.

To learn more about Dreamhack, be sure to visit their website! To stay updated on Smash Bros. at Dreamhack, be sure to follow Dreamhack on Twitter and stay tuned here on Smashboards.

Pokemon64ism is very happy to see Melee at Dreamhack. You can keep up with him on Twitter here.

 

[pokemon64ism]

Armada looking like Bizz, cause it's gonna be EZ$

 

[GenNyan]

Is 30k a new record for a prize pool? Holy Sh*t thats a ton.

 

[Sceptile4Smash]

Armada looking like Bizz, cause it's gonna be EZ$

Oh, so we're going Bizarro Flame now?

 

[Pure Royalty]

are they the only top players so far? easy win for armada

 

[90007000]

More like "DREAMHAX," AMIRITE?

 

[Kirbyfan391]

I thought this was about a (fan-made) port of Melee to the Dreamcast.
Ah well, still pretty cool.

 

[NGUY (guitarstage)]

Damn what should i watch first

 

[pershona]

Congrats to Armada for winning Dreamhack London.

 

[SpandexBullets]

Uuuuhh PAL or NTSC Melee?

 

[pershona]

Damn what should i watch first

They're both at different timezones, so you should be able to watch both.

 

[Deleted member]

Uuuuhh PAL or NTSC Melee?

It's in a PAL region so probably that

 

[Bazkip]

Is 30k a new record for a prize pool? Holy Sh*t thats a ton.

MLG Dallas 2010 had a $35K prize pool. New record for Melee though.

 

[ItsKaden]

30,000 dollars thooooo

 

[SpandexBullets]

It's in a PAL region so probably that

Perhaaaaps...but NTSC melee might be up, since PAL brings significant changes for Falco, Shiek and Marth players.

 

[Bazkip]

Perhaaaaps...but NTSC melee might be up, since PAL brings significant changes for Falco, Shiek and Marth players.

All PAL region tournaments are run on PAL. This isn't up for speculation, they've been using PAL at tourneys since Melee came out.

 

[Rambeard]

Melee still getting the most support over Smash 4. Nintendo, take note.

 

[SpandexBullets]

Melee still getting the most support over Smash 4. Nintendo, take note.

Melee really should be called Smash 4

The game only has 4 characters :^)

 

[Dire Creeper]

Get-rich-quick for Armada and Leffen.

 

[Zad]

thats tight thats tight

 

[Seal]

Melee really should be called Smash 4

The game only has 4 characters :^)

Wat... There's 26 characters dude...

 

[CypherZel]

Melee really should be called Smash 4

The game only has 4 characters :^)

Actually it has 8

 

[Vigihes]

GeekyGoonSquad hyyype !! <3 <3 <3
I'm glad to see big events coming up in Europe !

 

[fromundaman]

I'm not a Melee player, but holy **** this is awesome!

Great exposure for the community in general and just awesome to see big events that have never had FGs involved picking up the game!

 

[jaffex]

Soooooooo hyped! Am planning on travelling there to watch, it's rare to see a Melee tourney of this scale in London!

 

[Lizalfos]

Melee really should be called Smash 4

The game only has 4 characters :^)

Savage.

 

[Lonkas]

Armada looking like Bizz, cause it's gonna be EZ$

then get 5-0'd by his other half (either mango or leffen) after earning ez money.