We may not have a top tier LAN with all of the big name teams for quite some time, but we do have a ton of smaller scale LANs outside Europe. Last week we had the CS_Summit, now it is time for DreamHack Austin and then we are into the Intel Extreme Masters Sydney and DreamHack Tours.
Cloud9, G2, Gambit, Heroic, Immortals, Team Liquid, HellRaisers and Luminosity are heading out to Austin, Texas to compete for a share of $100,000 this weekend. With the eight teams split into two GSL style groups we can expect the action to be pretty close, especially as none of the teams have a LAN win under their belts this year. Unlike the CS_Summit there isn’t an obvious favorite, but we have given the teams a once over and have come up with a set of predictions that we think are solid