DreamHack Winter 2014 EU Closed Qualifier

HellRaisers qualify for DH Winter

23-10-2014 16:34

HellRaisers have secured a spot in DreamHack Winter's $250,000 CS:GO tournament after coming out on top of the last-chance European qualifier.

The four losing sides from the closed qualifier's quarter-finals locked horns on Wednesday in a last-chance qualifier, hoping to get their hands on the last spot at the upcoming CS:GO major.

In the first round, HellRaisers, who had given a frustrating account of themselves the day before, moved past ALTERNATE 2-0 following two 16-14 victories, whereas myXMG defeated FlipSid3 Tactics 2-1 in a very close contest between two Scandinavian sides.

As expected, HellRaisers, powered by another great performance from Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev, confirmed their favourite status in the grand final and saw off myXMG but not without taking a few hits from the Danes. In the end, a 16-11 win on de_overpass and a 16-10 success on de_mirage have earned HR a spot at DH Winter.

DreamHack Winter 2014 EU Closed QualifierBest of 3

myXMG

Matchpage

22nd October 2014

HellRaisers

Overpass

Mirage

Below you can find how the participants' list for DH Winter, which will take place from November 27-29, currently looks:

NiP	fnatic
Titan	dignitas
Virtus.pro	Cloud9
Epsilon	Na`Vi
LDLC	Planetkey Dynamics
PENTA Sports	ESC Gaming
iBUYPOWER	HellRaisers
TBD	TBD

Nice HR <3

2014-10-23 17:34

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Won't make it out of group stage. Scrubs.

2014-10-23 18:21

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do a search on HR and ex-Astana Dragons led by ANGE1 at LAN events prior spreading your nonsense rage around here at something/someone.... Of course they might not come out of groups, anything is possible, but the point is that there's no need to put it in such a harsh way you do... Yes, they are still looking for their gameplay with s1mple and ANGE1 has recently confirmed it at SLTV starladder LAN in Kiev that they still havent 100% found their game in ceh9's interview few days ago as well as their spots within the team and places they used to hold on maps before have changed, as for kucher, for instance, kucher confirmed once again a few days ago in ceh9's interview that his spots on most maps have completely changed since s1mple joined and he basically now learns the game from scratch which definitely results in such a poor performance by him recently and criticism he gets and yes, they are struggling and they are not hiding it, but they're working on all of those things now and definitely its not going to just come in to work perfectly quickly and they start ending up in TOP 3 or 5th-8th, BUT its not impossible knowing what HR can do on LAN even after showing such a poor performance trying to qualify . . . HR really need to step it up and do good ASAP though as the organization needs better results and also the players themselves the more they lose the more they might think of new changes within the team which i am not going to be surprised if they happen again at the end of 2014 or beginning of 2015 if HR indeed dont come out of groups at ESWC and DreamHack...but we'll see... gl hf to them!

2014-10-23 18:50

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thnks for explain,gogo HR!!!

2014-10-23 19:14

That is the longest sentence I have ever read.

2014-10-23 19:15

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at least you read it, I probably wouldn't if I were you :) <3

2014-10-23 19:25

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i read it as well

2014-10-23 19:52

2014-10-23 20:10

WOa thanks indeed. gl HR

2014-10-24 00:00

wtf.... learn to split your statement into more than one sentence

2014-10-24 05:29

HR fanboy.

2014-10-24 07:41

youtube.com/watch?v=5GgflscOmW8

2014-10-24 17:45

"Of course they might not come out of groups, anything is possible, but the point is that there's no need to put it in such a harsh way you do... " This is how Americans follow sports, by talking shit about the other teams. I don't think it's only Americans, either, if rumors about how Europeans act at your football games are true.

2014-10-24 18:41

You won't make it out of your cave. Scrub

2014-10-24 11:46

finally, excited to see s1mple there

2014-10-23 17:35

Good :D

s1mple deserve

Guess they wait with the invites till ESWC is over? :P Or will they announce qualifiers for certain countries?

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i think its vox + wolf again :)

2014-10-23 17:36

Vox sounds resonable. Wolf doesn't make sense at all.

