The first team to be invited to the $250,000 DreamHack Masters Malmö is Astralis. The event will take place on October 1-6th, with 16 teams fighting for the $250,000 prize pool. This year's tournament marks a return to the original DreamHack Masters location after last year's European event took place in Stockholm and was won by North. DreamHack Masters Malmö follows closely after ESL One New York 2019 (September 25-29), another tournament Astralis will be attending after the player break and the StarLadder Berlin Major. The team list for the tournament features two Danish teams so far, the invited Astralis and OpTic who earned their spot by winning DreamHack Open Summer back in June. The team list for DreamHack Masters Malmö is currently as follows:Astralis
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OpTic #17
Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke
Nikolaj 'niko' Kristensen
Ismail 'refrezh' Ali
René 'TeSeS' Madsen
North #11
Philip 'aizy' Aistrup
Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye
Jakob 'JUGi' Hansen
Nicklas 'gade' Gade
Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså
Astralis #3
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz
Emil 'Magisk' Reif