DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015 Qualifier at DreamHack Open Stockholm

DH Open Stockholm Group D synopsis

23-9-2015 00:37

With Group D being the next group of play at DreamHack Open Stockholm, we return with a synopsis of the four teams that will be competing tomorrow: FlipSid3 Tactics, Copenhagen Wolves, CLG, and Lounge Gaming.

Today's action saw Cloud9 be the first team of eight to qualify for DreamHack Open Cluj while ROCCAT became the first team to leave the event following two best-of-three losses.

Group D will kick off next in Stockholm, which is somewhat out of order due to certain teams such as Skyred running into travel and visa delays which pushed their respective groups back.

Regardless, another team will officially qualify for the next major at DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca tomorrow, while two Group D teams will have to wait until the consolidation matches on Saturday at the Annexet Global Arena: another team will unfortunately head home tomorrow as well.

CLG are looking to make their third successful major qualification bid this year

While the full schedule for this week's games at DreamHack Open Stockholm can be found here, we continue with our attempt to briefly introduce all 16 competitors to you as well as provide short historical overviews of recent occurrences in each respective team.

We therefore turn the page and examine Group D, which features a North American challenger, a Eastern European dark horse, and two European teams that represent newer, consolidating projects in the CS:GO scene.

FlipSid3

FlipSid3 have been rather quiet since the team's last offline attendance, which happened to be the ESL One Cologne major. The team were unsurprisingly swept aside by EnVyUs in the first match, but then managed to take part in an upset-dismantling of mousesports on de_cbble with a 16-14 score, only to be then denied a spot in the top eight by Luminosity in a de_cbble overtime thriller (18-22).

This kind of vacillation has been the case for this team since they bid adieu to the choleric Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev; however astute observers might notice that although replacement Vadim "⁠DavCost⁠" Vasilyev is a step-down in skill, his presence as the fifth player has the team playing more cohesively and with better coordination overall.

markeloff's FlipSid3 flirt with high level play

FlipSid3 therefore continues to improve and challenge teams, and are a far way from the four-round total they put up at ESL One Katowice, a low watermark for the team. A third major qualification this year would give these Russian-Ukrainian risers another chance at glory.

Player	Age	Majors Attended	Rating (past 3 months)
Vladyslav "⁠bondik⁠" Nechyporchuk	22	3	1.08
Georgi "⁠WorldEdit⁠" Yaskin	23	3	1.03
Vadim "⁠DavCost⁠" Vasilyev	19	2	0.95
Yegor "⁠markeloff⁠" Markelov	27	6	0.94
Andrey "⁠B1ad3⁠" Gorodenskiy	28	3	0.82

Copenhagen Wolves

When the old Copenhagen Wolves team folded in May due to its roster imploding, many thought the organisation would lie low and bide its time for a ripe moment to pick up another bushel of Danish talent.

The new team was certainly not of Copenhagener stock however, as the organisation managed to scoop up three Norwegian players from the former LGB team and two Swedes from the former Property lineup in the hopes of forming a Scandinavian super team.

zEVES has been seen adding Swedish spices to a Norwegian Rakfisk

Things are looking up for CPH Wolves as, at their first offline event as a team at DreamHack Open London this past weekend, the Scandinavian team managed to defeat SK Gaming, upset Gamers2 in the consolidation match, and thereby advance to the semifinals (where the team were routed by a dominant EnVyUs showing). The Wolves will look to build on this momentum come tomorrow in their opener against FlipSid3.

Player	Age	Majors Attended	Rating (past 3 months)
Joakim "⁠jkaem⁠" Myrbostad	21	1	1.11
Simon "⁠twist⁠" Eliasson	20	3	1.10
Ruben "⁠RUBINO⁠" Villarroel	21	2	1.10
Erik "⁠zende⁠" Sundeqvist	20	1	0.93
Morten "⁠zEVES⁠" Vollan Christensen	24	1	0.83

CLG

CLG spent a long time this year being earmarked as North America's second best team, with occasional moments of brilliance such as the team's takedown of fnatic on de_mirage at the ESL ESEA Pro League Season 1 finals.

The team's performance at ESL One Cologne can be called an undeniable choke however, as Counter Logic Gaming lost an early lead to NiP in their opener, narrowly managed to beat eBettle (16-14 on de_mirage), and were edged out by a somewhat senile Na`Vi in the decider match.

