DH Open 2017 circuit announced

20-10-2016 10:00

DreamHack announced that they will be continuing with the DreamHack Open pro-am circuit in 2017, revealing dates and locations for 9 events that will take place over the course of the next year.

The organizers emphasize that the Open circuit will continue for the sixth consecutive year, with nine different DreamHack festivals taking place in six countries and on two continents.

Each tournament will feature a similar structure to the ones we saw in the Open tournaments in 2016 and will feature a $100,000 prize pool per stop - adding to a total of $900,000 to be awarded over the course of the year.

DreamHack Open tournaments will take place in six countries in 2017

With the Open tournaments, DreamHack will focus on the amateur scene and will continue with the six invites - two qualified team format, but will add wildcard slots for teams hailing from regions not covered by the qualifiers in some cases.

Marc "Nix0n" Winther, the project manager of DreamHack Open, confirmed that CS:GO will be a part of all DreamHack events in 2017:

“With the constant growth and being the most sought for esports title at our festival events, it is natural for us to have DreamHack Open with CS:GO as a household part of all festival events in 2017,”

"It is important to us, that DreamHack Open stays open, allowing for up and coming teams to have a chance to qualify and a playground to evolve. At the same time we will continue to invite teams directly based on merits.”

The following events have been announced for 2017:

DREAMHACK OPEN 2017 EVENT CALENDAR

DreamHack Leipzig, Germany - January 13-15th

DreamHack Austin, USA - April 28-30th

DreamHack Tours, France - May 6-8th

DreamHack Summer, Jönköping, Sweden - June 17-19th

DreamHack Valencia, Spain - July 14-16th

DreamHack Atlanta, USA - July 21-23rd

DreamHack Montreal, Canada - September 8-10th

DreamHack Denver, USA - October 20-22nd

DreamHack Winter, Jönköping, Sweden - November 30-December 2nd

DreamHack Leipzig, Germany - January 13-15th
DreamHack Austin, USA - April 28-30th
DreamHack Tours, France - May 6-8th
DreamHack Summer, Jönköping, Sweden - June 17-19th
DreamHack Valencia, Spain - July 14-16th
DreamHack Atlanta, USA - July 21-23rd
DreamHack Montreal, Canada - September 8-10th
DreamHack Denver, USA - October 20-22nd
DreamHack Winter, Jönköping, Sweden - November 30-December 2nd

More information about the upcoming events can be found on open.dreamhack.com, with tickets being available at ticket.dreamhack.com.

Where is Brazil? PogChamp

2016-10-20 10:01

11 replies

2016-10-20 10:26

1 reply

4 NA tournaments :O

2016-10-20 20:55

thanks god there is no dh in brazil

2016-10-20 12:45

dreamhack toronto?

2016-10-20 13:15

2 replies

bait?

2016-10-20 13:44

No I just want to go to Dreamhack

2016-10-20 21:46

yeah, thats racist!

2016-10-20 13:24

No tournaments in Africa either, also no black players competing, so Dreamhack must hate black people.

2016-10-21 15:45

2016-10-20 14:27

I would rather not watch monkeys jumping around in the arena...

2016-10-20 20:27

flag checks out

100k per tournament.. dissapointing :(

2016-10-20 10:02

9 replies

amateur teams so it's not bad at all :D

2016-10-20 10:03

DH has become a tier 2/3 tournament

2016-10-20 12:53

ESL and Dreamhack are owned by the same company. ESL concentrates on best teams and bigger prize pools and famous locations. DH concentrates on more diversified locations, lesser known teams,mostly to promote the game and to give smaller teams a chance.

2016-10-20 13:51

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Partly incorrect on the last part. We have different products that caters differently. Our festival events, which is a combination of many things and not just DreamHack Open, is indeed set as a playground for up and coming teams to evolve. The world's best teams are free to attend, if they chose to so via the invite. We do like to go with different locations and thats a DreamHack trademark. We also have DreamHack Masters, which is our highest tier when it comes to esports tournaments. We currently run it with CS:GO and this year produced the most watched CS:GO event in Malmö, if you exclude the Majors.

