DreamHack, a subsidiary of esports and gaming tournament organizer ESL Gaming, has announced the return of the DreamHack Open featuring Fortnite.
The series will include three Fortnite tournaments, each with a $250,000 (~£203,000) prize pool, taking place at DreamHack events in San Diego, Dallas, and Sweden during DreamHack Summer. This year’s tournaments will act as qualifiers for the Gamers8 Festival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Each tournament will seed 10 Duos to the Gamers8 finals, and a total of 30 qualified Duos from DreamHack Open will join a yet undisclosed number of teams from the MENA region in July.
The three DreamHack events will be open to BYOC (Bring your own controller) ticket holders, meaning that any players can participate and perhaps earn a spot in the Gamers8 finals. The first event to feature the new Fortnite tournament will be DreamHack San Diego in early April 2023, followed by DreamHack Dallas in early June and DreamHack Summer in late June. Alongside the Fortnite competition, the Gamers8 event will feature a range of prominent esports tournaments, including the Riyadh Masters, a $15m (~£12.2m) Dota 2 international competition.
Brian Krämer, Sr. Director Game Ecosystems, Growth Titles at the ESL FACEIT Group, expressed his excitement about the upcoming events, saying, “We are very excited to announce another year of Fortnite events for our community, especially now that the focus is on Zero Build and teams have a chance to qualify for a massive Gamers8 event.”
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