DreamHack ZOWIE Open Austin is knocking on the door, thus we have prepared a viewer's guide which contains all the information you need to follow the event that is taking place in Austin, Texas.

The tournament taking place from the 6th of May to the 8th will mark the first ever DreamHack event on North American soil. Eight teams will participate in the contest as they will be battling for $100,000 in prize money at the Austin Convention Center.

The clash will commence with the group stage that will feature a GSL format. Two groups of four teams will play their opening and winners' matches as best-of-ones, while the elimination and decider matches will be best-of-threes. Groups are the following:

Group A	Group B
Luminosity	Tempo Storm
CLG	Liquid
Cloud9	Selfless
Splyce	NRG

The top two squads from each group will advance to the single elimination best-of-three playoffs and the champion will be crowned after a single day of playoff competition. Below is the full schedule:

Friday, May 6th
21:40	Show Start
22:00	Luminosity	vs. Splyce	BO1
23:30	Tempo Storm	vs. NRG	BO1
01:00	CLG	vs. Cloud9	BO1
02:30	Liquid	vs. Selfless	BO1
04:00	Group A winners' match		BO1
05:30	Group B winners' match		BO1
Saturday, May 7th
16:30	Show Start
17:00	Group A elimination match		BO3
20:00	Group B elimination match		BO3
23:00	Group A decider match		BO3
02:00	Group B decider match		BO3
Sunday, May 8th
16:30	Show Start
17:00	Semifinal #1 (B1 vs. A2)		BO3
19:30	Semifinal #2 (A1 vs. B2)		BO3
22:30	Grand final		BO3

The talent crew will consist of eight people and four of them will make their DreamHack debut via DH's twitch channel. The talent lineup looks as follows:

Alex "Machine" Richardson - Panel host
Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović - Analyst
Stephanie "⁠missharvey⁠" Harvey - Analyst

Sue "Smix" Lee - Stage host

Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole - Caster
John "blu" Mullen - Caster
Mohan "launders" Govindasamy - Caster
Joey "heliumbrella" Cunningham - Caster

The champions will take home $50,000. You can find the rest of the prize distribution below:

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

You can still buy your tickets over at Eventbrite if you want to catch the action live on-site.

Don't forget to check out our preview for the event, written by Lucas Aznar Miles, which goes over all attendees of DreamHack Austin.

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Liquid #11 Spencer 'Hiko' MartinEric 'adreN' HoagNick 'nitr0' CannellaJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiKenneth 'koosta' Suen Janko 'YNk' Paunović Age: 23 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.98 Maps played: 96 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.71 Jason 'moses' O'Toole Age: 29 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 13 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.68 Selfless #22 Skyler 'Relyks' WeaverMichael 'MAiNLiNE' JaberMichael 'Uber' StapellsNoah 'Nifty' FrancisMitch 'mitch' Semago NRG #24 Fatih 'gob b' DayikNikola 'LEGIJA' NinićPeter 'ptr' GurneyJustin 'just9n' OrtizSamuel 'SileNt' Portillo Luminosity #2 Lincoln 'fnx' LauGabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaMarcelo 'coldzera' DavidEpitacio 'TACO' de Melo Stephanie 'missharvey' Harvey Age: 30 Team: CLG Red Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 60 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.68 Cloud9 #19 Jordan 'n0thing' GilbertTyler 'Skadoodle' LathamMike 'shroud' GrzesiekAlec 'Slemmy' WhiteJake 'Stewie2K' Yip CLG #13 Stephen 'reltuC' CutlerJosh 'jdm64' MarzanoJames 'hazed' CobbJacob 'FugLy' MedinaTarik 'tarik' Celik Tempo Storm #10 Henrique 'HEN1' TelesLucas 'LUCAS1' TelesRicardo 'boltz' PrassJoão 'felps' VasconcellosGustavo 'SHOOWTiME' Gonçalves Splyce #30 Arya 'arya' HekmatDavid 'DAVEY' StaffordJason 'jasonR' RuchelskiRyan 'freakazoid' AbadirJaryd 'summit' Lazar Time is adjusted to your selected timezone