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DreamHack Open Winter: Format announced

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Yhamm France7248 Posts October 15 2014 20:24 GMT #1 DreamHack announced today the format for the DreamHack Open: Winter : http://open.dreamhack.se/news/197-dreamhack-open-grand-finals-format.html The players From DH Bucharest: INnoVation, Life, Impact, Jaedong From DH Summer: LiquidHerO, San, First, TaeJa From DH Valencia: StarDust, MC, Sacsri, Leenock From DH Moscow: MMA, jjakji, Snute, TRUE From DH Stockholm: herO[jOin], ForGG, soO, Solar 20 players, 6 , 5 , 9 When three days, from November 27th to November 29th Prize pool Total - $75,000 1st - $30,000 2nd - $15,000 3rd - $10,000 4th - $6,000 5/6th - $4,000 7/8th - $3,000 How Four groups of five players in a round robin format. Bottom two are eliminated, 2nd and 3rd advance to the lower bracket of the playoffs and the four winners start in the top bracket. In the playoffs, all matches are best of five, and the grand finals is a best of seven. Compared to DreamHack Winter 2013: 12 players in playoffs instead of 16. less matches but Bo5 instead of Bo3 More information on Liquipedia: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/2014_DreamHack_Open/Winter

inermis 353 Posts October 15 2014 21:02 GMT #2 sick lineup ! it will be amazing

Darkdwarf Sweden960 Posts October 15 2014 21:02 GMT #3 When will the groups be announced?

digmouse China6331 Posts October 15 2014 21:12 GMT #4 It is better than Blizzcon!

Shellshock United States97276 Posts October 15 2014 21:13 GMT #5 Should be a fun tournament

Xxio Canada5565 Posts October 15 2014 21:16 GMT #6 That one red flag.

Spect8rCraft 649 Posts October 15 2014 21:25 GMT #7 On October 16 2014 06:16 Xxio wrote: That one red flag. The double meaning sounds strangely condescending. But I'm rooting for the Axiom kid, the terminator and the foreign hope. 'Tis gonna be one helluva show!

Yakikorosu 1203 Posts October 15 2014 21:33 GMT #8 This tournament looks great; after the relatively low representation at the last two Blizzcons Zergs will get a chance to dominate. I'm hoping Impact will repeat his great Bucharest performance.

SuperHofmann Italy1741 Posts October 15 2014 21:34 GMT #9 hype hype hype

Xinzoe Korea (South)2373 Posts October 15 2014 21:51 GMT #10 cjhero vs taeja is my ideal finals HYPE

dangthatsright 1160 Posts October 15 2014 21:56 GMT #11 go to class, come back and watch dh, repeat for three days? seems like a good plan

Pontius Pirate United States1557 Posts October 15 2014 22:02 GMT #12 On October 16 2014 06:16 Xxio wrote: That one red flag. There's red in the Korean flag too. :p I'm hoping for either Life or a TL player to win it.

AKAvg Brazil298 Posts October 15 2014 22:13 GMT #13 Good changes from 2013. Should be fun to watch

GumBa United Kingdom31935 Posts October 15 2014 22:25 GMT #14 Dat lineup!

vult United States9400 Posts October 15 2014 22:27 GMT #15 They fixed the Best Of system!

vRadiatioNv United States139 Posts October 15 2014 22:28 GMT #16 Lol, Snute looks so lonely on that list xD. Props to him for being the only foreigner to make it. This tournament should be sick!

KatatoniK United Kingdom978 Posts October 15 2014 22:28 GMT #17 Best of 7 finals? Awwwww yiss Hoping for an Impact or CJ herO victory

fezvez France3021 Posts October 15 2014 22:29 GMT #18 Very sexy tournament. Someone should check how much the 20 players at Dreamhack intersect with the top 20 of WCS rankings

GumBa United Kingdom31935 Posts October 15 2014 22:30 GMT #19 November is gonna be so insane

bnanaPEEL Canada138 Posts October 15 2014 22:32 GMT #20 LOVE the bo5 format, thank you DH!

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