2016-10-20 14:14

4 replies

I like how DH is,at the moment I dont have a problem with the prize pools. I like that DH holds events at places ESL doesnt venture into,like bucharest,valencia etc. And yes i forgot about DH Masters my bad :)

2016-10-20 15:43

i love dreamhack , but u have to get on a good page with richard :(

2016-10-20 19:12

9 tournaments is a lot, but as an American it is cool that you guys are doing more events in NA. Are you guys considering doing another Masters style tournament as well (along with malmo)? Malmo was my favorite tournament of the year so I would love to see more like it.

2016-10-21 15:50

We are only just getting started rolling out our 2017, stay tuned :)

2016-10-21 15:58

True true

2016-10-21 11:40

Less NA event pls

3 replies

NA has the $$$$$$

2016-10-20 10:57

Less of you pls

2016-10-20 11:53

2016-10-20 13:45

2016-10-20 10:06

why no Poland? much people wants it here

2016-10-20 10:21

5 replies

many*

2016-10-20 12:27

want*

2016-10-20 12:55

toiler cleaners*

2016-10-20 17:34

We have iem katowice

2016-10-21 09:11

It is weird that Poland only ever has Katowice, considering how many events other big CS countries (Sweden and France in particular) have, and that other countries like the UK and Germany have a few as well.

2016-10-21 15:56

dreamhack in 2017 lul... jokes aside, I like that they have everything planned out for the next year

2016-10-20 10:27

NA events... RIP DH

2016-10-20 10:37

Why rip? I mean it is the best country so why wouldn't they want to have it here?

2016-10-20 17:11

na events are weak, in production, in value...

2016-10-21 06:57

+ no more dreamchack romania -3x in NA

2016-10-20 10:39

inb4 DreamHack Masters Cluj :>

2016-10-20 11:06

God pls no :S

2016-10-20 11:42

2016-10-20 11:28

No DreamHack London that's bm

2016-10-20 10:41

Nix0n hltv pride PogChamp

2016-10-20 10:47

2016-10-20 12:04

where RUSSIA?

2016-10-20 10:52

where's russia srsly pls fix

2016-10-20 11:22

open YOUR WINDOW

2016-10-20 12:57

Yeap, where DH Vladivostok??

2016-10-20 13:55

DH Novosibirsk?

2016-10-20 15:48

Poland salt incoming, there were rumours about DH Cracow for 2 years now =D

2016-10-20 10:58

why no Sweden? much people wants it here ))

2016-10-20 11:13

June

thank you friend Kappa

2016-10-20 11:43

no problem my friend not kappa

2016-10-24 08:44

Don't get it. Even if DH had 5 events in Sweden, all of them would be sold out...

2016-10-20 15:49

trashhack

2016-10-20 11:18

USHack? 3 events there is pretty much BS

2016-10-20 11:33

Africa?

2016-10-20 11:34

Would be nice if they do one tournament in South Africa (i'm srs)

2016-10-20 13:00

ITS COOL TO BE PROF. PLAYER .... U VISIT ALL THE WORLD :)

2016-10-20 11:45

yeah I'm enjoying myself

2016-10-20 12:03

sweet dreems

2016-10-20 12:51

yee wanking in front of pashas playing . sick

2016-10-20 13:18

ResidentSleeper

greedy organizers, instead of making 3 big events they make 9 small ones, lol

2016-10-20 12:07

RiP Bucharest

2016-10-20 12:09

less events, more money would be better. however I like the idea of announcing the events long before they happen, maybe Valve could take note and do the same thing with majors in the future more regularly.

2016-10-20 12:14

I don't really agree as Dreamhack has always been a lot more than just professional gaming. I think it's nice that they keep on expanding.

