Corbie previews Dreamhack Winter - Introduction

This weekend in Jönköping, Sweden, the world's best Quake players return to action at Dreamhack Winter. With 60,000 SEK on the line and their pride to play for, the likes of Cypher, fox, Cooller and more are raring to go and aiming for the top. The action kicks off tomorrow morning with the group stages and concludes on Friday evening with the finals scheduled for 14:30CET.

TEK9 will be your home for Dreamhack Winter coverage throughout the weekend, kicking off here with an in-depth look at the big names in action and making a few predictions as to how they'll fare.

First let's run down the details of the weekend's action.

Name: Dreamhack Winter 2009 Location: Jönköping, Sweden Date: 26th to 29th October Homepage: esport.dreamhack.se

Live Scores Groups A-D Groups E-H Playoffs

Prize Money 25,000 SEK (approx. €2,420) 15,000 SEK (approx. €1,450) 10,000 SEK (approx. €970)

Map List DM6 - Campgrounds Redux DM13 - Lost World T7 - Furious Heights T9 - House of Decay ZTN - Blood run

Group A Tim "DaHanG" Fogarty Alexander "Z4muZ" Ihrfors Reynir "Reynir" Þorsteinsson Travis "Shase" Weedon	Group B Magnus "fox" Olsson Maciej "av3k" Krzykowski Aron "siLw" Hommer Karl "Tybalt" Danielsson	Group C Brian "DKT" Flander Pelle "fazz" Söderman Robert "tox1c" Kopczynski Emil "rmd_" Esov	Group D Anton "Cooller" Singov Pierre-Emeric "l1nkje" Portier Jonathan "Kujiwa" Willman Markus "Smaugy" Sundqvist
Group E Michael "madix" Hindersson Kevin "strenx" Beaza Jeffrey "draven" Debipersad Adrian "ado" Værnor	Group F Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira Eythor "linKoo" Kristjansson Joakim "Nace" Åhfeldt Stefan "Emp" Jarl	Group G Alessandro "stermy" Avallone Chance "Chance" Lacina Friðbjörn "xrebzy" Davidsen Magnus "Dronar" Jonsson	Group H Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky Karl "fooKi" Johansson David "serak" Thorvaldsson Dennis "SobriuS" Soderberg

Stream Schedule
10:30 CET Dreamhack Pre-game show
11:00 CET destrukt vs fazz
11:30 CET Cooller vs link1n
12:00 CET fox vs av3k
13:30 CET Spart1e vs linKoo
14:00 CET madix vs strenx
14:30 CET Stermy vs chance
16:00 CET Round of 16 TBA
17:00 CET Quarterfinals TBA

The live stream for the event can be followed at QuakeLive.tv.


Tournament Schedule
Thursday November 26th
10:00 CET - Check-in deadline
11:00 CET - Groups A, B, C, D start
13:30 CET - Groups E, F, G, H start
16:00 CET - Playoff Round 1
17:00 CET - Quarter Final

Friday November 27th
10:00 CET - Semi Final #1
11:00 CET - Semi Final #2
14:00 CET - 3rd/4th place decider
14:30 CET - Grand Final