2014-10-23 17:37

Vox won't be able to play since one of their members wedding (can't recall the name) is right around DHW. anyway, they're not australia's top1 atm.

2014-10-23 17:39

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and who is australia's n1?

2014-10-23 18:12

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team Immunity afaik

2014-10-23 18:14

Immunity just won 2-0 against them in the latest aussie tournament, so i'd say them and if there will be a spot for Australia i think they're gonna take it.

2014-10-23 18:16

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and who cares about this match? its like random NA team beats c9 or ibp = c9 and ibp not top1 :D

2014-10-23 18:24

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it was not just a match, it was a LAN (pretty big for australia) and VOX lost in the final. hltv.org/news/13431-immunity-win-cgpl-se..

2014-10-23 18:26

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and they will invite immunity instead of vox bcz this?

2014-10-23 18:29

i have a feeling that you can't read not just what i reply to your own question to me but even hltv articles. first, there will be no invite, but a qualification (and we don't even know yet whether it's gonna be for australia). second, like i said before, vox will be unable to attend DHW since topguN's wedding will be at the same time.

2014-10-23 18:32

ok I didn't read but still vox are top1 aus

2014-10-23 18:35

There was a qualifier last time I believe

2014-10-23 18:36

They will invite vox for sure. The other spot I'm not sure they should invite some team from europe. I think it will be a waste of spot imo

2014-10-23 18:02

Immunity can win Vox

2014-10-23 19:43

WHO IS TBA ? india ?

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Nah bro, it's fallen and co.

2014-10-23 17:38

top1 mars and moon teams

2014-10-23 18:05

Nice, can't wait for DHW, no DDoS :D

What's mean TBD? Who's else have chance to qualificate?

It's two international qualifiers that haven't been announced yet.

so there is no BYOC qualify at DH this year?

2014-10-23 17:41

2014-10-23 17:43

Nop

2014-10-23 17:44

there will be a valve-paid bootcamp 2 weeks before the lan for every qualified team, so making a BYOC would've been at least unfair.

Australian and Indian qualifier most likely. Virtual Impact and VOX

2014-10-23 17:40

VI and iM you mean - I don't think Voxe can go to Dreamhack because topguN is getting married :D

2014-10-23 23:01

and IM >>> Vox now so ...

2014-10-24 05:25

hope 3dmax and london conspiracy can qualify

lol

2014-10-23 17:45

lol nvm

2014-10-23 17:50

They would be rly gud.

2014-10-23 17:51

No BYOC-qual this time?

Asian qualifiers + Australian qualifiers plz

nice gl fellas

top16 max

Wolf/VoxE/Virtual Imp/Immunity

HellRaiser is in good shape

troll

2014-10-23 17:47

no troll!

2014-10-23 18:06

Their CT on mirage is still horrible... And last 2 spots hopefully australian + asian qualifiers

2014-10-23 17:46

They should start making these VALVe sponsored tournaments 20 or 24 teams.

and change group stage format or make it bo3

2014-10-23 17:52

and have the tournament go on for 7 days :)

1st day - Group A & B matches 2nd day - Group C & D matches 3rd day - Quarter-finals 4th day - Semi-finals & finals

2014-10-23 18:47

I want 7 days please!

2014-10-23 18:54

Then: 1. Group A 2. Group B 3. Group C 4. Group D 5. Quarterfinals 6. Semifinals 7. Grand final More than 3 days is good though, in esl one cologne sometimes there were multiple matches at the same time so you had to choose which one to watch :)

2014-10-24 00:55

Still lot of things to work on! GL~

gl HR!

2014-10-23 17:48

Good they deserve a chance at getting through groups again! GO HR!

2014-10-23 17:49

I have nothing against them, but I'd rather give the chance to some newcomers like Alternate, LC or 3DMAX.

alternate already lost the qualifer

yea they lost two maps 16:14 against hr... don't say alternate didn't deserve that spot as well.

2014-10-23 20:06

ofc but hr was stronger

2014-10-23 23:18

they had a chance, but lost the qualifier...its not that they didnt have a chance, they couldnt beat the teams they were put up against which resulted in them not qualifying so... thats chance was there my man...

2014-10-23 18:34