DreamHack Winter Day 1

It was Day 1 of DreamHack Winter yesterday, and it didn't take too long before the Steelseries HoN Masters tournament was in full swing, with all the Group Stage matches being played out on the first day followed by majority of the playoff rounds, leading up to the semifinals and the Grand Final, in the DreamArena Extreme immediately on the night of Day 2.

ikZu and Kicker

As I arrived in the evening, most of the Group Stage matches were already played, and in the HoN section playing were no other than tournament favourites FnaticMSI and Druidz Qpad. Also there was Kicker and ikZu from TCM-Gaming and they were joined by the entire TCM lineup a while later.

Overall all of them looked in good shape especially hot favourites FnaticMSI, fresh from their bootcamp in Denmark. Things got even more interesting as Freshpro was seen playing Moraxus, along with information from the recent Trixi interview by Fnatic causing one to wonder will Fnatic be adding Moraxus into their arsenal, which seems puzzling considering Fresh usually plays the hero up against the opponents trilane.

Team Druidz Qpad

Team FnaticMSI
As I was lacking a whole day's sleep and was fairly jetlagged, unfortunately I could not follow any of the day's games. But judging from the teams that made it to the playoff brackets, all favoured teams made it through safely. You can check out the group stage results here. To bring you guys up to date with what's happening currently in Day 2, here's the playoff brackets as of 26/11/2010, 11am CET.

As I'm typing at the moment FnaticMSI has just beaten NNSQ and emerged early victors of the 2nd round and are awaiting the winner's between the most exciting match-up of the round - Binary Evasion vs TCM-Gaming. The other match-up which was an eye-catcher was the grudge match between Druidz Qpad, arguably the 2nd best team attending the tournament against Wahlin, who recently enjoyed a miracle run to reach the later stages of the GosuGamers HoN World Cup, involving eliminating DrDz in the process.

I think this will be all for now, it has been a really fun in Jonkoping so far. Stay tuned as GosuGamers continues to bring you coverage of the Steelseries HoN Masters tournament, live from DreamHack Winter.