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DreamHack's stopover in London will feature eight teams battling it out for a $40,000 prize-pool and we now have a viewer's guide ready to help prepare you for the event.

The DreamHack Open London tournament will run from September 19-20, feature eight teams with $40,000 as a prize-purse, and take place at the 7,000-seat Copper Box Arena in London.

Five teams were directly invited to the event and three advanced via online qualifiers, two via a European qualifier (SK Gaming and Copenhagen Wolves) and one team via a UK qualifier (EZSkins.com).

The tournament will feature GSL groups with a best-of-one format, the top two teams from each group will advance to the best-of-three, single elimination playoffs.

The new EnVyUs lineup kicks off the action in London against EZSkins

The official groups for the event are:

Group A	Group B
EnVyUs	TSM
dignitas	G2.Kinguin
Renegades	SK Gaming
EZskins	CPH Wolves

In addition, an updated schedule for the event is included below:

Saturday, September 19th
13:00	EnVyUs	vs. EZskins	A1
14:15	dignitas	vs. Renegades	A2
15:30	A1 winner	vs. A2 winner	A3
16:45	A1 loser	vs. A2 loser	A4
18:00	A3 loser	vs. A4 winner
19:15	TSM	vs. Copenhagen Wolves	B1
20:30	G2.Kinguin	vs. SK Gaming	B2
21:45	B1 winner	vs. B2 winner	B3
23:00	B1 loser	vs. B2 loser	B4
00:15	B3 loser	vs. B4 winner
Sunday, September 20th
13:30	Semi-final #1 (B1 vs. A2)
17:00	Semi-final #2 (A1 vs. B2)
21:05	Grand final

The personalities and talents who will be shepherding viewers through the event include:

Richard Lewis - Host
 Pala "Mantrousse" Gilroy Sen - Interviewer
 Duncan "Thorin" Shields - Expert

 Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett - Commentator
 Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer - Commentator
 Anders Blume - Commentator
 Auguste "Semmler" Massonnat - Commentator

And finally, the prize-pool distribution for DreamHack Open London is as follows:

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

The entire first day of the event will be devoted to the group stage whereas the next day will see the semi-finals and grand final play out. You can catch the action at DreamHack's Counter-Strike Twitch channel here.

The first match kicks off at 13:00 with the first seed of Group A, EnVyUs, taking on the last seed, EZSKins.

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