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DreamHack Winter 2013

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive championship

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The 2013 DreamHack SteelSeries Counter Strike: Global Offensive Championship, also known as DreamHack Winter 2013, was the first Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship. The tournament was organized by DreamHack and sponsored by Valve. The competition was held during the Winter 2013 DreamHack digital festival at the Elmia Exhibition and Convention Centre in Jönköping, Sweden. Six invitees joined ten qualifiers to form the sixteen team event. Community funding helped to build the US$250,000 prize pool. The tournament had a peak 145,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch and the in-game viewing client.

01Format

Six teams, Astana Dragons, compLexity Gaming, VeryGames, Clan-Mystik, Fnatic, and Team iBuyPower, were directly invited to participate in the tournament.

In addition to those six teams, ten other teams qualified through other tournaments. For instance, Ninjas in Pyjamas qualified by winning the DreamHack Summer 2013 tournament; Copenhagen Wolves qualified by winning EMS One Fall 2013; LGB eSports qualified through an online qualifier; and Reason Gaming qualified through the BYOC qualifier.

Teams were split up into four groups, and all group matches were best-of-ones. The highest seed would play the lowest seed in each group and the second and third seeds would play against each other. The winner of those two matches would play each other to determine which team moved on to the playoff stage, while the losers of the first round of matches also played. The loser of the lower match was then eliminated from the tournament. With one team advanced and one eliminated, the two remaining teams would play an elimination match for the second playoff spot. This format is known as the GSL format, named for the Global StarCraft II League.

The playoff bracket consisted of eight teams, two from each group. All of these matches were best-of-three, single elimination. Teams advanced in the bracket until a final winner was decided, and the eight teams to make the playoff bracket earned automatic invitations to the next Major, EMS One Katowice 2014.

Map pool

There were five maps to choose from. In the group stage, each team bans two maps so that one remains. In the playoffs, each team bans one map and chooses one map; the remaining map would be the decider map of the series.

Maps

02Broadcast talent

Hosts

  • Scott "SirScoots" Smith
  • Jonas "bsl" Vikan

Commentators

  • Corey "dunN" Dunn
  • Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen
  • Stuart "TosspoT" Saw

Analyst

  • Duncan "Thorin" Shields"

03Teams

Direct invitation
Qualifiers
 
  • Reason Gaming
  • Recursive eSports
  • SK Gaming
  • Universal Soldiers
  • Xapso

04Group stage

Group A

Pos Team W L RF RA RD Pts
1 Fnatic 2 0 32 15 +17 6
2 LGB eSports 2 1 46 31 +15 6
3 Clan-Mystik 1 2 24 46 −22 3
4 Natus Vincere 0 2 22 32 −10 0

Opening matches

28 November 2013 (2013-11-28)
10:54 CET (UTC+1)		 Fnatic 16, 9
Mirage		 Natus Vincere
28 November 2013 (2013-11-28)
11:00 CET (UTC+1)		 Clan-Mystik 16, 14
Dust II		 LGB eSports

Elimination match

28 November 2013 (2013-11-28)
12:04 CET (UTC+1)		 LGB Esports 16, 13
Mirage		 Natus Vincere

Winners' match

28 November 2013 (2013-11-28)
12:18 CET (UTC+1)		 Clan-Mystik 6, 16
Inferno		 Fnatic

Decider match

28 November 2013 (2013-11-28)
13:15 CET (UTC+1)		 Clan-Mystik 2, 16
Inferno		 LGB eSports

Group B

Pos Team W L RF RA RD Pts
1 Ninjas in Pyjamas 2 0 32 17 +15 6
2 Recursive eSports 2 1 45 37 +8 6
3 Universal Soldiers 1 2 33 41 −8 3
4 iBUYPOWER 0 2 17 32 −15 0

Opening matches

28 November 2013 (2013-11-28)
15:23 CET (UTC+1)		 Ninjas in Pyjamas 16, 13
Inferno		 Recursive eSports
28 November 2013 (2013-11-28)
15:33 CET (UTC+1)		 iBUYPOWER 9, 16
Dust II		 Universal Soldiers