The team returned home and at first continued their winning ways, both online over regional rivals Liquid and offline at the WinOut Championships over the Luminosity Brazilians.

jdm64 has started to step up alongside rifler tarik for CLG

A few red flags have begun to pop up for the team however. Despite the partial meaninglessness of online results, CLG were recently taken out in the third place decider of the iBP Fall Invitational by the less-experienced Conquest crew as well as failing to qualify for FACEIT Season 3 after losing to the Premier team that is ex-eLevate.

CLG will likely not want to disappoint the team's impressive lineage this year of two successful major qualification bids, especially if the newly invigorated Team Liquid with Spencer "⁠Hiko⁠" Martin manages to qualify, an outcome which would throw CLG's number-two status into serious question.

Player	Age	Majors Attended	Rating (past 3 months)
Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik	19	2	1.12
Josh "⁠jdm64⁠" Marzano	25	1	1.10
James "⁠hazed⁠" Cobb	26	2	1.04
Stephen "⁠reltuC⁠" Cutler	26	2	0.97
Pujan "⁠FNS⁠" Mehta	23	2	0.96

CSGOLounge

CSGOLounge, or Lounge Gaming, represent the item-trading and skin-betting giant's first foray into competitive team sponsorship. The signing is part of a broader trend of skin gambling entering the competitive scene, a move which is beginning to be challenged by some in the scene (as well as impartially discussed, as seen in your correspondent's recent article).

So much sound and fury does some injustice to the competitive array that this team brings to the table, as it is widely seen as a retooling of the Polish Gamers2 legacy who were widely seen as the second best team in Poland before eBettle rose to challenge that status.

Loord hopes to do more damage as player than coach

The old Gamers2 core did away with Mikołaj "⁠mouz⁠" Karolewski and Jacek "⁠MINISE⁠" Jeziak and brought in online-talent Oskar "⁠oskarish⁠" Stenborowski (who generally seemed more comfortable on German mix-teams before this signing) as well as 1.6 Golden-Five legend Mariusz "⁠Loord⁠" Cybulski, who has been flip-flopping between retirement and coaching Gamers2 lately.

CSGOLounge will play under their organisation's name with no issue tomorrow, as DreamHack has not ruled otherwise. However, many will brush aside the petty external politics and focus on whether this revamped Polish lineup can bring the heat against CLG in both teams' opener.

Player	Age	Majors Attended	Rating (past 3 months)
Michał "⁠MICHU⁠" Müller	18	0	1.10
Oskar "⁠oskarish⁠" Stenborowski	18	0	1.08
Grzegorz "⁠SZPERO⁠" Dziamałek	24	1	1.05
Paweł "⁠innocent⁠" Mocek	21	1	1.04
Mariusz "⁠Loord⁠" Cybulski	28	0	0.89

Groups C and B

We will return tomorrow with the next group's synopsis, which will be Group C with Group B actually taking place on Friday, September 25th.

By the end of all four groups, four teams will already have an assured spot in the next CS:GO major at DreamHack Cluj. Four more teams will emerge from each group at the consolidation match showdown in the Annexet Global Arena on Saturday, September 26.

We will continue posting actively on Twitter and HLTV.org as the matches get underway tomorrow, and you can also avail yourself of the Group A synopsis for some bedside reading although the group itself is already done and dusted.

stich writes for HLTV.org and also posts other CS:GO thoughts to his Twitter.

cool

2015-09-23 00:38

Almost

2015-09-23 00:39

csgl + cphw

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Nt Evil Poorland

2015-09-23 00:40

1 reply

It's Reversed Poorland!

2015-09-23 02:42

csgl wont even get 15 rounds in whole tournament m8

2015-09-23 00:41

loord 90bomb inc

2015-09-23 00:47

clg and wolves easy

new video of crying flipside players incoming

F3 and cph w to advance

CLG will be first after that anyone could make it through but you have to think f3 have the best chance

2015-09-23 00:42

CLG & CPH W

2015-09-23 00:43

Agreed.

2015-09-23 00:46

2015-09-23 01:37

2015-09-23 10:45

rip 1-16

2015-09-23 13:18

ez oskarish

2015-09-23 00:45

clg, cpw, f3, lg

Group of death

2015-09-23 00:49

bet on csgl, skins are safe.

