Fans decide the fate of €3000… with their flattrs

Linus Olsson
Flattr-test
Published in
2 min readApr 18, 2012

This weekend 2300 fans of StarCraft attending DreamHack EIZO Open in Stockholm will decide the fate of €1000 fan award and another €2000 with flattr clicks voting for their favorite player.

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Factsheet of the DreamHack Stockholm event:

Tournament: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Venue: Ericsson Globe Annexet
Date: 21–22 April
Opens: 10.00 CET, 21st of April
Ends: 24.00 CET, 22st of April
EsportBar: Oh yes
After-Party: You bet!
No. of seats: 2,300

So it’s StarCraft stars, lots of fans and pile of cash prizes. Sounds like a riot of an event. Flattr will hand out special vouchers at the venue to make signing up and voting for your favorite player super simple. Bonus points for voting as using the voucher code fans will distribute additional €2000 to the players.

Help us grow the fan award even bigger, donate to DreamHacks account here.

Have a friend playing in the competition?

1. Tell all your other friends who are going.
2. Make sure they get a Flattr voucher at the event.
3. Get said friends to sign up and vote.
4. WIN!

I’m not going, can I still vote and help someone win?

Yes, we’ll be publishing the page where you can vote in our blog, Twitter, Facebook etc so you can go and vote with a Flattr click no matter where you are.

What’s this DreamHack thing?

DreamHack is no ordinary event. It started back in 1994 when 40 friends gathered to hack and play and have fun. Today it holds the the world record for the world’s largest LAN party and computer festival. The major events take place twice a year, spanning 4 days, last time over 20 thousand visitors showed up and over 1.6 million followed the matches online.

More about the event at open.dreamhack.se

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Linus Olsson
Flattr-test

Internet architect, building what you love. Co-founder of Flattr. Has something to say about everything, apparently.