DreamHack Winter viewer's guide

26-11-2014 09:54

With DreamHack Winter set to kick off on Thursday afternoon, we have put together a comprehensive viewer's guide to get you ready for the event.

DreamHack Winter marks the anniversary of the first CS:GO major, and since then we've had fnatic, Virtus.pro and NiP become world champions at the biggest tournaments.

Another $250,000 prize will be up for grabs this week in Jönköping, where sixteen of the world's best teams will be competing for the massive prize purse, distributed as follows:

1. $100,000
2. $50,000
3-4. $22,000
5-8. $10,000
9-16. $2,000

The tournament will begin with a best-of-one group stage using a GSL format, with half of the sixteen teams progressing to the playoffs, set to begin on Friday morning.

In the group stage the map selection system features both teams removing two maps from the pool, with the map then decided randomly from the three remaining maps:

de_cache
de_cobblestone
de_dust2
de_inferno
de_mirage
de_nuke
de_overpass

From there on out the entire tournament will be played out using a best-of-three single elimination bracket, with the semi-finals and grand final scheduled for Saturday.

In the playoffs each team will only get a chance to eliminate one map from the pool. Then each team picks their map, and once again, the third map will be drawn randomly.

Thursday, November 27
12:00	fnatic	vs. Bravado	A1	BO1
12:00	dignitas	vs. PENTA	B1	BO1
13:00	Cloud9	vs. HellRaisers	A2	BO1
13:00	iBUYPOWER	vs. Copenhagen Wolves	B2	BO1
14:00	A1 winner	vs. A2 winner	A3	BO1
14:00	B1 winner	vs. B2 winner	B3	BO1
15:00	A1 loser	vs. A2 loser	A4	BO1
15:00	B1 loser	vs. B2 loser	B4	BO1
16:00	A3 loser	vs. A4 winner	A5	BO1
16:00	B3 loser	vs. B4 winner	B5	BO1
18:30	LDLC	vs. ESC	C1	BO1
18:30	Virtus.pro	vs. myXMG	D1	BO1
19:30	NiP	vs. Planetkey Dynamics	C2	BO1
19:30	Natus Vincere	vs. FlipSid3	D2	BO1
20:30	C1 winner	vs. C2 winner	C3	BO1
20:30	D1 winner	vs. D2 winner	D3	BO1
21:30	C1 loser	vs. C2 loser	C4	BO1
21:30	D1 loser	vs. D2 loser	D4	BO1
22:30	C3 loser	vs. C4 winner	C5	BO1
22:30	D3 loser	vs. D4 winner	D5	BO1

Friday, November 28
10:00	Quarter-final #1			BO3
13:30	Quarter-final #2			BO3
17:00	Quarter-final #3			BO3
20:30	Quarter-final #4			BO3

Saturday, November 29
13:00	Semi-final #1			BO3
16:30	Semi-final #2			BO3
21:00	Grand final			BO3

HLTV.org will be on-site at DreamHack Winter 2014 in Jönköping, Sweden to provide you with full coverage of the fourth CS:GO major with a prize purse of $250,000.

nicee

2014-11-26 09:56

wheres flipsid3?

2014-11-26 09:57

5 replies

"19:30 Natus Vincere vs. FlipSid3 D2 BO1"

2014-11-26 10:03

4 replies

i am blind, sry

2014-11-26 10:30

3 replies

ctrl+f

2014-11-26 10:51

Lol not your fault. HLTV did a mistake by putting epsilon inplace of Flipside then after your comment they rectified it

2014-11-26 11:53

1 reply

yeah, noticed something there when i couldnt find flipside:>

2014-11-26 12:13

Epsilon's not there. HLTV trolling Edit : Corrected just in time Kappa

2014-11-26 09:58

Ez brav

20th comment woooooooooo

2014-11-26 09:59

2 replies

H3h3h3h3

2014-11-26 10:05

#22-taylor swift

2014-11-26 10:06

EZ fnatic rekt by southafrica

awesome can't wait :]

2014-11-26 10:02

I wish one day CSGO & HLTVorg would become so big this prizes would go to DreamTeam winners :D

nah, it's better just send it directly to me

2014-11-26 11:00

They get so much money off stickers anyway. But I still agree that maybe the prize should be a bit bigger.

2014-11-26 13:35

ldlc time to shine

I get money!!!

Easy win for NIP <3 :)

epsilon?

2014-11-26 10:04

Good luck all teams

I'm a bit confused hltv.org and csgolounge states that e.g bravado is playing fnatic, while the ingame pick'em challenge is stating that HR is playing against bravado. Pretty much all of the matches on the pick em challenge are the opposite as stated on this page, am I misunderstanding something here? i.imgur.com/wlHPPvH.png edit or this the pick em challenge just about guessing the two teams that advance?

2014-11-26 10:07

in the pick'em challenge you pick those teams you think will advance from the group, not match results

2014-11-26 10:08

if that is true i have truly fucked up this pick em, becuse i dont even have monney to replace the underdog stickers then..

2014-11-26 11:49

Dude, you have to pick the 2 best teams of each group. They will go to the quarter finals. You don't have to predict match winners...

2014-11-26 13:36

its just random positioning, means the 4 is in one team, not showing match-ups

2014-11-26 10:09

that pick'em page does not show who is playing who , its showing the 4 teams in random order, u need to pick 2 out of 4,2 who will advance,thats it.

