Invites for DHW qualifiers revealed

19-10-2014 17:45

FACEIT has revealed the names of the teams who have been invited to take part in the European and the North American qualifiers for DreamHack Winter.

On Tuesday, October 21, FACEIT will be hosting the European closed qualifier for DreamHack Winter, featuring the eight teams who finished in the top four of the two open qualifiers and eight other invited sides.

The top four teams from this closed qualifier will automatically earn a spot at the Swedish event, while the sides who place 5th-8th will face off in a last-chance tournament on Wednesday for the last place at the $250,000 major.

With Titan and Epsilon already qualified for DH Winter after finishing in the top eight of the last major, StarSeries finalists LDLC will be looking to join their countrymen at the event through this qualifier.

CPH Wolves, who recently qualified for the ESWC finals after changing three players, will also take part in the qualifier, along with the likes of HellRaisers, mousesports, x6tence and DH Stockholm sensation 3DMAX.

Below you can find the list with the teams that have already qualified for the European DH Winter closed qualifiers and with the eight invited sides:

Qualifier #1	Invited Teams	Qualifier #2
FlipSid3	HellRaisers	TBD
duttdutt	LDLC	TBD
PENTA Sports	CPH Wolves	TBD
ESC Gaming	mousesports	TBD
	x6tence
	3DMAX
	London Conspiracy
	Null element dAT Team

Meanwhile, FACEIT has announced that the North American closed qualifier will be played out on Monday, October 20th. Only the winner of this tournament will earn a spot at the Swedish major.

Below are the four North American sides invited for this qualifier:

Qualifier #1	Invited teams	Qualifier #2
SKDC	iBUYPOWER	TBD
dxm	eLevate	TBD
	Denial
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flipside ez

2014-10-19 17:33

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new capsules soon

2014-10-20 12:02

nice

go 3DMAX!

no8ice

2014-10-19 17:34

Gogo mouz :)

SA qualify please

go Denial <3

onlinesports EZ

Where is cloud9? :o

2014-10-19 17:35

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top 8 ESL Cologne was invited to DHW

2014-10-19 17:37

this^

2014-10-19 17:38

Already qualified since top8

Already qualified lol. Top 5 from ESL COLOGNE

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top 8*

2014-10-19 17:41

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top 5-8*

2014-10-19 17:42

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*facepalm

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2014-10-19 17:51

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top 5 - 8 implies that only 4 teams (which lost their quarters) are invited, which is not true, cuz all top 8 teams are invited including semifinalists and finalists

2014-10-19 17:59

2014-10-19 18:02

2014-10-19 17:43

+1 :o

gl Flipsid3, HellRaisers and LDLC! :D

ESC, HR, LC, mouz, LDLC, CW

-esc + dat

2014-10-19 18:39

Ez for S1mpleRaisers,shoxDC, onlinesports and 3Dfat

2014-10-19 17:36

I will never understand how x6tence are always invited to things over K1ck, since everyone knows how bad they are.

true

Shhh mate shhh

2014-10-19 17:44

x6tence & k1ck = same shit-

2014-10-19 17:50

nope

2014-10-19 18:07

yEePoh exactly same low skilled.

2014-10-19 19:40

both teams sucks

No offense dude, but havent seen k1ck for a while and og doing good so far.

2014-10-20 04:29

hope CPH wolves kick that fucking NILLE kid. He's shit, VAC banned and is like 14 years old.

more like 20+ but he sucks hard tbh

2014-10-19 17:39

HellRaisers LDLC 3DMAX LondonC dAT to Main tournament

GL HellRaisers

gogo duttdutt

go dAT!

ESC, Hellraisers, LDLC and dAT please.

Mouz LDLC HR dAT and last one I'd say is Wizards

2014-10-19 17:40

dAT Team!

go allu ))

I dont get it. Why x6tence ? They didnt do a shit for a while, and where they was on some pro scene, it was only online matches. On ESEA they show how much they are good. Its just wasting of spot.

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They've done as much as dAT team, 3DMAX and LC, for example. And this isn't a dreamhack slot, it's the qualifier tournament.

2014-10-19 17:49

They do what? Nothing except online tournaments, and ESEA where they couldnt win anybody. LC at last have G3 and both LC and dAT was on last major.

2014-10-19 17:53

thats not really true though. - dAT qualified for previous major beating tough teams (mouz, esg) - 3DMAX went to semifinals on LAN less than a month ago, beating dig and cphw, - LC failed at ESL but in gfinity they took bo1's from virtus pro and ibp. havent really seen them do anything comparable to these results

2014-10-19 17:57

ex6 have beaten the likes of NiP and VP in online games on multiple occasions. They've done nothing on LAN though, I agree.

2014-10-19 18:13

still the same of dAt team

2014-10-19 19:42

how is navi not invited? nvm i'm retarded, they where top8 in cologne

2014-10-19 17:46

Already invited due to they placed in top 8 in ESL Cologne

2014-10-19 17:48

It wouldn't make sense to play a qualifier when they're already qualified.

