DH Open Austin viewer's guide

5-5-2016 14:04

DreamHack ZOWIE Open Austin is knocking on the door, thus we have prepared a viewer's guide which contains all the information you need to follow the event that is taking place in Austin, Texas.

The tournament taking place from the 6th of May to the 8th will mark the first ever DreamHack event on North American soil. Eight teams will participate in the contest as they will be battling for $100,000 in prize money at the Austin Convention Center.

The clash will commence with the group stage that will feature a GSL format. Two groups of four teams will play their opening and winners' matches as best-of-ones, while the elimination and decider matches will be best-of-threes. Groups are the following:

Group A	Group B
Luminosity	Tempo Storm
CLG	Liquid
Cloud9	Selfless
Splyce	NRG

The top two squads from each group will advance to the single elimination best-of-three playoffs and the champion will be crowned after a single day of playoff competition. Below is the full schedule:

Friday, May 6th
21:40	Show Start
22:00	Luminosity	vs. Splyce	BO1
23:30	Tempo Storm	vs. NRG	BO1
01:00	CLG	vs. Cloud9	BO1
02:30	Liquid	vs. Selfless	BO1
04:00	Group A winners' match		BO1
05:30	Group B winners' match		BO1
Saturday, May 7th
16:30	Show Start
17:00	Group A elimination match		BO3
20:00	Group B elimination match		BO3
23:00	Group A decider match		BO3
02:00	Group B decider match		BO3
Sunday, May 8th
16:30	Show Start
17:00	Semifinal #1 (B1 vs. A2)		BO3
19:30	Semifinal #2 (A1 vs. B2)		BO3
22:30	Grand final		BO3

The talent crew will consist of eight people and four of them will make their DreamHack debut via DH's twitch channel. The talent lineup looks as follows:

Alex "Machine" Richardson - Panel host
Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović - Analyst
Stephanie "⁠missharvey⁠" Harvey - Analyst

Sue "Smix" Lee - Stage host

Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole - Caster
John "blu" Mullen - Caster
Mohan "launders" Govindasamy - Caster
Joey "heliumbrella" Cunningham - Caster

The champions will take home $50,000. You can find the rest of the prize distribution below:

1. - $50,000
2. - $20,000
3-4. - $10,000
3-4. - $10,000
5-6. - $3,000
5-6. - $3,000
7-8. - $2,000
7-8. - $2,000

You can still buy your tickets over at Eventbrite if you want to catch the action live on-site.

Don't forget to check out our preview for the event, written by Lucas Aznar Miles, which goes over all attendees of DreamHack Austin.

Follow HLTV.org writer BenjaCS on twitter.

Why so late :(

2016-05-05 14:05

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2016-05-06 13:47

yeah man.

2016-05-06 18:21

2016-05-05 14:04

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Too late ro

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rip my dream

2016-05-05 14:06

I aren't think that

2016-05-05 15:04

3rd

Close enough :(

yes

Very nice! gogogogo!! Haha le epic text to not get banned!

nice

ence should take this tournament tbh..

Words of wisdom here, ez for ENCE eSports organization from Finland.

2016-05-05 14:47

ezpz for eNCE

2016-05-05 16:18

ez for ENCE

qweed

fuuuck

vacban guide

Nobody cares about NA anymore.. also missharvey as an analyst facepalm

no nip. no fnatic. ez tournament tier 5 for luminosity

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no fnatic*

2016-05-05 16:17

NiP >>>>>> fnatic with wenton.

2016-05-05 17:41

2016-05-05 17:42

just like the major

2016-05-06 01:20

missharvey analyst ayy lmao

Rip analysts

Ez for ence

2016-05-05 14:07

Stephanie "missharvey" Harvey - Analyst LUL LUL LUL LUL LUL

2016-05-05 14:09

Ez for summit. Liquid sucked yesterday

Brasilian Finals, looking forward ;) btw. the times are CET ?

2016-05-05 14:14

Times should be CET yeah, they ussualy are.