2014-11-26 10:17

fnatic hahahahaha

GOGO VP!!!

2014-11-26 10:18

ez nip

2014-11-26 10:20

Damn them timings... ESL one Cologne had such nice timings for me...starts @ 1pm,ends by 11pm/12am. This starts at 16:30 and last match is at 3am for group stage ,and finals at 1 am :/

2014-11-26 10:26

mkc 1:30 baje final

2014-11-26 10:41

Wont watch this shit. Fnatic still in the tournament.

2014-11-26 10:27

NiP back to top1

2014-11-26 10:28

Wow, are you for real? Groups and quarter-finals on workdays? That's horrible timing for people with a life.

2014-11-26 10:31

7 replies

+1.

2014-11-26 10:43

This...

I'm sure vod fix it for people with life

2014-11-26 11:03

always been like this

2014-11-26 11:16

Agreed. Working 0900-1700 thursday and friday. Wish they could have started later on the working days at least... :/

2014-11-26 11:27

with what? life? What is this?

2014-11-26 12:20

Instead of 5 matches in groups there should be 6 matches so all teams can play each other. Currently it's 20 group stage matches but with other option it would be 24 matches. Currently in worse way you will play only 2 matches, but with other option all team would play always 3 matches, would be more fair. Time solutions: 1. From 17:00 to 22:30 - 1 matches from all group in one time. 2. They would need to change start time from 12:00 to 10:00 so it would end up in 24:00. I think it would be much better for teams and for viewers.

2014-11-26 12:34

I wish groups consisted of bo3's and spanned two days.

2014-11-26 10:40

Cool, quarter-finals while I'm working, gg.

2014-11-26 10:42

Cool, all tournament while I`m on holidays, pleasure to have business with you Valve&DH! GG :>

2014-11-26 12:43

the worst timing ever for asian countries to watch & guess what this major wont hit 400k viewers mark...

it will hit more... :>

2014-11-26 12:41

not really in India the time during final will be 2:00 am & its a bo3 it will last for 2+ hrs

2014-11-26 12:48

dreamhack... dreamhack... oh well, ah yeah, thats this tournament with cheaters...

so it starts at 6am est?.

ez for fnatic

2014-11-26 10:48

Saturday 21:00 CET I bet 600k viewers will break ;-) (330-350k in Steam).

2014-11-26 10:50

flipsid3 to upset navi yet again

2014-11-26 10:53

so how big is gonna be delay for the first 2 matches?

2014-11-26 10:57

3/4 hour

2014-11-26 11:05

These BO1-formats makes me so damn sad :'(

2014-11-26 11:02

I have fucking classes who i cant miss. I hope for boring group stages matches as always :D Btw, why they dont make this to friday, sunday and saturday? 2 working days is competely bad for most of the viewers

2014-11-26 11:09

nice

2014-11-26 11:11

Wanted to see season in the map pool

2014-11-26 11:15

Its time to stay home,fck school.

Couldn t u make at least the grand final on sunday?

2014-11-26 11:19

Nope, because now I finally won't have to miss it due to work :D

2014-11-26 17:33

Why wouldn't they use all 4 days for this event? They could do groupstages thursday and friday, then quarters saturday, and semis + grand on sunday. Instead some players will only sleep like 6 hours before the quarters start but hey at least they can finish 1 day before schedule. wth

2014-11-26 11:29

inb4 vac ban while playing

Thursday and Friday, starting at 10-12? Such a huge fail of the organisers.

Thanks for the overview! <3 HLTV.org

2014-11-26 11:31

WE NEED TUSCAN

2014-11-26 11:32

Bravado will shrek ur nan

2014-11-26 11:35

Hope there will be a lot of cobblestone matches. I want that souvenir case. Probably not.

2014-11-26 11:38

Penta 8-16, because they cant play without cheats.

2014-11-26 11:40

Grand Final BO5 ffs why doesn't valve never listen to us

2014-11-26 11:42

BO1 sucks :)

2014-11-26 11:50

yea sure volvos pick systems ''random'' maps are cbble and overpass :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD And why the FUCK this pick system aint ditched yet? FFS

2014-11-26 12:15

Cobblestone and not Season, kek

Not a great schedule, still the same format, and knowing that at least 1 cheater will play in DHW already makes me less and less excited about this tournament..

2014-11-26 12:53

Dreamhack Winter 2014 Pick'em Challenge Pro Predictions youtube.com/watch?v=QDAlZV24d-M

2014-11-26 12:55

gonna miss all the quarter-finals and possibly first semi-final. Fuck

2014-11-26 13:16

Bravado getting fnatic straight away GG sry enjoy the flight back home

2014-11-26 13:29

Cobblestone still? Lmao. Valve, get your shit together and just take that out the map pool. Also this "random third map" thing is ridiculous. It's not a thing. It needs to stop. Why would you want to see two great teams potentially having to duke it out on de_fucking_cobblestone which neither of them will even want to play, as the general consensus in the professional community is that it is not a viable competitive map. The majority of the viewers most certainly don't want to spectate that map, so who is this pleasing? Valves need for self-assurance that they have made a good map? Because you really haven't.

2014-11-26 13:55