dignitas, SK qualify for DH Leipzig

dignitas and SK have qualified for DreamHack Open Leipzig after defeating HellRaisers and FlipSid3 in the Closed Qualifier, respectively.

The DreamHack Open Leipzig qualifiers, intended to give the two final spots to the eight-team, $100,000 event, hit their closed stage yesterday after 505 teams had taken part in an open qualifier.

With known teams such as ENCE, Vexed, and E-frag.net falling in the round-of-eight, the two best-of-three semifinals which would decide the two winners featured a match-up between dignitas and HellRaisers and SK and FlipSid3.

Kjaerbye and dignitas to attend Leipzig

The first match to finish was the former one as Tomáš "⁠oskar⁠" Šťastný and his HellRaisers team could not capitalise from yesterday's successful qualification bid for the PGL EU Minor and ended up dropping to dignitas.

The Danish-Norwegian team took de_cbble with a score of 16-10 after an impeccable CT defense on the map and then narrowly edged out HellRaisers on de_overpass with a 16-14 scoreline.

DreamHack Open Leipzig 2016 Closed QualifierBest of 3 DignitasMatchpage 2 0 10th January 2016 HellRaisers 16Cobblestone 10 16Overpass 14

Dignitas	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wieneckek0nfig	59 - 35	+24	-	1.55
Markus 'Kjaerbye' KjærbyeKjaerbye	49 - 36	+13	-	1.21
Jesper 'TENZKI' PlougmannTENZKI	33 - 32	+1	-	0.99
Ruben 'RUBINO' VillarroelRUBINO	35 - 36	-1	-	0.93
Mathias 'MSL' LauridsenMSL	28 - 39	-11	-	0.79

HellRaisers	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastnýoskar	42 - 40	+2	-	1.03
Kirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowANGE1	40 - 42	-2	-	0.97
Patrik 'Zero' ŽúdelZero	36 - 36	0	-	0.96
Martin 'STYKO' StykSTYKO	35 - 42	-7	-	0.84
Emil 'kUcheR' AkhundovkUcheR	25 - 44	-19	-	0.61

The second match of the Closed Qualifier started in a more mundane fashion with Jacob "⁠Pimp⁠" Winneche & co. of SK annihilating FlipSid3 on de_overpass (FlipSid3's map pick) with a 16-3 score.

SK's pick of de_mirage was a much tenser affair as the game went into overtime and the Ukrainian FlipSid3 outfit took the map 21-18 off of the back of Georgi "⁠WorldEdit⁠" Yaskin's AWPing.

de_train was yet another overtime brawl by the map's end, but it was SK's revenge this time around as the Danish team won the map 21-16.

DreamHack Open Leipzig 2016 Closed QualifierBest of 3 FlipSid3Matchpage 1 2 10th January 2016 SK 3Overpass 16 21Mirage 18 16Train 21

SK	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Emil 'Magisk' ReifMagisk	96 - 60	+36	-	1.62
Michael 'Friis' JørgensenFriis	75 - 58	+17	-	1.15
Jacob 'Pimp' WinnechePimp	74 - 63	+11	-	1.12
Andreas 'MODDII' FridhMODDII	63 - 61	+2	-	1.00
Asger 'AcilioN' LarsenAcilioN	55 - 66	-11	-	0.82

FlipSid3	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Georgi 'WorldEdit' YaskinWorldEdit	66 - 68	-2	-	0.96
Vladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchukbondik	69 - 72	-3	-	0.94
Yegor 'markeloff' Markelovmarkeloff	63 - 71	-8	-	0.93
Oleksandr 'Shara' HordieyevShara	60 - 75	-15	-	0.81
Andrey 'B1ad3' GorodenskiyB1ad3	50 - 77	-27	-	0.69

The eight teams that will be attending DreamHack Open Leipzig are therefore:

Virtus.pro	Luminosity
mousesports	Null element Na`Vi
G2	questionmark
dignitas	SK

DreamHack Open Leipzig will take place from January 22-24 at the Leipzig Trade Fair in the historic Saxon city.

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Jacob 'Pimp' Winneche Age: 20 Team: SK Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 643 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.63 Georgi 'WorldEdit' Yaskin Age: 24 Team: FlipSid3 Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 441 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.67 Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastný Age: 24 Team: HellRaisers Rating 1.0: 1.13 Maps played: 224 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.68