2013 DreamHack Open/Winter

About
DreamHack Open: Winter is the fifth and last stop on the 2013 DreamHack Open series of tournaments. The event will be hosted by Sue "Smix" Lee and Geoff "iNcontroL" Robinson, broadcast by Shaun "Apollo" Clark & Nathan "Nathanias" Fabrikant while Mike "Adebisi" Van Driel will be the main-stage observer.

Location

 * Jönköping, Sweden
 * Elmia Fair

Prize Pool
500,000 SEK (~$76,261.55) are spread among the players as seen below:

''Conversion values taken from xe.com on November 29th, 2012. 1 kr SEK ≈ $0.152476 USD''

Format

 * Group Stage
 * Round robin, matches are Best-of-3.
 * Five players per group, total of 4 groups.
 * Top 4 in each group advances to the playoffs.
 * Playoffs
 * 16 player double-elimination bracket.
 * Top 2 of each group starts in the Winner Bracket.
 * 3rd and 4th places start in the Loser Bracket.
 * Best-of-3 until finals.
 * Loser's Finals is Best-of-5 and Grand Finals is best-of-7 with no advantage for the Winner Bracket finalist.

Participants
* TLO qualified through seeding matches as Jaedong already qualified through 2013 DreamHack Open: Stockholm ** LucifroN and JYP qualified through seeding matches as StarDust and Jaedong already qualified through 2013 DreamHack Open: Summer and 2013 DreamHack Open: Stockholm *** sOs qualified through seeding matches as TaeJa already qualified through 2013 DreamHack Open: Summer