DreamHack Winter 2014 EU pre-qualifier #2

myXMG, PKD, AliGon & ALT top Q2

20-10-2014 10:42

Last four teams that will have a chance to fight for a place at DreamHack Winter 2014 were determined in tonight's second open qualifier, and they are myXMG, Planetkey Dynamics, AliGon and ALTERNATE.

The first 12 teams in the 16-team European qualifier were known after yesterday's qualifier #1 and earlier today when the 8 invites were announced, so it only remained to see which four will join them from the second open qualifier.

The first to do so were Danes myXMG, although in a revamped lineup that featured Michael "⁠Friis⁠" Jørgensen and Danni "⁠smF⁠" Dyg.

Their road wasn't too difficult overall, but they did have a lot of trouble against Swedes highgrade in Round of 64 when they mounted a comeback to win 16-14 on de_dust2.

Later on the deciding quarter-final match pitted them against one of France's four remaining ESWC hopefuls, iGamerz, and the Danes ran over them with a 16-5 scoreline on de_overpass.

Friis teamed up with MSL & HUNDEN and made it to the Closed qual

Planetkey Dynamics were knocked out yesterday in Ro32 by a team that ended up being disqualified for cheating a round later, TBD, and they hid no feelings towards FACEIT admins for the way things turned out.

This time they played with the youngster Alexander "⁠alexRr⁠" Frisch as a stand-in for Dimitrios "⁠stavros⁠" Smoilis, and they managed to go all the way with wins over teams such as eXes (3rd at Danish ESWC qualifier, albeit in somewhat different composition), French side Platinium and finally their countrymen MTW, whom they defeated 16-9 on de_inferno to clinch the spot.

MODDII may get a chance to take on NBK again

Andreas "⁠MODDII⁠" Fridh, who yesterday played with his former fnatic teammate Friis in a mix-team DkZ and failed to make it through Infused in Ro16, today teamed up with Jerry "⁠xelos⁠" Råberg in AliGon.

They defeated Serbian mix iNation 16-12, then Danish youngsters Gamersphere 16-11 and finally a Danish mix uN featuring former dignitas and CPH Wolves member René "⁠cajunb⁠" Borg 16-4.

In the last quarter-final, DH Stockholm participants ALTERNATE met French team Katrina who had just won 16-14 over Marcus "⁠Delpan⁠" Larsson & co. Their de_nuke clash ended with the Germans overturning a 6-9 T side deficit to a 16-12 win and booking the final spot for Tuesday.

Here are the last four qualified teams and their rosters:

myXMG

Mathias "⁠MSL⁠" Lauridsen
Nicolai "⁠HUNDEN⁠" Petersen
Michael "⁠Friis⁠" Jørgensen
Danni "⁠smF⁠" Dyg
Asger "⁠AcilioN⁠" Larsen

Planetkey Dynamics

Anil "⁠cLy⁠" Gülec
Tobias "⁠Troubley⁠" Tabbert
Johannes "⁠nex⁠" Maget
Hendrik "⁠strux1⁠" Goetzendorff
Alexander "⁠alexRr⁠" Frisch (stand-in for stavros)

AliGon

Jerry "⁠xelos⁠" Råberg
Andreas "⁠MODDII⁠" Fridh
Mattias "⁠khobra⁠" Heidnert
Marcus "⁠makkeP⁠" Persson
Gustav "⁠KAB0M⁠" Runemalm

ALTERNATE

Fatih "⁠gob b⁠" Dayik
Michele "⁠zonixx⁠" Köhler
Manuel "⁠approx⁠" Zeitz
Tizian "⁠tiziaN⁠" Feldbusch
Simon "⁠smn⁠" Beck

Additionally, the admins stated that yesterday's supposed matches for seeds will not count and that the teams weren't told they had to play them. Therefore, there was no matches after the quarter-final today and all teams will have the same starting point at the Closed qualifier.

