DreamHack Winter viewer's guide

26/11/2013 - 15:23

Below you can find the full viewer's guide for DreamHack Winter 2013, which will be the biggest CS:GO tournament in history with its grand $250,000 prize purse.

DreamHack Winter 2013 will kick off on Thursday with groups A and B, the on-site BYOC qualifier and the first two quarter-finals taking place at Elmia in Jönköping, Sweden.

You can find groups for the event through our DreamHack Winter 2013 event page, which also features a list of relevant news, articles, a link to Dreamteam and much more.

Friday will feature groups C and D, as well as the quarter-finals for the remaining two groups. Saturday is reserved solely for the semi-finals and the grand final. Below is the prize distribution:

1. $100,000
2. $50,000
3-4. $22,000
5-8. $10,000
9-16. $2,000

As you can tell from the prize distribution, no third place decider will take place. All matches will be broadcasted by DreamHack TV, which will feature two different official streams in English.

The main stream will feature the crew of six people announced before, with Anders Blume anchoring a secondary stream together with Auguste "SemmlerTheRiot" Massonat.

In the group stage each team will eliminate two maps from the five map pool. In the playoffs each team will eliminate just one map, leaving three for the best-of-three series.

Thursday, November 28th:
10:00	Clan-Mystik	vs. LGB eSports	A1
10:00	fnatic	vs. Natus Vincere	A2
11:00	A1 winner	vs. A2 winner	A3
11:00	A1 loser	vs. A2 loser	A4
12:00	A3 loser	vs. A4 winner	A5
14:30	NiP	vs. Recursive	B1
14:30	iBUYPOWER	vs. Universal Soldiers	B2
15:30	B1 winner	vs. B2 winner	B3
15:30	B1 loser	vs. B2 loser	B4
16:30	B3 loser	vs. B4 winner	B5
19:00	Quarter-final #1 (A3 winner vs. B5 winner)		QF1
22:15	Quarter-final #2 (B3 winner vs. A5 winner)		QF2

Friday, November 29th:
10:00	VeryGames	vs. BYOC #1	C1
10:00	compLexity	vs. n!faculty	C2
11:00	C1 winner	vs. C2 winner	C3
11:00	C1 loser	vs. C2 loser	C4
12:00	C3 loser	vs. C4 winner	C5
14:30	Astana Dragons	vs. BYOC #2	D1
14:30	SK Gaming	vs. Copenhagen Wolves	D2
15:30	D1 winner	vs. D2 winner	D3
15:30	D1 loser	vs. D2 loser	D4
16:30	D3 loser	vs. D4 winner	D5
19:00	Quarter-final #3 (C3 winner vs. D5 winner)		QF3
22:15	Quarter-final #4 (D3 winner vs. C5 winner)		QF4

Saturday, November 30th
14:30	Semi-final #1		S1
18:00	Semi-final #2		S2
22:30	Grand final		GF

HLTV.org will naturally be on-site in Jönköping to provide you with full coverage of the year's biggest Counter-Strike tournament, set to take place on November 28-30th.

2013-11-26 15:24

1. $100,000 2. $50,000 3-4. $22,000 5-8. $10,000 9-16. $2,000 sick! :D glhf all

2013-11-26 15:38

I win this ;d

2013-11-26 16:09

You win 1x potato Gratz

2013-11-26 17:04

Are those GMT times? Also will you get drops while watching semmler's stream or just the main one?

2013-11-26 16:15

You get drops on both dreamhack streams ^^

2013-11-26 16:18

I think it shows different times depending on what zone you specified in your profile.

2013-11-26 16:26

Can't wait!

dreamteam?

2013-11-26 15:25

yh check your overview Im building my dt now. Are the groups drawn yet?