2015-09-23 00:50

how the fuck rubino is 21, i thought he got like 26 or more

2015-09-23 00:56

The scandinavian beard is stronk

2015-09-23 08:53

Second Flipsid3 paragraph made me google a word for only the second time in my life. Both words were from this website. Both started with 'v's and both written by stich iirc. Please put down the thesaurus- you're making me feel stupid D: I don't think CLG will make it. They'll prob get beat out by CPHW and F3. Also, why did exG2 cut their best players? Aside from Michu, of course. They kept their most inconsistent players. Every time they make a roster move it flies under the radar, at least for me. Bring back minise and mouzinho. Cut the Pokemon (Spearow).

2015-09-23 00:57

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I did an English major so yeah it just happens spontaneously when I write

2015-09-23 01:01

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did i step-down in skill?:(

2015-09-23 01:07

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no I'm actually saying davcost is a step-down in skill, but it reads kind of awkwardly. edit: fixed the syntax of the sentence, hopefully it makes more sense now

2015-09-23 01:19

F3 stepped down in terms of skill (as a whole team) when you were gone.

sex me pls

2015-09-23 04:05

stich, I'm not bitching, but you should (maybe) a bit "retard friendly" 70% (or even more) readers here have problems with english. Not so many people speaks english natively or knows it professionaly. Your news are written great, but most of readers will not understand 1/3 of it, due to usage of uncommon words. No hate and don't ban me, plox (haha).

2015-09-23 01:57

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it's a fair point, and one I've considered before. but I do find a problem with the logic that one should limit the quality of their work due to the expectations of others. the workaround so far I've found is to stick to plain writing in news posts, and give myself more leeway in previews

2015-09-23 01:59

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Doing a work the best possible is one thing, but second thing is who you do it. You can't install a do-it-yourself Linux to a notebook of somebody who could barely type google.com in browser. This web is not only for english-talking people from english-talking countries and you are also not typing in a historical everywhere-accepted doctor newspaper. I don't say your articles or news are bad or something like that, they are enjoy for me to read, but people with weaker english will not understand most of what you wrote. My tiny (just by a reader's point of view) reconmendation is to use less uncommon words for people with weaker english (like synopsis, vacillation, invigorated and others). If you continue writing articles as you are writing them now, I will be perfectly fine with it, but others will maybe dislike them.

2015-09-23 03:57

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thanks for the thorough reply, and no fear my friend, I am no bannerino. I always take other opinions into consideration in my line of work, even stuff like "you're shit" so interesting to have this well-reasoned line of debate

2015-09-23 04:19

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With intelligent people I'm trying to be normal aswell, with idiots I'm dumb. :)

2015-09-23 04:21

Just to add an opinion - my english is definitely not 100%, but I enjoy your articles way more than those of other authors. The need to google (and therefore learn) some new words is an enriching experience for me. Thank you for it! :)

2015-09-23 09:37

Whoever is installing linux himself when he can't type google.com shouldn't even get the fucking CD or w/e you install it from when they're fucking clueless. It's good he uses such "uncommon" words which means that he isn't using some words too much and ending up repeating himself again and again. You shouldn't be reading CSGO news in the first place if you don't understand shit.

2015-09-23 15:06

I'm not talking about myself (I have no problem with english language), I'm talking about others. And the linux part was just an example.

2015-09-23 16:09

Well that's a pretty fucking awful example, I'm positive someone who knows shitall about the Operation Systems, would even try installing something on a PC.

2015-09-23 17:09

Okay Mr. Genius.

2015-09-23 17:35

Didn't even say it, but I'll take it.

2015-09-23 17:48

I'd still rather read this than Nicomachean Ethics right now :) Besides, this way people will improve their English vocabulary!

2015-09-23 04:55

There's definitely a balance here to be reached, which I guess is what tabloid newspapers have to go for. Writing for a particular target audience is a great skill to have. I don't think the quality of your work would suffer by dropping a few of the less common words. That said, I once again thoroughly enjoyed your preview and your workaround sounds like a good compromise.

2015-09-23 04:56

Loord hopes to do more damange as player than coach

2015-09-23 12:09

yeah dude he hopes to train in "da manger" :D thanks for that

2015-09-23 19:57

I'm positive that you should've left that in now that you said something like that.

2015-09-23 22:16

Most fights in team were because of minise & mouz, mouz was kicked first after ex-g2 lose against some mix polish team, sth with him playing too individual not cooperating with team, not sure about minise though, he's kind of toxic i think and maybe it was a reason.

2015-09-23 01:26