DreamHack Winter 2013

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 →

Last updated June 26, 2025

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.

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

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
VeryGames

Qualifiers

Copenhagen Wolves^[a]
LGB eSports^[b]
Natus Vincere ^[c]
Ninjas in Pyjamas ^[d]
n!faculty^[e]

Reason Gaming^[f]
Recursive eSports^[b]
SK Gaming ^[g]
Universal Soldiers^[a]
Xapso^[f]

1 2 3rd–4th place at EMS One Fall 2013
1 2 DreamHack Winter 2013 Online Qualifiers winners
↑ 3rd place at TECHLABS Cup 2013 Finals
↑ 1st place at DreamHack Summer 2013
↑ 1st place at DreamHack Valencia 2013
1 2 DreamHack Winter 2013 BYOC Qualifier winners
↑ 2nd place at DreamHack Bucharest 2013

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	W	L	RF	RA	RD	Pts
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

28 November 2013
10:54 CET (UTC+1)

Fnatic

16–9
Mirage

Natus Vincere

28 November 2013
11:00 CET (UTC+1)

Clan-Mystik

16–14
Dust II

LGB eSports

Elimination match

28 November 2013
12:04 CET (UTC+1)

LGB Esports

16–13
Mirage

Natus Vincere

Winners' match

28 November 2013
12:18 CET (UTC+1)

Clan-Mystik

6–16
Inferno

Fnatic

Decider match

28 November 2013
13:15 CET (UTC+1)

Clan-Mystik

2–16
Inferno

LGB eSports

Group B

Pos	Team	W	L	RF	RA	RD	Pts
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

28 November 2013
15:23 CET (UTC+1)

Ninjas in Pyjamas

16–13
Inferno

Recursive eSports

28 November 2013
15:33 CET (UTC+1)

iBUYPOWER

9–16
Dust II

Universal Soldiers

Elimination match

28 November 2013
16:38 CET (UTC+1)

iBUYPOWER

8–16
Inferno

Recursive eSports

Winners' match

28 November 2013
18:20 CET (UTC+1)

Ninjas in Pyjamas

16–4
Inferno

Universal Soldiers

Decider match

28 November 2013
19:58 CET (UTC+1)

Universal Soldiers

13–16
Inferno

Recursive eSports

Group C

Pos	Team	W	L	RF	RA	RD	Pts
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

29 November 2013
09:43 CET (UTC+1)

n!faculty

5–16
Inferno

compLexity Gaming

29 November 2013
09:45 CET (UTC+1)

VeryGames

16–8
Inferno

Xapso

Winners' match

29 November 2013
11:07 CET (UTC+1)

compLexity Gaming

16–14
Inferno

VeryGames

Elimination match

29 November 2013
11:20 CET (UTC+1)

n!faculty

16–5
Train

Xapso

Decider match

29 November 2013
12:39 CET (UTC+1)

n!faculty

9–16
Dust II

VeryGames

Group D

Pos	Team	W	L	RF	RA	RD	Pts
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

29 November 2013
15:03 CET (UTC+1)

Copenhagen Wolves

16–11
Inferno

SK Gaming

29 November 2013
15:06 CET (UTC+1)

Astana Dragons

16–11
Inferno

Reason Gaming

Winners' match

29 November 2013
16:15 CET (UTC+1)

Astana Dragons

7–16
Nuke

Copenhagen Wolves

Elimination match

29 November 2013
16:21 CET (UTC+1)

SK Gaming

3–16
Inferno

Reason Gaming

Decider match

29 November 2013
17:30 CET (UTC+1)

Astana Dragons

16–13
Nuke

Reason Gaming

Playoffs

Bracket

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

28 November 2013

LGB eSports	1
		30 November 2013
Ninjas in Pyjamas	2
		Ninjas in Pyjamas	2
29 November 2013
		VeryGames	1
Copenhagen Wolves	1
				30 November 2013
VeryGames	2
				Ninjas in Pyjamas	1
28 November 2013
				Fnatic	2
Fnatic	2
		30 November 2013
Recursive eSports	1
		Fnatic	2
29 November 2013
		compLexity Gaming	0
compLexity Gaming	2

Astana Dragons	1

Quarterfinals

28 November 2013
22:29 CET (UTC+1)

LGB eSports

16–14
Dust II

Ninjas in Pyjamas

28 November 2013
23:41 CET (UTC+1)

LGB eSports

9–16
Train

Ninjas in Pyjamas

29 November 2013
00:34 CET (UTC+1)

LGB eSports

7–16
Mirage

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Ninjas in Pyjamas won series 2–1

