FaZe Champions of DreamHack Austin PUBG Tournament – Space Soldiers champion CSGO
DreamHack Austin was taking place between June 1-3, with two tournaments taking place over the weekend. One was the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament worth $100,000 featuring 8 teams. The other was the PUBG tournament with $100,000 on the line also, with 16 teams in attendance.
Counter-Strike Tournament
The Counter-Strike tournament was split into two groups of four teams each. Group A had Heroic, Fragsters, eUnited and Luminosity. Group B was Rogue, Space Soldiers, OpTic and compLexity. The two teams to make it out of each group played eachother 1 against 2 in terms of placements from their group. This left Rogue facing Fragsters in one Semi-Final whilst Heroic took on Space Soldiers in the other.
The first of these two matches saw Rogue take Fragsters down 2-1 whilst Space Soldiers took a clean 2-0 over Heroic. A fantastic series for Calyx as he finds himself finishing the two maps 63-29, by far the highest fragging player in the server with a HLTV rating of 1.59.
The Grand Final itself took three maps to decide with none of them being particularly balanced affairs. Calyx was once again on fire in the first, Mirage, as Space Soldiers stormed to a 11-4 lead before closing it out 16-8. The second map was a swift reply on Overpass from Rogue, with vice being a destructive force alongside cadiaN atop the scoreboard +11 and +10 respectively. It was all to play for on Inferno then as it could be anyone’s final. That idea was shut down immediately with a 13-2 first half on their non-favoured Terrorist side. They closed it out 16-2 as three players in XANTARES, paz and Calyx were clear driving forces with 1.77, 1.73 and 1.73 HLTV ratings respectively.
With this victory the Turkish side took home $50,000 between them whilst Rogue took home $20,000.
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— DreamHack Counter-Strike (@DreamHackCSGO) June 4, 2018
PUBG Tournament
Meanwhile in the PUBG tournament, the following list shows the teams in attendance and their placements at the tournament.
- FaZe Clan
- Pittsburgh Knights
- OpTic Gaming
- Tempo Storm
- Team Liquid
- Team Dignitas
- Envyus
- Team Kinguin
- Nova Esports
- Wildcard Gaming
- Godrez
- Spacestation Gaming
- Totality
- Vitality
- Ruski
- Team Secret
These placements earned the victors and pretty much undisputed best team in the world right now, FaZe, $50,000 between them. The payouts following that were $20,000 for second, $10,000 for third, $4,000 for fourth, $2,000 for 5-8th and $1,000 for 9-16th.
Tracking an entire PUBG tournament can still be a little tricky, for the best understanding of exactly how the tournament played out for FaZe to become champions I would advise watching the VODs back over at their Twitch channel. However this is not to be confused with the tournament that popular streamers Shroud and Dr Disrespect were taking part in at the same event.