DreamHack Austin group draw

18-4-2017 20:26

The draw for the group stage of DreamHack Austin has been made, with the eight participating teams having been drawn into two groups.

The second of nine DreamHack Open stops scheduled for 2017, DreamHack Austin will run from April 28 to 30 at the Austin Convention Center, with eight teams battling it out for their share of a $100,000 prize pool.

Eight teams, six invited and two qualified, will compete in the group stage, which will feature a double-elimination format, with best-of-one matches in the Upper Bracket and best-of-three clashes in the Lower Bracket.

Immortals will take on Liquid in the first round

The top two sides from each group will advance to the best-of-three single-elimination playoffs, which will determine who takes home the grand prize of $50,000.

Below you can find the group draw in full:

Group A	Group B
HellRaisers	Immortals
Gambit	G2
HEROIC	Cloud9
Luminosity	Liquid

The full schedule for the tournament can be found below:

Friday, April 28
18:00	HellRaisers	vs. Luminosity	BO1
19:30	Immortals	vs. Liquid	BO1
21:00	Gambit	vs. HEROIC	BO1
22:30	G2	vs. Cloud9	BO1
00:00	Group A Winners match		BO1
01:30	Group B Winners match		BO1

Saturday, April 29
17:00	Group A Elimination match		BO3
20:00	Group B Elimination match		BO3
23:00	Group A Decider match		BO3
02:00	Group B Decider match		BO3

Sunday, April 30
17:00	Semi Final #1		BO3
20:00	Semi Final #2		BO3
00:00	Grand Final		BO3

EZ for g2

2017-04-18 20:27

2 replies

EZ 4 liquid

2017-04-18 22:35

2017-04-19 13:26

ez G2

G2 wins this ez pz

ez4HR

ez gambit

where faze at

ez for hellraisers

noice

nice

rip Brazil

EzAf

Fallen's luminosity will take this one ez

HR - G2

2017-04-18 20:28

Ez HR

One of these groups is not like the other... xD

1 reply

+1, i dont understand how they could fuck it up this badly. i guess in terms of the seeding the argument would be that neither c9 nor liquid have done anything at all this year, whereas slumping gambit are major legends and heroic and hr have results to show for.

2017-04-18 21:56

RIP NA

Ez for HR

ez 4 IMT

Ez for G2

Shit groups

2017-04-18 20:30

Group A: Hellraisers Gambit Group B: G2 Immortals

2017-04-18 20:31

group B rigged bad for a NA team to get a good chance to get to playoffs but fucked them with getting them a stacked group PREDICTIONS: HR 2-0 G2 2-0 Heroic 2-1 IMT/C9 2-1 -playoffs HR vs IMT/C9 2-1 Heroic vs G2 0-2 G2 vs HR 2-1 if G2 cant win this event then they have to get a change in roles or players

2017-04-18 20:32

2017-04-18 20:33

ez dir Luminosity

2017-04-18 20:34

Group B is rigged, come on should be ezpz G2

RIP NA TEAMS LMAO

2017-04-18 20:35

lol if G2 doesn't win this tier5 tournament then rip

There a reason the best teams are all in Group B?

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I feel like HR has proved they are better than the NA teams but other than that I agree. Seems weird to have Heroic, Luminosity, and Gambit in one group while 4 of the top 5 teams in this event are in the other.

2017-04-18 21:31

heroic have done pretty well in katowice. gambit are major legends. hr top4 starladder. meanwhile: imt semis i think katowice, g2 quarters starladder, NA teams nothing at all. so it looks like crap but u can comprehend it kinda.

2017-04-18 22:01

9 replies

imt did just as good, if not better than heroic at katowice. G2 stomped HR at starladder and arguably had the harder team at quarters losing to the eventual champions.

2017-04-18 22:08

8 replies

they wouldnt base seeding on moral victories like "g2 went out in quarters and HR went out in semis but g2 had the much harder opponent". they would probably just take the result as is, which is the only thing that makes sense.

2017-04-18 22:14

7 replies

Not saying they should, just saying that group B definately has the better teams

2017-04-19 02:40

6 replies

we have no idea how c9 will do after ska has been out for so long and them not having a permanent IGL, and we also dont know how liquid will do with twistzz now and they also still have BOT jdm. we dont even know if they'll be better than fucking lg.

2017-04-19 15:00

5 replies

same logic applies to gambit and hr. we dont know if hr at starladder was a fluke, we dont know if gambit will show up, they have falen off.

2017-04-19 22:04

4 replies

that was recently though. c9 and liquid have no results to show for at all.

2017-04-19 23:00

3 replies

Does it not make sense to judge a team on how theyve been recently?

2017-04-19 23:51

yeah it does. thats why i judge gambit and HR differently than c9 and liquid. bcs gambit was good a while back, HR is on the rise, liquid and c9 are nothing at all. or am i forgetting any notable lan performances in 2017

2017-04-19 23:54

C9 has the closet 16-6 game ever against astralis /s

2017-04-20 03:31

Ez hr

2017-04-18 20:38

HR, Gambit G2, IMT HR-IMT 2-1 G2-Gambit 2-0 G2-HR 2-1

gambit? i arent think that. ppl always think heroic are some sort of pushover bunch of scrubs but if u think about it it wouldnt really be surprising if they won that group.

2017-04-18 22:03

We'll simply see about that, my heroic friend.

2017-04-18 22:32

LUL, if G2 can't win this tier 3 event please disband.

2017-04-18 20:44

Let's Go Cloud9 !! :)

2017-04-18 20:45

another EZ semi-final for HR.

2017-04-18 20:48

C9 gonna win this!

G2 should disband if they drop a map at this event

2017-04-18 20:52

They will fall to Gambit right off the bat.

2017-04-18 20:59

Grandfinal ag 0:00 at Sunday GG

2017-04-18 20:55

ez 4 Gambit

2017-04-18 20:56

finally a GSL format tournament (also cs_summit). F**k swiss system.

2017-04-18 20:58

just regular brackets for cs_summit

2017-04-18 21:01

Rip NA teams

2017-04-18 21:03

really wierd groups tbh

2017-04-18 21:24

izi LG and IMT cry French FanGays

2017-04-18 21:37

Group B, hello?

2017-04-18 21:40

2017-04-18 21:59

go go immortals

2017-04-18 22:27

EZ 4 Luminosity

2017-04-18 22:52

EZ for X GOD

2017-04-18 23:05

EZ4ENCE

2017-04-18 23:07

ez4PKL

2017-04-18 23:08

nice t2 tournament

2017-04-18 23:16

Spartak take this shit.GL Gambit.

2017-04-18 23:24

Let's go BRAZIL! We can do it my boys, my teams, my proud! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

2017-04-18 23:30

G2 ez pz

2017-04-18 23:56

G2 vs C9 the winner is B4

2017-04-18 23:59

if G2 doesnt win it they should disband

2017-04-19 00:06

with best-of-one matches in the Upper Bracket and best-of-three clashes in the Lower Bracket. This will remove all the luckers from contention.

2017-04-19 01:28

still mad lel

2017-04-19 10:21

if sk vp and teams like these go out in groups...and i have to watch cringeworthy bo3 games of teams like north heroic gambit etc...i will be mad ofcourse.

2017-04-19 21:20

Except Gambit and especially North are better than VP

2017-04-26 01:12

Yup,we can all see how good they are,north beasts in Bo1,gets thrashed and eliminated in Bo3....and gambit has been good,but pretty inconsistent :) North Good Choose1 CSGO Event organisers should learn from dota kiev major. Even the swiss group stage was Bo3.

2017-04-26 18:48