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