With the open qualifiers finished where the reformed 4Clovers&Lepricorn emerged victorious, the group stage is ready to start today. Eight teams will fight in one of the largest European Leagues for the six spots available for the LAN playoffs.
4Clover&Lepricorn, the winners of open qualifiers are joining the seven directly invited teams and are now placed in a in a round robin, two games series group stage to determine which six teams will advance into to the LAN playoffs that will be held at Dreamhack Winter 2015 in Jönköping, Sweden between November 26-29.
Participating teams:
Virtus.Pro
Team Empire
Vega Squadron
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Alliance
Monkey Freedom Fighters
Monkey Business
4Clover&Lepricorn
From the participating teams, Virtus.Pro are the defending champions and they can be considered the main favorites without a shadow of a doubt after their performance at The International 5. To make sure they can defend their DreamLeague title they will firstly need to secure the top six group stage placement.
Vega Squadron are already preparing their luggage for ESL One New York, which place them slightly ahead of Alliance, Empire, NiP and MFF who are still looking for some results as none of them have managed to qualify to any of the upcoming tournaments.
At the same time there is no doubt that one of the most successful newly formed teams are (monkey) Business who grabbed the qualifier spot for MLG World Finals while the reshuffled 4Clover&Lepricorn roster have won the first Elimination Mode tournament.
image source: dreamleague
The talent panel for DreamLeague Season 4 is welcoming back Sheever in the host chair assisted by Shane as co-host while Draskyl and ODpixel will be League’s commentators. The analyst role will be taken by Luminous. A special guest will be invited to join the panel for each week during the league paly and for the finals.
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
The debut series will start later today and it will be held between 4C&L and Empire at 18.30 CEST.
headline image from dotablast
source: dreamleague.dreamhack.se
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