2013-11-26 15:26

ah, ty gui maker boy :*

2013-11-26 15:27

Yes

2013-11-26 15:28

Will be announced later today :)

2013-11-26 15:50

What would be the best way to find good VOD's for the 2nd semi-final and finals without spoilers ? I can't watch the games late on saturday and am going to do it early on Sunday and just want to know what is the best way for me to do that without it being spoiled.

I've added you on steam

2013-11-26 15:57

if ibuypower loses to US, I'm flying over to Jonopking and kneeing all of them in the nuts, starting with dazed

I wonder if US loses to iBuyPower, is anyone kneeing pasha in the nuts?

2013-11-26 15:30

You dont knee pashas nuts, they knee you.

2013-11-26 15:59

2013-11-26 16:40

2013-11-26 18:34

book your tickets

2013-11-26 15:31

dat prize pot

2013-11-26 15:29

!!!!!!

DID I JUST SEE POT!

there will be a streaming for the BYOC tournament too?

2013-11-26 15:33

ofc

2013-11-26 15:34

When?

2013-11-26 15:49

nice! :)

2013-11-26 15:37

There will be GOTV's right?

The matches will be played on Valve's system, so presumably everyone will be able to connect just like to a matchmaking game.

2013-11-26 15:51

that's pretty nice!

2013-11-26 17:26

thursday, 11 o'clock, i have no free wi-fi in my class, gg i missed whole dreamhack

2013-11-26 15:39

The internet on my work is terrible slow ;d GG 3G internet on my phone =)

2013-11-26 15:44

GG Twitch App :D

2013-11-26 16:34

Twitch app just used all my surf... :-(

2013-11-28 15:30

dis gon b gud trnmnt

1.AstanaDragons 2.NiP 3.US :D

2013-11-26 15:45

Are semis already paired?

2013-11-26 15:47

No, that info is not official yet

2013-11-26 15:52

my semi is paired giggity

2013-11-26 18:32

huehuehuehue

2013-11-27 11:49

I guess VG, CW, AD, Col, CM, US, fnatic, NIP will pass to quarter-finals. And VG, AD, NIP, CM to semis.

2013-11-26 15:48

CM will fail to DH Winter.

2013-11-26 16:28

cant wait!

Oh, man.. You just keep writing and writing don't you... Good job! Can't wait for DH

gl hf Natus Vincere

2013-11-26 15:55

1 Astana Dragons 100 000 $

Can I sell my DreamTeam after matches of group A? About 14:00 on Thursday? Or I can sell team after first day?

Only after first day. All info about Dreamteam will be released later today

2013-11-26 16:02

Thanks bro ;)

2013-11-26 16:08

Typo on Thursday A4 line up, it should be A1 loser vs A2 loser. Kthnx

12:00 A2 loser vs. A2 loser A1 vs A2 mby?

Best of luck to all. Hope for a great tournament!

2013-11-26 16:12

Wtf so early on Thurs and friday gg low viewership

2013-11-26 16:13

The Bo1 format is fucking brutal. " Lose 2 MAPS(2 FUCKING MAPS)" and you are sent home. I completely disagree with this. They should get rid of the group format and just set up 1 big bracket with Bo3. If you lose, you will go down to the losers bracket with another Bo3. This way you will have the chance to at least play 4 maps and bigger chances for the better team to win.

2013-11-26 16:20

the bo1 is in the BYOC right?

2013-11-26 16:57

Main Tournament in the group stage. :(

2013-11-26 17:32

Yeah, that would make much more sense, especially given how much is at stake here. I'm pretty concerned that iBP may be a little uncomfortable given they don't have much LAN experience, and if they don't adjust quickly, they'll be out of the tournament in 2 seconds.

2013-11-26 19:41

semi final GROUP A VS B ? OR GROUP A VS C OR D OR B VS C AND E ?

Good question. Otherwise I can't figure who's gonna win.

2013-11-26 16:51

+1 need the info

2013-11-26 17:39

Cant fooking wait. Pumped for the BYOC tournament.

