DH Austin EU closed qual. teams set

The best-of-one European open qualifier for DreamHack Austin was brought to an end today, with some upsets happening in the final stages. We saw LDLC narrowly miss out by losing to iGame.com 16-14 in the final match, while fnatic Academy was eliminated by the Belarus squad K29 in the round-of-16.

gob b's team secured a spot in the closed qualifier 

Qualifying alongside iGame.com was Fatih "⁠gob b⁠" Dayik's BIG, who showed their dominance by only dropping seven rounds in the last two maps they played. The last two open qualifier spots were taken by Vega Squadron and the Swedish-Norwegian mix TzatzikiKlubben.

The closed-qualifier bracket paired these four teams with four teams that were invited to the closed qualifier, leaving us with following matchups to be played tomorrow:

MOUZ	vs. TzatzikiKlubben
HellRaisers	vs. BIG
Kinguin	vs. iGame.com
GODSENT	vs. Vega Squadron

These eight squads will battle in a single elimination best-of-three bracket, with only the best one securing a spot at DreamHack Austin.

The following teams will be present at the event:

Immortals	Liquid
HEROIC	Gambit
G2	Cloud9
EU qual.	NA qual.

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