DreamHack Open December groups revealed

5-12-2020 20:34

The Swedish tournament organizer has also announced the initial set of matches.

The teams forming the two groups for the $100,000 DreamHack Open December that will take place online on December 10-13 have been drawn, and are made up of four invited teams and four teams that qualified through different avenues.

Group A features three CIS squads including the top-ranked Virtus.pro (No. 16) and FORZE, who were invited to the event, and Espada, the winners of the closed qualifier. Rounding out the group is the female XSET squad who made it to the tournament as the winners of DreamHack Showdown Summer.

Group B has two invitees in Gambit and Nemiga, the former having shown very strong form in recent times and coming in as the DreamHack Open November champions. The group is then rounded out by SAW and Movistar Riders, champions of the Iberia qualifier and ESL Masters Season 8, respectively.

Gambit will be fighting for another DreamHack Open title

The eight teams have been placed in two four-team groups that will be played out using the GSL double elimination best-of-three format. The top two teams in each group will then proceed to a single elimination best-of-three playoff bracket that will culminate in a best-of-five grand final on championship Sunday.

Group A

Group B

The first set of matches will start at 13:00 on Thursday, December 10, with four teams playing two opening bouts, one from each group. The second set of matches will start at 16:30 , and will close out the two remaining opening series of the tournament.

The Group A match in the first round of matches will feature Virtus.pro going up against XSET, while Group B will have Nemiga and SAW fighting to proceed through the upper bracket.

The second round of matches will therefore be FORZE vs. Espada from Group A on one hand and Gambit vs. Movistar Riders from Group B on the other.

The initial matches are:

Thursday, December 10

13:00 Virtus.pro vs. XSET
13:00 Nemiga vs. SAW

16:30 FORZE vs. Espada
16:30 Gambit vs. Movistar Riders

CIS EVENT WTF

2020-12-05 20:34

4 replies

navi will lose

2020-12-05 20:35

1 reply

Flair brain

2020-12-05 20:38

ez for Gambit

2020-12-05 21:09

iberian event

2020-12-05 23:29

irrelevant

2 replies

Chance for women’s cs to finally prove they are equal to men but they won’t

2020-12-05 20:55

32-0

2020-12-05 21:02

final vp vs gambit

xset will win 4 rounds total

2020-12-05 20:36

I think you should reconsider the possibility of them even killing 4 people in a round

2020-12-05 20:41

XSET omegalul

cool

CIS EVENT KEKW But It's glad to see

2020-12-05 20:37

FEMALES TEAM KEKW WE WANT EQUAL PAY KEKW 12 ROUNDS IN TWO GAMES INC KEKW

less

2020-12-05 20:52

Optimistic

2020-12-05 21:01

this is like MDL

ez gambit

CIS RTR WINTER

2020-12-05 20:39

+1000

2020-12-05 21:43

5 CIS teams? what the fuck

gambit vs vp final

Will they have a fantasy?

2020-12-05 20:40

DH Open CIS

Another tournament for Gambit to smurf

ez riders

2020-12-05 20:42

sAw about to pass the groups after getting owned by Gambit once again.

2020-12-05 20:46

Vamos Riders!

2020-12-05 20:47

Another death group for Riders. Classic

2020-12-05 20:50

all groups are death groups ma man

2020-12-09 11:02

I realized after posted it. But it’s still the routine for Riders.

2020-12-09 13:52

Nice burn EU and NA scene about this event . Kekw

GL Gambit

2020-12-05 20:56

XSET, Riders +CIS minor nice

2020-12-05 20:57

Hello, Saw fan here I guess we dont exist. Sad AF men :( gl

2020-12-05 21:03

3 replies

Ah, sorry men( I just got confused by Belarus and Portuguese flags and didn't notice sAw

2020-12-05 21:33

i dont know what to say

2020-12-05 23:31

I'm just blind, no need to say anything

2020-12-06 01:23

We already know it will be VP - Gambit iin the final

another fragmovie incoming

2020-12-05 21:05

EZ 4 MOVISTAR RIDERS

EZ4RIDERS

2020-12-05 21:15

Wow.

2020-12-05 21:22

its CIS RMR or what?

VP win

2020-12-05 21:44

womens team 🤭 will they get double digit rounds in this tournament?

2020-12-05 21:50

2020-12-06 10:25

ez4XSET

2020-12-05 21:52

XSETPOWER!

2020-12-05 21:58

Can Someone explaim me why they invite 4 cis teams?

2020-12-05 22:12

because they have the highest ESL rank

2020-12-05 22:53

Let's go saw. You can do this let's go.

2020-12-05 22:14

Dreamhack sponsored by CIS?

2020-12-05 22:15

ez4mimi

2020-12-05 22:17

just invite some CIS team and u are done XDDD , ez for gambit btw maybe saw has some chances

2020-12-05 22:26

Tip for relatively free money: All matches bet on Gambit and VP if possible, never bet on forze matches. There you go. No need to thanks me :)

2020-12-05 23:07

bet against forze for free $$$

2020-12-05 23:49

rip xset hltv.org/matches/2336944/avangar-vs-besi..

2020-12-05 23:32

I think sAw is going to win this one.

2020-12-06 00:10

I don't know if you've noticed, but Gambit are in this tournament too.

2020-12-06 06:45

Yes, but I think sAw is going to do better than Gambit.

2020-12-06 11:22

ez4goddessPetra

2020-12-06 00:54

Will forze play with Forester and woro?

Option 1) So if sAw wins against Nemiga they go through Group B upper bracket and will play against the winner of Gambit vs Movistar Riders.. which will most probably be Gambit. So Gambit vs sAw, Gambit can easily win.. and then they would play against the winner of the lower bracket which would be Movistar Riders or Nemiga , do some stupid stuff as always and lose 2-0... Option 2) If sAw loses against Nemiga, they will play against the loser of Gambit vs Movistar Riders, which will most probably be Movistar Riders, and knowing sAw they will do their stupid stuff and lose 2-0 so it's like 70% certain that sAw are gonna get out of the tournament after the first 2 games..

2020-12-06 06:58

well, thats one of the very last chances for sAw to do something, they already had a free run to EPL which they didn't even managed to take... with forze and sprout about to disband and make 2 roster changes each of them and endpoint being a joke team carried by a kid. Otherwise sAw are on their 30's and they should start looking for young talent such as sausol or nopeej. Not just to bring better skill but better mentality.

2020-12-06 10:30