2013-11-26 16:21

Any schedule for the BYOC available?

US BEST

2013-11-26 16:41

OMG biggest tournament ever on week days :-/

2013-11-26 16:45

yup, that sucks :(

2013-11-26 17:00

A bit disappointed for not having third place decider, but.. At least everything else seems to be fine for now.

2013-11-26 16:58

a 3rd place decider would be nice indeed. they could give 24k to 3rd placed and 20k to 4th and it would still be fair

2013-11-26 18:49

QF1: LGB v CM QF2: NiP v iBP QF3: VG v coL QF4: CHW v AD LGB, NiP, VG, CHW move forward. Nostradamus shit.

2013-11-26 16:59

Easy win for LGB.

2013-11-26 17:02

In the playoffs each team will eliminate just one map, leaving three for the best-of-three series. All teams will ban Mirage and Train.OK, we are going to see a big tournament with only three maps to played. Im so tired of dust2,nuke,and train.why dont just let the admin randomly pick maps for each match?

2013-11-26 17:05

Why no cache and season ? ... At least there shouldn't exist the possibility to VETO maps, we are going to see BO3 almost always (90%) Nuke, Dust2, Inferno. It won't be 100% because some teams will prefer to VETO the other teams best map or their worse map. I think it should be randomized the map for the BO1 and BO3s, even if cache and season were included on the map pool. A map pool with 7 maps or 9 maps would be perfect. (Dust2, Inferno, Mirage with fixes or _ce, Train with fixes or volcano fixed (volcano's map + valve "new" changes inside to prevent scar20 abuse), Nuke, Cache, Season, Tuscan (when done, 2022 mb), Forge or cbble). Teams would have to practice more maps but at least we would see more variety and more choice for the teams. Nothing against this map pool, but using valve's train and mirage will result in a 3 map pool.

2013-11-26 17:19

2013-11-26 17:34

+1 boring map pool

2013-11-26 17:40

Sick prices :D

2013-11-26 17:22

gl hf

gl all teams

Final 22:30 (23:30 real^^) I guess It will be a long night of Cs ;)

2013-11-26 18:02

Works the same way as a fantasy football league...you put together your own "dreamteam", buy players etc, and the skill level and how much each player is worth continue to change, depending on how good play-rating they get in official matches :) And with this dreamteam, you can add the team to "imaginary" leagues based on real leagues...you get a good team together, and win, you get imaginary money to spend on better players etc.

2013-11-27 12:07

fu school :(

2013-11-26 18:13

It's a shame that there is no double-elimination. Especially since there is a big difference in terms of prize money between the ranks.

2013-11-26 18:38

why is there only a five map pool? this blows dude...

2013-11-26 18:44

cant wait *_*

2013-11-26 19:28

Thursday, Friday, Saturday :( looks like some people will miss a lot of matches on stream.

2013-11-26 19:33

Yeah it sucks for some people... I am glad that I am not one of them xp The only one that I am not sure that I can watch entirely is semifinal 1, the rest of matches is piece of cake. BTW I don't know why they didn't move the entire event one day forward, Friday-Sunday, would have more viewers.

2013-11-26 19:48

Pretty late grand-final, my only real criticism.

2013-11-26 19:56

3rd/4th NaVi vs VG Finals Astana vs NiP

2013-11-26 22:07

this is fucking stupid. have the god damn event friday, saturday, sunday you dumb morons. now I'm going to miss all the matches on thursday and friday whereas I could have at least saw the matches saturday and sunday.

2013-11-27 02:04

Wonder how many of the matches I'll be able to catch Thursday, what with it being Thanksgiving in the U.S Oh well; I don't really see any big surprises happening in A or B anyway.

2013-11-27 02:45

crazy prize-pool

2013-11-27 09:41

Does anyone know what the two twitch streams will be? I mean the channel names. I have work for nearly all of Dhw but want to run streams for drops from home.

2013-11-27 10:21