DreamHack announce 2018 Open circuit details

13-12-2017 13:56

DreamHack will hold eight Open events in 2018, of which seven will feature CS:GO as the main title, the organizers have announced.

The 2018 DreamHack Open circuit remains largely the same as in 2017. Eight locations across Europe and North America will play host to next year's circuit, as opposed to nine in 2017, with the Denver stop discontinued.

However, the Leipzig stop in January will not feature CS:GO because of its clash with the ELEAGUE Major taking place January 19-28.

For CS:GO, next year's DreamHack Open circuit will begin in Tours in May

The format also stays, as each of the $100,000 events will feature eight teams, six of which will be directly invited and the remaining two will come from qualifiers in Europe and North America. In some cases, there will only be five invites and one wild-card team coming from a region not covered by a qualifier.

Every tournament will begin with a GSL group stage, with BO1s in the upper part and BO3s in the lower, followed by single-elimination playoffs - no changes once more.

Here is the full list of DreamHack Open stops featuring CS:GO in 2018:

DreamHack Tours - May 19-21
DreamHack Austin - June 1-3
DreamHack Summer - June 16-18
DreamHack Valencia - July 12-14
DreamHack Montreal - September 7-9
DreamHack Atlanta - November 16-18
DreamHack Winter - November 30-December 2

DreamHack will also organize two Masters events next year, the second of which has already been announced; it will take place in Stockholm's Ericsson Globe from August 29-September 2.

Eleague n1

2017-12-13 13:57

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dreamhack became tier2 events. sad

2017-12-13 13:59

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They can't fight with finances of other companies, that's why

2017-12-13 14:01

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Dreamhack ESL ESEA are 1 company. People need to understand. Dreamhack Open Circuit are meant for tier 2 teams + few tier 1 Dreamhack Masters are for Tier 1 teams.

2017-12-13 14:06

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Full reward

2017-12-13 14:13

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i was thiking swedes are rich but nope dreamhack became tier 3 event from t1

2017-12-13 14:46

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Swedish company MTG owns All 3 esl dh and esea ...

2017-12-13 17:04

1 reply

2017-12-17 21:58

True

2017-12-13 14:47

its not because it's the same guys at the head of those 3 companies that they all have the same budget you can do the exactly same event and results won't be the same depending on the name of the org ESEA event will boost up esea sales ESL event boosts up ESL in general, so if you have new ladders or LANs comming out on different games, it's better to pick ESL works like this. And obviously sponsors aren't the same for ESL or for ESEA. You also have sponsors that have a deal with faceit in which it says they can't have one with ESEA since it's the first opponent way way more complicated than just "its 1 company"

That guy said "Dreamhack cant compete with other orgs in terms of money." That is false,that is what i wanted to point out. ESL and DH used to be competitors,but ever since MTG bought them,they advertise each others events on each others streams as well.

if you own 3 companies each have its own capital, you can't mix all 3 capitals to make a big one and do whatever you want and it's not even one guy owning 3 companies, it's loads of people owning shares and the guys with DH or ESL shares won't give a fuck about ESEA and we will be very mad if ESEA uses ESL's money to make an investment or a LAN

2017-12-13 17:11

Was just my guess anyway ty for info tho

2017-12-13 15:18

Hyped for the DH events

2017-12-13 13:56

Dreamhack 2nd major of 2018? Prolly not, it should be EU.

2017-12-13 13:58

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Dreamhack Masters Stockholm in Late August 2018 could be a Major

2017-12-13 14:16

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Hopefully esl cologne instead

2017-12-13 14:28

epicenter as major xDD

2017-12-13 14:50

Why not?

2017-12-13 15:40

2017-12-13 16:30

Better than PGL

2017-12-13 20:00

Nicee

Nice

nice

More nice

2017-12-13 15:57

france sweden spain 3 muslim countries gg fuck this shit cant go to DH again

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Cry is free

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your sister is free

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I have no sister dude but, i have a brother with 20 cm turkish penis :))

2017-12-13 14:00

knows exact lenght of his brother's cock expected from roach

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Yes dude how about your ass , is it suitable for this cock ?

2017-12-13 14:02

reported to sultan erdogan for haram behaviour, enjoy beheading

You started first with my inexistent sister :))

2017-12-13 14:04

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yeah but its legal here to fuck your sister

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Expected from poor eu country dude nothing new here. If you live in a poor country which is someone cant find a valuable job, generally people starting to rape girls.

