DH Bucharest viewer's guide

With DreamHack ZOWIE Open Bucharest 2016 starting tomorrow, HLTV.org brings you a detailed viewer's guide with all the most important information about the event, the teams and the talent lineup.

DreamHack ZOWIE Open Bucharest 2016 is a $100,000 prize pool DreamHack Open series event that will take place over three days in the capital of Romania - Bucharest.

The competition will take place at the Polyvalent Hall, the same venue that hosted PGL CS:GO Championship Series Kick-off Season in which we saw the team that is now Astralis take the crown over fnatic to start what was probably their most successful period.

Heroic will be looking for another good result in Bucharest

Astralis won't be at DreamHack Open 2016, but two other notable Danish teams - Dignitas and HEROIC, will be there with hopes of more good results. In terms of top teams, the tournament isn't stacked, with only Virtus.pro and Cloud9 featuring from the top five of HLTV.org's team ranking, but a number of other strong teams will also take part.

The full list of teams and their respective groups is as follows:

Group A	Group B
Virtus.pro	Cloud9
HEROIC	Dignitas
Envy	FaZe
Gambit	FlipSid3

For an in-depth analysis of the teams attending check out Striker's detailed preview of the event.

The tournament will use the classic GSL format for the group stage, with the the first matches being played as best-of-one and elimination and decider matches played as best-of-three.

After the group stage, the two best teams from each group will continue to the playoffs were best-of-three matches will be played.

The three day schedule is as follows:

Friday, September 16th
14:00	Virtus.pro	vs. Gambit	BO1
15:30	Cloud9	vs. FlipSid3	BO1
17:00	HEROIC	vs. Envy	BO1
18:30	Dignitas	vs. FaZe	BO1
20:00	Group A winners' match		BO1
21:30	Group B winners' match		BO1
Saturday, September 17th
09:20	Group A elimination match		BO3
12:20	Group B elimination match		BO3
15:20	Group A decider		BO3
18:20	Group B decider		BO3
Sunday, September 18th
09:30	Semi-final #1 (B1 vs. A2)		BO3
13:00	Semi-final #2 (A1 vs. B2)		BO3
17:30	Grand final		BO3

The prize pool will be distributed in the following way:

1. $50,000
2. $20,000
3-4. $10,000
5-6. $3,000
7-8. $2,000 

The tournament will see the return of Pala "Mantrousse" Gilroy Sen as the stage host and interviewer, a debut of the analyst pairing of Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill and Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović as well as Anders Blume - but without Semmler.

The full list of talent is as follows:

Alex "Machine" Richardson - Desk host
 Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill - Analyst
 Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović - Analyst

Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett - Commentator
 Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer - Commentator
Anders Blume - Commentator
Vince "Metuz" Hill - Commentator

Pala "Mantrousse" Gilroy Sen - Host & interviewer

Stay tuned to HLTV.org for on-site coverage of the event, including galleries and interviews.

HEROIC #10 Michael 'Friis' JørgensenAndreas 'MODDII' FridhMarco 'Snappi' PfeifferLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderValdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså Time is adjusted to your selected timezone fnatic #33 Olof 'olofmeister' KajbjerDennis 'dennis' EdmanJohn 'wenton' ErikssonSimon 'twist' EliassonJonas 'Lekr0' Olofsson Astralis #6 Finn 'karrigan' AndersenAndreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenNicolai 'device' ReedtzMarkus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye FaZe #14 Aleksi 'allu' JalliFabien 'kioShiMa' FieyPhilip 'aizy' AistrupHåvard 'rain' NygaardJoakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad Gambit #17 Dauren 'AdreN' KystaubayevDmitry 'hooch' BogdanovMihail 'Dosia' StolyarovRustem 'mou' TelepovIvan 'spaze' Obrezhan Janko 'YNk' Paunović Age: 24 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.98 Maps played: 104 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.71 Cloud9 #5 Jordan 'n0thing' GilbertTyler 'Skadoodle' LathamMike 'shroud' GrzesiekTimothy 'autimatic' TaJake 'Stewie2K' Yip Dignitas #8 Ruben 'RUBINO' VillarroelRené 'cajunb' BorgMathias 'MSL' LauridsenEmil 'Magisk' ReifKristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke Envy #11 Kenny 'kennyS' SchrubNathan 'NBK-' SchmittDan 'apEX' MadesclaireVincent 'Happy' SchopenhauerTimothée 'DEVIL' Démolon Henry 'HenryG' Greer Age: 28 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.68 Maps played: 1 KPR: 0.48 DPR: 0.78 Chad 'SPUNJ' Burchill Age: 27 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.87 Maps played: 147 KPR: 0.62 DPR: 0.73 FlipSid3 #15 Yegor 'markeloff' MarkelovAndrey 'B1ad3' GorodenskiyOleksandr 'Shara' HordieyevGeorgi 'WorldEdit' YaskinJan 'wayLander' Rahkonen Virtus.pro #2 Wiktor 'TaZ' WojtasFilip 'NEO' KubskiJarosław 'pashaBiceps' JarząbkowskiJanusz 'Snax' PogorzelskiPaweł 'byali' Bieliński