DreamHack & MSI BEAT IT join forces to host Counter-Strike 1.6 and Heroes of Newerth at DreamHack Winter 2011. MSI Beat IT will arrange online qualifiers and DreamHack will host international qualifiers and the Grand Finals with a total prize purse of 400 000 SEK and additional 200 000 SEK in product prizes.

After the very successful DreamHack Summer-event with over 12 000 visitors and 3 million online viewers we are now proud to present ‘DreamHack MSI Beat IT tournament’ in Counter-Strike 1.6 and Heroes of Newerth. In 2010 MSI BEAT IT hosted their first international eSports season and now we’re proud to collaborate with them for the second season, and give the eSports community one of the greatest eSports shows this year.

In the 2011 season of DreamHack MSI BEAT IT, HoN has been leveled with CS 1.6 in terms of prize money, meaning that both games will hand out 200,000 SEK or over $30,000 in cash prizes in addition to hardware prizes worth over $15,000.

Prize distribution – CS 1.6 & HoN

1. 100,000 SEK (16,000 USD) + 5x MSI GT780 Laptops

2. 50,000 SEK (8,000 USD) + 5x MSI Motherboards

3. 30,000 SEK (4,500 USD) + 5x MSI Graphic cards

4. 20,000 SEK (3,000 USD)

Dreamhack MSI BEAT IT

What is more appropriate than to have the biggest HoN tournament in the world at the biggest LAN in the world? MSI BEAT IT will be finding its winners at this year’s DreamHack Winter, which will once again be held in the Elmia Halls in Jönköping, Sweden. The tournament will be played from the 24th till the 26th of November.

The event will feature 16 CS 1.6 teams and 12 Heroes of Newerth teams coming from all over the world. Yes, you heard right, from ALL over the world. The CS tournament will feature eight online qualification tournaments where each winner will qualify for the main tournament. These will be spread over 6 qualifiers with 4 in Europe, one in the US and one in the South East Asia region. Meanwhile the HoN tournament will feature five International qualification tournaments.

In addition to that, the CS tournament will also have five regional qualifiers, which will be sending teams from different parts of the world to Jönköping Sweden.

Heroes of Newerth: Tournament format



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Counter-Strike 1.6: Tournament format



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Defending champions will be there

As defending DreamHack champions, both FnaticMSI.HoN and SK Gaming’s CS 1.6 squads have been invited to take part in the MSI BEAT IT tournament at DreamHack Winter. Both teams have accepted their invitations and are thus the first of the 28 competitors to be named.

Counter-Strike 1.6

SK-Gaming (Invited, DreamHack Champions) Heroes of Newerth

Fnatic.MSI (Invited, DreamHack Champions)

FnaticMSI.HoN will be gunning for a triple at this winter’s edition of DreamHack after having won the last two consecutive tournaments. Having never dropped a game on LAN, the team is sure to be the heavy favourite to take the event, which will be the biggest ever seen in the HoN-community.

Meanwhile SK Gaming will look to continue their dominant position in CS 1.6, which have included no less than three tournament wins at the DHS event, as well as a GameGune title in July.

Prizes

Counter-Strike 1.6



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Heroes of Newerth



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