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. The tournament had a peak 145,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch and the in-game viewing client.

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.

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.

Map pool There were five maps to choose from. In the group stage, each team bans two maps so that one remains. In the playoffs, each team bans one map and chooses one map; the remaining map would be the decider map of the series. Maps

Dust II Inferno Mirage Nuke Train

Broadcast talent Hosts Scott "SirScoots" Smith Jonas "bsl" Vikan

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

Analyst Duncan "Thorin" Shields"

Teams Direct invitation

Astana Dragons Clan-Mystik compLexity Gaming Fnatic iBUYPOWER VeryGamesQualifiers Copenhagen Wolves LGB eSports Natus Vincere Ninjas in Pyjamas n!faculty  Reason Gaming Recursive eSports SK Gaming Universal Soldiers Xapso

Group stage

Group A Team 1 Fnatic 2 0 32 15 +17 6 2 LGB eSports 2 1 46 31 +15 6 3 Clan-Mystik 1 2 24 46 −22 3 4 Natus Vincere 0 2 22 32 −10 0

Opening matches 10:54 CET (UTC+1) Fnatic 16–9Mirage Natus Vincere 11:00 CET (UTC+1) Clan-Mystik 16–14Dust II LGB eSports Elimination match 12:04 CET (UTC+1) LGB Esports 16–13Mirage Natus Vincere Winners' match 12:18 CET (UTC+1) Clan-Mystik 6–16Inferno Fnatic Decider match 13:15 CET (UTC+1) Clan-Mystik 2–16Inferno LGB eSports

Group B Team 1 Ninjas in Pyjamas 2 0 32 17 +15 6 2 Recursive eSports 2 1 45 37 +8 6 3 Universal Soldiers 1 2 33 41 −8 3 4 iBUYPOWER 0 2 17 32 −15 0

Opening matches 15:23 CET (UTC+1) Ninjas in Pyjamas 16–13Inferno Recursive eSports 15:33 CET (UTC+1) iBUYPOWER 9–16Dust II Universal Soldiers Elimination match 16:38 CET (UTC+1) iBUYPOWER 8–16Inferno Recursive eSports Winners' match 18:20 CET (UTC+1) Ninjas in Pyjamas 16–4Inferno Universal Soldiers Decider match 19:58 CET (UTC+1) Universal Soldiers 13–16Inferno Recursive eSports

Group C Team 1 compLexity Gaming 2 0 32 19 +13 6 2 VeryGames 2 1 46 33 +13 6 3 n!faculty 1 2 30 37 −7 3 4 Xapso 0 2 13 32 −19 0

Opening matches 09:43 CET (UTC+1) n!faculty 5–16Inferno compLexity Gaming 09:45 CET (UTC+1)VeryGames 16–8Inferno Xapso

Winners' match 11:07 CET (UTC+1) compLexity Gaming 16–14Inferno VeryGames

Elimination match 11:20 CET (UTC+1) n!faculty 16–5TrainXapso Decider match 12:39 CET (UTC+1)n!faculty 9–16Dust II VeryGames Group D Team 1 Copenhagen Wolves 2 0 32 18 +14 6 2 Astana Dragons 2 1 39 40 −1 6 3 Reason Gaming 1 2 40 32 +8 3 4 SK Gaming 0 2 14 32 −18 0

Opening matches 15:03 CET (UTC+1) Copenhagen Wolves 16–11Inferno SK Gaming 15:06 CET (UTC+1)Astana Dragons 16–11Inferno Reason Gaming Winners' match 16:15 CET (UTC+1) Astana Dragons 7–16Nuke Copenhagen Wolves

Elimination match 16:21 CET (UTC+1) SK Gaming 3–16InfernoReason Gaming Decider match 17:30 CET (UTC+1)Astana Dragons 16–13Nuke Reason Gaming

Playoffs

Bracket

Quarterfinals 22:29 CET (UTC+1) LGB eSports 16–14Dust II Ninjas in Pyjamas 23:41 CET (UTC+1) LGB eSports 9–16Train Ninjas in Pyjamas 00:34 CET (UTC+1) LGB eSports 7–16Mirage Ninjas in Pyjamas Ninjas in Pyjamas won series 2–1

20:00 CET (UTC+1) Copenhagen Wolves 6–16Dust II VeryGames 20:49 CET (UTC+1) Copenhagen Wolves 16–5Inferno VeryGames 21:42 CET (UTC+1) Copenhagen Wolves 12–16Mirage VeryGames VeryGames won series 2–1

22:21 CET (UTC+1) Fnatic 16–9Inferno Recursive eSports 23:10 CET (UTC+1) Fnatic 13–16Dust II Recursive eSports 00:11 CET (UTC+1) Fnatic 16–10Train Recursive eSports Fnatic won series 2–1

19:58 CET (UTC+1) compLextity Gaming 9–16Nuke Astana Dragons 20:36 CET (UTC+1) compLextity Gaming 16–7Dust II Astana Dragons 21:47 CET (UTC+1) compLextity Gaming 16–12Inferno Astana Dragons compLextity Gaming won series 2–1 Semifinals 14:17 CET (UTC+1) Ninjas in Pyjamas 16–13Dust II VeryGames 15:45 CET (UTC+1) Ninjas in Pyjamas 6–16Inferno VeryGames 16:35 CET (UTC+1) Ninjas in Pyjamas 16–5Nuke VeryGames Ninjas in Pyjamas won series 2–1

17:56 CET (UTC+1) Fnatic 16–7Train compLexity Gaming 18:54 CET (UTC+1) Fnatic 16–7Mirage compLexity Gaming Fnatic won series 2–0 Finals 22:47 CET (UTC+1) Ninjas in Pyjamas 14–16Dust II Fnatic 23:45 CET (UTC+1) Ninjas in Pyjamas 16–6Inferno Fnatic 00:49 CET (UTC+1) Ninjas in Pyjamas 2–16Train Fnatic Fnatic won series 2–1

Final standings Place Team Prize Money Seed for EMS One Katowice 2014 Roster Coach 1st Fnatic100,000Legends status Devilwalk, JW, flusha, pronax, schneider cArn 2nd Ninjas in Pyjamas50,000 f0rest, GeT RiGhT, Xizt, friberg, Fifflaren – 3rd–4th compLexity Gaming 22,000 Hiko, n0thing, , sgares, Semphis – VeryGames shox, SmithZz, NBK, ScreaM, Ex6TenZ– 5–8th LGB eSports 10,000 dennis, olofmeister, KRiMZ, eksem, SKYTTEN– Astana Dragons , Dosia, ANGE1, , AdreN – Recursive eSports Uzzziii, Happy, GMX, kennyS, Maniac – Copenhagen Wolves FeTiSh, dev1ce, Nico, dupreeh, Xyp9x 3k2 9–12th Clan-Mystik 2,000 , HaRts, KQLY, , kioShiMa – Universal Soldiers TaZ, NEO, , , Snax – n!faculty karrigan, gla1ve, Pimp, , – Reason Gaming , MSL, , EXR, LOMME – 13–16th SK Gaming 2,000 MODDII, , xelos, Delpan, pita – Xapso , centeks, , , – Team iBUYPOWER Skadoodle, , DaZeD, , AZK – Natus Vincere , Zeus, , , kibaken –

References

External links

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