DreamHack Winter group draw

21-11-2016 22:49

The draw for the group stage of DreamHack ZOWIE Open Winter has taken place, with the eight participating teams having been placed into two groups.

The 2016 DreamHack ZOWIE Open season will come to a close this Saturday with a tournament at the iconic DreamHack Winter event, which will be held in Jönköping.

Eight teams - five European, two North American and one Australian - will be pitting their wits against each other in this competition as they fight for the lion's share of a $100,000 prize pool.

dignitas will open the tournament against Kinguin

The tournament will begin with a double-elimination group stage, featuring best-of-three clashes in the Lower Bracket, with the top two from both groups advancing to the single-elimination playoffs.

Below you can find the group draw in full:

Group A	Group B
Dignitas	Cloud9
GODSENT	OpTic
FlipSid3	Gambit
Kinguin	Renegades

The schedule for the three-day competition looks as follows:

Thursday, November 24
12:30	Dignitas	vs. Kinguin	BO1
14:00	Cloud9	vs. Renegades	BO1
16:30	GODSENT	vs. FlipSid3	BO1
18:00	OpTic	vs. Gambit	BO1
19:30	Group A winners' match		BO1
21:00	Group B winners' match		BO1

Friday, November 25
12:00	Group A elimination match		BO3
15:00	Group B elimination match		BO3
18:00	Group A decider		BO3
21:00	Group B decider		BO3

Saturday, November 26
11:00	Semi-final #1 (B1 vs. A2)		BO3
14:00	Semi-final #2 (A1 vs. B2)		BO3
18:00	Grand final		BO3

2016-11-21 22:49

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For Renegades!

2016-11-23 03:23

4rd for allu fan club

finally a good tournament!

4 replies

But Cloud9 and Dig are gonna crush theyre opponents i think...so it could be one sided and kind of boring

2016-11-21 23:10

3 replies

ubi chetnika

2016-11-21 23:11

2 replies

Goatfuckers

2016-11-21 23:19

ubi shiptara

2016-11-22 04:25

niice

lul

c9 win groups ez

EZ ZNAJDER

Ez Cloud9

ez 4 rng

ez for HOMESENT ;>

HOMESENT is not playing this tournament

2016-11-21 22:54

true

2016-11-21 23:01

RIP Kinguin.

tier 3 tourament

I totally agree, although I liked it as a major in '14 (unfortunately I haven't seen the '13 one)

What

I agree with the previous comment, but I liked Dreamhack Winter back at 2014 when it was a major, but unfortunately I can't say if it was that good in 2013 since I haven't seen in.

2016-11-21 23:12

lol I totally misread it nvm

2016-11-21 23:20

no sk shit tourney

2016-11-21 22:50

electronic > SK

2016-11-22 04:27

shit>sk lulululu

2016-11-22 07:19

these groups are so uneven lol

Not really, you just think in your mind that Godsent is a good team, even though all they've done is qualify for a major qualifier.

2016-11-21 22:53

Dignitas x C9 FINAL

Fix dreamhack autumn. not winter

Well there's already was couple of days with -32 here in Syberia. So for me "Winter" name is perfect.

2016-11-22 19:07

How fast can you fucking be

dig and f3 out c9 and optic group b final c9 vs dig dig win

dat dreamhack winter

DH winter more like dignitas and C9 vs tier 3

Final : Dignitas vs Cloud9 2 - 0 Optic can maybe upset

nice. expecting a c9 v dig final

2016-11-21 22:51

HOMESENT

2016-11-21 22:52

godsent pls win this

Tier 2.5 tournament. Four tier 2 teams. Four tier 3 teams.

