DreamHack Masters Spring closed qualifier invites announced

4-3-2021 18:57

The tournament organiser has revealed the invited teams for the qualifiers in Europe and North America.

Four European teams and two North American sides have received invitations to the regional closed qualifiers for DreamHack Masters Spring, scheduled for March 6-7. Both tournaments will feature double-elimination, best-of-three brackets to determine four of the 16 teams that will be taking part in the $250,000 main event.

HEROIC, Complexity, Cloud9 and OG have been invited to the European closed qualifier, in which they will be joined by the four sides that survive the extensive open bracket, which is already underway and features teams like fnatic, Sprout and MIBR.

Complexity (world No.11) are the highest-ranked team in attendance

The tournament could mark the debut of Nikolaj "⁠niko⁠" Kristensen for OG, who are locked in talks with Heroic over the 22-year-old rifler as they look to replace Nathan "⁠NBK-⁠" Schmitt. The Danish team will be making their first appearance with Rasmus "⁠sjuush⁠" Beck and Ismail "⁠refrezh⁠" Ali after signing the pair from MAD Lions last week.

With three spots on the line, the European closed qualifier will feature the following teams:

HEROIC

Complexity

Open qualifier

Cloud9

Open qualifier

In North America, Bad News Bears and Extra Salt will take on two participants from the region's open qualifier for a spot in the main event. The team list for the tournament looks as follows:

Bad News Bears

Open qualifier

Extra Salt

Open qualifier

2021-03-04 18:58

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lets go complexity and bad news bears! really hope we get to see jonji and the boys vs EU

2021-03-04 19:00

Ez 4 col

where is saw?

4 replies

losing to Nemiga :(

2021-03-04 19:02

2 replies

why you bully me((

2021-03-04 19:24

lmao

2021-03-04 19:52

They are playing on open qualifier, go check their games

2021-03-04 20:01

Nice

2021-03-04 18:59

rip nbk

lul c9

Finally, a tournament where C9 can go out of groups possibly.

Wast spot in cquals IMO :(

2021-03-04 20:59

Got rid of woxic, it’s their fault they’re bad.

2021-03-05 00:12

Nice, I thought bad news bears had to go through the open qualifier

C9 INVITED? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA NOT EVEN TOP20

2021-03-04 19:03

They are 20th in rankings, dude. You are fake news.

2021-03-04 19:05

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They are top20 only coz They get free invites to every tournament. Basicly free points for tier4 team. Most overreated lineup in whole top30 history... Zero results behind that standing

2021-03-04 21:06

There's not exactly any teams below them that deserve to be top 20 either.

2021-03-04 21:12

Nvm

2021-03-05 06:13

why they invite c9 XDD there are much better teams than overhyped9

OG and C9 invited while fnatic is in the open qualy, congratz lel

2021-03-04 19:04

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+999

its based on esl rankings, but fnatic have been looking terrible lately

Wdym fnatic has been as dog shit as OG & C9 but even more

2021-03-04 19:26

natic reached summit finals and flashpoint semis. og is decent but what does c9 ever did

2021-03-04 21:36

Srsly fnatic has been shit lately but i agree with Clown9 they are just wasting tourney spots

2021-03-04 22:48

Jesus Christ NA looks dead. Aw well... LETS GO NA!!

2021-03-04 19:06

money talks folks

2021-03-04 19:11

fnatic playing open bracket lmao

2021-03-04 19:27

CLOUD9 dont deserve the invite

2021-03-04 19:31

invited CLOWN9 but not fnatic xddd

2021-03-04 19:38

Heroic, Cloud9 and OG make it through in EU. BND make it through in NA.

2021-03-04 19:47

og so bad,1 year together 0 results and on iem lose 2 times 0-2 ,nice invites

2021-03-04 19:50

fnatic in open but clown9 and 0g in closed ok dreamhack

2021-03-04 19:56

Hopefully high coast makes it in na

2021-03-04 20:50

So 12 teams recieve direct invites and Heroic & coL aren't included as they are ranked 13 & 14 by ESL. This means all teams ranked above will recieve invites, should be stacked.

2021-03-04 21:22