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Hearthstone8 years agoRadoslav "Nydra" Kolev

Group stage at DreamHack Leipzig is over, along come playoffs


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 Despite multiple technical issues, the first stage of DreamHack Leipzig’s Hearthstone tournament finished last night, narrowing the field to eight players.

It took about five hours for the ROG 10th Anniversary tournament in Leipzig to begin. Although scheduled for the early morning of January 21, the games only commenced well into the afternoon. With the organizers forced to work around the delay, the majority of the games were unstreamed, which meant few to no ways to understand what exactly is happening in terms of results.

Eventually, through piecing together tweets from pro players, the group stage outcome became known to reveal a German domination in groups A, C and D as Jan “Ekop” Palys, Tugay “MrYagut” Evsan and Jan “SuperJJ” Janssen took the top spots there, respectively. Two more Germans made it to the elimination round, as Adrian “Lifecoach” Koy and Sebastian “Xixo” Bentert made top two in their pools.

Outside of Lifecoach’s narrow escape, it was a bad day for team of the year G2 Esports. Both Thijs “ThijsNL” Molendijk and Dima “Rdu” Radu finished last in their groups, causing G2’s rank to drop significantly. For ThijsNL in particular, this is the first time he’s out of the top five in the world since the fall of 2015.

Though the exact order of the bracket is not yet published officially, the known Ro8 pairings are:

Germany Ekop vs Spain AKAWonder
Sweden Ostkaka vs Germany SuperJJ
Sweden Orange vs Germany Xixo
Germany Lifecoach vs Germany MrYagut

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