OG, forZe, Cloud9 headline DreamHack Masters Spring closed qualifier invites

15-4-2020 16:14

Closed qualifier teams for all four DreamHack Masters Spring regions have been announced, with OG being the highest-ranked squad in this phase of the competition.

Aleksi "⁠Aleksib⁠" Virolainen's squad missed out on a direct invite to Dreamhack Masters Spring Europe, as the last one was handed to Heroic instead, but the European mixture will be joining FORZE, GODSENT, and Virtus.pro in the closed qualifier for the European part of the tournament.

OG are set to participate in the closed qualifier for DreamHack Masters

In North America, Flashpoint 1 participants Cloud9, Envy, and Bad News Bears were handed invites to the closed qualifier, alongside Swole Patrol. Lastly, Lucid Dream and AVANT are favorites for spots in the main tournament after being invited to the Asian and Oceanic closed qualifiers.

The closed qualifiers for all four regions will take place on April 18-20, with open qualifiers preceding them on April 16-17. In Europe and North America, a total of eight teams (four invited, four qualified) will be competing for the final two spots at the main event, while four teams will compete in closed qualifiers in Asia and Oceania (two invited, two qualified).

Europe Closed Qualifier

GODSENT

FORZE

Open Qualifier

Virtus.pro

Open Qualifier

North America Closed Qualifier

Open Qualifier

Open Qualifier

Asia Closed Qualifier

Lucid Dream

Open Qualifier

Beyond

Open Qualifier

Oceania Closed Qualifier

AVANT

Open Qualifier

Chiefs

Open Qualifier

Open qualifiers for all regions will take place on April 16-17, with more information and signups available on DreamHack's website.

You can find the details about the invited teams, schedule, and prize pool for each region's main events below.

Europe

Schedule: Group stage May 19-30; Playoffs June 8-14
Prize pool: $160,000

Qualifier #1

Qualifier #2

North America

Schedule: Group stage May 19-30; Playoffs June 8-14
Prize pool: $100,000

Qualifier #1

Qualifier #2

Asia

Schedule: June 2-7
Prize pool: $20,000

TYLOO

Qualifier #1

ViCi

Qualifier #2

Oceania

Schedule: June 2-7
Prize pool: $20,000

Renegades

Qualifier #1

ORDER

Qualifier #2

ENCE really?

2020-04-15 16:15

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hi bsharp mr dm 24/7

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there can only be one dm king 😎😎😎 who are you tho?

2020-04-15 16:19

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One of these teams is considerably worse than the other

2020-04-15 16:21

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You mean from EU? I can see mad lions wiping the floor with ence whilst theyre having fun 😎 HAVU > ENCE

2020-04-15 16:24

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+1 havu put up a good fight against mibr and ence, even tho lost 2x1 (dreamhack), they were nowhere near to havu PS: mibr were shit when they played ence but were on a good form when they played havu (yesterday lmao)

2020-04-15 17:26

you played with my teammate in a train pug like 1-2 hours ago

2020-04-15 16:31

that was entertaining 😎

2020-04-15 16:32

yes

2020-04-15 16:39

Cool

2020-04-15 16:14

Nice.

2020-04-15 16:18

EZ4ZE and VP

2020-04-15 17:01

VP = trash. EZ4ZE EZ4OG

2020-04-15 22:37

so bad

Havu and OG

2020-04-15 16:16

ENCE over OG lul

2020-04-15 16:17

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I agree that ENCE absolutely undeserved this invitation, but it's good for OG that they didn't get invitation. They need to practice more, qualifications are a good opportunity for this.

2020-04-15 16:22

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2020-04-15 16:36

agreed

2020-04-15 16:37

2020-04-15 16:57

imagine inviting ENCE over OG LUL

This is some real conspiracy theory shit. I don't understand why ENCE keep getting invited over better teams. They are dogshit!

Watch them finish the tournament in last place again

This is indeed some next level shit. There's literally zero arguments to invite ence over og. ZERO

2020-04-15 17:16

its because in esl ranking which is a joke ence used to be higher placed than OG until recently and that is how they decide the invites I guess, now og has passed them easily but it was too late I guess :D

2020-04-15 18:00

ENCE wasted slot, should've invited HAVU

2020-04-15 16:35

HAVU shouldve gotten invite to qualifier

2020-04-15 16:38

2020-04-15 16:40

they are still in US, qualifier is in 3 days

2020-04-15 16:41

didnt notice that

2020-04-15 16:52

invites are given based on your esl ranking so they had no hope (:

2020-04-15 17:54

EU OG Spirit (Will make it from the Open Qualifier to Closed and from Closed to the main event) NA Bad News Bears Swole Patrol I think those teams will make it to the main event.

ENCE and Heroic invited over forZe OG GODSENT and VP kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

kek

So they invite ENCE but better teams should play qualifier ahah, corrupted Dreanhack

Please don't enable ENCE by inviting them. If they have to go through qualifiers they might have to re-learn their approach to the game. They have to hit absolute rock bottom without any invites to realize the reality of their current level of play. If they are always invited to tournaments despite not winning any games at all they will just continue just like old Virtus.Pro did.

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It has already started, remember the Katowice qualifiers. I think they got an invite due to their ranking in ESL rankings, but not sure.

2020-04-15 16:44

not fast enough we should be arguing whether they deserve an invite to the closed qualifier, not the main event

2020-04-15 17:21

We should start wondering if they should be allowed in open quals or not.

2020-04-15 18:20

Well they were lucky to get invite as their esl ranking sadly used to be high enough for that until recently, if the invites were given today they would not get invite

2020-04-15 17:56

14 teams invited and they're currently #14 of the EU based teams. So the question is about CoL. But if they are not EU then ence "deserve" their slot from ranking

2020-04-15 19:11

Nice to see more events going live. Some teams (like BadNewsBear) had nothing in the pipeline

ez for mantuu

LUL

2020-04-15 17:03

Nice invites good luck!

2020-04-15 17:11

nort, heroic, mad lions, invited is mega lol

Not even a closed qualifer invite for dignitas? omfg..

2020-04-15 17:25

its because esl ranking is used to decide the teams, it isn't some dude deciding them but rather looking ranking and then highest ranks get invites

2020-04-15 17:57

Hold that thought

2020-04-15 20:31

hltv.org/events/3530/iem-sydney-2018 5 au teams. 1 (#16) out of 5 in top30 and we cant get dignitas a qualifier invite for dreamhack?

2020-04-15 20:39

ENCE KEKW

2020-04-15 17:31

How long ence will be invited? They need new IGL!

OG and Clown9 at event with word Masters in the name lmao. Biggest joke ever.

2020-04-15 17:59

OG, forZe, Cloud9 headline DreamHack Masters Spring closed QUALIFIER invites. pls learn to read. Also, why ence > og? or why c9 < geng (they sucked at flashpoint)

2020-04-15 19:52