DH Open London announced

6-7-2015 12:23

DreamHack has announced the first details about the Open event stop in London.

Back in March, DreamHack announced plans for a large-scale Open circuit comprising seven events held across Europe until the end of the year. At the time, DreamHack revealed that London would stage one event, but the exact date and location remained unknown.

It has now been announced that the 7,000-seat Copper Box Arena, a multi-sport venue used for the 2012 Summer Olympics, will play host to DreamHack's London stop, which will take place on September 19-20.

Copper Box Arena to host DH Open London

As in the previous DreamHack stops, the London event will play host to an eight-team CS:GO tournament, featuring a $40,000 prize pool.

If you plan on attending DreamHack London as a spectator, you can purchase tickets for the event here.

cool

2015-07-06 12:23

#free_london

2015-07-06 12:24

nice

2015-07-06 12:24

ncie

2015-07-06 12:24

okay

2015-07-06 12:25

see name

2015-07-06 12:25

expected

2015-07-06 12:25

expected

2015-07-06 12:25

nice

2015-07-06 12:25

UK team to win noKappa

2015-07-06 12:26

Haters gon hate D: Yes I don't expect a UK team to even qualify, let alone win ^^

2015-07-06 12:29

ayyy

2015-07-06 12:30

too ez for RattlesnK

2015-07-06 12:30

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2015-07-06 12:46

+1 Finals: XENEX vs Fnatic bo5 XENEX wins 3-0 (16-0x3).

2015-07-06 15:40

4 replies

And then you woke up m8 :D

2015-07-06 15:43

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RattlesnK = 1000x kennyS in his prime (AWP skills) RattlesnK = 1000x Ex6TenZ, 1000x pronax, 1000x karrigan (IGL skills & tactics) wtf are u want dude

2015-07-06 15:49

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true but sadly not in cs go

2015-07-06 16:19

VG's dominance in CS:S would disagree...

2015-07-06 16:35

nicee

2015-07-06 12:34

only 40k? meh

2015-07-06 12:35

8 replies

not bad for 2 day event with 8 teams, mostly compromising of t2 teams tbh

2015-07-06 12:42

7 replies

thats very bad LOLOLOL

2015-07-06 12:54

Five out of the top eight teams in the world attended the last event, so saying tier2 is quite off..

2015-07-06 13:53

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Nix0n <3

2015-07-06 14:17

some hltv users is just bad or stupid

2015-07-06 14:56

Who attended the last event? I don't really want to travel up to London unless seeing tier 1.

2015-07-06 16:36

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1. fnatic - $20,000 2. Na`Vi - $6,000 3-4. NiP - $3,000 3-4. Titan - $3,000 5-6. dignitas - $2,000 5-6. FlipSid3 - $2,000 7-8. LGB - $2,000 7-8. Kinguin - $2,000

2015-07-06 20:29

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Sweet, i'll be watching that then!

2015-07-07 00:23

kinguin

2015-07-06 12:44

Their scene ain't in a good condition would say does not even exist but they do make their bestbto organise such amazing events like gfinity and now this dh london event. Props!

2015-07-06 12:47

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faceit stage 1 finals too, was pretty nice. Apart from the DDoS attacks on the stream where we had the Get_dupreeh show :P

2015-07-06 17:27

UK scene. The biggest ever. #kidding

2015-07-06 12:58

7k seats and like 200 people will come because csgo in UK is dead

2015-07-06 13:04

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It's not dead we just don't have any decent pro teams. We can view it just as well as others :D

2015-07-06 13:08

Really not true, CS:GO is pretty popular and growing here. Gfinity has low attendance because it's 18+ which means the main demographic of the people that are interested in CS are excluded.

2015-07-06 13:40

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really? i didnt know that, thats why it really looks like nobody watches csgo in UK, thanks

2015-07-06 14:24

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Yeah, the CSGO stages at our LANs (insomnia and EpicLan) are usually pretty packed.

2015-07-06 16:18

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Yeah, you should have watched the last I-series final. We had a whole 20 people watching the CSGO stage... Though, the summer LAN is usally different, I hope so in August.

2015-07-06 16:31

EDIT - By last, I meant Nov 14, I didn't attend LAN in spring.

2015-07-06 16:33

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When I went last load of people were playing CSGO as well as the stage having a pretty decent turnout, guess it varies with each event. Wrong choice of words by me lmao.

2015-07-06 19:29

there will be a lot of spectators because csgo in UK is not dead. the pro UK scene on the other hand is dead.

2015-07-06 14:22

We may have no scene but lets be honest. We don't generate enough competition/revenue to have good teams because everyone needs a job to fund themselves. Its unlikely the UK will ever have a scene like it was in 1.6/css. Nice to see it in the UK though :)

2015-07-06 13:12

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You're a jumping well ahead of yourself. There are many teams inbetween the levels of amateur and full-time salary funded such as NiP, fnatic and C9 which English teams still CANT compete with... Are they using the same excuses? No. People need to pay the bills on other countries as well. Once a UK team sticks together and shows some results (i'm not saying winning a LAN, I mean beating other team who also aren't funded) they don't deserve the respect from an organisation.

2015-07-06 13:27

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Our players aren't good enough to get the salaries to be able to play full time otherwise I'm sure most people would jump at the chance. Only team to pose a threat in the UK was fm and they stil needed adjustments because neilzinho said that weber and socn argue alot.. I'd have replaced weber in a heartbeat instead of letting socn go but instead the team just got destroyed cmpletely..

2015-07-06 14:08

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I belive you've missed the point. "Everyone needs a job to fund themselves" apply to all contries not just England. The excuse is overused, and not remotely fair to other nations who've succeded in the game.

2015-07-06 14:39

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2015-07-06 16:15

better than esl's shitty studios

2015-07-06 13:39

first

2015-07-06 13:40

second

2015-07-06 13:43

Another Lan in london, another lan with no spectators at all, incredible that now dreamhack wants to host a tournament in the worst possible major city in Europe regarding CS

2015-07-06 13:50

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Gfinity gets no spectators because it's 18+ which alienates a lot of the people here that actually play.

2015-07-06 19:22

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I didn't know that, explains alot. Quite a mystery that Gfinity has chosen to make it 18+ when the crowd is more or less empty

2015-07-06 23:37

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Gfinity finals had a good crowd. 18+ is not a bad idea tbh.

2015-07-07 11:46

Let the salt flow

2015-07-06 13:50

FM Toxic will win.

2015-07-06 13:59

Nice

2015-07-06 14:03

£10 spec ticket, not bad. only need to get the Jubilee to stratford.

2015-07-06 14:52

No cod = no spectators (this is england we're talking about).

2015-07-06 15:58

team list?

2015-07-06 16:29

Will it be 18+?

2015-07-06 16:51

Ive been thinking about this but will there be a dreamhack winter this year with all these scattered dreamhack tournaments?

2015-07-06 17:59

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Yes, DreamHack Winter is happening 26-29th of November. The remaining events this year would be: DreamHack Valencia 2015 – July 16-19th DreamHack London 2015 – September 19-20th DreamHack Stockholm 2015 – September 25-26th DreamHack Cluj-Napoca 2015 – 30 October 1st November DreamHack Winter 2015 – November 26-29th DreamHack Moscow 2015 – December 5-6th

2015-07-06 20:31

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i actually meant if there was going to be a 250k valve major like last year cuz i know this event said 40k or something like that on hltv's upcoming events

2015-07-06 21:28

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Oh, like that. Nothing is announced at this time.

2015-07-06 22:10