DreamHack Winter, The Winners of the E-Sport Tournaments

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DreamHack Winter "DHW"

DHW was held in Jonkoping, Sweden from November 28 to December 1. It included a lot of activities like the expo where companies like AMD, Intel, Valve and more showcase their products. However we're not here to talk about the festival itself, but we're here to talk about the E-Sport part of it and who won each tournament.

DHW E-Sport: 

In this year DHW held various number of tournaments during the period of the festival. For example, there was StarCraft2 "SC2", Battlefield4 "BF4", Counter-Strike: Global offensive "CS:GO", Defence of the ancients2 "Dota2" and much more tournaments. we're going to talk about the tournament which was held in DHW prefily and who won each tournament. 

SC2:

Taeja After celebrating his win

The winner of this tournament is the Korean star, Taeja from TeamLiquid. Taeja managed to win the SC2 tournament after six games against StarTale’s Life, Taeja steeped out of the booth to lift the DreamHack Winter trophy as well as the $30,000 cheque. This is the fifth gold medal for Taeja this year and his third DH title overall.

Fnatic.BF4 celebrating their win over aAa

BF4:

After four quick games on two maps the Fnatic squad "former Epsilon lineup" managed to win DHW BF4 Grand Finals against the French team against allauthority "aAa". Fnatic looked strong all the way through and even if aAa put up a valiant effort, it wasn't enough in the end to stop the crowd favorite from taking home the gold and the 50,000 SEK "approximately $7,636".

HoN:

StayGreen Matching Fnatic.MSI Record After Winning HoN DHW 2013

StayGreen has done it again for the second time in a row. The best team in Heroes of Newerth right now came to Jonkoping, Sweden with only one goal and once the dust settled, they have reached that goal. The squad can now legitimately challenge for “Best Team of All Time” tying the major titles of the legendary Fnatic.MSI. Congratulations to them on winning the 70,000 SEK prize for the first place.

Daigo After Winning the Final

Fighting:

Every year and in every DreamHack festival there must be a fighting tournament. This year it wasn't anything different from that. DHW had a Street Fighter Iv arcade tournament, and the winner was Daigo. He managed to take the first place defeating his opponent Gamerbee in a series of nail-biting close games and won the prize of 50,000 SEK.

CS:GO:

Fnatic.GO After Winning Against NiP

With the grand final being played between the defending champions Ninjasin Pajamas "NiP" and Fnatic, the biggest Counter Strike tournament to date kicking off,  most viewers anticipated an easy win for the defending champions. However, last time these two teams met was at Dreamhack Bucharest two months ago in the group stages and Fnatic were the team who came out on top. Both teams looked determined to win that $100,000 prize but in the end but with everything on the line, Fnatic came out victorious in this Best of 3 series and won the biggest Counter Strike tournament to date. 

Left to Right, Na'Vi Xboct, Funnik, Puppy, Kuroky, Dendi

Dota2:

The tournament had some of the best teams from Europe like The Alliance, Fnatic, Na'Vi and American team of TeamLiquid.

The competition kicked off with The Alliance losing 1-2 to Fnatic and Navi defeating Liquid with the same score in the upper-brackets semi-finals. And in the upper-brackets final Fnatic managed to pull a surprise by defeating Na'Vi in a best of five match with 3-0 sending them to the lower-bracket final to play against the alliance who won with the same score over Liquid sending them back to America. The lower-bracket finals between Na'Vi and The Alliance finished with a win for the Ukrainians over the Swedes with a 3-0 victory sending Na'Vi to the grad final to play against Fnatic again, but this time for the grand prize of 160,000 SEK, approximately $25,000.