DreamHack’s first offline tournament in DreamHack SAPPHIRE AMD Championship, DreamHack Stockholm Invitational, will take place Tuesday 12th of April in Kulturhuset, Stockholm. Eight of the greatest players in the StarCraft II universe are invited to compete in front of 450 people in the live audience and hundreds of thousands following online. The interest has been massive from the community, leading to the event being sold out in just72 hours.

All gamers that can’t attend the event will be able to watch all the matches in HD quality (720p) for free thanks to our new media partnership with Justin.TV. The broadcast will start at 14.45 CET 12th April with one game every hour, starting at 15.00 CET. The Grand Final will be played best of 5 and starts 21.00 CET. There will be some additional surprises will come from SAPPHIRE – Head sponsor of Dreamhack’s 2011 Starcraft 2 World Championship. A special ‘SAPPHIRE 6K Series Dream’ contest will be running during the live stream.

Star-studded event with historic participation from South Korea

DreamHack Stockholm Invitational is featuring worldwide eSports stars like HuK (Canada), Jinro (Sweden), TLO (Germany), IdrA (USA), White-Ra (Ukraine), MorroW (Sweden), SlayerS BoxeR (South Korea) and MC (South Korea).

- We are especially happy to invite the Swedish sensation Jonathan”Jinro” Walsh to the event. This is his first appearance in Sweden since reaching semi-finals in GSL twice and due to that, considered as one of the best non-Korean players in the world, says Robert Ohlén, CEO of DreamHack.

- E-sports legend, the emperor Lim”SlayerS BoxeR” Yo-Hwan will visit Sweden and Europe for the first time ever. It’s a dream come true for us and something very special for all fans out there, Robert Ohlén continues.

Experienced UK-trio to shoutcast the tournament

The official shoutcasters of the event will be a very experienced and world renowned team from the United Kingdom. eSports celebrity and DreamHack-veteran James”2GD” Harding will be the official host of the event. All matches will be casted by Shaun ”Apollo” Clark, official caster of all DreamHack-events in StarCraft II so far, and Benjamin ”Demuslim” Baker, verbal StarCraft II-professional playing Terran for Team EG.

- We’re more than satisfied with the work from Apollo during DreamHack Winter 2010 and we’ll continue to work with Shaun Clark during all DreamHack-events throughout 2011. On top of that we have added James Harding with his unrivalled experience of live broadcasting as well as the very talented, smart and fun active player in Benjamin Baker, says Robert Ohlén

The full event will be broadcasted in HD at live.dreamhack.se

DreamHack Sapphire AMD Championship: Stockholm Invitational is sponsored by SteelSeries, EIZO, Sapphire and AMD.

More information:

- Information: Tournament page

- Event: Stockholm Invitational