DreamHack has announced details about the qualifying process for the upcoming Winter event.

The 2016 DreamHack ZOWIE Open season will come to a close next month at the prestigious Winter event, which will be held from November 24-27 at the Elmia Exhibition and Convention Centre, in Jönköping.

Eight Counter-Strike teams will compete for their share of a $100,000 prize pool, with six of them being directly invited by DreamHack. Alongside the invitees, there will be two teams determined by a European qualifier hosted by ESEA on October 15-16.



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The qualifier will consist of two stages, with the first being an open 512-team cup, which will determine the eight teams who will advance to the closed best-of-three bracket, where they will be joined by eight invited sides, to be revealed towards the end of the week.

Teams can sign up for the Open qualifier by heading over to ESEA's website. The schedule for the Closed qualifier is as follows: