DreamHack Hannover 2023 – 다시 돌아왔습니다

우리는 DreamHack Hannover에 가서 독일의 대규모 게임 이벤트가 그 어느 때보다 더 좋아졌다고 자신있게 말할 수 있습니다.

Please allow me to be self-indulgent with this one on a matter that’s close to my heart. As someone who came up in the various gaming and nerd-culture scenes in and around Hannover, Germany it made me very happy to see those scenes alive and thriving under the banner of an official DreamHack event.

If you think of gaming events in Germany, the one that’ll always come to mind is Gamescom. Here is where you’ll find the latest announcements in games and the event was always the middle child between the now defunct E3 which is now the Summer Games Fest I guess (thank you, Geoff), and Tokyo Gameshow which focuses more on the eastern market.

But what about the gaming events outside of that? Germany is still a titan in esports but there is a lack of open tournaments and grassroots events that could give smaller players and teams a stage to show what they’re really about.

What better place than Hannover to reignite those passions once again? After all Hannover’s now defunct CEBIT, formally the largest computer expo in the world, was once a prime destination for competitors from around the world to show off their games and talent. Enter DreamHack Hannover 2023.

DreamHack Hannover 2023 경험

14년 17월 2023일부터 24.000일까지 DreamHack Hannover는 XNUMX명이 넘는 게임 애호가들에게 문을 열었습니다. 이는 수명이 XNUMX년밖에 되지 않은 이벤트치고는 나쁘지 않은 수치입니다. 올해 프로그램에는 (현재) 최종 독일 ESL Counter-Strike 챔피언십 결승전과 최초의 공식 Escape from Tarkov Arena Invitational 토너먼트가 포함되었습니다.

그러나 주요 매력은 거의 11명의 참석자가 참여하는 1000개의 공개 토너먼트가 진행되고 각 결승전이 메인 무대에서 진행되는 뒤쪽의 LAN 파티였습니다.

Visiting the event was a bewildering experience for me, being very out of tune with German gaming culture I can only imagine that is what it must’ve been like for my parents all those years ago.

저를 놀라게 하고 매우 행복하게 만든 것은 자신의 작품을 판매하는 아티스트와 독립적인 현지 테이블탑 창작자들을 위한 공간의 양이었습니다. 그리고 그것이 제가 DreamHack Hannover를 중심으로 느낀 주제였습니다. Escape from Tarkov, 대형 e스포츠, TCG와 함께 지역 기업, 인재, 창작자를 대표하려는 노력이 있었습니다.

If there was one complaint I would levy against the event, it’s that if you’re there to just stalk the halls and catch some of the live programming here and there there isn’t much to do outside of it. Workshops for Cosplayers and Artists, an effort to get non-TTRPG folk into the hobby, or just a space to sit around and hang out with people.

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On Sunday I also got to sit down and chat with German esports presenter and co-organizer Matthias ‘Knochen’ Remmert about the vision of the event and its imminent future. Knochen is a veteran of the scene and just like me has a fondness for Hannover, dating back to those halcyon CEBIT days.

내가 그에게 행사의 비전에 대해 물었을 때 그는 독일에는 DreamHack과 같은 것이 전혀 없다고 말했습니다. 물론 컨벤션과 LAN, e스포츠가 있지만 국제 페스티벌이라는 깃발 아래 그 규모로 운영되는 것은 거의 없습니다. DreamHack 브랜드는 주최측인 Freaks4U에게 독일에서 그 규모와는 전혀 다른 이벤트를 위해 모든 파트너를 한자리에 모을 수 있는 기회를 제공했습니다.

In the wake of the German games industry having a really bad year, I also asked if they’d consider letting German studios show off their games. Knochen told me that if they were to do it, they would be open to anyone who’d want to be part of their event, they would love to focus on the Indies instead of only platforming big titles that’d draw all the attention.

Another question that was close to my heart was if they’d consider running open tournaments for Fighting Games such as Tekken, Street Fighter, Guilty Gear, and so on. He seemed very excited about the prospect of running proper FGC events at their venue and even asked me if knew anyone who’d want to organize such a thing. So for my sake, fellow German Fighting Game enthusiasts, please make it happen.

마지막으로 내년에 대한 포부를 물었고 Knochen은 올해 행사가 얼마나 성공적으로 진행되었는지에 매우 만족하며 다음 번에는 더 젊은 관객들을 행사장으로 끌어들이고 싶다고 고백했습니다.

독일 법에 따라 일부 타이틀이 큰 무대에서 상영되기 때문에 16세 미만은 누구나 참가할 수 없습니다. 하지만 그는 부모와 자녀가 함께 이러한 취미를 탐구하고 서로 교육할 수 있는 공간을 만들고 싶다고 말했습니다.

Those are pretty amazing goals to have and I’m looking forward to checking in with them next year to see the next step in realizing that vision.

And that’s everything we got on my DreamHack Hannover adventures. For more on the weekend, check out our impressions of Tarkov Arena’s Esport Debut 그리고 Tarkov 보스 Nikita와의 인터뷰에서 우리가 배운 내용도 있습니다. Escape from Tarkov의 미래.