DreamHack Leipzig, The first of the nine DreamHack Open stops in 2017, have announced the competing teams as well their group drawing. The event will take place from January 13th-15th, sporting a $100,000 prize pool.

With a tight schedule around the turn of the year there was no time for a qualifying process, so with six invited teams there was to be given out two wild card spots, which went to the recently assembled squads in the form of Mikail "⁠Maikelele⁠" Bill's qwerty and Fatih "⁠gob b⁠" Dayik's BIG.



The groups are as follows:



gob b will showcase his new team on home ground



At the same time, Dreamhack has announced the schedule for the tournament, which can be seen below:



Friday, January 13th







14:00 Heroic vs. qwerty BO1 15:30 FlipSid3 vs. BIG BO1 17:00 LDLC vs. fnatic Academy BO1 18:30 Vega Squadron vs. Rogue BO1 20:00 Group A Winners match





BO1 21:30 Group B Winners match



BO1

Saturday, January 14th







12:00 Group A Elimination match



BO3 15:00 Group B Elimination match



BO3 18:00 Group A Decider match



BO3 21:00 Group B Decider match



BO3

Sunday, January 15th







10:00 Semi Final #1



BO3 12:30 Semi Final #2



BO3 15:30 Grand Final



BO3

The distribution of the prize pool is as follows: