DreamHack Masters Malmö 2016 NA Closed Qualifier

DH Malmö NA closed qualifier bracket

21-2-2016 14:37

The North American closed qualifier for DreamHack Masters Malmö will be played out today, as we'll get to see 16 teams battling it out for three spots at the Swedish event.

Initially eight teams have been invited for the closed qualifier, arguably eight of the best playing in the North American region, including Cloud9, Liquid, CLG, Renegades and more.

Those will be joined by eight coming from the open qualifier, which saw teams such as TSM, Echo Fox and NRG advance. Interestingly, neither of compLexity and Winterfox registered for the qualifier, the latter seemingly due a conflict in their schedule.

gob b's NRG have a tall mountain to climb

The fully-best-of-three closed qualifier is scheduled to be played out today, with the schedule and initial matchups following:

19:00	Cloud9	vs. Random Five
19:00	Splyce	vs. NRG
19:00	Tempo Storm	vs. Echo Fox
19:00	OpTic	vs. Torment
19:00	Liquid	vs. ex-Astral Authority
19:00	Renegades	vs. TSM
19:00	Enemy	vs. AGG
19:00	CLG	vs. Just Make It Fast
22:00	Quarter-finals
01:00	Semi-finals
04:00	Third place decider

You can see the whole bracket here.

Keep in mind that three spots for the $250,000 DreamHack Masters Malmö tournament, whose date has been set to April 12-17, are up for grabs in this qualifier.

The top three teams will be joining eight invited teams, four from the European qualifier and one from the Asian qualifier.

Woo! NA scene tho... will be interesting for them I think Liquid and TS

2016-02-21 14:38

15 replies

xd na cs xd

12 replies

Only interesting because of favela and s1mple

2016-02-21 14:39

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You're getting fast huh.. 2 in a row

2016-02-21 14:40

Dont call us favelas :( We are doing only our job, killing NA dreams :P

2016-02-21 17:49

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And we Swedes, Fnatic especially, kill BR dreams :P

2016-02-21 18:34

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Yes, Yes... against facts there are no arguments. One day maybe? Dreaming is free hahahaha

2016-02-22 12:46

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Keep dreaming, I want CoD era to come ^^ (LG, nV, FaZe n OpTic)

2016-02-22 17:16

hoping for c9 vs liquid

so s1mple could wreck freak? :D

2016-02-21 14:50

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Yes PLEASE, I think most people want Freak and Sewage2kills to go out

2016-02-21 15:18

so s1mple could wreck freak? :D Ahahaha honestly dude if u don't follow s1mple is much much much much better player than freak is i mean get on the fucking lvl

2016-02-21 18:25

Lets see. s1mple=outstanding results against top EU teams. Freak= shit against EU teams.

2016-02-21 18:39

that's what i meant tho... So he could laugh to freak's face after that trash talking he did on mumble

2016-02-21 19:47

Renegades have a good shot

2016-02-21 16:24

as long as they are able to win vs liquid they should have no trouble qualifying

2016-02-21 18:23

CYKA BLYAT

2016-02-21 14:37

wow

not bad

noice

ez 4 s1mple

c9 ez

ez for s1mple

where is LG?

They are already invited to the main tournament.

I really wanted to see what Echo Fox can do, and they get the worst possible lineup. RiP [*]

EU>SA>NA

rip half the comments somewhat annoyed that there is no way for both liquid and renegades to be at malmo while almost certainly one of them will be there, because they are playing each other in quater finals (assuming they beat the tier3 teams to get to the quarters)

2016-02-21 14:46

Renegade is playing from USA, right? o.o

2016-02-21 15:14

just like tempo storm yes

2016-02-21 15:28

u can't choose bracket.. when TS won Katawice qualifier, they just had the fucking most hard bracket.. they needed to play against top4 NA teams there to be champion (coL, Liq, CLG, c9).. otherwise, c9 had a fucking easy bracket to get on the finals

2016-02-21 18:44