Location Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Venue(s) Polyvalent Hall | |
Sport Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dates October 28, 2015–November 1, 2015 Administrator(s) Electronic Sports League (ESL) Tournament format(s) 16 team round-robin group stage
Eight team single-elimination playoff | ||
DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015 was a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major that was held from October 28–November 1, 2015 at the Sala Polivalentă in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It was organized by DreamHack with help from Valve Corporation and the Professional Gamers League. The tournament had a total prize pool of $250,000 USD.
Contents
- Format
- Regional Qualifiers
- Main Qualifier
- Broadcast Talent
- Teams
- Pre Major Ranking
- Post Major Ranking
- References
Team EnVyUs was the winner of the event after beating Natus Vincere in the finals. The final scores were 16-14 on Train and 16-5 on Cobblestone. Fnatic failed to win their third Major in a row, instead placing 5-8.
Format
The top eight teams of the ESL One Cologne 2015 qualified as Legends. The Challengers consisted of the top eight teams from the DreamHack Open Stockholm 2015 Qualifying tournament.
Teams will be split up into four groups. All group matches are best of 1. The highest seed will play the lowest seed in each group and the second and third seeds will play against each other. The winner of those two matches will play to determine which team moves on to the Playoffs; the loser of that match will 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 will play each other and the winner of that match moves on to the playoffs.
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.
Regional Qualifiers
Two teams from the first European qualifier moved on the the major. Eight teams that were eliminated in the said qualifier moved to the second European qualifier. Three teams from that qualifier moved on to the major. Two teams from the North American qualifier moved on the the major and one team from the Asian qualifier moved on the major.
Main Qualifier
The 16 teams at the major qualifier played at DreamHack Open Stockholm 2015. The bottom eight teams from ESL One Cologne 2015, five teams from two European qualifiers, two teams from the North American qualifier, and one team from the Asian qualifier.
Teams were divided into four groups and the top two from each group made it to the major.
1Lounge Gaming signs the entire Dobry&Gaming lineup.
2MIXCAT emerges with Team ROCCAT.
3Mythic is signed by Winterfox.
4The Asia Qualifier champion, QeeYou, had passport issues and could not attend. Skyred was the runner-up of the qualifier and took its place at the main qualifier.
Broadcast Talent
Hosts
Interviewers
Analysts
Commentators
Teams
Prior to the major, changes took place.
Team Kinguin partner with G2 Esports and the players played under the G2 banner.
After signing with G2 Esports, then known as Gamers2, Adil "ScreaM" Benrlitom leaves the team and joins Titan while Swiss player Mathieu "Maniac" Quiquerez was out of Titan. Joakim "jkaem" Myrbostad is then brought over from the Copenhagen Wolves to take ScreaM's place.
The roster of Team eBettle played under the name Vexed Gaming due to the organization wanting to distance its eSports and betting operations.
mousesports sign the young Bosnian Nikola "NiKo" Kovač and drop Timo "Spiidi" Richter from the active roster.
Team Liquid signs Spencer "Hiko" Martin and coach James "GBJame^s" O'Connor and release Kyle "flowsicK" Mendez.
Team Dignitas release Nicolaj "Nico" Jensen and bring in Jesper "tenzki" Mikalski from SK Gaming for an undisclosed amount.
Pre-Major Ranking
The HLTV.org October 26, 2015 rankings of teams in the major is displayed below. The ranking was the final one released before the major. It included tournaments up to PGL CS:GO Championship Series: Season 1, in which Team SoloMid defeated Virtus.pro in the finals, and DreamHack Open London 2015, in which Team EnVyUs defeated Team SoloMid in the finals.
†Change since October 19, 2015 ranking
Post-Major Ranking
The HLTV.org November 3, 2015 rankings of teams in the major is displayed below. The ranking was the first one released after the major.
†Change since October 26, 2015 ranking