DreamHack Open March 2021 North America Closed Qualifier

DreamHack Open March closed qualifier invites revealed

19-2-2021 19:25

Six teams, four in North America and two in South America, have been invited to the closed qualifiers for the tournaments in the two regions.

DreamHack Open March is taking place on March 11-14 in two regions, North America and South America, with $100,000 split among both tournaments, $70,000 for the former and $30,000 for the latter, as well as ESL Pro Tour points in play.

The North American event will have eight teams, of which six will be invited directly and two will come from the closed qualifier, while the South American tournament will feature four teams, two invited and two coming from qualifiers.

Sonic and JT's Extra Salt will be competing in the closed qualifier

The North American closed qualifier will feature four teams hailing from two different open qualifiers and the four invited teams, which are Extra Salt, Third Impact, Mythic and Secret Club. The qualifier will be a double-elimination best-of-three bracket played on February 25-27, with the top two teams going through.

The North America closed qualifier invites are:

Extra Salt

Third Impact

Open qualifier #1

Open qualifier #2

Mythic

Secret Club

Open qualifier #1

Open qualifier #2

The two South American teams that have been to invited to the closed qualifier on February 25-26 are the Argentine-Uruguayan-Brazilian team 9z and the Brazilian quintet of Liberty, who will be fighting two teams from the open qualifier in the best-of-three bracket for two spots at the main event.

The South America closed qualifier invites are:

Open qualifier #1

Liberty

Open qualifier #2

Osee will be farming

2021-02-19 19:27

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2021-02-19 21:29

Mythic: no Keiti no win

2021-02-19 19:28

NA CS LUL NO ONE 🚗

2021-02-19 19:29

Bruh how is Extra Salt only in the qualifier? Especially with so many of the best NA teams in Europe, there's no way there's 6 NA teams better than them.

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I was wondering the same thing

2021-02-19 19:50

Oh I know why now. According to ESL Rankings, there's 5 better teams in NA: Rebirth, BNB, paiN, Triumph and High Coast. The 6th spot might be reserved for the DH Showdown Champ, such as in DHO EU Decemeber, or for the higher ranked SA teams, that might've moved to NA (O PLANO, Imperial or MIBR)

2021-02-19 20:15

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only teams that should be getting invited over them would be triumph, high coast and pain even that would be questionable

2021-02-19 21:28

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Well that's the joke of (a) ESL World Rankings for you

2021-02-19 21:39

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But if there is never any sort of structure how will we ever be sure teams have a fair shot of getting in? The rank decay obviously has hurt BnB (as it should) because of the complete roster overhaul but these other teams shouldn't be penalized because of something out of their control. There are times where the top ranked golfer/tennis player would be ranked extremely low because of rank decay/injuries. But it's a part of a needed structure. The thing is that these 2 sports do take into consideration things like this. They know there are outside factors that made their rank drop and are obviously healthy enough to compete. Thus they have spots that are invites for people who qualify due to rank and save some spots for invites due to special circumstances and if there are none the spot/s would go back to the people hoping to get in through an open qualifier. But of course there is a clause in there stating it so it again goes back to structure. Maybe these tournament organizers could do something along these lines as BnB has obviously shown they belong with the invitees.

2021-02-20 02:22