This year's
DreamHack Denver will include Quake Champions Duel and Sacrifice tournaments. The total prize pool for both tournaments will be 75,000 USD, with qualifiers starting on
September 23, 2017. Each qualifier will be broadcast live from studio in
Stockholm, Sweden. The main event is going to take a place on
October 20-22, 2017.
Duel Tournament
The
Duel tournament will feature for 16 players, with eight players receiving direct invites based on their peformance
Quake World Championships and availability.
Invited Players
- gellehsak
- RAISY
- Vo0
- Av3k
- toxjq
- Xron
- rapha
- DaHanG
The European Duel Qualifier will take a part on
September 23, 2017, the North American will be on
September 24, 2017 . Qualifiers will be double-elimination format, with only four top from every region receiving a berth into the LAN. Invited players will be placed randomly into groups occupying the top two seeds in each group, and qualified players will be randomly seeded into the four groups.
Sacrifice Tournament
The
Sacrifice tournament will feature four teams, two from each region, who will fight for DreamHack Denver trophy in double elimination bracket. Seeds will be determined on performance of individual qualifier.
Source:
DreamHack.com
Links:
Ruleset
Also:
Invited players will be placed randomly into groups occupying the top two seeds in each group. Qualified players will be randomly seeded into the four groups.
So if Cypher and Cooller qualify we could see a group consisting of Rapha Vo0 Cypher Cooller...
Also, my point still stands, their method of seeding and drawing groups could turn into unbalanced groups. I would prefer to have them reseed everyone after the qualifiers are played, perhaps based on the plusforward rankings.
And now he is unable to visit the country. Just my guess.