2013 DreamHack Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Championship
The 2013 DreamHack SteelSeries Counter Strike: Global Offensive Championship or simply DreamHack Winter 2013 was the first "" to be sponsored by Valve. The competition was held during the Winter 2013 DreamHack digital festival at the Elmia Exhibition and Convention Centre in Jönköping, Sweden. Six invitees joined ten qualifiers to form the sixteen team event. Community funding helped to build the US$250,000 prizepool. The tournament had a peak 145,000 concurrent viewers on twitch.tv and the in-game viewing client.
Super Smash Bros.
The "Super Smash Bros." series has been widely played as competitive video games and has been featured in several high-profile tournaments. The first publicized "Super Smash Bros. Melee" tournaments were held in early 2002. From 2004 to 2007, "Melee" was on Major League Gaming's tournament roster. In 2010 MLG picked up "Brawl" for its pro circuit for a year. During this time, Nintendo prohibited MLG from live streaming "Brawl" matches. At 2014 MLG Anaheim "Melee" was once again hosted at an MLG event. "Melee" was also included at the Evolution Championship Series (Evo) in 2007, a fighting game tournament held in Las Vegas. "Melee" was again hosted at Evo 2013 after it won a charity drive to decide the final game to be featured in its tournament lineup. Due to the large turnout and popularity that year, Evo again included a "Melee" tournament at their 2014 and 2015 events. New Jersey based Apex was another prominent "Super Smash Bros." tournament organizer, being officially sponsored by Nintendo in 2015.