DreamHack Leipzig 2016
(22 – 24 January 2016)
Leipzig, 02 June 2015
The world's largest eSports festival, DreamHack, conquers Leipzig
After an absence of several years, "Gaming is coming home" when
DreamHack Leipzig celebrates its premier on the Leipzig trade fair premises
from 22 to 24 January 2016. The official German platform of Swedish
DreamHack, the world's largest eSports festival, is hosted by the Leipzig
trade fair. Schenker technologies, a producer of high-end gaming
computers from Leipzig, is its cooperation partner.
"Computer games have become a fixed part of our zeitgeist. This is proven
impressively by the huge LAN parties and eSports tournaments where gamers
from around the world show off their skills to an enthusiastic audience," explains
Markus Geisenberger, managing director of Leipziger Messe. "With DreamHack
Leipzig, we establish a brand with international power in Germany. It will be an
annual event and Germany's largest LAN party as well as a Europe-wide
competition in the eSports community."
Leipziger Messe is supported by Schenker Technologies GmbH. The
manufacturer of high-end gaming PCs and notebooks has already been active in
the eSports area since 2009 and has established XMG, a brand specifically
aligned with the needs of gamers. "Our cooperation with many teams and
tournament events gives us a very good and direct connection to the community",
says Robert Schenker, managing director of Schenker Technologies. "Our
experience and the competence of Leipziger Messe as organiser are ideal to cast
our spell on gaming enthusiasts with DreamHack Leipzig as an annual highlight."
Since the first event in November 1994, Swedish DreamHack has developed into
the largest eSports festival in the world. There are now three events per year that
between them draw tens of thousands of visitors and participants. The core
pieces are the LAN parties with thousands of participants and eSportstournaments that are broadcast on large screens for the audience. With
DreamHacks among others in Tours (France), Valencia (Spain) and Bucharest
(Romania), the event concept has already spread across Europe. DreamHack
Leipzig is becoming a platform for the entire German-speaking area.
"Because of its huge and passionate esports community, Germany is one of the
most important European markets for us and DreamHack as a festival”, says
Marcus Lindmark, CEO of DreamHack AB. "As former venue for the European
gaming industry, Leipzig is the perfect city for an event of this caliber. With the
Leipziger Messe and Schenker Technologies we found first-class partners to
realize DreamHack’s successful concept in Germany.”
The first DreamHack Leipzig from 22 to 24 January 2016 will have a LAN area
that offers 1,000 gamers the opportunity to play with and against each other on
site for 56 hours. Apart from this, there will be high-level tournaments for various
games. Visitors can look forward to following exciting competitions and to visiting
the DreamExpo exhibition, where companies present their innovations from the
areas of hardware, software, games and accessories. The products can be
purchased from the DreamStore. The event programme with analogue old-school
games, cosplayers and appearances of stars from the eSports scene will make
DreamHack Leipzig a spectacular experience for all participants and visitors.
About DreamHack
DreamHack is the world's largest computer festival. DreamHack's core, and origin is the
LAN party, with the two major festivals DreamHack Summer in June and DreamHack
Winter in November. The events are a platform for eSport, knowledge and creative
competitions, music acts, lectures by game developers, Internet & game culture, cosplay,
the fair DreamExpo and much much more. DreamHack is also a production company with
a focus on gaming, esports, music and arena productions for both traditional TV and the
Internet. During 2014 DreamHack had 104,000 visitors to its events and more than 15
million unique viewers who followed the live broadcast online. More information is
available on www.dreamhack.se
About Leipziger Messe
Leipziger Messe is one of the ten leading German trade fair companies and among the
Top 50 of the world. As one of the oldest trade fair sites in the world, it celebrates the
anniversary "850 Jahre Leipziger Messen" in 2015. The group of companies Leipziger
Messe executes events in Leipzig and in various sites in and outside of Germany. With
five subsidiaries and the Congress Center Leipzig (CCL), the group offers integrated
event competence that is exemplary for the organisation of modern trade fairs,
congresses and events. Thanks to this offering, customers and visitors made Leipziger
Messe the Service-Champion of the trade fair industry in Germany's largest service
ranking in 2014. The trade fair site Leipzig comprises an exhibition area of 111,300 m²
and outdoor premises of 70,000 m². Every year, approx. 40 trade fairs, about 100
congresses, many Corporate Business events and other events with more than 11,000
exhibitors attracting 1.2 M visitors from around the world take place there. Leipzig was the
first German trade fair company to be certified to the Green Globe Standards.
Sustainability is a leading principle of its entrepreneurial action.
About Schenker Technologies
Schenker Technologies, with its successful XMG brand, is a leading producer of highperformance and individually configurable Laptops. The devices are characterised mainly
by the seamless integration of the latest and most powerful components and parts. The
Company was founded by Robert Schenker in Leipzig in 2002. In 2011 Schenker
Notebooks merged with the specialist trade experts tronic5 Mobile Computer GmbH.
From this, a group of companies was formed in 2013, whose key component is Schenker
Technologies. The manufacturer sells its products in the UK and Ireland directly through
its own online store www.mysn.de.
Contact for partners and customers
Christian Gute, project director
Phone: +49 (0)3 41 / 678 88 21
Fax: +49 (0)3 41 / 678 16 88 21
Email: c.gute@leipziger-messe.de
Press contact
Felix Wisotzki, press contact DreamHack
Phone: +49 (0)3 41 / 678 65 34
Fax: +49 (0)3 41 / 678 16 65 34
Email: f.wisotzki@leipziger-messe.de
Online
http://www.dreamhack-leipzig.de