DreamHack

DreamHack AB

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DreamHack began as a small gathering of schoolmates and friends in the basement of an elementary school in Malung in the early '90s. In 1994 it was moved to the school cafeteria and became one of the larger regional demoparties at the time. The 1994 gathering was also the first one to go by the name DreamHack. In 1997 the event took place at Arena Kupolen in Borlänge and became the largest LAN party of Sweden and the third largest party in Scandinavia at the time. Furthermore, DreamHack 2001 and the upcoming events were held at the Elmia exhibition centre in Jönköping, where it has been since.

Starting the year 2002, DreamHack became a semiannual event with DreamHack Summer, aiming for games, taking place in June and DreamHack Winter, slightly more specific for the demo scene, being held during the last weekend of November. This difference has since blurred and perhaps been completely erased. In 2007, the now fully featured corporation DreamHack AB also began arranging a third event during the late summer, in Skellefteå up the northern coast of Sweden. The Skellefteå event, though a lot smaller with a thousand seats, was sold out by a greater margin than DHW. This event has since been discontinued.

In 2011, DreamHack AB went through a corporate reform, renewing the company administration. It was announced on November 15, 2012 that DreamHack would be partnering with Major League Gaming and Electronic Sports League to help facilitate the growth and development of the North American and European eSports scene. This partnerships includes universal rankings, unified competition structures and more.

Event	Visitors	Unique hosts in network	Unique viewers	Internet speed	Total prize pool	Notes
DreamHack Winter 2019
DreamHack Summer 2019
DreamHack Winter 2018
DreamHack Summer 2018
DreamHack Winter 2017
DreamHack Summer 2017
DreamHack Winter 2016
DreamHack Summer 2016
DreamHack Winter 2015		23,425^[7]
DreamHack Summer 2015	23,283^[8]	21,923^[9]		40 Gbit/s^[10]
DreamHack Winter 2014	26,672^[11]	22,483^[12]		40 Gbit/s		This was the 20th anniversary event.
DreamHack Summer 2014	21,642^[13]	17,618 (WR)^[14]		40 Gbit/s
DreamHack Winter 2013	22,810 (WR)	17,403	7,776,645	40 Gbit/s	3,191,000 SEK ($478,400, €355,740, £301,224)^[15]
DreamHack Summer 2013	18,361	16,932		40 Gbit/s
DreamHack Winter 2012	20,113	15,485		40 Gbit/s	2,000,000 SEK^[16]
DreamHack Summer 2012	15,531	12,446	4,068,303 (WR)^[17]	40 Gbit/s	1,765,000 SEK^[18]	Total streaming views: 12,522,319 ^[19]
DreamHack Winter 2011	20,984 (WR)	~ 13 010	1,673,270	120 Gbit/s (WR)^[20]	1,065,500 SEK^[21]	First event occupying the ice hockey arena. Total streaming views: 6,755,728^[22]
DreamHack Summer 2011	~16,000		1,740,771 (WR)	20 Gbit/s	832,508 SEK^[23]	First event with large outdoors activity area and esports tent.
DreamHack Winter 2010	13,608 (WR)	12 757	~200,000	20 Gbit/s	700,000 SEK
DreamHack Summer 2010	8,000
DreamHack Winter 2009	11,500
DreamHack Summer 2009	9,000
DreamHack Winter 2008	11,000
DreamHack Summer 2008	7,500
DreamHack Winter 2007	13,000 (WR)	10 455		40 Gbit/s		First time with 40 Gbit Internet.
DreamHack Summer 2007	6,000
DreamHack Winter 2006	10,638 (WR)	8 531				New World Record
DreamHack Summer 2006	5,000
DreamHack Winter 2005	7,538					This was the 10th anniversary event.
DreamHack Summer 2005	5,000
DreamHack Winter 2004	5,272 (WR)	5 852				First Official World Record.
DreamHack Summer 2004	4,500
DreamHack Winter 2003	5,000
DreamHack Summer 2003	4,000
DreamHack Winter 2002	5,000
DreamHack Summer 2002	3,000
DreamHack 01	5,000					First event in Jönköping.
DreamHack 00	3,000
DreamHack 99	3,000
DreamHack 98	1,800
DreamHack 97	750 (SR)					First event in Borlänge. Swedish record in participants.
DreamHack 96	120
DreamHack 95	80	80
DreamHack 94	40	40				First event in Malung

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