On Saturday the first open qualifier for the DreamHack European Minor took place, which would determine eight teams advancing to the closed stage through a best-of-one bracket. Some of the bigger names such as ENCE and CPH Wolves made it out of the first open qualifier to join eight invited teams in the second stage.  dignitas through to the European Minor
Mostly it was the invitees to prevail in the Round of 16, apart from Preparation, who lost to the aforementioned Finns, and E-frag.net, who fell at the hands of nerdRage. The quarter-finals saw the other two Danish teams, Dignitas and SK, defeat Aleksi "allu" Jalli's team and nerdRage respectively for two of the four spots. The other two went to CSGL, whom GODSENT took to two reasonably close maps, and HellRaisers after defeating AGG on three maps. Thus far, the list of teams for the European Minor looks as follows: Dignitas | SK | CSGL | HellRaisers | Closed Qualifier #2 | Closed Qualifier #2 | Closed Qualifier #2 | Closed Qualifier #2 |
The second round of qualifiers, again featuring two stages, will be played out over the next weekend, from April 30 to May 1. DreamHack's European Minor, which will have $50,000 and two ESL One Cologne Main Qualifier spots on offer, is set to take place during DreamHack Tours from May 14-16.  Dignitas #8  Ruben 'RUBINO' Villarroel Jesper 'TENZKI' Plougmann Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke  CSGL #30  Grzegorz 'SZPERO' Dziamałek Jacek 'MINISE' Jeziak Paweł 'innocent' Mocek Michał 'MICHU' Müller Mikołaj 'mouz' Karolewski  GODSENT #12  Markus 'pronax' Wallsten Andreas 'znajder' Lindberg Simon 'twist' Eliasson Mathias 'pauf' Köhler Jonas 'Lekr0' Olofsson  Preparation #31  Frej 'kHRYSTAL' Sjöström Nicolai 'glace' Jensen Frederik 'LOMME' Nielsen John 'wenton' Eriksson Casper 'cadiaN' Møller  nerdRage  Aaron 'AaroN' Hemmings Fréderic 'Monu' Dewever Josh 'mole' Rowley Kaj 'kajsk1ng' van Staalduinen Joey 'CRUC1AL' Steusel  ENCE #37  Aleksi 'allu' Jalli Miikka 'suNny' Kemppi Tom 'stonde' Glad Mikko 'xartE' Välimaa Juho 'juho' Lampinen  Aleksi 'allu' Jalli Age: 23 Team: ENCE Rating 1.0: 1.11 Maps played: 613 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.65  E-frag.net #20  Kamen 'bubble' Kostadinov Emiliyan 'spyleadeR' Dimitrov Nikolay 'nkl' Krastev Viktor 'v1c7oR' Dyankov Simeon 'dream3r' Ganev   SK #24   Michael 'Friis' Jørgensen Andreas 'MODDII' Fridh Jacob 'Pimp' Winneche Asger 'AcilioN' Larsen Emil 'Magisk' Reif  HellRaisers #17  Kirill 'ANGE1' Karasiow Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastný Vladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchuk Martin 'STYKO' Styk Patrik 'Zero' Žúdel  CPH Wolves #35  Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer Martin 'PERCY' Wessel Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander Danni 'smF' Dyg Nicolai 'HUNDEN' Petersen  AGG #25  Karol 'rallen' Rodowicz Bartosz 'Hyper' Wolny Karol 'repo' Cybulski Damian 'Furlan' Kislowski Dominik 'GruBy' Swiderski |