Stockholm will host a one-day CS:GO event called the "Play it Cool All-Stars Challenge," which will feature some of the game's most known players taking on community teams.
The DreamHack Play it Cool CS:GO Community Challenge brings together Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund, Richard "shox" Papillon, and Mikail "Maikelele" Bill alongside FACEIT's James "BARDOLPH" Bardolph and a community member who won the DreamHack Winter shootout challenge—Benjamin “lolz1e” Borgman—to play against five community teams.
Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund
Richard "shox" Papillon
Mikail "Maikelele" Bill
James "BARDOLPH" Bardolph
Benjamin “lolz1e” Borgman
The All-Star team will congregate in a studio in Stockholm, Sweden and play the five community teams in five online best-of-one matches. All five teams made their way through five online brackets with 256 teams each in order to be given a chance to take part in Play it Cool.
GeT-RiGhT is part of the All-Star team
The schedule for the event, as well as the five teams that will be participating, appear as follows:
15:00 | Pre-Show | ||
15:30 | ![]() | vs. ![]() | de_overpass |
16:45 | ![]() | vs. ![]() | de_mirage |
18:00 | ![]() | vs. ![]() | de_cache |
19:15 | ![]() | vs. ![]() | de_dust2 |
20:30 | ![]() | vs. ![]() | de_train |
As previously mentioned, the Play it Cool Challenge will also have broadcast talent on-site to help deliver content for the stream, and this team includes various personalities in the CS:GO scene.
Pala "Pala" Gilroy Sen
Joona "natu" Leppänen
Henry "HenryG" Greer
Matthew ”Sadokist” Trivett
Any community team that manages to beat the All-Star team is automatically awarded $2,000.
Since the event is also sponsored by ASUS ROG, there are additional prizes available for certain individual performances.
Best overall performance – ASUS ROG G752 gaming laptop
Best sniper – ROG NOMAD Backpack and ROG Orion Pro Headset
Best rifler – ROG NOMAD Backpack and ROG Orion Pro Headset
Best pistoleer – ROG NOMAD Backpack and ROG Orion Pro Headset
Coolest move – ROG NOMAD Backpack and ROG Orion Pro Headset
The action kicks off tomorrow at 15:00 over at twitch.tv/dreamhackcs.
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