EU, NA DreamHack Winter open qualifiers reach end

27-10-2018 23:57

The open qualifiers for this year's DreamHack Winter event have come to an end, with eight teams progressing to the closed brackets.

The biggest talking point in the European qualifier was the elimination of Vitality in the last round by CIS team Syman despite a strong individual performance from star player Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut.

LeftOut, who are fielding Haakon "⁠Radifaction⁠" Tholo after Fabien "⁠kioShiMa⁠" Fiey was confirmed as a Cloud9 stand-in for BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen, were one of the top four finishers following a run that included victories over Monolith and x-kom.

The other two teams to make it through the open qualifier in Europe hail from Sweden: Red Reserve, who officially announced William "⁠draken⁠" Sundin as a permanent member on Friday, and x6tence Galaxy.

ScreaM's LeftOut through to the closed qualifier

Meanwhile in North America, the biggest shock was the forfeit defeat of third seed Singularity in the Round of 16 after seemingly arriving late for their match against Whatever It Takes.

The quarter-final stage of the tournament featured a mouth-watering Brazilian derby between FURIA and INTZ, with João "⁠horvy⁠" Horvath's side overcoming a 10-5 deficit to win the match and book a spot in the closed qualifier alongside TeamOne, Bravado and Vireo.pro.

The eight qualified sides will be joined by eight invitees in the closed qualifiers, which will be played out on Sunday, October 28. Both tournaments will feature a single-elimination, best-of-three bracket, with the winners earning spots at the DreamHack tournament.

Below you can find the match-ups for the first round of the qualifiers:

Europe:

ex-Space Soldiers vs. Syman
AGO vs. Red Reserve
LDLC vs, x6tence Galaxy
Fragsters vs. LeftOut

North America:

eUnited vs. Vireo.pro
Spacestation vs. INTZ
Luminosity vs. Bravado
Rogue vs. TeamOne

2018-10-27 23:57

3 replies

expected

2 replies

Hi sh♿️Keeh

2018-10-28 00:02

1 reply

Hi ♿️Deji

2018-10-28 00:15

LETS GO INTZ VAMOBRASIL

2018-10-27 23:58

2018-10-28 01:15

Brazilian CS sinked really low if INTZ is their new hope.

2018-10-28 01:53

they're not the new hope lol i think he is cheering for them because they're probably the best brazilian team in this tournament

2018-10-28 09:13

reee

gl bravado

go sanji go bravado na

2018-10-27 23:59

go sanji? they are going for one game and they finish there

2018-10-28 02:40

they're getting vac banned 100%

2018-10-28 05:37

my thoughts xd.. never heard of anyone of syman.. just another team making it through the open quailifiers out of nowhere

2018-10-28 09:10

Red Reserve + twist -rusty tier 1

tier 3 *

2018-10-28 00:00

Omegalul. Whatever it takes getting a default win because of late arrival lol. Badumtsss, whatever it takes

Vitality LUL

Where's vitalulty 🤡

Ez for space kebabs (Sk)

ez Syman

2018-10-28 00:03

EZ INTZ

2018-10-28 00:04

GO Vitality

2018-10-28 00:07

Lol they did not make it.

2018-10-28 00:17

forsenKek Don't tell him forsenKek

2018-10-28 00:28

ez for godtares

2018-10-28 00:12

I thought Vitality had another go at this. Are they out with no chance to qualify now?

2018-10-28 00:16

Yes

LETS GO LEFTOUT

leftout better than vitaly team vitaly most stupid org ever

2018-10-28 00:19

Vitality... sigh man

2018-10-28 00:25

Vitality beaten by CIS mix lol

2018-10-28 00:35

cis mix and open qualfier """""upset"""" , name a more iconic duo

2018-10-28 00:59

2018-10-28 00:49

EZ LDLC

Cis teams never stop

So EZ 4 T1 and Bravado ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wanna buy the best apples in HLTV? call me NOW: 011-1337-APPLE and get an 80% discount on your first 5 kilos!

2018-10-28 01:19

EZ4XANTARES

2018-10-28 01:48

Ez 4 x6

2018-10-28 02:19

Leftout <3

2018-10-28 02:59

Vitality LUL. 4/5 major Winners and can’t win shit hahah

2018-10-28 03:38

4 replies

3/5

2018-10-28 04:38

Didn't RpK have a major too?

2018-10-28 06:52

Nope

2018-10-29 09:41

Gg. 3 it is

2018-10-29 12:37

leftout should make a team and get someone good to replace xms

2018-10-28 05:29

Wdym "make a team"

2018-10-28 06:49

Get organisation

2018-10-28 07:53

Thanks for translating

2018-10-28 09:04

No problemo

2018-10-28 15:54

I thought xms was retired?

2018-10-28 05:36

Fake retire for happy jr

2018-10-28 07:14

Ez4LeftOut

Fucked up red reserve not being invited to the main event. If this was Australia then red reserve and chaos and e6tence galaxy and heroic would all be invited then ofc have 4 qualifier spots for sweden. Remember iem sydney lol. Seriously though, RR should have been invited atleast. I would not wanna go se a Swedish event with 0 Swedish teams.

2018-10-28 08:54

Otto to play with Red Reserve and they gonna go triple awp rektmode

2018-10-28 10:42

If LDLC doesn't qualify, disband. xD

2018-10-28 11:34

Syman new CIS hope? Heavy match-up with ex-SS

2018-10-28 12:03

Ez 4 the best argentinian player Nikom

2018-10-28 14:11