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Press release:
DreamHack, the World’s largest digital festival and one of the World’s leading esports companies is today excited to announce a new partnership with ZOWIE, provider of professional eSports products. ZOWIE is joining as the title sponsor for the DreamHack ZOWIE Open esports circuit in 2016! DreamHack Open was launched in 2012 and is DreamHack’s premier esports circuit, awarding over $1,300,000 USD in prize money across 24 DreamHack events.

2015 was the most successful year of DreamHack Open yet, with new events in Tours (France), London (England), and Cluj-Napoca (Romania), as well as adding CS:GO to join StarCraft II as the second official title. DreamHack Open in 2015 gave out over $750,000 in prize money, and reached over 44 million unique viewers over ten tournaments. In 2016 DreamHack will continue to build on this success, for the first time ever bringing DreamHack Open to North America, and with bigger prize pools and better broadcasts than ever.

DreamHack ZOWIE Open will feature 8 different stops in 2016 and over $900,000 in prize money will be awarded to many of the World’s best pro-gamers in both CS:GO and StarCraft II, and will in 2016 visit three new countries.

Thanks to this partnership with ZOWIE, DreamHack is tremendously excited to continue to level up the live production of DreamHack ZOWIE Open, experience for competitors and expand to new territories, as well as provide all competitors within DreamHack ZOWIE Open the best possible experience by exclusively using the latest ZOWIE Monitors at all events for competition.

The first stop of DreamHack ZOWIE Open will be hosted at DreamHack Leipzig, DreamHack’s first ever event in Germany, with both Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and StarCraft II. The CS:GO tournament will feature $100,000 in prize money and 8 top teams competing to be crowned the first DreamHack ZOWIE Open Champion of 2016. The StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void tournament will be the first event of the year in the official WCS Circuit in partnership with Blizzard Entertainment, and will feature 96 competitors from around the globe competing over a $50,000 prize purse. With $150,000 on the line be sure to tune in this January 22-24th to catch all the action streamed live!

“As a brand dedicated in the research and development of professional e-Sports products, ZOWIE by BenQ understands that product experience rather than specifications matters to pro-gamers,” said Conway Lee, President of BenQ Corp. “It is with significance that ZOWIE be part of the DreamHack events to demonstrate our lineups to e-Sports enthusiasts and we hope to bring them the right-fit products and the performance they seek.”

“DreamHack Open in 2015 was a huge success and we are extremely excited to continue to build on the successes we had in both StarCraft II and CS:GO,” said Christian Lord, Head of Esports at DreamHack, “Thanks to this partnership with ZOWIE, not only are we able to guarantee the best possible playing conditions due to ZOWIE’s World class product line, but 2016 DreamHack ZOWIE Open also has the largest improvement of any previous year, especially with the fact that we are hosting stops in Germany, USA and beyond!”

More details regarding DreamHack Open will be announced in the coming weeks, including all of the DreamHack events which will feature stops and titles, so be sure to follow @DreamHackOpen and @DreamHack on Twitter, and stay tuned to:

http://open.dreamhack.se
http://zowie.benq.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ZOWIEeSports/
https://twitter.com/ZOWIEeSports

Jonas “O.J” Ek
The Gaming Ground
Twitter: @TheGamingGround