DH Valencia reaches playoffs

Group stage at DreamHack Valencia has come to an end, with eight teams learning their path in the race for the 6,000€ first place prize.

With some delays throughout the day, DreamHack Valencia group stage has come to an end with eight teams remaining in the battle for a share of the 10,000€ prize purse.

Kirill "⁠ANGE1⁠" Karasiow leads HellRaisers to playoffs after 26:0 in the opening match

The top three seeds, HellRaisers, LDLC and Epsilon, topped their groups expectedly, although only LDLC had it easy, while Group D saw k1ck outplay OverGaming 16-9 in the first place decider.

HellRaisers had the toughest job in their match against Planetkey Dynamics, as they only won after mounting a comeback from 7-14 to 16-14 on the CT side of de_nuke.

There were no real surprises in the second place battles, although Jonathan "⁠MusambaN1⁠" Torrent & co. struggled to overcome Mariusz "⁠Loord⁠" Cybulski's INSHOCK (16-13), similarly to Xavi "⁠Aguila⁠" Casals Sabi's Outbreak who needed overtime against French side webSPELL (19-16).

Here are the playoff pairs:

HellRaisers	vs. Outbreak
Epsilon	vs. OverGaming
k1ck	vs. Platinium
LDLC	vs. Planetkey

Playoffs will be played in single elimination best-of-three mode, with all four quarter-finals scheduled to start at 11:00 .

Xavi 'Aguila' Casals Sabi Age: 22 Team: Outbreak Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 46 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.66 Mariusz 'Loord' Cybulski Age: 27 Team: INSHOCK Rating 1.0: 0.97 Maps played: 199 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.67 Kirill 'ANGE1' Karasiow Age: 24 Team: HellRaisers Rating 1.0: 1.04 Maps played: 308 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.69 Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Jonathan 'MusambaN1' Torrent Age: 27 Team: OverGaming Rating 1.0: 0.91 Maps played: 38 KPR: 0.65 DPR: 0.73