Spirit defeat forZe to finalise DreamHack Masters Spring Europe list

Spirit booked the final spot in the European division of DreamHack Masters Spring after beating fellow CIS side FORZE 2-0 in the final round of the closed qualifier.

Leonid "⁠chopper⁠" Vishnyakov's troops will join GODSENT, who had qualified on Sunday via the upper bracket, DreamHack Open Leipzig champions BIG, and 13 invited teams in the $160,000 online tournament, which is slated to start on May 15.

Spirit fancied their chances heading into the consolidation final as they had yet to lose to FORZE in 2020 after two series between these teams, the most recent of which as recent as eight days ago. FORZE, who had narrowly defeated OG in the previous lower bracket round, came close to pulling off an impressive comeback on Dust2 after finding themselves down 1-8 on the CT side, but Spirit prevailed in the end, with chopper finishing the game with a 31-16 KDD and an ADR just shy of 100.

chopper led Spirit to a close win in the CIS derby

Inferno turned out to be just as chaotic as the previous map, though this time around it was Spirit who spent most of the game catching up. FORZE had the upper hand from the outset and were at one point just two rounds away from victory, but they couldn't deliver the finishing blow and allowed their opponents to strike back right at the death.

DreamHack Masters Spring 2020 - Europe Closed QualifierBest of 3

Spirit

Matchpage

2

0

20th April 2020

FORZE

16

Dust2

13

16

Inferno

14

Spirit	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakovchopper	60 - 33	+27	92.6	79.7%	1.57
Artem 'iDISBALANCE' EgoroviDISBALANCE	42 - 34	+8	70.2	76.3%	1.19
Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhevsdy	37 - 32	+5	75.4	79.7%	1.18
Nikolay 'mir' Bityukovmir	41 - 36	+5	83.8	71.2%	1.17
Boris 'magixx' Vorobievmagixx	27 - 39	-12	63.5	72.9%	0.84

FORZE	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Bogdan 'xsepower' Chernikovxsepower	37 - 36	+1	67.8	62.7%	0.98
Dmitriy 'facecrack' Alekseyevfacecrack	42 - 45	-3	74.4	59.3%	0.97
Evgenii 'FL1T' LebedevFL1T	37 - 40	-3	72.4	69.5%	0.96
Almaz 'almazer' Asadullinalmazer	32 - 41	-9	76.1	69.5%	0.95
Andrey 'Jerry' MekhryakovJerry	26 - 45	-19	55.8	67.8%	0.77

DreamHack Masters Spring, which replaced the Jönköping Masters following the cancellation of the Swedish event due to the coronavirus pandemic, will begin with four round-robin groups, with only the bottom finishers not making it to the double-elimination playoffs.

The final list of participants for the online tournament is the following:

Natus Vincere
MOUZ
FaZe
Ninjas in Pyjamas
BIG
North
HEROIC
GODSENT

Astralis
fnatic
G2
Vitality
MAD Lions
Complexity
ENCE
Spirit