2016-05-05 15:24

rip eu viewers

2016-05-05 14:15

2016-05-05 14:16

EZ for ence

Ez ence

2016-05-05 14:25

We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL

2016-05-05 14:29

ahahahah! <3

2016-05-05 15:09

no thorin no richard lewis no anders no semmler no ddk no james literally 0 reasons to stay awake & watch this

2016-05-05 14:32

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no Babam as well :(

2016-05-05 14:53

You're watching events solely for the panel?

2016-05-05 14:56

Not like he has any players from his country to watch they're all shit

2016-05-05 15:15

seriously... would you watch T3 teams 'battling' without any piece of quality the talent line-up? BTW: in my timezone matches start at 10PM... simply not worth it

2016-05-05 16:44

Tiers are completely subjective views and I don't really make mine. One top5 team, 1 top10 team, 3 of them are in the top20, these are mostly good teams in my opinion. I'll watch this because I enjoy watching top teams compete on LAN. And frankly I don't really care for who's casting or analyzing as long as there's no pansy, and even if she's here I'll just mute the stream and watch with some music.

2016-05-05 17:57

+1 mate. Panel can only improve the tournament because i just turn them off otherwise.Sometimes those "lesser" tournaments are a welcome change

2016-05-06 21:43

ynk has some good analysis, but partnered with Harvey.. Ynk hard carry

2016-05-05 16:09

ynk is good, but in duos/trios. now he's the solo 'knowledge tank' and I think it will be a mess

2016-05-05 16:41

sorry for the long reply was playing football :P Yeah you are probably right, I guess we'll see soon enough.

2016-05-05 21:58

rip NA*

2016-05-05 14:38

SA > NA > EU is at the moment right skill level difference :)

2016-05-06 18:24

ez for C9

2016-05-05 14:46

The worst 100k$ tournament of the year... and the SC II part does not look better. This weekend sucks

2016-05-05 14:49

shit tournament with tier 2 teams

2016-05-05 14:54

ez 4 selfless

2016-05-05 14:55

rip summit

2016-05-05 15:12

"Stephanie "missharvey" Harvey - Analyst" lmao

2016-05-05 15:19

who would watch NA CS LUL

missharvery LOL NA CS

2016-05-05 15:21

why theres only na teams

Na tournament

2016-05-05 15:39

When you realize 2 BR teams are head of their groups, it means NA teams are shit

2016-05-05 15:32

Ez TS x LG grand final

Nice Launders =D

2016-05-05 15:40

LG vs TS with TS destroying LG =D.

2016-05-05 15:55

ez for tempo

2016-05-05 16:05

NA CS EleGiggle

2016-05-05 16:07

missharvey lol

2016-05-05 16:23

No Tyloo, no Fnatic, no ENCE ez 4 LG

2016-05-05 16:35

even if fnatic will play this tournament still ez for LG

2016-05-05 20:06

Miss harvey and heliumbrella?...does anyone skilled get invited? Or just friends of friends

2016-05-05 16:50

The latter

2016-05-05 17:56

burger tournament

2016-05-05 17:58

Would like so much to see TS winning.

2016-05-05 18:01

ez for Estonia

2016-05-05 18:02

boring

2016-05-05 22:09

only american cs lol

2016-05-05 23:21

2016-05-06 06:32

Sad day for NA cs when, despite 75% of the teams being NA, the final is going to be 2 Brazilian teams >.>

2016-05-06 09:21

AM hours for EU rip event.. max 20.000 viewers for grand final :))))

2016-05-06 10:39

its so late rip eu ResidentSleeper

2016-05-06 10:53

Miss Harvey, is an analyst, the same female silver player who suggested she needed an agent....honestly I am not watching this for that reason alone. She doesn't belong there

2016-05-06 16:07

You can Watch the matches though.but I get what youre saying

2016-05-06 21:45

No thorin = shit event

2016-05-06 22:55

jajajjaj truth men

2016-05-09 10:45

2016-05-10 13:50