Tier 2

Finally tournament where i can watch the finals

sad to see dreamhack winter is now a tier2 tournament it held such a big place in the past years. hoping for a great tournament nonetheless

2016-11-21 22:55

Its probably because winter is more of a lan for people to actually attend than just one big tournament for cs. Dreamhack still got bigger tournaments

2016-11-21 23:02

that and the fact that it has lost its major status

2016-11-21 23:41

yea. hopefully they will get to host another major in the new year

2016-11-21 23:51

no BR team, they are scared of brazilian dominancy

2016-11-21 22:56

Yeah we saw the Dominancy in Oakland and at ESL One New York...

2016-11-21 23:14

don't argue with him he's just retarded favela baiter

2016-11-22 22:19

dig kinguin c9 optic

ez dignitas

2016-11-21 22:57

Can't wait!! :D

Worst DH ever, wtf teams LOL!!

2016-11-21 22:58

Why so Shity teams? what has happend to Dreamhack ?

C9, OpTic, and Renegades all in the same group. That's an overloading of jetlag.

2016-11-21 22:59

Then we have A with Kinguin, GODSENT, and F3.....lol.

2016-11-22 02:02

who da fuck is godsent?

2016-11-21 23:00

GL renegades. I hope they can upset.

Ez tournament

2016-11-21 23:08

Yes they will upset us fans like they always do :(

2016-11-22 01:00

Ayy lmao :(

2016-11-22 06:11

GODSENT will win this!! you read it here first!

Cloud9 Optic and Renegades all in the same group? Wow ... that's abit unfair considering other group has flipsid3 kinguin and godsent in one group ... easy as fuck for Dignitas

2016-11-21 23:07

One year ago, Dreamhack Winter and Dreamhack Summer had just top tier teams, now just tier 2-3.....

c9 vs dig ez

ez for homesent

sadly no NiP in swedish tour :(

Should be Dignitas - C9 final. I hope Optic can win though.

one person deserves to win this event - Zeus

2016-11-21 23:13

so ez for godsent

2016-11-21 23:15

godsent forced to play in shit tournament to get a chance to win something. maybe

ez 4 Youthful Stewart Two-thousand & co.

RIP BOTSID3

2016-11-21 23:18

Ez 4 Optic

2016-11-21 23:25

I guess this is a weird thing to not like, but I prefer when tournaments try to spread out the teams from different countries. There are three non EU teams in this tournament and they're all in the same group. Maybe that's a weird criteria, I just think the group matches might be better if they swapped optic with godsent or something.

2016-11-21 23:29

I don't think it should be country based but rather skill based. Unless godsent finally step up their game I think renegades aren't much worse than them. But now with optic and c9 in one group I don't see rng qualify. If renegades and godsent swapped it would be more fair. But with the jet lag upsets might happen but I'd doubt it. Hopefully F3 won't get destroyed :(

2016-11-22 03:52

Obviously I think it should be skill based. but I personally think these groups are pretty balanced

2016-11-22 03:58

Yeah it's decent. But F3, Gambit and Kinguin shouldn't stand a chance where as I think renegades might be able to upset godsent if they were in the other group.

2016-11-22 10:32

ez for dignitas on paper.

2016-11-21 23:30

c9 optic finals

2016-11-21 23:33

can someone explain me, how does dreamhack invites work? are there any rules how often particular team should be invited?

2016-11-21 23:37

Godsent are winning this, I'm calling it

2016-11-21 23:40

a tournament which homesent actually has a chance to win

2016-11-21 23:48

Optic has a good match up against Cloud9 I think they will win against them to get out of groups in first with Cloud9 in second. Diggy will go out in first , the second place spot for that group is a toss up lets just say Godsent for argument sake. Dig vs Cloud9 will be a good game, C9 should ban out nuke and Dig will have a lot of room to ban what they want although they will probably ban cache. both teams play cobble, overpass, mirage, while Dig plays a little of Train and dust 2. this gives cloud 9 a slight advantage on decided what they want to play although I think they will try to get on Train if possible. I think Dig really needs to get on overpass or Cobble to have the best chance, but this should be a great series to watch as both teams are good at both maps. optic over whoever I expect them to win they just outclass the other 3 teams maybe train for godsent but besides that I don't seem them not winning. My money is on C9 vs OpTic Final where Cloud9 takes it in 2 maps. :)

2016-11-21 23:49

Their good match up is online, not LAN.