Here are the 16 teams set to attempt to qualify for the $250,000 tournament at DreamHack Winter 2014:

LDLC	HellRaisers	CPH Wolves	mousesports
3DMAX	x6tence	Null element dAT	London Conspiracy
FlipSid3	duttdutt	PENTA	ESC
myXMG	AliGon	ALTERNATE	Planetkey Dynamics

The European Closed Qualifier will take place on October 21st-22nd with a single elimination bracket starting at 19:00 . The 4 teams that lose in the quarter-final will after battle for the 5th spot in a new bracket.

nice =)

2014-10-20 10:43

cLy me a river

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he should not be allowed to play tho

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2014-10-20 10:45

this

2014-10-20 11:12

Yea. Its just a matter of time till they get DQ

2014-10-20 11:43

2014-10-20 13:28

He isnt sadly

2014-10-20 14:14

cLy allowed? xD

2014-10-20 10:44

cly? where emilio?

nice

2014-10-20 10:46

Should be a close qualifier :P My guess is: LDLC HellRaisers 3DMAX Flipsid3 myXMG dAt Alternate

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Or CPH Wolves instead of myXMG! Should be CPH Wolves, they're playing really well with the new line up and Pimp always carrying :P

2014-10-20 10:50

Where is Mouz?

2014-10-20 11:01

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Mouz blatantly don't want to qualify, as chrisJ is always TERRIBLE on lan.

2014-10-20 14:16

They won't go even if they qualify anyways, cuz lan

2014-10-20 14:18

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Gfinity 3? ESEA LAN? EPS? EMS One?

2014-10-20 14:24

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It's a joke, mr himmler

2014-10-20 14:44

only 5 teams qualify

Yhea, I noticed that. I changed the teams

2014-10-20 11:56

Alternate is bad :D

2014-10-20 14:59

cLy? lmao. isn't xelos a cheater too?

2014-10-20 10:47

nope

2014-10-20 14:03

he got esl banned for cheating?

2014-10-20 14:33

no proofs

2014-10-27 03:12

omg! xelos was banned by a unknown admin from ESL in germany?!?!? that was because of a demo he saw? so that ban dont have anything to say!! he is unbanned in every lan event in the world.. plus he have showed of his skills after that ESL ban on LAN. remember him beating NIP to dreamhack in the groupstage on dust2...

2014-10-20 21:50

exactly!

Cly is not allowed to play, he can qualify best he wants. But he is not welcome to a valve tournament. Im sorry :)

2014-10-20 10:53

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I thought that was just for esl tournaments

2014-10-20 10:59

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CPH Wolves kick Nille because he also have vac so its not only for esl

2014-10-20 11:03

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Ex6tenz had Vac-ban in source. Is he banned from Valve Torunaments? No. Why? The rule is only for cLy. Craziest rule ever but if you do it, do it for all. No cLy, Ex6tenz, flamie, emilio, nooky, xelos, delpan etc. etc.!

The rule was put in for cs:go Bans. Not 1.6 or source.

2014-10-20 14:34

But Ex6tenz is not a cheater. cLy,emilio and others are. Your argument is invalid.

2014-10-20 15:40

How about players like S1mple. He has been banned from esl in 22 years, or something like that, for cheating. It says so on his profile.

2014-10-20 16:03

Is an ESL ban a VAC ban?

2014-10-20 16:41

No, but he mentioned xelos, which was the same story, however, the admins had no prove towards xelos cheating, which they had with s1mple.

2014-10-20 17:48

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It's not the same story. The rule is, that anyone with a VAC ban in CSGO aren't allowed to compete in Valve funded tournaments.

2014-10-20 17:53

He still mentioned xelos, xelos was not vac banned, he was esl banned without prove of cheating. The admins just said he was cheating.

2014-10-20 20:43

He also mentions Delpan who hasn't (been caught at least) cheating since 1.6 and flamie who has never, afaik, been proved as a cheater. Just shows that he doesn't have a clue what he's talking about :D

2014-10-20 20:48

The rule counts for everyone who's got a VAC ban in CSGO.

2014-10-20 16:42

most likely valve do not want people who are banned in csgo for cheating on a valve account in their tournaments however they currently have not yet released any information regarding it

2014-10-20 19:35

he is still allowed to carry his team on the qualifiers. wierd no? I saw your blacklist idea, it's should work as a ban like 2-3 years. Why? because of mistake..when you child...or maybe 5years. I think it's time to invest on some anti-cheat lan. (you should watch for EAC or ESEA)

2014-10-20 12:00

I mean, if you cheat and are under 18, I can probaly just set it to a 365 or 2 year ban. But if you are over 18 i think you should be banned for life. Its wired i know, but we have been bad to be clear about this, at the same time cheaters should use common sense like everyone else. :)

2014-10-20 12:02

Yeah, i think in this way it could be fine, -18 years = 2years ban and if new ban occurs during this time, goodbye.

2014-10-20 12:06

He won't be allowed to play in the Qualifier Finals either.

