DreamHack Open 2012: Valencia

DreamHack Open 2012: Valencia is the biggest StarCraft II championship opens its doors again! This time the grand tournament is going to be held in one of the beautiful buildings of Valencia - Feria de Valencia. The grand opening ceremony is going to be held this Friday September 21st and the first games will be played next day.

64 players will take part in this championship and there are three CIS representatives among them: Empire.Brat_OK, Tt.White-Ra and Acer.Bly. But nevertheless they have all chances to play suitably at this tournament because prize pool amounts 150.000 SEK (21.500$)!

Don't miss up one of the grand tournament of this fall!

Championship format:
- Two group stages; all games - Bo3. Two best players of each group moves on next stage.
- Play-off will be held in Single-Eliminations grid; all games - Bo3.
- Final - Bo5 system.

Prize pool allocation:
1st place - 10400$ + DreamHack Winter 2012 slot
2nd place - 6000$ + DreamHack Winter 2012 slot
3rd place - 3000$ + 20 points
4th place - 3000$ + 20 points
5th-8th places - 12 points
9th-16th places - 5 points

Map list:
- Daybreak
- Cloud Kingdom
- Antiga Shipyard
- Ohana
- Metropolis

1st Group Stage. Groups TBA