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DreamHack Winter 2009 — Counter-Strike
DreamHack Winter 2009 held a 32-team Counter-Strike 1.6 tournament at Elmia in Jönköping. Meet Your Makers defeated mTw in the final.
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DreamHack ABCommercial note
Tournament organizer · Recorded in the 2009 edition.[1]
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SennheiserCommercial note
Third- and fourth-place hardware prizes: five PC350 headsets per team · Recorded in the 2009 edition.[3]
PTG Database Analysis
DreamHack AB hosted the Counter-Strike 1.6 tournament at Elmia in Jönköping, Sweden, from November 24–28, 2009. Meet Your Makers beat mTw in the final; Liquipedia lists 32 entrants, all of whom now resolve to canonical PTG Counter-Strike Team pages in this record.[1][2]
DreamHack’s announced prize package included five Sennheiser PC350 headsets each for the third- and fourth-place teams. The announcement reports an EUR 18,000 cash purse; the final itemized awards list totals SEK 185,000 in cash. PTG records the headset prize without assigning undocumented festival-wide sponsorship rights to the Counter-Strike competition.[3]
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- [1]DreamHack Winter 2009 — Liquipedia Counter-Strike Wiki — Liquipedia
- [2]DreamHack Summer with €10,000 — DreamHack / HLTV.org
- [3]DH Winter with €18,000 prize purse — HLTV.org
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Hardware prize
Sennheiser PC350 headsets were included for the third- and fourth-place teams, five per team. The sources establish this product prize but do not document broader sponsorship terms.[3]
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