| DreamHack Winter 2013 | |
| Sport: | |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Location: | Jönköping, Sweden |
| Start Date: | 28 November 2013 |
| End Date: | 30 November 2013 |
| Administrator: | Valve DreamHack |
| Tournament Format: | 16 team group stage Eight team single-elimination playoff |
| Venue: | Elmia Exhibition and Convention Centre |
| Teams: | 16 teams |
| Purse: | $250,000 USD |
| Champions: | Fnatic (1st title) |
| Runners-Up1: | Ninjas in Pyjamas |
| Runners-Up2: | compLexity Gaming VeryGames |
| Mvp: | Jesper "JW" Wecksell |
| Next: | Katowice 2014 |
The 2013 DreamHack SteelSeries Counter Strike: Global Offensive Championship, also known as DreamHack Winter 2013, was the first 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]
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.
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.
Hosts
Commentators
Analyst
| 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 | 16–9 Mirage | Natus Vincere |
11:00 CET (UTC+1) | Clan-Mystik | 16–14 Dust II | LGB eSports |
12:04 CET (UTC+1) | LGB Esports | 16–13 Mirage | Natus Vincere |
12:18 CET (UTC+1) | Clan-Mystik | 6–16 Inferno | Fnatic |
13:15 CET (UTC+1) | Clan-Mystik | 2–16 Inferno | LGB eSports |
| 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 | 16–13 Inferno | Recursive eSports |
15:33 CET (UTC+1) | iBUYPOWER | 9–16 Dust II | Universal Soldiers |
16:38 CET (UTC+1) | iBUYPOWER | 8–16 Inferno | Recursive eSports |
18:20 CET (UTC+1) | Ninjas in Pyjamas | 16–4 Inferno | Universal Soldiers |
19:58 CET (UTC+1) | Universal Soldiers | 13–16 Inferno | Recursive eSports |
| 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 | 5–16 Inferno | compLexity Gaming |
|---|
09:45 CET (UTC+1) | VeryGames | 16–8 Inferno | Xapso |
Winners' match
11:07 CET (UTC+1) | compLexity Gaming | 16–14 Inferno | VeryGames |
Elimination match
11:20 CET (UTC+1) | n | faculty | 16–5 Train | Xapso |
|---|
12:39 CET (UTC+1) | n | faculty | 9–16 Dust II | VeryGames |
|---|
| 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 | 16–11 Inferno | SK Gaming |
15:06 CET (UTC+1) | Astana Dragons | 16–11 Inferno | Reason Gaming |
16:15 CET (UTC+1) | Astana Dragons | 7–16 Nuke | Copenhagen Wolves |
Elimination match
16:21 CET (UTC+1) | SK Gaming | 3–16 Inferno | Reason Gaming |
17:30 CET (UTC+1) | Astana Dragons | 16–13 Nuke | Reason Gaming |
22:29 CET (UTC+1) | LGB eSports | 16–14 Dust II | Ninjas in Pyjamas |
23:41 CET (UTC+1) | LGB eSports | 9–16 Train | Ninjas in Pyjamas |
00:34 CET (UTC+1) | LGB eSports | 7–16 Mirage | Ninjas in Pyjamas |
20:00 CET (UTC+1) | Copenhagen Wolves | 6–16 Dust II | VeryGames |
20:49 CET (UTC+1) | Copenhagen Wolves | 16–5 Inferno | VeryGames |
21:42 CET (UTC+1) | Copenhagen Wolves | 12–16 Mirage | VeryGames |
22:21 CET (UTC+1) | Fnatic | 16–9 Inferno | Recursive eSports |
23:10 CET (UTC+1) | Fnatic | 13–16 Dust II | Recursive eSports |
00:11 CET (UTC+1) | Fnatic | 16–10 Train | Recursive eSports |
19:58 CET (UTC+1) | compLextity Gaming | 9–16 Nuke | Astana Dragons |
20:36 CET (UTC+1) | compLextity Gaming | 16–7 Dust II | Astana Dragons |
21:47 CET (UTC+1) | compLextity Gaming | 16–12 Inferno | Astana Dragons |
14:17 CET (UTC+1) | Ninjas in Pyjamas | 16–13 Dust II | VeryGames |
15:45 CET (UTC+1) | Ninjas in Pyjamas | 6–16 Inferno | VeryGames |
16:35 CET (UTC+1) | Ninjas in Pyjamas | 16–5 Nuke | VeryGames |
17:56 CET (UTC+1) | Fnatic | 16–7 Train | compLexity Gaming |
18:54 CET (UTC+1) | Fnatic | 16–7 Mirage | compLexity Gaming |
22:47 CET (UTC+1) | Ninjas in Pyjamas | 14–16 Dust II | Fnatic |
23:45 CET (UTC+1) | Ninjas in Pyjamas | 16–6 Inferno | Fnatic |
00:49 CET (UTC+1) | Ninjas in Pyjamas | 2–16 Train | Fnatic |
| Place | Team | Prize Money | Seed for EMS One Katowice 2014 | Roster | Coach |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Fnatic | 100,000 | Legends status | Devilwalk, JW, flusha, pronax, schneider | cArn |
| 2nd | Ninjas in Pyjamas | 50,000 | 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[4] | – |