2014-10-20 13:25

GL Alternate!!

2014-10-20 10:58

gl cLy maybe this time you will be luckier to prove you are good.

So players who got caught cheating in csgo are still welcome to the majors... Awesome for the community, not only does one face a million cheaters when playing MM now you can also enjoy cheaters on the big stage. If valve and the events(those not funded by valve) truely wants to help the community, please just have a zero tolerance rule regarding cheaters :).

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+1 gtfo cly

2014-10-20 11:05

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didnt xelos get caught cheating aswell :D? Wasnt that the reason hes team kicked him/replaced him before the last major - cuz valve have a rule regarding cheaters and majors :D? I could be wrong, but pretty sure I am not :p

2014-10-20 11:08

I think it was an ESL ban, not a VAC ban.

2014-10-20 11:09

If I remember correct was ban in his esl account, not vac.

Yeah okay I didnt think about that :D But that ESL event was supported by VALVE so i assume valve supports AEQ/esl ac.. Regardless there need to be rules about these players not being allowed EVER to play in competition again. Sends the wrong signal when they can enter tournaments after getting banned. If its a correct ban that is, no one should suffer from an incorrect bad obviously ;)

as far as I know he didn't get caught by the client (correct me if I'm wrong). And we all know how retarded and useless and even corrupt the admins can be on ESL :)

2014-10-20 11:17

yeah if thats the case I obviously agree ;D

2014-10-20 11:18

FeTiSh will u play tonigh against Virtus.pro?

S1mple also has an ESL ban for cheating, and I think the admins even had a prove. Anyway, his ESL profile states that he got banned for cheating, however, seems that a lot of fans and himself tells a different story about namechange w/e the fuck it was they said lol. This happened back in february this year.

2014-10-20 16:09

this.

2014-10-20 13:30

xelos had a injust esl ban

2014-10-20 12:28

ESL wire didn't find anything on me but the admin team said I was cheating anyway. I haven't been able to participate any ESL events since 2013-03-15 and even when I tried to do the rehab like hyper did I was declined it. I'm free from my ESL ban in the middle of March 2015 :)

2014-10-20 12:40

Gg bro

2014-10-20 14:21

It was a esl ban without any proof :)

2014-10-20 14:04

Fetish, don't worry. Vac-Banned players are not allowed to participate. Why they still are qualifying must be a mix of "hope they forgot" and the fact that valve and Dreamhacks rules don't apply to the face-it qual.

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Yeah i figured :D But regardless all lans/online tournaments need to be more strict about these individuals. Once a player gets caught cheating that person should never be allowed to enter competetive play again. Anywhere.

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I can tell you that we're currently looking into some kind of a blacklist system. Where a player that is caught cheating will be lifetime banned from all leagues. As it is not its just retarded, players with vac is actually thinking for real that they are welcome because "dh didnt say anything", so in their minds that is equal to "Vac-bans is legit in dreamhack"

2014-10-20 11:45

hltv.org/news/13421-duttdutt-penta-esc-f.. do you allow roobiin from flipsid3 to play after he is vac ban in csgo?

2014-10-20 16:38

We are not allowing Vac-Banned players, discussing particuallar players makes no sense, we are looking in to this.

2014-10-20 17:25

what to look? he is banned in csgo = can't play, thats easy

2014-10-20 18:08

i dont know about that. cheaters suck, obviously, but just because you cheated with 14-15 years of age i dont think you should be banned from playing competitively for ever.

2014-10-20 11:47

if you cheated on csgo get out for ever is just :)

2014-10-20 12:34

so you would see less than half of the pros still in the competitive scene

2014-10-20 12:37

the admins apparently told planetkey yesterday that cly is not allowed to play the next qualifier & main tournament. don't know why he was allowed to play this one but better late than never.

2014-10-20 11:16

because apparently everyone is invited to cheat the fuck out of qualifiers in faceit and the admins dont give a shit

2014-10-20 13:33

There needs to be more control over this because it's unacceptable that ESL and ESWC still allow cLy and other VAC banned players to play just cause they weren't banned in their own competition. I mean they got banned by Valve from playing the actual game, there's no leeway there. Unless they can actually prove it was a mistake (which is a less than 1% chance), they should be done for all events. What I'd do is 2 year ban for under-18 players and career ban for 18+. Then let's see who thinks it's worth trying to cheat.

2014-10-20 11:28

+1 Makes so much more sence to do it like that. There needs to be proper incentiment not to cheat.

