Cloud9, dignitas, Renegades, OpTic Gaming, GODSENT and FaZe have all received direct invites to compete in the $100,000 competition, which will be held from November 24-27 in Jönköping as part of the iconic DreamHack Winter event. These teams will be joined by FlipSid3 Tactics and Gambit Gaming, who made their way into the tournament by finishing top two in last weekend's closed qualifier.  karrigan's FaZe to attend DreamHack Winter
With the announcement of all six invitees, the list of participants for DreamHack ZOWIE Open at DreamHack Winter consists of: FlipSid3 | Gambit | Cloud9 | Dignitas | Renegades | OpTic | GODSENT | FaZe |
The Swedish event will be the fifth DreamHack stop of 2016 to feature a ZOWIE Open tournament. The 2017 Open circuit will comprise nine events, spanning six countries, it was revealed earlier this week.  Gambit #23  Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko Mihail 'Dosia' Stolyarov Rustem 'mou' Telepov Abay 'HObbit' Khassenov  Renegades #21  Yaman 'yam' Ergenekon Justin 'jks' Savage Aaron 'AZR' Ward Ricardo 'Rickeh' Mulholland Karlo 'USTILO' Pivac  OpTic #11  William 'RUSH' Wierzba Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellas Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz Keith 'NAF' Markovic Tarik 'tarik' Celik  Cloud9 #6  Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Mike 'shroud' Grzesiek Timothy 'autimatic' Ta Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip  FlipSid3 #18  Yegor 'markeloff' Markelov Andrey 'B1ad3' Gorodenskiy Georgi 'WorldEdit' Yaskin Jan 'wayLander' Rahkonen Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov  FaZe #15  Finn 'karrigan' Andersen Aleksi 'allu' Jalli Philip 'aizy' Aistrup Håvard 'rain' Nygaard Joakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad  Dignitas #5  Ruben 'RUBINO' Villarroel René 'cajunb' Borg Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen Emil 'Magisk' Reif Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke  GODSENT #10  Markus 'pronax' Wallsten Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist Andreas 'znajder' Lindberg Jesper 'JW' Wecksell Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson |