BetBoom Dacha teams, format, schedule, prizes, talent

4-12-2023 21:44

Eight teams will clash for $300,000 in prizemoney from December 5-10 in Dubai, UAE.

FURIA arrive in Dubai as the highest-ranked team

The Elisa Masters Espoo has just ended, but the Counter-Strike circus is already setting off to the next stop in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where the BetBoom Dacha tournament is kicking off on Tuesday.

Promising a more casual vibe, the event will take place in a luxurious hotel setting with side activities aplenty over the next week, and boast a set of eight teams tightly packed between the #9 and #18 ranks in the world.

Participating teams, format

Front and center of the competition are FURIA, who come into the event as the highest-ranked side following their title-winning performance at Elisa Masters Espoo.

They will hardly be heavy favorites, though. A Cloud9 team that enters the tournament following their successful LAN debut with newest addition Kirill "⁠Boombl4⁠" Mikhailov and Virtus.pro are breathing down their necks, along with an Astralis squad that has just completed the blockbuster additions of Martin "⁠stavn⁠" Lund and Jakob "⁠jabbi⁠" Nygaard, who will be making their first appearance since their dramatic exit from HEROIC.

Astralis sign jabbi and stavn

GamerLegion also feature on the team list after replacing HEROIC at the event, hoping to show a better face after early exits at ESL Challenger Jönköping and the Elisa Masters.

The remaining three teams are BetBoom — a team operated by the same betting entity that also is the title sponsor of the tournament —, another Brazilian representative in MIBR, who recently placed in the top four at PARI Please and ESL Challenger Jönköping, and Spirit.

Group A

Group B

These eight will first play in two double-elimination groups from which the top-two teams will make it to the single-elimination bracket. All matches leading up to the grand final will be played in best-of-three series, before a best-of-five series decides the winner.

Schedule

The tournament kicks off on Tuesday with the opening matches of Group A, followed by the Group B openers on Wednesday and the first elimination match.

Two teams will lock in playoffs spots in Thursday's winners' matches, and the other two on Friday in the deciders. The bracket stage will follow on the weekend:

Date	Matches
BetBoom Dacha 2023
05/12/2023	GamerLegion 11:55 Cloud9	Match
05/12/2023	MIBR 15:25 BetBoom	Match
06/12/2023	Astralis 10:25 Virtus.pro	Match
06/12/2023	FURIA 15:10 Spirit	Match
06/12/2023	GamerLegion 18:50 BetBoom	Match
07/12/2023	Virtus.pro 09:55 Spirit	Match
07/12/2023	Cloud9 14:00 MIBR	Match
07/12/2023	Astralis 18:10 FURIA	Match
08/12/2023	BetBoom 10:55 Cloud9	Match
08/12/2023	Spirit 14:10 FURIA	Match
09/12/2023	BetBoom 10:55 Virtus.pro	Match
09/12/2023	MIBR 13:50 Spirit	Match
10/12/2023	Virtus.pro 11:55 Spirit	Match

Prize distribution

Typically more spread out among most of the competition, the prize distribution will be quite significantly more top-heavy than usual at BetBoom Dacha, with only the top four earning a piece of the $300,000 pie for their achievements:

1. $180,000
2. $60,000
3-4. $30,000