DreamLeague is back with its fourth season and a “fresh format” that features seven invited teams and open qualifiers for the last spot. The LAN playoffs will be held at Dreamhack Winter in Jönköping, Sweden between November 26-29.
Surprisingly enough, the season three runners up, Natus Vincere are not among the invited teams. However, three CIS representative teams, Team Empire, Vega Squadron and the defending champions Virtu.Pro will be joined by the two Swedish forces NIP and Alliance while two more newly formatted teams will try to finally make their debut at a European LAN. Monkey Freedom Fighters and Monkey Business are now given the chance to prove themselves at one of the largest EU leagues.
DreamLeague Season 4 competitors:
Virtus.Pro
Team Empire
Vega Squadron
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Alliance
Monkey Freedom Fighters
Monkey Business
Online qualifier winner
The open qualifiers will kick off on September 18th and will be played via FaceIT. A total of 256 teams can sign up and they will be placed in a single elimination bracket with Bo1 matches. The best eight teams resulted from the bracket will continue to play on September 19th in a best of three format.
Top four teams will be joined afterwards by another four invited squads and will compete in a best-of-three, single elimination series. The winner of all these will secure the last spot for DreamLeague Season 4.
After the eight participating team have been decided, the League Play will start. All eight squads will compete starting with September 28th in a round robin, two games series to determine which six teams will take the trip to Dreamhack Winter for the DreamLeague #4 LAN playoffs.
DreamLeague Season 4 prize pool:
1st: $55,000
2nd: $30,000
3rd: $20,000
4th: $15,000
5th: $12,000
6th: $10,000
7th: $5,000
8th: $3,000
Source: dreamleague
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