2014-10-20 11:50

2014-10-20 14:11

Big +1, especially the last point

2014-10-20 15:20

+1 nobody likes cheaters!

Jesus whine more

How is that whine :D? I havnt lost to anyone whos been caught cheating. Its simply just something that whould benefit the community. Soooo you're either trolling or not bright enough to see it ;)

2014-10-20 14:47

german = cheater

2014-10-20 15:08

Obviously not whine when he is right and better than the people who cheats.

2014-10-20 16:10

2014-10-20 15:29

One of the guys from Planetkey said in another thread that cLy won't be allowed to play. I guess faceit is the ones to blame for letting him play in the qualifier, as they were hosting it. As far as I can tell, everyone who's got a VAC ban in CSGO isn't allowed to play in the Valve funded tournaments. Why other tournaments don't follow that rule set, I've no clue and I agree with you on that part.

2014-10-20 16:46

1.LDLC 2.HR 3.MS 4.DUTTDUTT :D 5.CPH? also fetish plz go work on your aim more (may be better then mine but still not enough) instead of wasting time on HLTV <3 (doesnt let me reply)

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD i actually laughed while reading the last sentence.

Hopefully LDLC, HR, 3DMAX, mouz and cph wolves get through

2014-10-20 11:15

+1 LDLC,HR,3DMAX and mouz to get in directly, 5th place will be CPH/LC/duttdutt/f3/x6/myXMG.

Single elimination? You serious? This is certainly not the way to find the top 5 teams.

2014-10-20 11:35

Well, it's not the final tournament yet so I think they had to make a compromise to save time. Besides, it's not a pure single elimination because there will be a second bracket for the losers.

2014-10-20 11:49

the second bracket only comes into play during the quarter-finals. What if there are two good teams matched up against each other before then? D:

2014-10-20 16:21

LDLC, HR, CPH WOLVES, MOUZ & 3DMAX

2014-10-20 11:36

Are you sure about Single-Elimination Bracket? 99damage says it's Double-Elimination which would be more fitting in my opinion.

2014-10-20 11:44

99dmg says its single elimination bo3

2014-10-20 12:18

Yeah, they changed it now. Single-Elimination sucks :/

2014-10-20 12:30

ez for cLy

2014-10-20 11:53

I just saw that it's 5 teams lol, easy then. 1.LDLC 2.HR 3.3DMAX 4.CPH Wolves 5.Flipsid3 / dAt

2014-10-20 11:54

Nice lineup with qualifying teams! :)

2014-10-20 11:59

LDLC HR lansports LC 3D/dAt

2014-10-20 12:01

single bo1 its not good one map and ldlc out from dreamhack faceit admins have no time, or valve decided to make it random?

Please tell me that it isn't single elimination when you try qualify for a major..

2014-10-20 12:12

It is... play.faceit.com/faceit-returns-with-qual.. They might change first round to Bo3, but dunno yet

2014-10-20 12:26

Yo bro! Update matches stats please!! =)

2014-10-21 21:03

If you loose the first match you're out :(

2014-10-20 12:33

feelin ESC - LDLC for the first game. :D #luckyboys

2014-10-20 12:31

hahaha hope you guys can make it to the DH!!! gl :D

2014-10-20 12:39

Anyone got bracket?

2014-10-20 12:24

Bracket hasn't been made yet, if you're referring to the main qual

Single elimination? This is a joke, I bet aligon will qualify lol

2014-10-20 12:27

I wonder how many known cs 1.6 players didnt get busted since vac was even more a joke back then. Free cly ~

2014-10-20 12:29

defend a cheater pls u are ridiculous

2014-10-20 12:35

hes good enough to play on lan, so dafuck why not? leagues are online, lan is offline :-) and this counts for several ex cheaters aswell i wouldnt mind playing against them at lan and the majority doesnt care either. Just the bunch of hltv users are crying it makes like always 0 sense to open a thread here to make a good impressioN

2014-10-20 15:33

cly won't play the qualifier alexrr will replace him there

but he helped them to get into closed quali, realy fair play and proffesional...

2014-10-20 12:41

yeah "helped" in playing like shit after his vac ban?

2014-10-20 13:36

All matches are in BO3 1st round of 16 -you loose you are out 2nd round of 8 -you loose you go to the lower bracket -you win you are qualified lower bracket -4 teams one gets qualified

it's bo1 isn't it

2014-10-20 13:48

csgo.99damage.de/de/coverages/8115-dream..

