







The Winter tournament was the fifth and final stop on the 2012 DreamHack Open. It featured a BYOC tournament followed by the Grand Finals where 24 qualified players competed for the title. Aside from StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, there were also competitions in Dota 2, Counter-Strike Global Offensive, League of Legends, Battlefield 3, Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition and Quake Live. The games were casted by Apollo, iNcontroL, MrBitter, and RotterdaM. Observing was provided by Adebisi while ReDeYe will host the event.[1]

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Location [ edit ]

Jönköping, Sweden Elmia

Prize Pool [ edit ]

550,000 SEK (~$82,998) is spread among the players as seen below:

Converted USD prizes are based on the currency exchange rate (taken from xe.com) on November 24, 2012: 1 SEK = 0.15091 USD.

Format [ edit ]

Group Stage Round robin. Six players per group, total of 4 groups. Top 3 in each group advances to the playoffs.

Playoffs 12 player single-elimination bracket. Group winners gets seeded into the round-of-eight. 2nd and 3rd places get seeded into the round-of-twelve. Best-of-five until finals. Finals best-of-seven.



Participants [ edit ]

* Polt, Monster, and SjoW cancelled their participation. Genius declined his seed. This made it so there were 13 taken from seeds. monchi, and elfi got in from qualifying points, elfi because SjoW cancelled after also getting in by points.[2][3]

Results [ edit ]

Group Stage [ edit ]

Group 1 [ edit ] November 22, 2012 13:00 CET : Group 1 1. TaeJa 5-0 10-2 2. Snute 3-2 7-6 3. fraer 2-3 6-7 4. TheStC 2-3 6-8 5. Stephano 2-3 5-8 6. elfi 1-4 5-8 Group 1 Matches TaeJa 2 0 elfi Stephano 2 1 TheStC TaeJa 2 1 TheStC Stephano 0 2 fraer TaeJa 2 0 fraer TheStC 2 1 elfi Stephano 2 1 elfi fraer 1 2 TheStC TaeJa 2 0 Stephano fraer 2 1 elfi TheStC 0 2 Snute TaeJa 2 1 Snute Stephano 1 2 Snute elfi 2 0 Snute fraer 1 2 Snute Group 2 [ edit ] November 22, 2012 13:00 CET : Group 2 1. MaNa 4-1 9-5 2. Feast 3-2 8-6 3. Socke 3-2 7-5 4. Bly 3-2 6-7 5. SaSe 1-4 5-6 6. StarNaN 1-4 4-9 Group 2 Matches MaNa 2 1 Socke Bly 2 1 StarNaN MaNa 2 1 StarNaN Bly 2 1 SaSe MaNa 2 1 SaSe StarNaN 0 2 Socke Bly 0 2 Socke SaSe 2 0 StarNaN MaNa 2 0 Bly SaSe 1 2 Socke StarNaN 2 1 Feast MaNa 1 2 Feast Bly 2 1 Feast Socke 0 2 Feast SaSe 1 2 Feast Group 3 [ edit ] November 22, 2012 19:00 CET : Group 3 1. monchi 4-1 9-2 2. Nerchio 4-1 8-3 3. TLO 4-1 9-6 4. DIMAGA 2-3 6-6 5. Bischu 1-4 3-9 6. TargA 0-5 1-10 Group 3 Matches Nerchio 0 2 monchi DIMAGA 1 2 TLO Nerchio 2 1 TLO DIMAGA 2 0 TargA Nerchio 2 0 TargA TLO 2 1 monchi DIMAGA 0 2 monchi TargA 1 2 TLO Nerchio 2 0 DIMAGA TargA 0 2 monchi TLO 2 1 Bischu Nerchio 2 0 Bischu DIMAGA 2 0 Bischu monchi 2 0 Bischu TargA 0 2 Bischu Group 4 [ edit ] November 22, 2012 19:00 CET : Group 4 1. HerO 5-0 10-1 2. ThorZaIN 3-2 7-5 3. NaNiwa 2-3 5-7 4. NightEnD 2-3 5-7 5. ForGG 2-3 5-7 6. Ret 1-4 4-9 Group 4 Matches ThorZaIN 2 0 NaNiwa ForGG 0 2 HerO ThorZaIN 0 2 HerO ForGG 2 0 Ret ThorZaIN 1 2 Ret HerO 2 0 NaNiwa ForGG 0 2 NaNiwa Ret 1 2 HerO ThorZaIN 2 1 ForGG Ret 1 2 NaNiwa HerO 2 0 NightEnD ThorZaIN 2 0 NightEnD ForGG 2 1 NightEnD NaNiwa 1 2 NightEnD Ret 0 2 NightEnD Legend [ edit ] Legend Matches Won-Lost | Games Won-Lost Advance to Quarterfinals Advances to Round of 12 Fate not yet determined. Eliminated.

Playoffs [ edit ]

Bracket [ edit ]

Round of 12 (Bo5) ThorZaIN 3 Socke 0 Nerchio 3 fraer 1 Feast 2 NaNiwa 3 Snute 3 TLO 1 Quarterfinals (Bo5) TaeJa 3 ThorZaIN 2 MaNa 0 Nerchio 3 monchi 3 NaNiwa 2 HerO 3 Snute 0 Semifinals (Bo5) TaeJa 3 Nerchio 0 monchi 1 HerO 3 Finals (Bo7) TaeJa 0 HerO 4

Racial Distribution [ edit ]

Protoss Terran Zerg Round of 24 12 4 8 Round of 12 7 2 3 Quarterfinals 4 2 2 Semifinals 2 1 1 Finals 1 1 Winner 1

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