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DreamHack Winter 2013

2013
The DreamHack Winter 2013 logo
Tournament information
Sport	Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Location	Jönköping, Sweden
Dates	28 November 2013–30 November 2013
Administrator	Valve DreamHack
Tournament format(s)	16 team group stage Eight team single-elimination playoff
Venue	Elmia Exhibition and Convention Centre
Teams	16 teams
Purse	$250,000 USD
Final positions
Champions	Fnatic (1st title)
1st runners-up	Ninjas in Pyjamas
2nd runners-up	compLexity Gaming VeryGames
MVP	Jesper "JW" Wecksell
Katowice 2014 →

The 2013 DreamHack SteelSeries Counter Strike: Global Offensive Championship, also known as DreamHack Winter 2013, was the first Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship. The tournament was organized by DreamHack and sponsored by Valve. The competition was held during the Winter 2013 DreamHack digital festival at the Elmia Exhibition and Convention Centre in Jönköping, Sweden. Six invitees joined ten qualifiers to form the sixteen team event. Community funding helped to build the US$250,000 prize pool.^[1] The tournament had a peak 145,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch and the in-game viewing client.^[2]

Format

Six teams – Astana Dragons, compLexity Gaming, VeryGames, Clan-Mystik, Fnatic, and Team iBuyPower – were directly invited to participate in the tournament.

In addition to those six teams, ten other teams qualified through other tournaments. For instance, Ninjas in Pyjamas qualified by winning the DreamHack Summer 2013 tournament; Copenhagen Wolves qualified by winning EMS One Fall 2013; LGB eSports qualified through an online qualifier; and Reason Gaming qualified through the BYOC qualifier.

Teams were split up into four groups, and all group matches were best-of-ones. The highest seed would play the lowest seed in each group and the second and third seeds would play against each other. The winner of those two matches would play each other to determine which team moved on to the playoff stage, while the losers of the first round of matches also played. The loser of the lower match was then eliminated from the tournament. With one team advanced and one eliminated, the two remaining teams would play an elimination match for the second playoff spot. This format is known as the GSL format, named for the Global StarCraft II League.^[3]

The playoff bracket consisted of eight teams, two from each group. All of these matches were best-of-three, single elimination. Teams advanced in the bracket until a final winner was decided, and the eight teams to make the playoff bracket earned automatic invitations to the next Major, EMS One Katowice 2014.

Broadcast talent

Hosts

• Scott "SirScoots" Smith
• Jonas "bsl" Vikan

Commentators

• Corey "dunN" Dunn
• Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen
• Stuart "TosspoT" Saw

Analyst

• Duncan "Thorin" Shields"

Teams

Group stage

Playoffs

Final standings

References

External links

• DreamHack: Winter 2013 – official website
• DreamHack TV