At Dreamhack Leipzig in 2020, there is a tournament in Farming Simulator. Yes, you read that right – growing potatoes as E-Sports at Germany’s largest LAN.
Are you serious? Absolutely. At Dreamhack 2020, there will be a tournament in Farming Simulator for the first time. That the Farming Simulator 19 would get its own E-Sports league was already known beforehand and had confused some people. Now the league is taking the step to Dreamhack.
The course of the Farming Simulator tournament
In the tournament, teams can qualify in the preliminary rounds. To participate, they simply register for Dreamhack – registration has been open since January 6th.
Then on Sunday, January 26th, starting at 11:00 AM, the final matches will take place. The eight best teams will compete for the title.
The teams consist of three players, and the game is played in a Best-of-3 format. Visitors to Dreamhack Leipzig can watch the tournament live. Tickets are available here.
Who is participating? Already registered are well-known teams like the eSports team mYinsanity. There are also teams from the tractor manufacturers Claas and John Deere – quite fitting for a tournament in Farming Simulator.
What’s at stake: The prize pool of the tournament amounts to a hefty €12,000. This will be divided among the winning teams according to a yet unknown key. Additionally, teams earn different amounts of league points for participation and victories.
With these points, they can qualify for the World Championship in Summer 2020. There, a prize pool of even €100,000 is at stake.
We are on site and media partners
This year, we are the media partner of Dreamhack with MeinMMO.
What does a media partnership mean? In a media partnership, two companies agree to promote each other. Usually, no money is exchanged; it is more about benefiting from each other’s strengths. Currently, the Leipzig Messe is pleased to reach many potential Dreamhack visitors via MeinMMO.
And why are you doing this? We believe that many of our users are interested in the event and activities there. And we hope, of course, to gain new readers through our presence there. Media partnerships only work when the parties involved are approximately equally “strong” and there is a common, connecting theme.
We bring the Dreamhack home to you: We are with our Twitch channel MonstersAndExplosions (MAX). Our Leya will be live on site at Dreamhack, along with colleagues from Gamestar and Gamepro. You can conveniently watch from home. We already covered Dreamhack in 2019.
The program schedule will follow shortly.
Moreover, Farming Simulator is simply a cool idea. Turning such a game into an E-Sport showcases the creativity of gamers – and could help to remove the shadow of “killer games” from E-Sports, which many still see.
