DreamHack Summer to feature CS

10-5-2012 12:25

DreamHack has announced that the upcoming summer event will feature a tournament with eight teams and a 100,000SEK prize purse.

Since the conclusion of the 2011 winter event, no information was released from DreamHack in regards of Counter-Strike 1.6 for their 2012 events. While announcing the DreamHack Open series, it turned out to be aimed at another popular game at DreamHack, the RTS game StarCraft II.

Today the DreamHack organization announced that the summer event will be featuring a Counter-Strike 1.6 tournament. The tournament will feature eight teams, of which six have already been found via invites. The six invited teams are:

SK Gaming	fnatic	Natus Vincere
ESC Gaming	Moscow Five	Lemondogs

The remaining two teams will be found via the onsite BYOC qualifier, which will take place on the first day of the summer event, Saturday, June 16.

Plantronics and Kingston are the sponsors of the tournament, providing a 100,000SEK prize purse, equivalent to roughly $15,000. The prize purse will be split between top four placed teams.

1. 50,000SEK ($7,268)
2. 25,000SEK ($3,634)
3. 12,500SEK ($1,817)
4. 12,500SEK ($1,817)

The tournament will begin in a best-of-one map group stage, two groups of four teams, with top two advancing to the playoffs. Playoffs will be played best-of-three maps in a single-elimination bracket and just like previous DreamHack events, the final will be played in DreamArena Extreme, an arena with 1,100 seats.

DreamHack Summer will also feature the 2012 Swedish Championship, featuring eight teams, including fnatic, SK Gaming and Lemondogs.

DreamHack Summer will run June 16-19 in Jönköping, Sweden and HLTV.org will obviously be on site to provide you with coverage.

2012-05-10 12:27

awesome news!

it will be hot !!! :)))

2012-05-10 12:28

only 8 :/ add wikipediots and WinFakt !! :D

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2012-05-10 16:37

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"The remaining two teams will be found via the onsite BYOC qualifier, which will take place on the first day of the summer event, Saturday, June 16."

2012-05-10 17:46

agree, I think it should be atleast 12 teams. But yeah wiki/winfakt/some french team would be fun to watch. Or kerchnet

2012-05-10 19:30

yea!

2012-05-10 12:29

Prize money is getting small event by event.

2012-05-10 12:37

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sad but true

2012-05-10 12:40

Although Greykarn (Working for DH) wrote in a thread on fragbite that because of the Swedish Masters are being played at the same time as this tournament they have made it into a smaller event. He also mentioned that the DH Winter edition will from now on be the bigger tournament and will feature a larger prize purse and more teams. And i might be wrong but i think that last years Summer edition also had 100.000 SEK in prize money

2012-05-10 13:51

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Last time prize purse was of $28,500 USD Plus MSI Goodies (Motherboard/GFX/Laptops)

2012-05-10 13:59

That was the winter event.

2012-05-10 14:36

sadly 1.6 is already dead then because of cs go :'(

2012-05-10 14:04

"He also mentioned that the DH Winter edition will from now on be the bigger tournament and will feature a larger prize purse and more teams. " Hasn't it been like that for like 2-3 years?

2012-05-10 23:16

+WinFakt +eSrael

2012-05-10 12:30

y no winfucked

2012-05-10 12:33

good news :D

+Wikipediots, WinFakt

2012-05-10 12:36

yesssssssss <3 CS1.6

gr8 altn/winfakt and pediots fo sho

2012-05-10 12:39

+ Wikipediots + Winfakt :)

where wikipediots?

go navi go sk go !

2012-05-10 12:47

LEMONDOGS #1 , other teams dead

2012-05-10 12:48

two guys from lemondogs have good biceps.

2012-05-10 13:58

winfakt, alternate, wikipediots, anexis,

2012-05-10 12:49

would like to see those teams there aswell.

2012-05-10 18:09

good

2012-05-10 12:51

3rd place prize = 4th place prize?!

2012-05-10 12:53

3rd place decider wont be played obviously

2012-05-10 12:59

Losing semi-finalist wins the same as the other losing semi- finalist, not too weird? :p

2012-05-10 13:07

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we just used to see 3rd place decider at every event

2012-05-10 13:18

true, I guess they want to limit the schedule, as it was always so insanely fully packed, and stretched the scheduled competition hours by miles usually. I remember a 16 hour long day of casting at DH summer 2011, almost non stop play (matches were scheduled for every hour!!)

