DreamHack Summer with onGamers

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June 11, 2014

At the hot spot in Jönköping, two of our agents - Matthew 'CyborgMatt' Bailey and Johan 'Sun_Tzu' Järvinen will be providing our readers with a constant flow of interviews, updates and live coverage for both Dota 2 and Hearthstone.

Dota 2

DreamHack continues its strong Dota legacy with a blast! It is also a great time to be a Dota fan. Between the ESL tournaments and the upcoming International, whose prize pool just won't stop growing, the finals of the ASUS ROG DreamLeague Season 1 will be held in Jönköping with the top six teams in attendance. The league table prior to the playoffs looks like this:

DreamHack Summer with onGamers — ASUS ROG DreamLeague Groupstage Results

The total prize pool which the six qualified teams will be fighting for is close to $260,000, with the compendium sales having contributed $160,000 so far. The distribution among the teams is as follows:

$ 71,883
$ 40,942
$ 30,942
$ 25,942
$ 22,442
$ 19,442

In addition, the six participating teams Cloud9, Team Empire, EG, mouz, Fnatic and Alliance have already been seeded in the main bracket as follows:

The matches will be broadcast as usual via Twitch with the GD Studio crew as hosting frontrunners. On the onGamers side, our senior Dota 2 editor, Matthew 'CyborgMatt' Bailey, will provide live coverage and interviews from the heart of the action. The tournament begins on Saturday, 14th June with EG vs Alliance.

Hearthstone

DreamHack has always been an arena of multiple games and this time Blizzard's newest game will make its debut. What is more, the organizers have set an extending bracket, meaning that the tournament aims to become the biggest LAN Hearthstone event up to date. DreamHack Summer will be one of the biggest events leading up to a grand conclusion at BlizzCon, where an astonishing $250,000 Hearthstone tournament will take place.

What is interesting is that DreamHack's Hearthstone will be streamed exclusively on Viagame. You can find more information regarding the streaming platform here.

The twelve known competitors thus far are: Alchemixt (Curse), Ek0p (Team Doge), Lifecoach, Savjz (Curse), Amaz (Root), Gaara (Tempo Storm), Realz (ManaGrind), ThijsNL (MYM), Darkwonyx (Curse), Gnimsh (Team Doge), Rdu, TidesOfTime (Tempo Storm).

Four more players from the BYOC tournament will join these twelve in order to form four groups. The players will battle it out for a total of $25,000 distributed in the following way: