Early Bird tickets for DreamHack Dallas 2025 have been unlocked!
Early Bird tickets for DreamHack Dallas 2025 have been unlocked!
DreamHack is an immersive gaming experience where the community comes to life. At our festival, you come to experience professional esports tournaments, amateur and high school gaming tournaments, world-famous bring-your-own-computer (BYOC) LAN party, cosplay, art, activities, expo, screenings and more.
You can find the venue here: 650 S Griffin St, Dallas, TX 75202, United States.
Hall D is the entrance for regular and premium general admission 1-day and 3-day.
The following are each days opening and closing hours:
Friday: 10 AM – 12 AM (Midnight)
Saturday: 10 AM – 12 AM (Midnight)
Sunday: 10 AM – 7 PM
The following are each days opening and closing hours:
Friday: 10 AM – 6 PM
Saturday: 10 AM – 6 PM
Sunday: 10 AM – 6 PM
The following are each days opening and closing hours:
Friday from 10 AM until Sunday 6 PM.
The festival rules can be found here.
Find BYOC and Main Registration desks at the Lobby, registration opening times:
If you are need for special accommodations, please fill out the disability accommodation request form prior to the event. For more information, check out our accessibility page.
There is alcohol served in the IEM arena but the rest of the festival is an alcohol free event.
Join our Discord and talk to one of our community members! You can also contact our reps at support@dreamhack.com if you prefer email.
Children under the age of 13 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, and a parental or guardian waiver must be signed when collecting your tickets for anyone under the age of 18.
You can download and fill in the the age waiver form here.
As much as we love animals, they’ll have to remain at home. The only animals allowed inside the building are service animals.
Both IRL Streaming and recording footage is allowed and encouraged at DreamHack. However, it’s important to be respectful of our visitors! If, when you are IRL Streaming or filming, and a visitor asks you not to film or otherwise feature them in your IRL stream, you must cease filming them immediately. If you are IRL Streaming and not following this policy, you will be asked to leave the event.
While we do not go out of our way to record people, you may be caught in videos used for marketing purposes. Please read section 6.8 on our rules page for a full breakdown of our video and photography rules.
At this time we are not offering a hotel room block.
You can buy badgesdirectly from our badges page. We do not condone the selling of badges on third party websites – if you do buy from them be careful as we cannot confirm their validity.
DreamHack badges are non-refundable. The only circumstance for a ticket refund is if the event is postponed.
You will receive a full refund within 60 days of the original event dates.
Children aged 12 and under are able to attend the festival for free but they must still have a ticket, so make sure to select family pass ticket when you buy a 1-day or 3-day pass.
Yes, badge registration desks will be open until 8PM daily on Friday and Saturday, and then closes on 5PM on Sunday.
Yes you can! Make sure to select the option on Tixr with the blue banner before you login and use your credit or debit cards to confirm your payment.
Some badges are easily upgradeable via your Tixr orders. Simply head over to “My Orders” and explore if any of the badges you own are eligible for upgrades.
There may be some badge or badge types that aren’t upgradable.
You must still have valid entrance to the festival via a 1 day, 3 day, or BYOC badge as this will still be checked at the front door. The add-ons are exactly as they’re worded: added on to the main badge.
If you do already have a badge, you may buy extra add-on badges via this link for IEM Dallas.
You must still have valid entrance to the festival via a 1 day, 3 day, or BYOC badge as this will still be checked at the front door. The add-ons are exactly as they’re worded: added on to the main badge.
If you do already have a badge, you may buy extra add-on badges via this link for OWCS Dallas.
Journalists may contact the Office of Press Operations via our Press Accreditation site.
The only place that can assist with ticketing is our support line: support@dreamhack.com
There is a BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) area at our event where you can join in our BYOC tournaments, and play games all weekend long.
Friday, 9 AM until Sunday 7PM.
Once the BYOC LAN is open, it will remain open until the festival ends.
There will be no concessions available during the night for the BYOC, however we allow you to bring in food for yourselves to consume.
We’d recommend the following:
BYOC Parent Badge
Additional area access to the BYOC for parent/guardians of minors to check on them through ought the festival.
What does this mean
What the parent badge is not
Make sure to check out the festival rules list so you know exactly what you can and cannot do at the festival.
While we cannot discuss all aspects of the security measures we implement at our festivals, you can read more information about what is and is not allowed at the festival through section 1 on our rules page.
