dignitas, Ancient to DH Malmo

20-3-2016 21:55

dignitas and Ancient are the final two teams to attend DreamHack Masters Malmö next month after achieving victories over AGG and CPH Wolves respectively in the second European closed qualifier.

Another sixteen teams came into a second European closed qualifier gauntlet to try and secure the final two spots to the $250,000 DreamHack Masters Malmö tournament that will run from April 12-17.

With the format being a single elimination, best-of-three bracket, a few upsets did occur such as AGG taking down SK in the quarter-finals and Markus "⁠pronax⁠" Wallsten's Ancient bringing down FlipSid3 in their respective game.

pronax's Ancient qualify for DH Malmo

By far the biggest upset however was Nicolai "⁠HUNDEN⁠" Petersen & co. of CPH Wolves bringing down G2 in a quarter-final match that went down to the wire.

In the first qualifying semifinal however, the Danish wolves were no match for the Swedes of Ancient as Andreas "⁠znajder⁠" Lindberg put in a dominant performance across two maps, with Ancient winning 16-3 on de_train and 16-11 on de_overpass.

DreamHack Masters Malmö 2016 Europe Closed Qualifier #2Best of 3

Ancient

Matchpage

20th March 2016

CPH Wolves

Train

Overpass

Ancient	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Andreas 'znajder' Lindberg znajder	49 - 14	+35	104.4	80.4%	1.79
Mathias 'pauf' Köhler pauf	38 - 24	+14	91.4	71.7%	1.38
Simon 'twist' Eliasson twist	34 - 30	+4	82.7	80.4%	1.17
Jonas 'Lekr0' Olofsson Lekr0	32 - 27	+5	80.0	73.9%	1.12
Markus 'pronax' Wallsten pronax	25 - 28	-3	56.6	69.6%	0.91

CPH Wolves	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Martin 'PERCY' Wessel PERCY	37 - 36	+1	86.1	65.2%	1.06
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander gla1ve	27 - 36	-9	62.2	60.9%	0.87
Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer Snappi	22 - 33	-11	58.7	63.0%	0.80
Danni 'smF' Dyg smF	23 - 36	-13	70.6	56.5%	0.73
Nicolai 'HUNDEN' Petersen HUNDEN	13 - 37	-24	41.9	52.2%	0.49

Fans of close Counter-Strike games were therefore in for more of a treat in the second qualifying semifinal, as AGG at first appeared poised to continue a tournament-long streak of solid play by winning the first map of de_train against Dignitas with a score of 16-3.

The Danes, led by a strong effort via Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye, rallied on the final two maps however and ultimately walked away as victors, winning de_mirage 16-10 and de_cbble 16-8.

DreamHack Masters Malmö 2016 Europe Closed Qualifier #1Best of 3

MOUZ

Matchpage

14th March 2016

Inferno

Dust2

Cache

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MOUZ	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Chris 'chrisJ' de Jong chrisJ	74 - 56	+18	75.4	75.5%	1.20
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač NiKo	72 - 66	+6	88.9	69.1%	1.20
Timo 'Spiidi' Richter Spiidi	66 - 54	+12	78.9	73.4%	1.17
Johannes 'nex' Maget nex	69 - 66	+3	85.9	66.0%	1.14
Denis 'denis' Howell denis	46 - 69	-23	54.6	66.0%	0.76

G2	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Richard 'shox' Papillon shox	77 - 69	+8	90.5	64.9%	1.18
Adil 'ScreaM' Benrlitom ScreaM	66 - 62	+4	79.1	72.3%	1.10
Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy RpK	67 - 70	-3	69.4	70.2%	0.98
Kévin 'Ex6TenZ' Droolans Ex6TenZ	54 - 61	-7	66.9	64.9%	0.94
Edouard 'SmithZz' Dubourdeaux SmithZz	46 - 65	-19	53.3	55.3%	0.73

