Record-Setting event – DreamHack Summer 2014

The record-breaking summer event in late spring

Another DreamHack is closed, Jönköping’s Elmia Center has emptied out and the doors are slammed shut until November, when the Winter edition will take place. Right now, the DreamHack Summer 2014 is behind us, and all we have in front of us now are some amazing statistics.

Each time DreamHack opens up in Sweden it’s presented and described as the world’s largest gaming festival. Whether or not it deserves this title is up to the participants and the fans to decide, but there are definitely some interesting things to learn about this particular event that held place in the late spring of 2014.

Here’s a list of records broken this summer, compared to DreamHack Summer 2013:

Total no. of unique visitors: 21,642 – New DreamHack Summer Record
Unique devices in the network: 17,618 – New DreamHack Record
No. of participants with their own computer: 9,444 – New DreamHack Record
Bandwidth usage peak in: 21.6 Gbps
Bandwidth usage peak out: 3.9 Gbps
Data sent in: 86 TB
Data sent out: 285 TB

Ten years ago a gigabyte per second did not exist even in the wildest dreams of IT developers. Along with the technology, the community is expanding as well, and with the growth in number of people in the community, more and more contenders are spawning each upcoming year, all ready to fight for the fame, glory, and tens of thousands of dollars in their favorite games. 'The scene has never been as competitive' became a mantra repeated before and after each of these events for almost every title that belongs to the list of featured games. One could say that games such as CS:GO, Dota 2, StarCraft II, LoL have never been as competitive as they are today, with such a scary number of teams and players playing on the top, professional level. In the end, similar to period after every epic event, there are only names of those who will be remembered:

StarCraft II Champion: Team Liquid – Yun “TaeJa” Young Seo (17:0 in maps)

DreamLeague Dota 2 Champions: Alliance

CS:GO Champions: NiP Gaming

Hearthstone Champion: Dima “RDU” Radu

Ultra Street Fighter IV Champion: Seon “INFILTRATION” Woo Lee

And of course ESPORTSM, the Swedish Masters that decides the champions of Sweden – one of the biggest gaming nations in the world:

ESPORTSM StarCraft II Champion: Fnatic – Anton “Zanster” Dahlström
ESPORTSM CS:GO Champions: Fnatic
ESPORTSM League of Legends Champions: Guldklotet Lemondogs
ESPORTSM FIFA 14 Champion: Alliance – Ivan “BorasLegend” Lapanje
ESPORTSM Ultimate Street Fighter IV: UGD Laggbovn

Cosplay Championship: Marina Shisterova, cosplaying Orianna from League of Legends