DreamHack Masters playoff bracket revealed

After three days of intense group stage action in Stockholm, the playoff brackets for DreamHack Masters have been drawn.

The four group winners, North, Ninjas in Pyjamas, FaZe, and MIBR earned their spots in the playoffs yesterday, and have now been joined by the second-placed teams, Astralis, Natus Vincere, and will be joined by the winners of HEROIC vs. OpTic and MOUZ vs. HellRaisers after the last two matches of the day.

FaZe have their eye on the Intel Grand Slam prize

North, who upset Astralis in the Group A winners' match will face #2 in the rankings Natus Vincere, while MIBR and Astralis will go face-to-face in one of the hottest quarter-finals of the tournament. The winners of the last two decider matches today featuring HellRaisers vs. MOUZ and OpTic vs. HEROIC will go on to face FaZe and Ninjas in Pyjamas, respectively.

The match-ups are:

Ninjas in Pyjamas vs. OpTic/HEROIC
MIBR vs. Astralis
FaZe vs. HellRaisers/MOUZ
North vs. Natus Vincere

The quarter-finals will kick off tomorrow at 10:00 , and will be played out through the day before Sunday's semi-finals and final, from which a new DreamHack Masters champion will emerge.

MIBR #7 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoTarik 'tarik' CelikFernando 'fer' AlvarengaJake 'Stewie2K' YipMarcelo 'coldzera' David MOUZ #5 Tomáš 'oskar' ŠťastnýJanusz 'Snax' PogorzelskiChris 'chrisJ' de JongMiikka 'suNny' KemppiRobin 'ropz' Kool OpTic #20 Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferRené 'cajunb' BorgJakob 'JUGi' HansenNicklas 'gade' GadeKristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke FaZe #4 Finn 'karrigan' AndersenOlof 'olofmeister' KajbjerLadislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsNikola 'NiKo' KovačHåvard 'rain' Nygaard North #10 Mathias 'MSL' LauridsenPhilip 'aizy' AistrupMarkus 'Kjaerbye' KjærbyeValdemar 'valde' Bjørn VangsåNikolaj 'niko' Kristensen Astralis #1 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzEmil 'Magisk' Reif Ninjas in Pyjamas #14 Patrik 'f0rest' LindbergChristopher 'GeT_RiGhT' AlesundDennis 'dennis' EdmanJonas 'Lekr0' OlofssonFredrik 'REZ' Sterner Time is adjusted to your selected timezone HellRaisers #16 Kirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowVladyslav 'bondik' NechyporchukÖzgür 'woxic' EkerBence 'DeadFox' BöröczIssa 'ISSAA' Murad HEROIC #34 Andreas 'MODDII' FridhAdam 'friberg' FribergAsger 'AcilioN' LarsenPatrick 'es3tag' HansenDaniel 'mertz' Mertz Natus Vincere #2 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievDanylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoEgor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' Sharipov