DreamHack Open November groups and first matches announced

The Swedish tournament organizer gave the last two spots at the event to Spirit and Nemiga.

The groups for the $100,000 DreamHack Open November have been drawn. The online event, taking place on November 26-29, will have both groups played out in a GSL system that will give way to a single elimination playoff bracket featuring two best-of-three semi-finals and a best-of-five grand final.

Spirit received one of the two invites for the event

The tournament has a heavy presence of Nordic and CIS teams, with Spirit, flowskola, Apeks and AGF fighting it out in Group A and Gambit, Illuminar, Nemiga and KOVA rounding out the tournament's team roster in Group B.

Group A
Spirit
AGF
Apeks
flowskola Group B
Gambit
Nemiga
Illuminar
KOVA

The initial match-ups have also been revealed by DreamHack, with Spirit and flowskola in the first Group A timeslot on November 26 at 13:00 and the Gambit vs. Illuminar series opening Group B simultaneously.

The last two matches of the day, slotted for 16:30 , will pit the remaining teams, AGF and Apeks in Group A and Nemiga and KOVA in Group B.

Thursday, November 26

13:00 - Spirit vs. flowskola (BO3)
13:00 - Gambit vs. Illuminar (BO3)

16:30 - Apeks vs. AGF (BO3)
16:30 - Nemiga vs. KOVA (BO3)

Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Illuminar #46 Janusz 'Snax' PogorzelskiPaweł 'reatz' JańczakMikołaj 'mouz' KarolewskiTomasz 'phr' WójcikArek 'Vegi' Nawojski AGF #68 Jonas 'netrick' WenzelsenLucas 'Lukki' PilhedenKristoffer 'Kristou' AamandMagnus 'Frøslev' FrøslevThomas 'TMB' Bundsbæk Gambit #20 Abay 'HObbit' KhassenovTimofey 'interz' YakushinSergey 'Ax1Le' RykhtorovDmitry 'sh1ro' SokolovVladislav 'nafany' Gorshkov KOVA #91 Samu 'uli' LeirilaaksoLauri 'pietola' HietalaSamuli 'Twixie' HerralaJarkko 'spargo' RahjaPetteri 'peku' Jaakkola flowskola #105 Anton 'magi' AlevärnLukas 'MistFire' PoromaaHugo 'chawzyyy' GüntherLinus 'nilo' BergmanJoel 'joel' Holmlund Nemiga #21 Aleksandr 'mds' RubetsRassim 'Jyo' ValijevAnton 'speed4k' TitovAnton 'boX' BurkoIgor 'lollipop21k' Solodkov Spirit #16 Leonid 'chopper' VishnyakovNikolay 'mir' BityukovViktor 'sdy' OrudzhevArtem 'iDISBALANCE' EgorovBoris 'magixx' Vorobiev Apeks #69 Dennis 'dennis' EdmanJoakim 'jkaem' MyrbostadOle 'Marcelious' Kristian LanganSander 'Grus' IversenMartin 'Nasty' Garvik