DreamHack

DreamHack is an annually since 1994 and since 2002 biannual mix of LAN party and Demo Party, held in Jönköping, Sweden.

The DreamHack Winter 2004, which was held to 28 November 2004 at Elmia Exhibition Centre on the 25th, was with 5,272 participants and 5,852 computers connected by a single Local Area Network, the largest LAN party in the world and has been in the Guinness added Book of World Records. This record was expanded in the following years; in the winter of 2006 there were over 10,000 and in the winter of 2012 for the first time over 20,000 participants for the first time.

In almost every year, participants are invited to exclusive beta tests of the latest games generations. In addition, see e-sports contests with total prize money of several million crowns instead of ( several hundred thousand euros ).

Venue

DreamHack take place in Jönköping, Sweden in Elmia Exhibition Centre. There they occupied in 2006 the Halls C and D; Hall D is specified with area of ​​10,000 m² and a height of 20.5 meters. In previous events, there were problems in the halls, around 1 megawatt waste heat, which was produced by the thousands of computers to dissipate and so temporarily ruled temperatures of about 30 ° C. The installed air conditioning in summer 2004, which refers cooling water from a nearby lake could lower the temperature to 20-25 ° C moderate. Long range in 2006, rented halls no longer made ​​, so that the other halls Elmia exhibition halls for a variety of areas are used. Since the summer of 2007 DreamHack simultaneously the Dream Expo takes place on the various manufacturers can present themselves. There is always a separate hall to sleep and adequate shower and toilet facilities. The toilets are cleaned and restocked regularly with the most important things around the clock especially for the DreamHack.

Network

DreamHack will provide each participant with a 10 to 100 Mbit / s speed network port on a switch available. The switches have a gigabit uplink to the backbone of the network. The entire network is connected via two 10-Gbit/s-Leitungen and addition of a 10 Gb / s line as a backup to the Internet.

E- sports results (selection)

Curiosities

• Festival director David Garpenståhl described the festival in an interview as " Woodstock without the mud and drugs."
• In Sweden, even minor violence -prone games like " Counter Strike " or "Manhunt " are allowed to play. Swedish experts are of the opinion that a relationship between real and virtual violence can not be proven. On the contrary, increase, according to a study by the Swedish Ministry of Health Computer Games the reaction and teamwork.
• The Swedish military has a regular booth at DreamHack to woo potential recruits.