3DMAX, LDLC, HellRaisers and Mousesports or CPH Wolves

2014-10-19 17:45

HR LDLC CPHW mouz + dAt and IBP will just go for sticker money.

last place also have prizemoney

LDLC, HR, alluz and 3DMAX

2014-10-19 17:47

gogo dAT

NiP, Titan, Virtus.pro, Dignitas, fnatic?

Oh My God

2014-10-19 18:28

already qualified.

2014-10-19 21:10

There is a slight chance that iBP won't be in DH Winter :)

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What is your problem with iBP?

2014-10-19 17:52

what?

More than slight, everyone else in NA is catching up. Even the mixes winning the pre-qualifiers look stronk.

+1, Is there any information released about the format of this qualifier?

2014-10-19 17:55

Yes, here: play.faceit.com/faceit-returns-with-qual.. (bottom) There are 2 pre-qualifiers, one yesterday and one tonight. Top 2 from each of those will go to the final qualifiers with the 4 invited teams (iBP, eLevate, NCG, and Denial), for 8 teams in total. Winner of that goes to DHW. We will be doing coverage for the final qualifiers as well. The two that qualified last night were SKDC (slemmy, fl0m, els, OCEAN, Rush) and dxm (dboorn, cud, roca, tck, and frozt)

2014-10-19 18:22

Sweet! Massive thanks :) dxm looks like they could do some damage..

they do, they managed to make a pretty nice comeback versus bets.gg (A51 + ptr and mOE) to take the 2nd spot in the final quals, will definitely be looking out for them.

2014-10-19 18:32

Is moe playing? if yes what team?

2014-10-20 00:58

mOE played last night for BETS.gg, was knocked out in final round. Did not see him in any team for tonight's qualifier.

2014-10-20 01:05

and ofc moe playing for scam site LMAO what a coincidence

2014-10-20 15:52

mbn being part of x6/og always getting invites showing absolute nothing

invited for the final qualifiers, not the dhw.

2014-10-19 18:04

I know, but theres more teams that deserve more than them. At least the ones that qualified to the closed qualifier before for example (theres a few with the direct invite to the close qlfr)

2014-10-19 18:09

They go to Dallas cuz they was the last choice for esea. And Dreamhack Valencia cuz is in Spain. Give me more lans that they was invited for and also name me some underdog teams that they are better than x6tence atm. They played really well last months and they deserve that spot for the closed qualifiers, indeed. Let's give them that chance. And for dhw, top8 cologne are already invited. LDLC aren't on that top8 cuz only Happy from old LDLC is playing already with the same team (need 3 at least) Sorry for bad English.

2014-10-19 18:16

ldlc,mouz,dat,x6 denial

2014-10-19 17:54

Invite to reason gaming dh guyz?

2014-10-19 18:00

Where the fuck is NiP, fnatic, virtus.pro and Titan? Edit: Oh sorry, already qualified, top8 cologne.

Top 8 finishers from ESL have already qualified.

2014-10-19 18:47

2014-10-19 18:03

c9 not invited :?

These are just invitations to the closed qualifiers. C9 is invited to the event.

2014-10-19 18:11

RiP in pepperoni esc :c

2014-10-19 18:08

North America deserves a second qualifier slot.

2014-10-19 18:10

MOUZ guys will be sick in the lan day :( sad sad

2014-10-19 18:17

Someone have the scoreboard of qualifer #2? like yesterday

Ez for x6tence! Save this post! Alex and lowel ez!!

2014-10-19 18:18

they arent good xd

2014-10-19 19:04

You think? They are not good? Shame on you bro just wait and watch :D

2014-10-20 15:42

Ez for s1mple

2014-10-19 18:25

Who's qual#2? What about NiP, dig, VP, fnatic, na'vi..?

Top8 Cologne include nip, fnatic, vp etc already invited on main tournament .______."

thanks

2014-10-19 18:54

All Those teams should been at the lan :(

2014-10-19 18:29

gogo mouz

2014-10-19 18:30

where is NiP ?

Those are the teams that are gonna play the qualifiers, top 5 from esl cologne (nip, fnatic,etc) are already invited to the lan event.

2014-10-20 00:25

Can Nille attend to Dream Hack?

ESC will win ez

2014-10-19 19:21

3DMAX easy

2014-10-19 19:36

Go Go ESC

2014-10-19 19:51

Doesn't really matter who wins the NA qualifier as I think they all would perform equally well abroad. Still hope to see eLevate go through, though.

2014-10-19 20:11

Definitely feel that eLevate has the chops to both qualify and put up a fight against euros, especially after putting up a good run against NaVi at IronGaming. Hopefully they'll surprise at the next ESEA Lan.

2014-10-19 20:29