Over the weekend, we saw some of the top CS:GO teams from Europe compete in the DreamHack Open Fall group stage, with excellent matches for CS:GO esports fans to enjoy. From 19 October, the playoffs will begin with some exciting matchups. Here's what you need to know.
DreamHack Open Fall playoffs
In the double-elimination GSL-style format group stage, we saw a total of four teams eliminated from the tournament, namely: sAw, ENCE, mousesports and Endpoint.
The top two teams from each of the four groups made it to the upper bracket of the DreamHack Open Fall 2020 playoffs, while the third-placed teams in each group survived to fight another day in lower-bracket of the playoffs. Check out the schedule for the first three days of the playoffs below. All times are in SAST.
19 October:
- Astralis vs GODSENT - 13:00
- North vs fnatic - 16:30
- BIG vs G2 - 20:00
20 October:
- Vitality vs NiP - 13:00
- Sprout vs loser of Astralis/GODSENT - 16:30
- Heroic vs loser of North/fnatic - 20:00
21 October:
- Upper bracket semi-final - 13:00
- OG vs loser of BIG/G2 - 16:30
- FaZe vs loser of Vitality/NiP - 20:00
From 18 to 25 October, the teams will be fighting it out for their share of the $115,000 prize pool at DreamHack Open Fall 2020. That’s roughly R1,9 million at the current Dollar to Rand exchange rate. The winner also gets a spot in the Intel Extreme Masters Season XV – Global Challenge, where $500,000 will be on the line this December.
You can catch all the action on the DreamHackCS Twitch.tv channel
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