DH Bucharest viewer's guide

15-9-2016 11:31

With DreamHack ZOWIE Open Bucharest 2016 starting tomorrow, HLTV.org brings you a detailed viewer's guide with all the most important information about the event, the teams and the talent lineup.

DreamHack ZOWIE Open Bucharest 2016 is a $100,000 prize pool DreamHack Open series event that will take place over three days in the capital of Romania - Bucharest.

The competition will take place at the Polyvalent Hall, the same venue that hosted PGL CS:GO Championship Series Kick-off Season in which we saw the team that is now Astralis take the crown over fnatic to start what was probably their most successful period.

Heroic will be looking for another good result in Bucharest

Astralis won't be at DreamHack Open 2016, but two other notable Danish teams - Dignitas and HEROIC, will be there with hopes of more good results. In terms of top teams, the tournament isn't stacked, with only Virtus.pro and Cloud9 featuring from the top five of HLTV.org's team ranking, but a number of other strong teams will also take part.

The full list of teams and their respective groups is as follows:

Group A	Group B
Virtus.pro	Cloud9
HEROIC	Dignitas
Envy	FaZe
Gambit	FlipSid3

For an in-depth analysis of the teams attending check out Striker's detailed preview of the event.

The tournament will use the classic GSL format for the group stage, with the the first matches being played as best-of-one and elimination and decider matches played as best-of-three.

After the group stage, the two best teams from each group will continue to the playoffs were best-of-three matches will be played.

The three day schedule is as follows:

Friday, September 16th
14:00	Virtus.pro	vs. Gambit	BO1
15:30	Cloud9	vs. FlipSid3	BO1
17:00	HEROIC	vs. Envy	BO1
18:30	Dignitas	vs. FaZe	BO1
20:00	Group A winners' match		BO1
21:30	Group B winners' match		BO1

Saturday, September 17th
09:20	Group A elimination match		BO3
12:20	Group B elimination match		BO3
15:20	Group A decider		BO3
18:20	Group B decider		BO3

Sunday, September 18th
09:30	Semi-final #1 (B1 vs. A2)		BO3
13:00	Semi-final #2 (A1 vs. B2)		BO3
17:30	Grand final		BO3

The prize pool will be distributed in the following way:

1. $50,000
2. $20,000
3-4. $10,000
5-6. $3,000
7-8. $2,000

The tournament will see the return of Pala "Mantrousse" Gilroy Sen as the stage host and interviewer, a debut of the analyst pairing of Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill and Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović as well as Anders Blume - but without Semmler.

The full list of talent is as follows:

Alex "Machine" Richardson - Desk host
Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill - Analyst
Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović - Analyst

Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett - Commentator
Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer - Commentator
Anders Blume - Commentator
Vince "Metuz" Hill - Commentator

Pala "Mantrousse" Gilroy Sen - Host & interviewer

Stay tuned to HLTV.org for on-site coverage of the event, including galleries and interviews.

yaaaaay hah

2016-09-15 11:32

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Please refrain from hunting for first comment and focus instead on reading the news. Irrelevant and offtopic comments will be deleted. This behaviour is not welcome and will be severely moderated.

2016-09-15 11:35

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uhm, so write that to everyone else too or ? is every other comment on this thread relevant to the topic ? also who are u to tell that i should focus on reading the news ?

2016-09-15 11:41

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This is for everyone to see, both the #1 user - in this case you - and the rest who tried to 'go for it'. Thank you for your understanding.

2016-09-15 11:43

It is his job to make sure the standards on hltv is lifted. Useless comments are... useless. If you dont have anything to add we will just delete your comment and ban you.

2016-09-15 11:58

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Doing a pretty weak job then, since I can click on a random thread and there's a 90% chance it has at least a couple hateful comments towards: a nationality a team a player a user religion choose one or more of those

2016-09-15 14:00

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dude its hltv - land of no law.

2016-09-15 14:03

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i know m8 but these pretentious admins piss me off cuz they think moderating the 1st comments that say "ez" or "n1" will somehow raise the quality of the site X D

2016-09-15 14:05

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stfu fake flag omg X D

2016-09-15 14:06

Let me help you not being pissed off.

2016-09-15 14:49

If you're not here to read the news and comment something relevant to the news then GTFO. We don't need your "n1" "gg" "kk" posts

2016-09-15 12:23

+99

2016-09-15 12:26

/agree

2016-09-15 13:19

+1 shouldn't have to scroll halfway through comments, to see actual comments.

2016-09-15 14:56

Why are you swearing? Do you got any sort of problems? If you haven't realised it yet, this forum is probably majority filled with trolls. Can you please show me one post on whatever thread that is relevant to the topic?

2016-09-15 15:03

are you from HLTV.org's Admins. Siiick. can u ban people for doing that also? Just asking

2016-09-15 14:14

2016-09-15 11:31

nice

yay

pls

Nice ^_^

Yess pala. Finally a good stage host

2016-09-15 11:37

Pala is back cuz bucharest or hes back for real?

2016-09-15 11:40

pala is preffered by DH org

Looking forward to seeing Spunj analysing. Hope he does well so maybe we can have at least ONE Aussie at a lan.

2016-09-15 12:11

What I love about this tournament is that also the elimination match is Bo3 and not just decider match. I hate seeing teams go out of tournaments after just two Bo1s.. Also looking forward to hear Spunj and the casters are all great.

2016-09-15 12:17

decent tournament for t1-t2 teams

2016-09-15 14:13

Does hltv actually check what they post? ''In terms of top teams, the tournament isn't stacked, with only Virtus.pro featuring from the top five of HLTV.org's team ranking'' Haha nice fail, seems like cloud9 also belongs to the top 5 according to hltv.