2016-10-20 20:01

Fair point, but with 3 bigger events for example with triple or even quadruple the prize pool compared to 9 smaller ones would imo bring more exposure to the tournaments because the greater the size of the tournament, the higher stakes and probably the bigger the teams that will be there meaning a bigger crowd as well. It could be more interesting as you'd have a few higher tier teams and a few lower tier teams spicing up the competition. Also, don't forget that the DH Open events aren't the only events they have during the year. They also have DH Masters tournaments with bigger prize pools and bigger teams, so if there are 2 or 3 masters tournaments with 250k prize pools then obviously they'll get more viewers than the 100k smaller tournaments which is unfair for the smaller tournaments in a sense because newer viewers will automatically see the 100k event as less prestigious than the 250k tournaments for example. Don't forget that having 9 of these smaller events adds to the oversaturation of professional CS:GO competition which makes it incredibly boring to watch from a viewer's perspective.

2016-10-20 20:17

I agree for the most part, but the thing is that they probably aren't looking to create massive spectator figures. Professional gaming as a whole is just another ingredient among the rest at their events. MTG is possibly just trying to harvest the best qualities of DH and ESL as organizers, with DH being more nerd festival oriented and ESL being more tournament oriented. That's at least what I'd do in their situation.

2016-10-21 20:19

why no fuckin UK smh

2016-10-20 12:26

UK 4Head CS 4Head

2016-10-20 12:40

Nice!! I love DH Events! It´s very important move the amateur scene! Thanks Nix0n and DH organization! <3

2016-10-20 12:44

Thanks, happy to hear :)

2016-10-20 14:10

lol rip pgl

Stop making so many NA tournaments. One major is enough. Only visa issues and nobody watches it cause of time delay

2016-10-20 12:49

+1000 EU is making them more money. But idk, maybe they are stupid

2016-10-20 15:33

2016-10-20 12:52

but top teams will go there or t2/t3 ????

2016-10-20 12:58

on 3 or 4 tournaments will go t2/t3 others top teams :D

2017-01-15 22:27

Nicuuuuu

2016-10-20 13:19

and Portugal? :(

2016-10-20 13:20

Turkey :(

2016-10-20 13:22

noice

2016-10-20 13:23

where russia ? :C

Lets hope that no invites for teams who protested invite system in pgl.

2016-10-20 13:28

No Turkey again, and again -.-

2016-10-20 13:53

Both winter and summer are gonna be in sweden, Yay!

2016-10-20 14:15

hype always nice to see dreamhack tournaments in the circuit even though they dont have the same dimensions as before

They should make an event in Australia, looks a great place

2016-10-20 15:02

Since they kicked Robert Ohlen (creator of Dramhack) i hate them. Creating a great event and then getting kicked out by traitors who overtaken the company is very sad. I hope they catch some diseases because they deserve it. I wish Robert everything best and i hope he comes back stronger than ever, he's a great person. Dreamhack withour Robert isn't the same, he was the funniest person there right after 2GD.

2016-10-20 15:16

I might go to 2 of them at least

2016-10-20 15:17

all majors or ? just ask, i don't even read...

2016-10-20 15:27

Just DH events. Major will be decided where it will take place

2016-10-20 15:34

Aham, thanks for the good answer, finally some kind hltv users ! have a nice day ^^

2016-10-20 15:35

Valencia is so far from here fak

Keep in mind that major tournaments such as DH Master still is on the horizon, this seems to target more to the t3/t2 teams.

2016-10-20 15:52

you mean dh master malmo?

2017-01-15 22:22

NICEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DH

2016-10-20 18:16

uiuy

2016-10-20 18:23

Thank God they finally abandoned Romania after the last catastrophe and shitshow of an event in Bucharest and the horrible DH Cluj major where the crowd didn't even bother attending.

2016-10-20 21:41

DH events in Ro will be back in 2018, doesn't matter, we still gonna play and share the joy playing CS:Go, finally @trojka we send to you much love from Romania, with middle finger :D pwp :*