DreamHack Masters Malmö 2016 Europe Closed Qualifier #2Best of 3

Dignitas

Matchpage

20th March 2016

AGG

Train

Mirage

Cobblestone

Dignitas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye Kjaerbye	65 - 43	+22	99.5	79.7%	1.48
Jesper 'TENZKI' Plougmann TENZKI	54 - 47	+7	83.2	79.7%	1.18
Ruben 'RUBINO' Villarroel RUBINO	46 - 53	-7	85.4	62.3%	1.04
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke k0nfig	47 - 48	-1	66.6	69.6%	0.95
Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen MSL	35 - 57	-22	58.7	65.2%	0.79

AGG	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Karol 'rallen' Rodowicz rallen	66 - 40	+26	97.9	79.7%	1.43
Damian 'Furlan' Kislowski Furlan	58 - 55	+3	93.4	68.1%	1.17
Bartosz 'Hyper' Wolny Hyper	50 - 43	+7	74.7	69.6%	1.06
Dominik 'GruBy' Swiderski GruBy	42 - 55	-13	59.9	65.2%	0.80
Karol 'repo' Cybulski repo	32 - 54	-22	60.5	56.5%	0.69

The final list for the event in Sweden's third largest city therefore looks as follows:

fnatic	Astralis	Liquid	CSGL
Ninjas in Pyjamas	Virtus.pro	Tempo Storm	MOUZ
Envy	Natus Vincere	CLG	Ancient
Luminosity	FaZe	TYLOO	Dignitas

DreamHack Masters Malmö will go live from April 12-17 and feature 16 teams from across the globe competing for a share of a $250,000 prize purse.

stich writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter

Go Ancieeeeeent <3

2016-03-20 21:56

5 replies

Where ENCE ?

2016-03-20 23:44

4 replies

in FINLAND

2016-03-21 00:27

they got rekt by ancient in this qualifier

2016-03-21 03:20

2 replies

Not possible I was told that ENCE is already top10 team

2016-03-21 12:40

1 reply

top 5, it was a big underdog win for ancient.. probably they used hacks :(

2016-03-21 15:22

Not expected

2slow m8

show mercy :(

2016-03-20 21:57

yeah diggy finally getting on lan caught me surprise Kappa

2016-03-21 01:17

i think cloud 9 is better the dignites so they should be qulifier! (IMO)

2016-03-21 01:33

youre missing a kappa

2016-03-21 09:47

ancient top10?

P R O N A X B O Y S

HUNDEN 13-37

Illuminati

2016-03-21 03:48

sad that virtus.scrub get an invite over g2 :/

8 replies

G2 cant even qualify xD

6 replies

neither can HR xD

2016-03-20 21:58

But we are not talking about HR. You said that G2 should replace VP, but tell me reason, G2 cant even beat tier 3-4 teams

2016-03-20 22:36

thats true, shameful to lose to bad teams

2016-03-20 22:40

Neither VP can beat them.

2016-03-21 04:11

somebody felt offended haha

2016-03-21 01:11

Pretty sure VP wouldn't qualify either

2016-03-20 23:09

because they are not a legends team in the major. very simple. you know that.

2016-03-21 05:49

HUNDEN 13-37 GOD

thats why he is best world

2016-03-20 22:01

2016-03-20 22:08

best world on world

2016-03-21 12:17

That was insane

2016-03-21 02:37

Kinda underwhelming teams

HOLY FK ZNAJDER

Ez Ancient :D

PRAISE PRONAX

up and coming top 20, maybe top 15 team. Already better than SK, e-frag, probably Gambit and Optic (not sure as they haven't met so far) and they're right now on par with Flipsid3, imo. Huge potential with a great leader and 4 amazing fraggers, one of which is swedens biggest talent, Twist. (biggest talent, not best player)

2016-03-20 22:00

they will be top10 in a few months

2016-03-20 22:21

13-37 HUNDEN

GOD HUNDEN* he did it for the fans

2016-03-20 22:14

HUNDEN 1337 FUCKING GOD

Oh my LOL!

2016-03-21 07:12

Ancient played great and they have really been improving lately after a rocky start! Every player in the team is playing well so it looks promising for sure.

Fnatic vs Ancient

expected from hunden

god hunden, WHY IN GODS NAME DO THEY EVEN PLAY WITH THIS GUY?

