DreamHack ZOWIE Open Austin is knocking on the door, thus we have prepared a viewer's guide which contains all the information you need to follow the event that is taking place in Austin, Texas.
The tournament taking place from the 6th of May to the 8th will mark the first ever DreamHack event on North American soil. Eight teams will participate in the contest as they will be battling for $100,000 in prize money at the Austin Convention Center.
The clash will commence with the group stage that will feature a GSL format. Two groups of four teams will play their opening and winners' matches as best-of-ones, while the elimination and decider matches will be best-of-threes. Groups are the following:
| Group A | Group B |
 Luminosity | Tempo Storm |
 CLG | Liquid |
| Cloud9 | Selfless |
| Splyce | NRG |
The top two squads from each group will advance to the single elimination best-of-three playoffs and the champion will be crowned after a single day of playoff competition. Below is the full schedule:
| Friday, May 6th | |||
| 21:40 | Show Start | ||
| 22:00 | Luminosity | vs. Splyce | BO1 |
| 23:30 | Tempo Storm | vs. NRG | BO1 |
| 01:00 | CLG | vs. Cloud9 | BO1 |
| 02:30 | Liquid | vs. Selfless | BO1 |
| 04:00 | Group A winners' match | BO1 | |
| 05:30 | Group B winners' match | BO1 | |
| Saturday, May 7th | |||
| 16:30 | Show Start | ||
| 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, May 8th | |||
| 16:30 | Show Start | ||
| 17:00 | Semifinal #1 (B1 vs. A2) | BO3 | |
| 19:30 | Semifinal #2 (A1 vs. B2) | BO3 | |
| 22:30 | Grand final | BO3 | |
The talent crew will consist of eight people and four of them will make their DreamHack debut via DH's twitch channel. The talent lineup looks as follows:
Alex "Machine" Richardson - Panel host
Janko "YNk" Paunović - Analyst
Stephanie "missharvey" Harvey - Analyst
The champions will take home $50,000. You can find the rest of the prize distribution below:
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
You can still buy your tickets over at Eventbrite if you want to catch the action live on-site.
Don't forget to check out our preview for the event, written by Lucas Aznar Miles, which goes over all attendees of DreamHack Austin.
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Liquid #11 Spencer 'Hiko' MartinEric 'adreN' HoagNick 'nitr0' CannellaJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiKenneth 'koosta' Suen Janko 'YNk' Paunović 
Age: 23 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.98 Maps played: 96 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.71 Jason 'moses' O'Toole 
Age: 29 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 13 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.68 
Selfless #22 Skyler 'Relyks' WeaverMichael 'MAiNLiNE' JaberMichael 'Uber' StapellsNoah 'Nifty' FrancisMitch 'mitch' Semago 
NRG #24 
Fatih 'gob b' DayikNikola 'LEGIJA' NinićPeter 'ptr' GurneyJustin 'just9n' OrtizSamuel 'SileNt' Portillo 
Luminosity #2 Lincoln 'fnx' LauGabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaMarcelo 'coldzera' DavidEpitacio 'TACO' de Melo 
Stephanie 'missharvey' Harvey 
Age: 30 Team: CLG Red Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 60 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.68 
Cloud9 #19 Jordan 'n0thing' GilbertTyler 'Skadoodle' LathamMike 'shroud' GrzesiekAlec 'Slemmy' WhiteJake 'Stewie2K' Yip 
CLG #13 Stephen 'reltuC' CutlerJosh 'jdm64' MarzanoJames 'hazed' CobbJacob 'FugLy' MedinaTarik 'tarik' Celik 
Tempo Storm #10 Henrique 'HEN1' TelesLucas 'LUCAS1' TelesRicardo 'boltz' PrassJoão 'felps' VasconcellosGustavo 'SHOOWTiME' Gonçalves 
Splyce #30 Arya 'arya' HekmatDavid 'DAVEY' StaffordJason 'jasonR' RuchelskiRyan 'freakazoid' AbadirJaryd 'summit' Lazar Time is adjusted to your selected timezone (责任编辑：case opening)