2017-12-13 14:07

Turk talking about poor countries lul muslim talking about raping girls lul get some self awareness brah

2017-12-13 14:08

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Ahahhahaha maan pls check turkish economy before the argue with this topic.. Nt anways 2/8

2017-12-13 14:09

Turkey GDP pe capita 10 787,61 USD Slovakia GDP per capita 16 495,99 USD NT middle easterner

2017-12-13 14:11

Turkish gdp 900 billion dollars while poor slovakia gdp is 80 billion dollars ahahahahg and he is still talking Man there are 80 million people here , ofc gdp per capita must be lower than 2 million slovakian country Nt anway 3/8

LMAO turkish education Switzerland GDP=600 billion, 200 billions lower than Turkey, i guess Turkey is richer ? XD XD Per capita is done per 100,00 people you dumb sand niBBer population has no effect on it

2017-12-13 14:15

Turk xDDD

2017-12-13 14:49

that's gay

make your own DreamHack then

2017-12-13 14:58

cool

Dreamhack Vienna, when?

That's actually awesome bro. Vienna is damn beautiful :)

2017-12-13 17:16

noice invite envy in all ez

sick

One dream hack event should have been held in Asia

DreamHack Sao Paulo?

SPAIN AND HOW ABOUT BRAZIL? EVERY TOURNAMENT THE SAME ResidentSleeper CROWD

2017-12-13 14:03

No one wants to,you cant force them to.

Dreamhack lisboa??????????????

Make Dreamhack Summer a major

Make Epicenter a major!

2017-12-13 14:30

Where are Brasil?

in SA, go to school a learn

2017-12-13 14:31

ohh my god, how smart you are!!

2017-12-13 15:39

Why did ur go to Brazil?

Ez navi at all of DHs

2017-12-13 14:17

RIP Leipzig

2017-12-13 14:19

Would be awesome to have one event in Brasil.

Br fans are toxic

2017-12-13 14:25

Bulgaria does not have a CSGO team

2017-12-13 14:33

so ?

2017-12-13 15:22

Noone except for brazil people want tournaments in brazil lol

what's the point of having tournaments in other countries if SK will win anyway

2017-12-13 15:32

Windigo,Bpro,Prophecy,MK ??

2017-12-13 15:48

Which of these will be the next Major? I'm sorry, they're insignificant...

2017-12-13 15:56

Atleast our players show up at matches lul

2017-12-13 21:33

@Maletinhacjm even Hiko said that brazilian fans have sent life treaths to him and his family.

2017-12-13 16:02

DreamHack Sofia?

Dreamhack... Dreamhack never changes

2017-12-13 14:35

What about Leipzig?

2017-12-13 14:51

Will have Rocket League due to the fact that the Boston Major is overlapping.

They had to skip due major dates. But I think they will have something with Rocket League, just the CS part was skipped. twitter.com/marcwinther/status/940221958..

Dreamhack Istanbul WHEN?

2017-12-13 16:18

UK event pls 2019 :(

Calm your tits fellas. ESL (the parent company) uses Dreamhack as a platform for lower-tier teams to inject more teams into the pro-circuit eventually. It is sort of like the minors, to the majors in baseball. We get to see new talent, and newer teams play against a few top teams, and other low-tier MDL teams.

2017-12-13 16:35

ESL is not the parent company of DreamHack.

2017-12-13 16:57

you tell them.

2017-12-13 17:05

MTG is the parent company, esl and dh are 2 different entities

Yeah, I forgot MTG bought them out, but originally before 2015 -- ESL was the parent company. Either way that's what MTG is using Dreamhack's platform for. It's not supposed to be crazy serious like ESL, or IEM tournaments.

2017-12-13 17:09

So what exactly is DreamHack masters then?

Apologies. I should be a bit more precise. I was mainly talking about the Dreamhack Open tournaments my friend. Which is what I thought what this post was about, but that's my fault for not being specific. No offense to dreamhack or anything, as it was just my observation -- which imo you guys are one the most entertaining events to watch at the moment! The name nix0n sounds super familiar. Didn't you play for mTw, and a few other famous danish teams back in 1.6?

2017-12-13 17:17

Dude the guy who replied to you,and the one you are replying to,is an ex pro player,HLTV admin and currently Director of DreamHack Masters and all things CS:GO at @DreamHack XD

2017-12-13 17:26

I know exactly who he is at the moment, but seeing as this was about Dreamhack open, and not masters. His reply was completely irrelevant to the subject, but I was also not being specific in my postings. Hopefully no offense was taken, and we can all move on. Dreamhack is honestly one of the most exciting platforms for events, and most of the other tournaments become boring & stale after watching for an hour or so. They make it fun, and more laid back. The competition is serious, but it's not boring in the way the present it is all I was trying to explain. PS: It just kind of dawned on me that I used to see his name in the old pro matches from 1.6!

2017-12-13 17:31