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2013 | |
The DreamHack Winter 2013 logo | |
Tournament information | |
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Sport | Counter-Strike: Global Offensive |
Location | Jönköping, Sweden |
Dates | November 28, 2013–November 30, 2013 |
Administrator(s) | Valve Corporation 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 | |
1st runners-up | |
2nd runners-up | |
MVP | |
The 2013 DreamHack SteelSeries Counter Strike: Global Offensive Championship, also known as DreamHack Winter 2013, was the first Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship to be 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 USD $250,000 prize pool. [1] The tournament had a peak 145,000 concurrent viewers on twitch.tv and the in-game viewing client. [2]
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Hidden Path Entertainment and Valve Corporation. It is the fourth game in the Counter-Strike series and was released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 on August 21, 2012, while the Linux version was released in 2014.
The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championships, commonly known as Majors, are Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) esports tournaments sponsored by Valve Corporation, the game's developer. The Majors were first introduced in 2013 and took place in Jönköping, Sweden and was hosted by DreamHack with a total prize pool of US$250,000. Six teams were directly invited, six teams were invited based on previous tournament results, and another four teams came from direct qualifiers.
Valve Corporation is an American video game developer, publisher and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. It is the developer of the software distribution platform Steam and the Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead, and Dota 2 games.
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 various tournaments and qualifiers. For instance, Ninjas in Pyjamas were eligible for the tournament because it won the DreamHack Summer 2013 tournament; Copenhagen Wolves qualified after it won EMS One Fall 2013; LGB eSports qualified through an online qualifier; and Reason Gaming qualified through the BYOC qualifier. These qualifiers made up the last ten teams for the tournament.
Teams were split up into four groups. 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 moves on to the Playoffs; the loser of that match would play another match against the winner of the two losing teams. The loser of the lower match is eliminated from the tournament. The last two teams would play each other and the winner of that match moves on to the playoffs, whilst the loser is eliminated. This format is also known as GSL Format.
The playoffs bracket consists of eight teams, two from each group. All of these matches are a best of three, single elimination format. Teams advance in the bracket until a winner is decided.
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Natus Vincere (Na'Vi) is an esports organisation based in Ukraine. Founded in 2009, the organisation has teams and players competing in various games, such as Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, FIFA, World of Tanks, Paladins, League of Legends, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Rainbow Six Siege. Ninjas in Pyjamas (NiP) is a professional esports organisation based in Sweden that are best known for their Counter-Strike teams. In 2012, the team reformed with a Counter Strike: Global Offensive lineup upon the release of the game. The NiP CS:GO team is anchored by former Fnatic players Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg and Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund, former teammates on team SK. Aside from Counter-Strike, the organisation has teams in Dota 2, Rainbow Six Siege, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Paladins. They formerly had teams in Fortnite Battle Royale, Overwatch and League of Legends. | SK Gaming is a professional esports organization based in Germany that has teams across the world competing in different titles. SK is particularly known for their success in Counter-Strike (CS) tournaments. SK's Brazilian CS team won the ESL One Cologne 2016 Major. SK currently has players and teams competing in League of Legends and Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. SK Gaming was founded in 1997 by a small group of Quake players in Oberhausen. |
1 - 3rd-4th place at EMS One Fall 2013. 2 - DreamHack Winter 2013 Online Qualifiers winners 3 - 3rd place at TECHLABS Cup 2013 Finals 4 - 1st place at DreamHack Summer 2013 5 - 1st place at DreamHack Valencia 2013 6 - DreamHack Winter 2013 BYOC Qualifier winners 7 - 2nd place at DreamHack Bucharest 2013 |
The sixteen teams were divided into four groups, with the two first match winners playing off against each other to find the groups top seed for the knockout stages. The losers of the first match played off in a knockout match, with the winner facing the loser of the winner's match to find the second seed. With eight teams remaining, the competition reached the quarter final stage, with all knockout matches hereon played in a best-of-three format.
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.
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Pos | Team | W | L | RF | RA | RD | Pts |
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1 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 15 | +17 | 6 | |
2 | 2 | 1 | 46 | 31 | +15 | 6 | |
3 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 46 | -22 | 3 | |
4 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 32 | -10 | 0 |
Pos | Team | W | L | RF | RA | RD | Pts |
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1 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 17 | +15 | 6 | |
2 | 2 | 1 | 45 | 37 | +8 | 6 | |
3 | 1 | 2 | 33 | 41 | -8 | 3 | |
4 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 32 | -15 | 0 |
Pos | Team | W | L | RF | RA | RD | Pts |
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1 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 19 | +13 | 6 | |
2 | 2 | 1 | 46 | 33 | +13 | 6 | |
3 | 1 | 2 | 30 | 37 | -7 | 3 | |
4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 32 | -19 | 0 |
Group C Matches | ||||
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Team | Score | Map | Score | Team |
16 | Inferno | 8 | ||
16 | Inferno | 5 | ||
14 | Inferno | 16 | ||
16 | Train | 5 | ||
16 | Train | 9 |
Pos | Team | W | L | RF | RA | RD | Pts |
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1 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 18 | +14 | 6 | |
2 | 2 | 1 | 39 | 40 | -1 | 6 | |
3 | 1 | 2 | 40 | 32 | +8 | 3 | |
4 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 32 | -18 | 0 |
Group D Matches | ||||
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Team | Score | Map | Score | Team |
16 | Inferno | 11 | ||
16 | Inferno | 11 | ||
7 | Nuke | 16 | ||
16 | Inferno | 3 | ||
16 | Nuke | 13 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
Ninjas in Pyjamas | 2 | |||||||||||||
LGB eSports | 1 | |||||||||||||
Ninjas in Pyjamas | 2 | |||||||||||||
VeryGames | 1 | |||||||||||||
Copenhagen Wolves | 1 | |||||||||||||
VeryGames | 2 | |||||||||||||
Ninjas in Pyjamas | 1 | |||||||||||||
Fnatic | 2 | |||||||||||||
Fnatic | 2 | |||||||||||||
Recursive eSports | 1 | |||||||||||||
Fnatic | 2 | |||||||||||||
compLexity Gaming | 0 | |||||||||||||
compLexity Gaming | 2 | |||||||||||||
Astana Dragons | 1 | |||||||||||||
Team | Score | Map | Score | Team |
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14 | Dust II | 16 | ||
16 | Train | 9 | ||
16 | Mirage | 7 |
Team | Score | Map | Score | Team |
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6 | Dust II | 16 | ||
16 | Inferno | 5 | ||
12 | Mirage | 16 |
Team | Score | Map | Score | Team |
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16 | Inferno | 9 | ||
13 | Dust II | 16 | ||
16 | Train | 10 |
Team | Score | Map | Score | Team |
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9 | Nuke | 16 | ||
16 | Dust II | 7 | ||
16 | Inferno | 12 |
Team | Score | Map | Score | Team |
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16 | Dust II | 13 | ||
6 | Inferno | 16 | ||
16 | Nuke | 5 |
Team | Score | Map | Score | Team |
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16 | Train | 7 | ||
16 | Mirage | 7 | ||
– | ??? | – |
Team | Score | Map | Score | Team |
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14 | Dust II | 16 | ||
16 | Inferno | 6 | ||
2 | Train | 16 |
Place | Team | Prize Money | Seed | Roster | Coach |
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1st | US$100,000 | EMS One Katowice 2014 | |||
2nd | US$50,000 | ||||
3rd–4th | US$22,000 | ||||
5–8th | US$10,000 | ||||
9–12th | US$2,000 | – | |||
13–16th | US$2,000 | – | |||
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