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DreamHack Logitech CS:GO Championship

Logitech is teaming up with DreamHack to present the DreamHack Logitech CS:GO Championship at DreamHack Winter 2012. We can promise some epic action when DreamHack hosts one of the world’s first major CS:GO tournaments with 300 000 SEK in the prize pool with some of the world’s best teams attending.

Already in August DreamHack officially announced the tournament, but today we’re proud to present more details about our upcoming tournament in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive at DreamHack Winter 2012, November 22-25 in Elmia, Jönköping.

Logitech, Kingston and THOR Einride support the tournament

Logitech, one of world’s leading gaming gear brands, is the Title Sponsor of the tournament. As Main Sponsors we’re proud to announce memory manufacturer Kingston and the Scandinavian retail store CDON. CDON will provide their THOR Einride computers for the tournament area where we also have 120 Hz screens.

ConsiderIt_dunN, Redeye, Lurppis, cArn ready to provide coverage at DreamHack.TV

DreamHack.TV will bring in some of the world’s best casters and experts to provide coverage of the tournament. DreamHack will have one official stream, where casters will rotate between in-game casting and do analysis in our CS:GO Studio that will be the main hub for all CS-action during DreamHack Winter. All matches will be provided in Free HD at www.dreamhack.tv thanks to our broadcasting partner Twitch.TV. More casters and news about the media production will be presented soon.

DreamHack Winter 2012 Casters:

Corey ‘ConsiderIt_dunN’ Dunn

Paul ‘Redeye’ Chaloner

Tomi ‘Lurppis’ Kovanen

Patrik ‘cArn’ Sättermon (Extra)

6 invited teams join NiP-Gaming and Fnatic in the main tournament

Today we’re also announcing 6 out of 8 invited teams for the tournament. NiP-Gaming and Fnatic are already qualified after winning DreamHack Valencia and DreamHack Bucharest. DreamHack will have 6 slots open for any team participating, where 4 slots are for Online Qualifiers and 2 slots are for BYOC-Qualifiers.

- In a new game like CS:GO we’re obviously not inviting teams based on previous results and achievements. This is a totally new competitive scene and we’re looking for established organisations and find a good mix of countries, skill and competition. The last two invited teams will probably be non-European both of them, says Tomas Hermansson, Head of eSports at DreamHack.

Main tournament

Tournament: DreamHack Logitech CS:GO Championship – Main

Location: DreamHack Winter 2012, Elmia, Jönköping, Sweden

Date: 22-24 November

Format: 5on5

Platform: PC, Latest available patch

Prize Purse: 300 000 SEK (150K, 80K, 35K, 35K)

Tournament size: 16 teams

Tournament format: 5on5, MR15, Group Play BO1, Single Elimination Play Off BO3

Tournament PC’s: THOR Einride Intel i5-2500K – 16GB – 120GB SSD + 1TB – Nvidia GTX670 – W7HP +

Tournament Screen’s BenQ 120hz

Controllers: Please bring your own headset, mouse & keyboard.

Teams:

1. NiP-Gaming – DreamHack Valencia Champions

2. Fnatic – DreamHack Bucharest Champions

3. ESC-Gaming – Invited

4. Mousesports – Invited

5. WinFakt – Invited

6. VeryGames – Invited

7. Progaming.TD – SBG – Invited

8. Team Dynamic – Invited

9. TBA – Invited

10. TBA – Invited

11. TBA – Online qualifier – HLTV.org TBA

12. TBA – Online qualifier – HLTV.org TBA

13. TBA – Online qualifier – Gaming.dk TBA (DK only)

14. TBA – Online qualifier – Fragbite TBA (SE only)

15. TBA – BYOC-qualifier (Register here)

16. TBA – BYOC-qualifier (Register here)

Final two invited teams will be announced soon.

Schedule:

22/11 Thursday 09.00 Main tournament – Registration

22/11 Thursday: Groupstage – Group A/B

23/11 Friday: Group stage – Group C/D + Playoffs (2 matches)

24/11 Saturday: Playoffs continue + Grand Final

BYOC qualifier

Tournament: DreamHack Logitech CS:GO Championship – BYOC

Location: DreamHack Winter 2012, Elmia, Jönköping, Sweden

Date: 22 November

Format: 5on5 MR15

Platform: PC, Latest available patch

Prize Purse: Top-2 advance to Main tournament.

Tournament size: 64 teams

Tournament format: Groupstage, Single Elimination Play Off BO1

Tickets / Competitor fee: All BYOC competitors need to have a computer seat BYOC ticket (929 SEK) to be able to participate in this tournament. Buy tickets at bokning.dreamhack.se. Details regarding invites, online & LAN qualifiers will be released soon.

Schedule:

22/11 Thursday 15.00: Registration closed

22/11 Thursday 16.30: Tournament start

>>> Register here: BYOC-qualifier <<<

Important: All teams registered need to CONFIRM their participation on-site at Game Crew 15.00 CEST 22/11 otherwise you are not eligible to play in the tournament.

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Any questions? Do not hesitate to contact DreamHack Esport Administration

Email: esport[at]dreamhack.se

Phone: +46 768 00 1336 (Office hours)