2012-05-10 19:24

alternate+winfakt please

2012-05-10 12:56

wikipediots > winfakt :P

2012-05-10 12:57

naahh they havent played each other yet did they? :P maybe the play against each other in the qualifier ;)

2012-05-10 13:01

woha! Very good news! gl NaVi and M5 !

Why only 8 teams?! :s nice prizemoney etc.. bah

GJ!

where winfakt :S:S:S

2012-05-10 12:58

Great! A bit sad with only 8 teams, but better then no cs at least :)

Hopefully will be another awesome event!

2012-05-10 13:05

only 8 teams? meh

GL SK <3 go go go

2012-05-10 13:09

King!

2012-05-10 13:14

Good news but not great. Only 8 teams, should be 10 and 2 groups with 5 teams. + WinFakt, Wikipediots, Alternate, Anexis + more money DreamHack Summer 2011 - 45,000$ DreamHack Summer 2012 - 15,000$ Why they want to kill the best FPS game CS 1.6 in events?

2012-05-10 13:17

+ Wikipediots/Alternate/WinFakt/Anexis

2012-05-10 13:21

Haha. Shit event....

2012-05-10 13:22

No Wikipediots = cryfest.

2012-05-10 14:59

2good

2012-05-10 13:23

nice !

2012-05-10 13:25

esc

2012-05-10 13:26

+wikipediots, alternate, winfaket, anexis, alternate, jas, tyloo and k1ck gg event!

2012-05-10 13:29

wikipediots + winfakt.

2012-05-10 13:44

Awesome ! Man i missed Dreamhack :D

Its really good news, but 8 teams in total :/

2012-05-10 13:47

Anexis + WInfakt or wikipediots

2012-05-10 13:48

nice

2012-05-10 13:55

sad

lan = ESC-NAVI. simple as that.

you calling SK & fnatic onliners or what?

2012-05-10 14:17

Unexpected news, really.

2012-05-10 14:06

+winfakt +playart!!! wikipediots is low for this event

2012-05-10 14:19

Some may call this awesome news, but in all honesty a 8 slot event is seriously messed up... tournaments should feature 32-64 teams not 8-16 :( this is surely going in the wrong direction...

2012-05-10 14:26

I'm happy for teams near sweden but sadly the event is too small for an event that most teams would have wanted to attend.

2012-05-10 14:32

Indian Dreamhack i.e BYOC has $3,500 prize purse for CS 1.6 :D

2012-05-10 14:42

Yes, just like " Indian Gaming Carnival "

2012-05-26 08:17

Don't compare IGC with Legit Indian Events PLEASE! :| FFS BYOC has/had 16 successful editions....you can check the pics on www.facebook.com/xgindia

2012-05-26 09:58

+WINFAKT +WIKIPEDIOTS

2012-05-10 14:44

-wikipediots + alternate

2012-05-10 15:04

Now some small/mid sponsors can beat this big sponsors who didn't see feature for CS and it's chance for this medium sponsors, u know it's business and i think CS will be still alive for many years

2012-05-10 14:48

sad should atleast be 12 teams, so 10 invite and 2 spot for byoc, will probably see wikipeidiots, winfakt and probably a .no team fighting for last spots at the site, will be a hard byoc fosure. anyways the price money aint that high so some teams might prefer to not attend, and maybe thats the reason they didnt bother to invite teams outside europe.

2012-05-10 14:53

+alternate

N1 !!! :D

2012-05-10 14:51

M5<33

2012-05-10 15:02

nice but still not enough prizes money ggglhf Na`Vi <3

2012-05-10 15:08

add Wikipediots(eSrael now),WinFakt,Alternate,KechNET,Anexis and this tournament would be best nowadays and ofc more money :)))

2012-05-10 15:13

nice news) go go go na`vi)

2012-05-10 15:18

so are the back2back still going for this? ;P

2012-05-10 15:20

7-8 team - winfakt& wikipediots.

2012-05-10 15:30

all people say cs 1.6 it's dead but when u look on hltv.org , how many tournament are already sure with no exeptionnel cash prize , but how many people wan't to win this cash ?? or say OMG the cash prize of this tournament is useless,but before to say that, look how many tournament are in place at this time?? 4 DREAMHACK per years =x, guy's it's very nice !! so stop look prize and look for the futur of counter stirke 1.6. (sorry for my english =x)

2012-05-10 15:32

esc win 100%

2012-05-10 15:37

8 teams? cmon, dreamhack should have at least 16 or 32.