Elimination match

28 November 2013 (2013-11-28)
16:38 CET (UTC+1)		 iBUYPOWER 8, 16
Inferno		 Recursive eSports

Winners' match

28 November 2013 (2013-11-28)
18:20 CET (UTC+1)		 Ninjas in Pyjamas 16, 4
Inferno		 Universal Soldiers

Decider match

28 November 2013 (2013-11-28)
19:58 CET (UTC+1)		 Universal Soldiers 13, 16
Inferno		 Recursive eSports

Group C

Pos Team W L RF RA RD Pts
1 compLexity Gaming 2 0 32 19 +13 6
2 VeryGames 2 1 46 33 +13 6
3 n!faculty 1 2 30 37 −7 3
4 Xapso 0 2 13 32 −19 0

Opening matches

29 November 2013 (2013-11-29)
09:43 CET (UTC+1)		 n!faculty 5, 16
Inferno		 compLexity Gaming
29 November 2013 (2013-11-29)
09:45 CET (UTC+1)		 VeryGames 16, 8
Inferno		 Xapso

Winners' match

29 November 2013 (2013-11-29)
11:07 CET (UTC+1)		 compLexity Gaming 16, 14
Inferno		 VeryGames

Elimination match

29 November 2013 (2013-11-29)
11:20 CET (UTC+1)		 n!faculty 16, 5
Train		 Xapso

Decider match

29 November 2013 (2013-11-29)
12:39 CET (UTC+1)		 n!faculty 9, 16
Dust II		 VeryGames

Group D

Pos Team W L RF RA RD Pts
1 Copenhagen Wolves 2 0 32 18 +14 6
2 Astana Dragons 2 1 39 40 −1 6
3 Reason Gaming 1 2 40 32 +8 3
4 SK Gaming 0 2 14 32 −18 0

Opening matches

29 November 2013 (2013-11-29)
15:03 CET (UTC+1)		 Copenhagen Wolves 16, 11
Inferno		 SK Gaming
29 November 2013 (2013-11-29)
15:06 CET (UTC+1)		 Astana Dragons 16, 11
Inferno		 Reason Gaming

Winners' match

29 November 2013 (2013-11-29)
16:15 CET (UTC+1)		 Astana Dragons 7, 16
Nuke		 Copenhagen Wolves

Elimination match

29 November 2013 (2013-11-29)
16:21 CET (UTC+1)		 SK Gaming 3, 16
Inferno		 Reason Gaming

Decider match

29 November 2013 (2013-11-29)
17:30 CET (UTC+1)		 Astana Dragons 16, 13
Nuke		 Reason Gaming

05Playoffs

Bracket

  Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
            
  28 November 2013
 
  LGB eSports1
  30 November 2013
  Ninjas in Pyjamas2
  Ninjas in Pyjamas2
  29 November 2013
  VeryGames1
  Copenhagen Wolves1
  30 November 2013
  VeryGames2
  Ninjas in Pyjamas1
  28 November 2013
  Fnatic2
  Fnatic2
  30 November 2013
  Recursive eSports1
  Fnatic2
  29 November 2013
  compLexity Gaming0
  compLexity Gaming2
 
  Astana Dragons1
 

Quarterfinals

28 November 2013 (2013-11-28)
22:29 CET (UTC+1)		 LGB eSports 16, 14
Dust II		 Ninjas in Pyjamas
28 November 2013 (2013-11-28)
23:41 CET (UTC+1)		 LGB eSports 9, 16
Train		 Ninjas in Pyjamas
29 November 2013 (2013-11-29)
00:34 CET (UTC+1)		 LGB eSports 7, 16
Mirage		 Ninjas in Pyjamas

Ninjas in Pyjamas won series 2-1

29 November 2013 (2013-11-29)
20:00 CET (UTC+1)		 Copenhagen Wolves 6, 16
Dust II		 VeryGames
29 November 2013 (2013-11-29)
20:49 CET (UTC+1)		 Copenhagen Wolves 16, 5
Inferno		 VeryGames
29 November 2013 (2013-11-29)
21:42 CET (UTC+1)		 Copenhagen Wolves 12, 16
Mirage		 VeryGames

