CS:GO DreamHack Open January 2021: How to watch, schedule, teams, format and more

There's no shortage of great CS:GO esports action to watch in 2021, from the recently-finished BLAST Premier Global Finals where Na'Vi beat down Astralis, to the ongoing CS_Summit 7 tournament and, of course, the CS:GO DreamHack Open January 2021 tournaments. 

Here's everything you need to know about the CS:GO DreamHack Open January 2021 tournaments, including the teams in each region, the prize pools, schedule, and how you can watch all the action live.

CS:GO DreamHack Open January 2021: Teams per region

There will be two tournaments running for the CS:GO DreamHack January 2021 event, one for Europe and one for North America. 

With the qualifiers now complete and invited teams confirmed, there are a total of four teams competing in the North American tournament, and eight teams competing in the European tournament. 

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North America teams:

• Extra Salt
• paiN Gaming
• Rebirth 
• Triumph

Europe teams:

• BIG
• Evil Geniuses
• Sprout
• FunPlus Pheonix
• forZe
• Gambit
• Team Spirit
• Sprout
• HellRaisers

Since Evil Geniuses are currently in Europe, the team will be competing in the CS:GO DreamHack Open January 2021 European division.

Prize pool

There's a combined prize pool of 100,000 USD on the line at CS:GO DreamHack January 2021.

While the exact prize pool distribution for each tournament is currently unknown, we do know the European tournament gets 70,000 USD, while the North American tournament gets 30,000 USD. There's also some ESL Pro Tour points up for grabs.

Schedule

The DreamHack Open January 2021 CS:GO tournaments both kick off on 27th January and will run until 31st January.

The European tournament will start at 14:00 GMT each day, while the North American tournament will begin on 21:00 GMT each day.

From 27th to 31st January, there won't be any time to sit around counting chickens...

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From 27th to 31st January, there won't be any time to sit around counting chickens...

Format

First up, the European tournament will feature a double-elimination GSL style format for the group stage, with the opening and winners matches being best-of-one, and the elimination, as well as decider matches, being best-of-three.

This will be followed by a single-elimination bracket, with the semifinals being best-of-three, and the grand final being best-of-five.

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Since the North American tournament is smaller, it will only feature a double-elimination bracket, with matches being best-of-three, and the grand final being best-of-five, with a one map advantage for the team coming from the upper bracket.

CS:GO DreamHack Open January 2021: How to watch

Since there are two tournaments taking place for CS:GO DreamHack Open January 2021 in different regions, there will be full days of CS:GO esports action to look forward to.

You can watch all the action on the DreamHackCS Twitch.tv channel, which we've embedded below.

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