DreamHack Summer's CS:GO Competition Has Groups Revealed

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From June 14 through 17 the CS:GO championship at DreamHack summer will bring together most of the European elite to compete in the $30,000 tournament sponsored by SteelSeries and Need for Seat.

Despite not all of the teams being known yet due to the on-site BYOC qualifiers the groups have been drawn for the Championship, as well as having released the up-to-date schedule of the tournament as it will play out over the three days in Jönköping.

The groups will follow the practically standard GSL-format of double elimination bo1, having the best 2 teams of each group advance to the best of 3 single elimination bracket which will be played out in its entirety on the last day of the tournament.

The groups for the DreamHack Summer CS:GO Championships are:

Group A
Ninjas in Pyjamas (GeT_RiGhT, Friberg, Xizt, f0rest, Fifflaren)
Nameless (Shox, GMX, Sf, KioShima, mistou)
ENCE (natu, allu, ScurK, disturbed, makke)
Berzerk (Asmo, SolEk, Fel1x, AlexrRr, kRYSTAL)

Group B
Virtus.pro (NEO, Snax, TaZ, PASHA, Byali)
Fnatic (Devilwalk, flusha, schneider, JW, pronax)
SK Gaming (Eksem, SKYTTEN, Pita, Emilio, roque)
London Conspiracy (Rubino, Polly, Skurk, maak, Rain)

Group C
Titan (NBK, SmithZz, Ex6TenZ, ScreaM, KennyS)
HellRaisers (Ange1, Markeloff, Dosia, AdreN, Kucher)
Reason (MSL, Nille, CadiaN, EXR, PnX)
BYOC Qualifier

Group D
Natus Vincere (seized, Starix, Zeus, GuardiaN, Edward)
TEAMGLOBAL (Olofm, cype, twist, krimz, spitfire)
AliGon (Delpan, hMp, xelos, khobra, zEVES)
BYOC Qualifier

As for the schedule, it will be:

Saturday 14 June

13:30 – Group A – Warm-up

15:00 – Group A – Match #1

15:00 – Group A – Match #2

16:30 – Group A – Match #3 – Winner vs. Winner

16:30 – Group A – Match #4 – Loser vs. Loser

17:30 – Group A – Match #5 – Final Match

Saturday 14 June

18:30 – Group B – Warm-up

20:00 – Group B – Match #1

20:00 – Group B – Match #2

21:00 – Group B – Match #3 – Winner vs. Winner

21:00 – Group B – Match #4 – Loser vs. Loser

22:00 – Group B – Match #5 – Final Match

Sunday 15 June

13:30 – Group C – Warm-up

15:00 – Group C – Match #1

15:00 – Group C – Match #2

16:30 – Group C – Match #3 – Winner vs. Winner

16:30 – Group C – Match #4 – Loser vs. Loser

17:30 – Group C – Match #5 – Final Match

Sunday 15 June

18:30 – Group D – Warm-up

20:00 – Group D – Match #1

20:00 – Group D – Match #2

21:00 – Group D – Match #3 – Winner vs. Winner

21:00 – Group D – Match #4 – Loser vs. Loser

22:00 – Group D – Match #5 – Final Match

Monday 16 June

08:30 – Playoffs- Warm-up

10:00 – Quarter Finals – Round of 8 – BO3

14:30 – Semi Final 1 – Round of 4 – BO3

18:00 – Semi Final 2 – Round of 4 – BO3

22:30 – Grand Final – BO3