2012-05-10 15:43

32 is stupidity

2012-05-10 23:41

lol, cmon 8 teams? kidding? :O 16 teams minimum, and online qualifications pls....

2012-05-10 15:44

1.SK/fnatic 3-4 ESC/Navi

2012-05-10 15:53

CS 1.6 NEVER DIES!!

2012-05-10 16:10

Hope for K1CK to attend. And also hope for more teams

2012-05-10 16:12

Go K1CK!!!!!!!!

2012-05-11 22:19

its bad that there are only 8 teams, like elite championship, its unfair imo

2012-05-10 16:14

add eSrael , WinFakt and Back2Back

2012-05-10 16:22

SK Gaming

2012-05-10 16:38

goodnews

8 teams? 3rd-4th place prize equal? Split of the moneny on half of the qualified teams? Stream only?

2012-05-10 17:04

stream only ? -.-

2012-05-10 17:28

Just asking..., hope not, but looking the conditions, I won't wonder if the answer will be yes.

2012-05-10 17:44

gl SK :)

2012-05-10 17:10

WinFakt and Wikipediots and have a great tournament!

2012-05-10 17:25

because there are not many teams are in the event the cs are dying? In addition there are many players on holiday

2012-05-10 17:33

SK ofc ;)

2012-05-10 17:34

go lemon:D

2012-05-10 17:35

-navi +WinFakt

2012-05-10 17:36

2012-05-10 18:54

great news, SK ofc.-

2012-05-10 17:41

2012-05-10 17:48

LOL THAT WOULD BE A INSANE BYOC

2012-05-10 18:20

2012-05-10 19:10

Alternate +Wikipediots/winfakt/tyloo/b2b (?)

2012-05-10 18:26

are you serious 8 team ? =(

2012-05-10 18:34

disappointing

2012-05-10 18:45

They are excluding non-top teams from tournaments like these with ridiculious steps for hosting just a 8 slot tournament. Make it a invite only then sponsored by sponsors from those eight teams. This completely makes no sense. You show the world there is no more space for other CS players than the best eight teams in the world. With other words you're saying: "CS is dead, go play a other game kids." Not to mention Dreamhack became big THANKS to this game. You can say no, but it's simply the truth and I think a lot of Swedes could agree on this part of the story. Just my 2 cents. Not hating because I'm totally nt good enough for eight best teams, not even the best 16 teams, but hey it's very clear what the message is for the Counter-Strike community addressed by Dreamhack. I'm waiting for the shift to CS:GO, it's just the final good-bye for CS 1.6, the winter edition will def. feature CS:GO. Too hard they aren't making this message clear on their website or public statements. They threat us like fools, but I think a majority of the CS players aren't that stupid. By the way, lol @ the B-sponsors: Plantronics and Kingston. Why would they even use Plantronics as a sponsor for a CS tournament? Does this even makes sense? CS'ers were using Plantronics in 2006 when SteelSeries was still called SteelPad while making metal and glass mousepads.

2012-05-10 20:44

Sad for M5(((They will not going to this champ((

2012-05-10 20:56

source please?

2012-05-10 22:12

+ cMar

2012-05-10 21:20

yes

2012-05-10 21:46

+WINFAKT x)))))))

2012-05-10 21:56

Why only 8 teams?!?

2012-05-10 22:43

retarded orga

2012-05-10 23:04

excellent news!!

2012-05-10 22:57

Starcraft 2: 200 000 SEK DotA 2: 200 000 SEK Heroes Of Newerth: 400 000 SEK League Of Legends: 270 000 SEK Counter-strike 1.6: 100 000 SEK

2012-05-10 23:05

LOL why does HoN has a higher prize money than LoL or the other games?! xd

sh* $ distributes :(

2012-05-11 02:21

forgot to add Quake Live: 70 000 SEK

2012-05-27 17:25

+winkfat + playArt

2012-05-10 23:35

Good news =)

and wikipediots and wf

2012-05-11 00:07

This is good news for CS. DH summer and WCG are now secured. Lets hope e-Stars, GameGune(Spain), and ESWC pick CS 1.6 once more. It can be a good year for CS again. :)

2012-05-11 00:13

It will be interesting to see which of the teams playing the final will be the least/most affected when moving from the tournament area to the Extreme one for the 2nd and (hopefully) 3rd map.

2012-05-11 00:14

this are good news?, im asking, i dont know actually for one side we have another important historic tournament alive ... but for the other: ONLY 8 teams and i thinK money isnt enough

2012-05-11 04:17