Dreamhack Winter 2020
DreamHack’s All-Women CS:GO Tournament to Gather Top Talent from Europe and North America with $50,000 Prize Pool
The ESL Pro Tour 2020 is the first world wide Warcraft III pro tour. It's organized, sponsored and hosted by ESL in collaboration with DreamHack. The DreamHack Open - Winter Season - America is the third chance out of four for Americans and Oceanians players to grant EPT points and qualify for the regional final. DreamHack Masters Winter 2020: Europe Day 1 Match Discussion. Discussion Esports. DreamHack Masters Winter 2020: Europe. DreamHack Masters Winter 2020: Europe. In the grand finals of DreamHack Masters Winter 2020 Asia, ZhiHong “aumaN” Liu‘s squad defeated the Mongolians, winning the best-of-five series with a 3-0 score (including a map advantage after the team came from the upper bracket). The Chinese side will take home the US$8,000 first-place prize alongside 185 ESL Pro Tour points.
STOCKHOLM/COLOGNE, NOVEMBER 11, 2020 – ESL Gaming, the world’s largest esports company, today announced the return of DreamHack Showdown, the all-women Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) tournament. DreamHack Showdown Winter, which will feature a European and a North American division, will start with qualifiers on December 4-6, with the main tournament running over six days from December 15-20, 2020. Featuring top talent from Europe and North America, DreamHack Showdown Winter will also feature a $50,000 prize pool. Monster Energy is a partner for this event.
Reigning champions from DreamHack Showdown Summer are Team Originem (Europe) and CLG Red (North America).
“Showdown is an amazing, all-women CS:GO tournament featuring some of the best women players in the world,” said Charlie Sirc, Showdown Product Manager at ESL Gaming. “As a woman, I must say our brand’s ongoing commitment to diversity, both on and off camera, is deeply meaningful to me — so this event has become particularly special to our company. It will be a not-to-be-missed battle to the end!“
DreamHack Showdown Winter, Online
- The main tournament will take place on December 15-20 with a total of six broadcast days, with both regions running on the same dates.
- DreamHack Showdown Winter EU online tournament, featuring six teams and $30K prize pool
- DreamHack Showdown Winter NA online tournament, featuring four teams and $20K prize pool
- EU Tournament Format
- The tournament will be played over the course of six days
- The tournament will feature a double elimination bracket with 4 teams being invited and two teams coming from open qualifiers
- The four direct invited teams will be seeded into the first round of the upper-bracket, while the two teams from open qualifiers will face each other in the first round of the lower-bracket
- The final will be played best-of-three with no upper-bracket advantage
- NA Tournament Format
- The tournament will be played over the course of six days
- The tournament will feature a double elimination bracket with 2 teams being invited and two teams coming from open qualifiers
- The final will be played best-of-three with no upper-bracket advantage
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ABOUT ESL GAMING
ESL Gaming is the world’s largest esports and gaming lifestyle company. Since 1994, the company has been shaping the industry and leading esports and gaming innovation on a global scale across the most popular video games with numerous online and offline esports competitions, and through premier gaming lifestyle festivals. The company operates high-profile, branded international leagues and tournaments under the ESL Pro Tour, including ESL One, Intel® Extreme Masters, DreamHack Masters, ESL Pro League, and other preeminent, stadium-size tournaments. ESL Gaming also produces and hosts DreamHack Open tournaments, ESL National Championships, grassroots amateur cups, matchmaking systems, and DreamHack’s gaming lifestyle festivals — which feature everything gaming under one roof.ESL Gaming is part of MTG, the leading international digital entertainment group. More information is available at about.eslgaming.com.
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DREAMHACK SHOWDOWN MEDIA CONTACTS
Per Sjölin, ESL Gaming
+46 730 25 31 99 p.sjolin@eslgaming.com
Melissa A.E. Sanders, Tadpole Communications
+1.404.909.6726 melissa@tadpolecomm.net
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
We hope to see you at DreamHack Atlanta and DreamHack Winter towards the end of the year. This also means that DreamHack Summer and Dallas will be postponed to 2022. In the meantime, we're currently working on an exciting new online experience that we hope to share with you shortly!
Dreamhack Open Winter 2020
ESPORTS ENTERTAINMENT
We will continue to run broadcasts throughout the year and provide hours of esports action across multiple game titles, including:
CS:GO - Kicking off with the DreamHack Open in January, and will run through a packed schedule of EPT Masters and EPT Challenger dates throughout the year.
DOTA 2 - The official Dota Pro Circuit is already underway with DreamLeague covering Europe, and ESL One covering the CIS region.
Dreamhack Winter 2020 Asia
StarCraft® II - The circuit tour will kick off with DreamHack StarCraft® II Masters in May 2021, and conclude at IEM Katowice in February 2022
Dreamhack Winter 2020 Fortnite
Warcraft® III - The circuit will start with DreamHack Warcraft® III Open in May 2021, and culminate with DreamHack Warcraft® III Championship in December.