Event: DHW09
With Dreamhack Winter 2009 just above 3 weeks away, Dreamhack is releasing some updated information about the Quakelive and Quake World tournaments. Both tournaments will be played on 26-27th November. The Quakelive tournament group stages will start at 04:00 CST, Quake World players at 11:00 CST. The finals for both games will be played in front of a huge crowd at DreamArena Extreme. All times given below are CET.

Thursday November 26th
10:00 Checkin deadline
11:00 Group A,B,C,D starts
13:30 Group E,F,G,H starts
16:00 1/8 Final
17:00 1/4 Final

Friday November 27th
10:00 1/2 Final #1 - DreamArena Black
11:00 1/2 Final #2 - DreamArena Black
14:00 3rd place decider - DreamArena Black
14:30 Final - DreamArena Extreme
15:30 Price Ceremony - DreamArena Extreme

- 3 slots in the tournament is reserved for our Qualifications in Norway, South Africa and Serbia
- Due to limited slots in the tournament DreamHack will choose players based on performance in previous tournaments.
- 8 Groups with 4 players, top2 advance to Single Elimination.
- The latest official release of QUAKE LIVE, always available at www.quakelive.com will be used for the tournament.
- All matches except the final will be played in a best of three (3) maps format. The player who reaches two maps won will be declared winner of the match. The final will be played in a best of five (5) maps format.
- Both players will remove one map each from the maplist in best of 3 maps matches.
- Default QUAKE LIVE gameplay settings will be used, including 10 minutes timelimit and 2 minutes overtime periods.

Detailed rules and regulations are published soon.
Participating players: A number of players that were previously invited to the Quake Live tournament have, due to different reasons decided to not participate. We have replaced these with players from the pending list, the new Quakelive playerlist can be found below.
Sweden fox
France l1nkje
United States of America dkt
Italy stermy
Germany silw
Sweden madix
Netherlands draven
United States of America DaHanG
Sweden PURRI
Sweden fazz
France strenx
Sweden fnaticMSIspartie
Iceland Reynir
Sweden Z4muZ
Poland tox1c
Iceland linKoo
Poland Av3k
Sweden Kujiwa
Belarus srs.razer.Cypher
South Africa Shase
Sweden tybalt
Sweden Fooki
Iceland serak
Poland bodzo
Russia Cooller
United States of America chance
Russia Frozen
Serbia ZeRoQL
Iceland xrebzy
Sweden Nace
Norway Norweigan Qualifier

The Quake World tournament still have a few slots open, so sign up today!

Thursday November 26th
17:00 Checkin deadline
18:00 Group A, B, C, D starts
20:30 Quarterfinals starts

Friday November 27th
12:00 Semifinal #1 - DreamArena Black
13:00 Semifinal #2 - DreamArena Black
15:30 3rd place decider - DreamArena Black
18:00 Grand Final - DreamArena Extreme
19:00 Price Ceremony - DreamArena Extreme

- 16 players divided into 4 groups, top2 from each group will advance the single elimination bracket.
- All matches except the final will be played in a best of three (3) maps format.
- The final will be played in a best of five (5) maps format.
- During the groupstage both players will remove one map each from the maplist.
- The following clients will be pre-installed on the tournament computers:
Mqwcl 0.96, FuhQuake 0.31 Build 675, Ezquake 2.0
- No other clients are allowed.
- All games will be played with standard 1on1 server settings.

Detailed rules and regulations are published soon.
Sweden TetlioN
Sweden showerguy
Sweden koinioma
Sweden LocKtar
Sweden destrux
Sweden bps
Sweden locust
Sweden mekkanix
Sweden ok98
Sweden LethalWiz
Sweden lakso
Sweden riosatiy
Sweden Loli0op

Source: Dreamhack.se (QW) / Dreamhack.se (QL)