2014-10-20 14:08

read #59

2014-10-20 15:10

Why ban people if they can still play in teams with sponsors not to mention, they play in qualis for 250k tournament o_O fuck logic, xelos,robbin,cly, and who else?

2014-10-20 12:43

why x6 rly

2014-10-20 12:47

mad cuz k1ck got kicked ?

2014-10-20 13:03

lol :/ single

2014-10-20 12:50

LANDODGEOS DOMINIKOS STAVROS

2014-10-20 13:04

bo1 single :DDDDDDD Are we in a hurry finding the teams for DHW? Don't do anything half, do it right, or do nothing at all. I'd rather play with WIRE as long its bo3 doublE :>

2014-10-20 13:38

like seriously what do you expect from faceit except horrible organisation and rude/ignorant admins :D even cheating scum a la planetCLY is allowed to participate.

2014-10-20 13:44

yeah indeed its fucking shit method of qualifiers to such a great tournament, a horrible joke :\ i liked quals thru ESL much more

2014-10-20 14:10

Pimp, we are not in a hurry, it's up to FaceIT how they wanna find the teams. As long as it's equal for everyone. For me personally, I will try to make qualifiers different for next tournament. But that is not where we are right now.

2014-10-20 14:36

Then talk to faceit about it? It should not be so hard to see that what they are doing is not alright.... bo1 single elimination is a fucking joke.. Stand up for something please..

2014-10-20 14:58

faceit is ignorant, unprofessional and unorganized. they shouldn't be allowed to host anything like that. the teams should seriously boycott this ridiculous qualifier. i guess even ESL would be able to host a better tournament in no time. 1 more round and we'd had a bunch of german cheaters on their way to dreamhack. because of that, matches until 4:00 in the morning. well played.

2014-10-20 15:28

No worries Pimp, with the skill you've been playing at lately, you'll topfrag any game vs any mix team / old cheater. Just keep madfragging, dude! Gl with fnatic today :D

2014-10-20 16:15

cly? W T F ?!

2014-10-20 13:52

bo1 LOOOOOOOL

cly?! I thought I was never going to read that name again.

2014-10-20 14:07

cry ! baby cry!

2014-10-20 15:01

Faceit being Faceit once again. It's honestly saddening in SO many ways, that Faceit gets to host these kinds of tournaments, when they are so unprofessional it hurts. For starters, BO1? Why the fuck would it ever be BO1, is DHW this weekend? I think not. Remove the random factor (upsets on bo1 are WAY more likely than bo3), it is a fucking MAJOR after all. Second of, cLy? It's a Valve-sponsored major tournament, why is he still allowed to play the qualifiers? Their full team should get DQ'd and the team they knocked out should get their spot. Honestly at this rate, no wonder people start to prefer MM over Faceit. This is just a clear sign that you care not for the community, you care for profit.

2014-10-20 14:22

1.LDLC 2.HR 3.Mous 4.3DMAX 5. 5TH spot is gonna be even but i belive on LC

2014-10-20 14:31

mouz sucks!

2014-10-20 15:00

if vac-banned people are not allowed to participate, then it should mean (in theory) that LDLC wouldn't be able to attend as well, since Happy has got a vac ban, too. steamcommunity.com/profiles/765611979782..

2014-10-20 14:54

rly?

vacban on 1.6 and 8years old vacban. How you can apply a ban tournament for that's? Just saw your flag, you must be cLy? :D

2014-10-20 15:04

Hltv logic strikes again, just because I'm from germany doesnt mean that I support cLy in anyway, I hate what he did as much as anyone else on hltv. I'm sorry if I hitted your g-spot with my comment, and now would just kindly fuck off? 4-0

2014-10-20 15:09

Only VAC bans in CS:GO are relevant, according to Valve rules

Oh alrgiht, thanks for clearing that up

i fucking hate the swedish "teams" that they make for these qualifiers and disband a month after

2014-10-20 15:12

LDLC, HR, mouz, x6. 3DMAX and dAT maybe, depends on seedings.

GL, duttdutt, mouz and Planetkey Dynamic

2014-10-20 15:51

DHW must force new server setting "cLy_enable 0"

2014-10-20 15:53

Haha that's so fucking funny. Before cheating : "woaaah, cly unbelievable, super nice TURKISH player, nice nice nice!" After cheating : "Lol, fucking GERMAN hacker cunt, hacking like every GERMAN player" So many reverse-nazis here, hilarious :D

2014-10-20 18:12