29 November 2013
20:00 CET (UTC+1)

Copenhagen Wolves

6–16
Dust II

VeryGames

29 November 2013
20:49 CET (UTC+1)

Copenhagen Wolves

16–5
Inferno

VeryGames

29 November 2013
21:42 CET (UTC+1)

Copenhagen Wolves

12–16
Mirage

VeryGames

VeryGames won series 2–1

28 November 2013
22:21 CET (UTC+1)

Fnatic

16–9
Inferno

Recursive eSports

28 November 2013
23:10 CET (UTC+1)

Fnatic

13–16
Dust II

Recursive eSports

29 November 2013
00:11 CET (UTC+1)

Fnatic

16–10
Train

Recursive eSports

Fnatic won series 2–1

29 November 2013
19:58 CET (UTC+1)

compLextity Gaming

9–16
Nuke

Astana Dragons

29 November 2013
20:36 CET (UTC+1)

compLextity Gaming

16–7
Dust II

Astana Dragons

29 November 2013
21:47 CET (UTC+1)

compLextity Gaming

16–12
Inferno

Astana Dragons

compLextity Gaming won series 2–1

Semifinals

30 November 2013
14:17 CET (UTC+1)

Ninjas in Pyjamas

16–13
Dust II

VeryGames

30 November 2013
15:45 CET (UTC+1)

Ninjas in Pyjamas

6–16
Inferno

VeryGames

30 November 2013
16:35 CET (UTC+1)

Ninjas in Pyjamas

16–5
Nuke

VeryGames

Ninjas in Pyjamas won series 2–1

30 November 2013
17:56 CET (UTC+1)

Fnatic

16–7
Train

compLexity Gaming

30 November 2013
18:54 CET (UTC+1)

Fnatic

16–7
Mirage

compLexity Gaming

Fnatic won series 2–0

Finals

30 November 2013
22:47 CET (UTC+1)

Ninjas in Pyjamas

14–16
Dust II

Fnatic

30 November 2013
23:45 CET (UTC+1)

Ninjas in Pyjamas

16–6
Inferno

Fnatic

1 December 2013
00:49 CET (UTC+1)

Ninjas in Pyjamas

2–16
Train

Fnatic

Fnatic won series 2–1

Final standings

Place	Team	Prize Money	Seed for EMS One Katowice 2014	Roster	Coach
1st	Fnatic	US$100,000	Legends status	Devilwalk, JW, flusha, pronax, schneider	cArn
2nd	Ninjas in Pyjamas	US$50,000		f0rest, GeT RiGhT, Xizt, friberg, Fifflaren	–
3rd–4th	compLexity Gaming	US$22,000		Hiko, n0thing, swag, sgares, Semphis	–
3rd–4th	VeryGames	US$22,000		shox, SmithZz, NBK, ScreaM, Ex6TenZ	–
5–8th	LGB eSports	US$10,000		dennis, olofmeister, KRiMZ, eksem, SKYTTEN	–
	Astana Dragons			kucher, Dosia, ANGE1, markeloff, AdreN	–
	Recursive eSports			Uzzziii, Happy, GMX, kennyS, Maniac	–
	Copenhagen Wolves			FeTiSh, dev1ce, Nico, dupreeh, Xyp9x	3k2
9–12th	Clan-Mystik	US$2,000	–	apEX, HaRts, KQLY, ioRek, kioShiMa	–
	Universal Soldiers			TaZ, NEO, pashaBiceps, byali, Snax	–
	n!faculty			karrigan, gla1ve, Pimp, cajunb, raalz	–
	Reason Gaming			coloN, MSL, smF, EXR, LOMME	–
13–16th	SK Gaming	US$2,000		MODDII, twist, xelos, Delpan, pita	–
	Xapso			ultra, centeks, cadiaN, aizy, robiin	–
	Team iBUYPOWER			Skadoodle, adreN, DaZeD, anger, AZK	–
	Natus Vincere			ceh9, Zeus, starix, seized, kibaken^[4]	–

References

↑ "DreamHack – Where the gaming community comes to life". 23 February 2021.
↑ O'Neill, Patrick Howell (December 3, 2013). "With breakthrough tournament, 'Counter-Strike' finally returns to former glory". The Daily Dot . Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
↑ Švejda, Milan. "Searching for the perfect format". HLTV.org. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
↑ "Dreamhack Winter 2013". hltv.org. Retrieved 25 June 2019.

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[fn1-4] 1 2 3rd–4th place at EMS One Fall 2013

[fn2-5] 1 2 DreamHack Winter 2013 Online Qualifiers winners

[6] 3rd place at TECHLABS Cup 2013 Finals

[7] 1st place at DreamHack Summer 2013

[8] 1st place at DreamHack Valencia 2013

[fn3-9] 1 2 DreamHack Winter 2013 BYOC Qualifier winners

[10] 2nd place at DreamHack Bucharest 2013

[Counter_Strike_community_helps_build_$250000_prize_pool-1] "DreamHack – Where the gaming community comes to life". 23 February 2021.

[2] O'Neill, Patrick Howell (December 3, 2013). "With breakthrough tournament, 'Counter-Strike' finally returns to former glory". The Daily Dot . Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2015.

[3] Švejda, Milan. "Searching for the perfect format". HLTV.org. Retrieved 11 February 2021.

[11] "Dreamhack Winter 2013". hltv.org. Retrieved 25 June 2019.

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DreamHack Winter 2013

Contents

Format

Map pool

Broadcast talent

Teams

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Playoffs

Bracket

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

Final standings

References

External links