Dreamhack valencia 2016

Valencia will host for the seventh consecutive year the largest eSports event in Spain. For four days, professional players from different parts of the world and assistants from all over Spain will meet to enjoy electronic sports.

DreamHack Valencia 2016

It was in 2010 when Dreamhack chose Valencia to start the international expansion of its eSports event, which until then had not left Sweden. Now France, the United Kingdom, Romania have joined, and the North American continent already enjoys and announces stops in Austin and Montreal for this 2016.

In its seventh edition, from July 14 to 17, DreamHack Valencia awaits the visit of more than 40, 000 attendees in the 30, 000 square meters it will occupy at Feria Valencia. Four days with a variety of content to the liking of participants and visitors.

One of the most outstanding areas of Dreamhack Valencia is its LAN party, where 3, 000 people will connect simultaneously with their own computer or console, enjoying four days of games, competitions and all kinds of digital activities in the company of hundreds of fans from all over the world. world. The first Dreamhack LAN in Valencia in 2010 brought together 150 people, a figure that has been exceeded each year reaching the 2, 000 people who gathered in 2015.

The eSports and Expo areas complete the offer of Dreamhack Valencia, where you can see up close the best players in the world in the official competitions of the main eSports titles, as well as learn about the latest news and innovations in the gaming industry and its leading brands.

This year DreamHack Valencia will have the presence of a group of youtubers, maximum exponent of the new prescribers and digital creators, who will attend the event with a program of activities that will allow their fans to participate with them in games of their favorite games.

And is that in recent months it is confirming that gaming is a global industry with great potential. More than 100 million people around the world consume eSports on television or on the internet, a fact that has not gone unnoticed for televisions that already program leagues and content in their programming, as well as major consultants such as Deloitte and PwC already carry out reports highlighting the current business opportunities for investors.

This explosion of electronic sports that we are experiencing in 2015 was already detected by Encom when it was still an incipient trend. The Valencian company, organizer of DreamHack Valencia together with Feria Valencia, was co-organizer of the first international esports congress (valenciaesportscongress.com), together with Twitch, and was responsible for the first broadcast in Spain of an eSports event on television, specifically on Canal + in 2011.