2016-11-22 02:01

the fact that tier 1 isn't invited except mby dignitas and c9 makes it more exciting to watch.

2016-11-21 23:53

This tournament is for Tier 2/3 teams and i'll glad to se this teams in game! Good luck for everyone and Kinguin let's win!

2016-11-21 23:56

dignitas vs c9 final

2016-11-22 00:03

shit teams only, but where's Envyus?

2016-11-22 00:20

LUL

2016-11-22 00:37

more tier 3 shit! LOL

2016-11-22 00:26

gl to gambit and f3

2016-11-22 00:53

RUN CIS CS GO

2016-11-22 10:13

GODSENT to win

2016-11-22 01:04

lets hope it is a cool tournament, DH Winter was always my favorite, shame it isnt a major this year

2016-11-22 01:06

EZ FOR GAMBIT

2016-11-22 01:33

godsent to win Kappa. on a serious note, its great to see games within other tier teams and not always the top tiers. gives them a chance to improve as well. gl all.

2016-11-22 01:35

LOL group A is just a little lopsided....my God.

dignitas Cloud9 OpTic

2016-11-22 02:06

this is too easy for dignitas

2016-11-22 02:18

ez for dig

2016-11-22 02:46

FlipSide vs Gambit in finals

2016-11-22 03:18

Finally a tournament that godsent can play

2016-11-22 03:42

i remember back when dreamhack winter was a t1 event.

2016-11-22 03:48

Flipside - Gambit easy final

2016-11-22 04:32

good tournament, should be c9/optic v dig in final.

2016-11-22 04:35

Cloud9 - Dignitas in the final, GODSENT will choke.

2016-11-22 04:52

to choke u have to gain the lead

2016-11-22 22:25

Teams are kinda expected with this kind of price pool. Hope they make DH Winter a masters next year, even though Malmö was very nice.

2016-11-22 06:15

2 tier 1 teams (dig, C9), 2 tier 2 teams (F3, Gambit). Will be interesting tournament.

2016-11-22 06:24

Optic has shown that they are at least tier 2 also. Gambit and F3 aren't really tier 2, even if they still have their legendary spot. They've dropped in the rankings a lot as they have performed really poorly online and haven't attended that many LANs.

2016-11-22 07:04

hello finland scene top500

2016-11-22 12:54

Oops, forgot Optic. Not sure why I did, but yeah definitely agree that Optic > Gambit + F3 atm. They're definitely borderline and close to tier 1. All I really wanted to do was point out how fucking godawful GODSENT are, haha

2016-11-23 05:46

Hehe, yea i understand. Godsent are so up and down, no idea what to expect from them. The fact that they won against fnatic twice in ECS shows that they clearly can play the tactical game and they have fire power... They just need to have 3-4 players performing really well (and the 1-2 playing like bots, good old fnatic times ;)). *edit* And dont get me wrong, im not saying they can win, but give some teams a hard time at least... :D

2016-11-23 11:12

lol this is the easiest tournament for c9 ive ever seen, maybe dig can win, but only if auti and stew don't show up. if ska and auti show up it's 2-0 for c9 in the finals

2016-11-22 06:38

Dig, C9 and Optic are the clear favorites, but the "legendary" teams, Flipside and Gambit, should be really ready for this tournament, as the major is soon coming up... Renegades can always surprise and go far, but i don't see them winning against the favorites. Also Godsent has shown some signs of waking up lately, so if their star players perform well... It might go well for them. Still i see them losing to the likes of Kinguin 16-1 surprisingly and then shocking a team like Dignitas if it comes to that. A lot of inconsistent teams in the tournament, so gonna be fun to bet on the underdogs and win some €A$Y M0N€Y.

