For a long time there were just three teams announced for the Corsair Vengeance Cup at Dreamhack Winter. Now, all of a sudden, there are 11 teams listed. The finest of Europe and America will attend.
Joining mTw and Na`Vi in the list of invited teams are the Americans Evil Geniuses and Team Dignitas who are looking to prove themselves on LAN. The mighty Team Empire are hungry for a second attempt at bringing their dominance from online to offline. European household names of Absolute Legends, Team Zero and Meet Your Makers also appear on the list. Last but not least there are the Swedish home teams of Pulse eSports as well as the recently reformed NoTidehunter. The new edition of the team features the reunion of Loda and Akke aswell as s4, EternalEnvy and AdmiralBulldog from the previous line-up, read more about that
in this news, together with an exclusive comment by Akke.
Invited teams
mTw
(defending champion)
Natus Vincere
Evil Geniuses
Team Empire
Team Dignitas
Pulse eSports
Absolute Legends
Team Zero
Meet Your Makers
NoTidehunter
Tonight will also feature the final from the qualifier of last night. The teams who made it all the way through the bracket were ScaryFaceZ from Ukraine aswell as QWERT from Poland. However, whether or not any of those teams will have the possibility to actually attend after qualifying is yet to be seen. Also seen in the qualifier was ROOT Gaming, Fnatic.NA, We haz Asian, paiN, Clan Poland and DN-Gaming.
Qualified teams
Fnatic Raidcall
(qualified through Dreamhack Valencia)
Qualified team, online - Oct 28th to Oct 29th
Qualified team, online - Oct 31st to Nov 1st
Qualified team, online - Nov 4th
Qualified team, BYOC - Nov 22nd
Qualified team, BYOC - Nov 22nd
For more information about the qualifiers, check out
this news.
Links
Dreamhack - source
GosuGamers - all Dreamhack coverage