VeryGames won series 2-1

28 November 2013 (2013-11-28)
22:21 CET (UTC+1)		 Fnatic 16, 9
Inferno		 Recursive eSports
28 November 2013 (2013-11-28)
23:10 CET (UTC+1)		 Fnatic 13, 16
Dust II		 Recursive eSports
29 November 2013 (2013-11-29)
00:11 CET (UTC+1)		 Fnatic 16, 10
Train		 Recursive eSports

Fnatic won series 2-1

29 November 2013 (2013-11-29)
19:58 CET (UTC+1)		 compLextity Gaming 9, 16
Nuke		 Astana Dragons
29 November 2013 (2013-11-29)
20:36 CET (UTC+1)		 compLextity Gaming 16, 7
Dust II		 Astana Dragons
29 November 2013 (2013-11-29)
21:47 CET (UTC+1)		 compLextity Gaming 16, 12
Inferno		 Astana Dragons

compLextity Gaming won series 2-1

Semifinals

30 November 2013 (2013-11-30)
14:17 CET (UTC+1)		 Ninjas in Pyjamas 16, 13
Dust II		 VeryGames
30 November 2013 (2013-11-30)
15:45 CET (UTC+1)		 Ninjas in Pyjamas 6, 16
Inferno		 VeryGames
30 November 2013 (2013-11-30)
16:35 CET (UTC+1)		 Ninjas in Pyjamas 16, 5
Nuke		 VeryGames

Ninjas in Pyjamas won series 2-1

30 November 2013 (2013-11-30)
17:56 CET (UTC+1)		 Fnatic 16, 7
Train		 compLexity Gaming
30 November 2013 (2013-11-30)
18:54 CET (UTC+1)		 Fnatic 16, 7
Mirage		 compLexity Gaming

Fnatic won series 2-0

Finals

30 November 2013 (2013-11-30)
22:47 CET (UTC+1)		 Ninjas in Pyjamas 14, 16
Dust II		 Fnatic
30 November 2013 (2013-11-30)
23:45 CET (UTC+1)		 Ninjas in Pyjamas 16, 6
Inferno		 Fnatic
1 December 2013 (2013-12-01)
00:49 CET (UTC+1)		 Ninjas in Pyjamas 2, 16
Train		 Fnatic

Fnatic won series 2-1

06Final standings

Place Team Prize Money Seed for EMS One Katowice 2014 Roster Coach
1st Fnatic US$100,000 Legends status Devilwalk, JW, flusha, pronax, schneider cArn
2nd Ninjas in Pyjamas US$50,000 f0rest, GeT RiGhT, Xizt, friberg, Fifflaren ,
3rd-4th compLexity Gaming US$22,000 Hiko, n0thing, swag, sgares, Semphis ,
VeryGames shox, SmithZz, NBK, ScreaM, Ex6TenZ ,
5-8th LGB eSports US$10,000 dennis, olofmeister, KRiMZ, eksem, SKYTTEN ,
Astana Dragons kucher, Dosia, ANGE1, markeloff, AdreN ,
Recursive eSports Uzzziii, Happy, GMX, kennyS, Maniac ,
Copenhagen Wolves FeTiSh, dev1ce, Nico, dupreeh, Xyp9x 3k2
9-12th Clan-Mystik US$2,000 , apEX, HaRts, KQLY, ioRek, kioShiMa ,
Universal Soldiers TaZ, NEO, pashaBiceps, byali, Snax ,
n!faculty karrigan, gla1ve, Pimp, cajunb, raalz ,
Reason Gaming coloN, MSL, smF, EXR, LOMME ,
13-16th SK Gaming US$2,000 MODDII, twist, xelos, Delpan, pita ,
Xapso ultra, centeks, cadiaN, aizy, robiin ,
Team iBUYPOWER Skadoodle, adreN, DaZeD, anger, AZK ,
Natus Vincere ceh9, Zeus, starix, seized, kibaken ,
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