DreamHack Open Tours viewer's guide

DreamHack Open Tours will run on May 19-21 and will take place at the Parc des Expositions (Exposition Center), where eight teams will battle it out for a share of the $100,000 prize-pool.

Among the participants are the two teams that managed to qualify in their respective regions, AGO and Torqued, as well as six invitees.

Tours will kick the DreamHack Open circuit off in 2018

Teams have been drawn into two groups of four. Group A has AGO and Torqued in the same group as Gambit and GODSENT, while Group B features Envy, HellRaisers, Imperial and North.

Here is the group draw for the tournament:

Group A	Group B
Gambit	North
GODSENT	HellRaisers
AGO	Envy
Torqued	Imperial

As is usual at DreamHack Open events, the format will be a double-elimination group stage—with the elimination and decider matches being best-of-three series'—, and will be followed by a single-elimination playoff bracket which will be played out by the two best teams from each group.

Below you can find the full schedule for the weekend in Tours:

Saturday, May 19th
12:00	Gambit	vs. Torqued	BO1
13:30	North	vs. Imperial	BO1
15:00	GODSENT	vs. AGO	BO1
16:30	HellRaisers	vs. Envy	BO1
18:00	Group A winners match		BO1
19:30	Group B winners match		BO1
Sunday, May 20th
10:00	Group A elimination match		BO3
13:00	Group B elimination match		BO3
16:00	Group A decider match		BO3
19:00	Group B decider match		BO3
Monday, May 21st
11:00	Semi-final #1		BO3
14:00	Semi-final #2		BO3
18:00	Grand final		BO3

As for the on-air talent team, Pala "Mantrousse" Gilroy Sen will be the event's host while Joona "natu" Leppänen and Sudhen "Bleh" Wahengbam will be responsible for breaking down the action as analysts. Narrating the matches will be two pairs of casters, including Vince Hill, as you can find below:

Pala "Mantrousse" Gilroy Sen - Host

Joona "natu" Leppänen - Analyst
Sudhen "Bleh" Wahengbam - Analyst

Vince Hill - Caster
Conner "Scrawny" Girvan - Caster
Hugo Byron - Caster
Niels "rizc" Topp - Caster

Lastly, here is how the $100,000 prize-pool will be distributed among the eight teams:

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