DreamHack Austin viewer's guide

The tournament will start tomorrow, April 28, and will run until April 30, when one team will be crowned champion and will take the lion's share of the prize pool, $50,000. Matches start at 18:00 on Friday, and 17:00 on Saturday and Sunday.

G2 will try to keep momentum after a good first LAN in Kiev

DreamHack Open Austin 2017 will feature, as with the rest of stops on DreamHack's Open tour, $100,000 in prizes. Competing there will be eight teams, as is usual in the two group GSL format DreamHack Opens. In this case, the eight teams are the following:

Group A	Group B
HellRaisers	Immortals
Gambit	G2
HEROIC	Cloud9
Luminosity	Liquid

The full schedule for the tournament can be found below:

Friday, April 28
18:00	HellRaisers	vs.  Luminosity		BO1
19:30	Immortals	vs.  Liquid		BO1
21:00	Gambit	vs.  HEROIC		BO1
22:30	G2	vs.  Cloud9		BO1
00:00	Group A Winners match			BO1
01:30	Group B Winners match			BO1
Saturday, April 29
17:00	Group A Elimination match			BO3
20:00	Group B Elimination match			BO3
23:00	Group A Decider match			BO3
02:00	Group B Decider match			BO3
Sunday, April 30
17:00	Semi Final #1			BO3
20:00	Semi Final #2			BO3
00:00	Grand Final			BO3

Amongst others, former players Eric "⁠adreN⁠" Hoag and Sam "⁠DaZeD⁠" Marine will be in tow, analyzing and casting respectively. Here is the full talent list: 

Pala "Mantrousse" Gilroy Sen - Host & Interviewer

Alex "Machine" Richardson - Desk Host

Halvor "⁠vENdetta⁠" Gulestøl - Analyst

Eric "⁠adreN⁠" Hoag - Analyst

Dustin "dusT" Mouret - Commentator

John "BLU" Mullen - Commentator

Mohan "launders" Govindasamy - Commentator

Sam "⁠DaZeD⁠" Marine - Commentator

The prize distribution for the event:

1. $50,000
2. $20,000
3-4. $10,000
3-4. $10,000
5-6. $3,000
5-6. $3,000
7-8. $2,000
7-8. $2,000

Once the event goes live don't forget to go to the event page, where you can find matches, results, stats, brackets, and more.