2016-03-20 22:03

im sad for AGG they are alwasy 1 map close to going on major and now to Malmo but they couldnt manage it:/

2016-03-20 22:04

3 replies

well they aren't better than dignitas and ancient so w/e

2016-03-20 22:38

true

2016-03-21 00:28

Until repo starts playing at the level of the rest of the team it won't change. He alone is to be blamed for AGG not closing 2:0 vs Dignitas.

2016-03-21 13:44

a classic hunden performance. Great to see

2016-03-20 22:07

'HUNDEN' Petersen 13-37 UNDEN GOD

2016-03-20 22:11

HUNDENLEET

2016-03-20 22:12

13-37 EXPECTED FROM OUR GOD AND SAVIOR HUNDEN

2016-03-20 22:13

coincidence? dont think so tbh

2016-03-20 22:17

SWEDEN TOP 1 WORLD FUCKING EZZZZZ

2016-03-20 22:18

too ez for wesley sneijder

2016-03-20 22:20

AYEEE DIG AND ANCIENT LETS GOOOOOOO

pronax♡

2016-03-20 22:26

I'm so happy for pronax :D

2016-03-20 22:32

LEKR0 AND TWIST ON LAN

2016-03-20 22:35

PRONAX Mastermind

clearly, pronax too stronK

2016-03-20 22:43

HUNDEN LEGEND

2016-03-20 23:07

Schneider omg :D:D Cant wait to see Ancient vs Fnatic *-*

2016-03-20 23:13

gratz ancient

2016-03-20 23:14

God pr0nax

pronax <3

2016-03-20 23:19

Schneider+Pronax n1

2016-03-20 23:35

Schneider GOD 49-14

2016-03-20 23:59

hunden 13-37 PogChamp

2016-03-21 00:03

So 1337

2016-03-21 00:06

ancient curse

2016-03-21 00:14

Where is hunden

2016-03-21 00:29

Im just honestly waiting untill LGB will sign these guys

2016-03-21 00:33

They dont have money for it atm. They spent it all on making NiP guys stay (same owners)

2016-03-21 05:47

2016-03-21 00:35

I def hope Ancient will do well at DH

2016-03-21 00:36

gratz markus!

2016-03-21 00:39

GOD HUNDEN: Nicolai 'HUNDEN' Petersen 13-37

2016-03-21 00:42

CSGO forever the same names in every tournament, Fnatic,VP,Navi,NiP,Astralis bla bla bla hope TyLoo can make it to Malmo without visa issues and shake things up

2016-03-21 00:50

yep, same and same teams and names, boring

2016-03-21 01:08

Because its the esport with BY FAR the biggest skill ceiling. Meaning it takes the longest time and the most effort to reach the top, meaning it takes new players many many years, meaning we wont see new names truly shake things up before the game moves into a later stage of its history.

2016-03-21 05:46

Lekr0 pic inc

2016-03-21 01:03

twitter.com/Lekr0cs

2016-03-21 01:48

hltv pic

2016-03-21 01:53

2016-03-21 01:06

VALVE PLEASE DO STICKER FOR THIS DreamHack... ZNAJDER STICKERS PLEASEEEEEEE *-*

2016-03-21 01:43

GOD HUNDEN

2016-03-21 02:33

Is pronax IGL in ancient?

2016-03-21 02:52

he is IGL GOD kreygasm

2016-03-21 03:49

2016-03-21 06:34

hunden could top frag easily but his priority was to get that sweet 13-37 score. HUNDEN GOD

2016-03-21 03:25

looooooooool

2016-03-21 03:37

pronax ez cumback

Hunden 13-37

2016-03-21 03:54

hhahahahahaahh :DDDDDDDDDDD

2016-03-21 05:21

Ancient in same group with Fnatic, I hope this :D

2016-03-21 05:20

AWESOME! Two teams I like most qualify <3

2016-03-21 05:41

gl dignitas =]

This is the most interesting team list of any event in history, imo. All teams except CSGL will be hype to watch. Better than any major. Sick. Srongest field of any tournament ever. Only G2 missing but they fucked up.

2016-03-21 05:51