Play it Cool event to start tomorrow

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	Play it Cool All-Stars	vs. Octupus1	de_overpass
16:45	Play it Cool All-Stars	vs. Rimi	de_mirage
18:00	Play it Cool All-Stars	vs. Leaf Gaming	de_cache
19:15	Play it Cool All-Stars	vs. ANT	de_dust2
20:30	Play it Cool All-Stars	vs. wH	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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James 'BARDOLPH' Bardolph Age: 31 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.37 Maps played: 2 KPR: 0.31 DPR: 0.90 Henry 'HenryG' Greer Age: 27 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.68 Maps played: 1 KPR: 0.48 DPR: 0.78 Mikail 'Maikelele' Bill Age: 24 Team: G2 Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 388 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.63 Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund Age: 25 Team: Ninjas in Pyjamas Rating 1.0: 1.21 Maps played: 860 KPR: 0.81 DPR: 0.60 Joona 'natu' Leppänen Age: 30 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.88 Maps played: 174 KPR: 0.61 DPR: 0.70 Richard 'shox' Papillon Age: 23 Team: Titan Rating 1.0: 1.13 Maps played: 761 KPR: 0.78 DPR: 0.66 Pala 'Pala' Gilroy Sen Age: 25 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 2 KPR: 0.65 DPR: 0.58