2016-11-22 07:00

C9 vs Dignitas

2016-11-22 07:03

dignitas cloud9 optic and godsent favorites, But I think optic will win the tournament

2016-11-22 07:18

Easiest tournament for Dignitas in a long time :D

2016-11-22 08:03

Dignitas vs C9\Gambit Dig ez win

2016-11-22 08:30

mark my words, gambit and renegades in grand final

2016-11-22 08:36

Dig ez win

Cloud9 vs Dignitas in the Grandfinal.

2016-11-22 09:02

Should be EZ 4 ENCE

2016-11-22 09:24

Marik win another tourney

2016-11-22 09:38

Renegades upset yew

2016-11-22 10:31

izi for Godsent Jebaited

2016-11-22 10:34

dig won tournament already on final dignitas sick clutch confirmed

2016-11-22 10:37

A: dignitas - Kinguin GODSENT - Flipsid3 dignitas - GODSENT Kinguin - Flipsid3 GODSENT - Kinguin B: Cloud9 - Renegades OpTic - Gambit Cloud9 - OpTic Renegades - Gambit Cloud9 - Gambit 1/2: dignitas - Cloud9 GODSENT - OpTic Final: dignitas - OpTic

2016-11-22 11:15

Ok, but WHEN is this competition going to happen ?

2016-11-22 11:57

The schedule for the three-day competition looks as follows: Thursday, November 24 12:30 dignitas vs. Kinguin BO1 14:00 Cloud9 vs. Renegades BO1 16:30 GODSENT vs. FlipSid3 BO1 18:00 OpTic vs. Gambit BO1 19:30 Group A winners' match BO1 21:00 Group B winners' match BO1 Friday, November 25 12:00 Group A elimination match BO3 15:00 Group B elimination match BO3 18:00 Group A decider BO3 21:00 Group B decider BO3 Saturday, November 26 11:00 Semi-final #1 (B1 vs. A2) BO3 14:00 Semi-final #2 (A1 vs. B2) BO3 18:00 Grand final BO3

2016-11-22 18:16

Thank you!

2016-11-22 18:51

gL Lanbit and f3

2016-11-22 12:01

no big teams n1

2016-11-22 12:31

godsent can take this one

2016-11-22 13:47

Actually, with some attendin teams being on the rise It could be interestink C:

2016-11-22 14:29

n1 actually something different from all the top elite LANs *yaaaaaawn*... gonna watch 100% :)

2016-11-22 14:48

ez for c9

2016-11-22 14:49

So easy for dig

2016-11-22 16:08

Tier2 very good yes

2016-11-22 17:19

Dignitas vs C9 in grand final 4sure!

2016-11-22 17:52

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2016-11-22 23:58

this is going to be such a badass tournament to watch... there is going to be so many crazy ass rounds and matches with these teams.

2016-11-23 00:41

200nd

2016-11-23 01:49

dignitas became the great team in CS:GO.

2016-11-23 02:26

Optic gonna win

2016-11-23 03:25

wut? only 2 group?

2016-11-23 03:48

wtf why is it only shit tier 3 teams lmao

2016-11-23 03:58

hoping to see RNG in Playoffs

2016-11-23 04:08

Renegades will make it to the Finals and than choke

2016-11-23 12:56

if Dig not win this they dont deserve to be in the top 5

2016-11-23 09:05

Pretty much this

2016-11-23 09:28

Agreed

2016-11-23 12:57

why bo1 i think rng can upset cloud9 ez in a bo1 was hoping for a bo3 :( but c9 are bo1 kings so we'll see what happens

2016-11-23 10:11

Godsent vs C9/Dignitas in the final Sad to not see better teams at a prestige event like DH...

2016-11-23 10:14

EZ Godsent Flusha will toggle

2016-11-23 12:55

DH is no more a tier 1 event like it used to be in pre 2015 era. Now its all about deciding the best of tier 2 teams 5 times a year with $100000 prizepool

2016-11-23 14:20