2013 DreamHack Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Championship
The 2013 DreamHack SteelSeries Counter Strike: Global Offensive Championship or simply DreamHack Winter 2013 was the first "" to be sponsored by Valve. The competition was held during the Winter 2013 DreamHack digital festival at the Elmia Exhibition and Convention Centre in Jönköping, Sweden. Six invitees joined ten qualifiers to form the sixteen team event. Community funding helped to build the US$250,000 prizepool. The tournament had a peak 145,000 concurrent viewers on twitch.tv and the in-game viewing client.
Electronic Sports World Cup
This event marked the transitional replacement and additions of several cornerstone tournament titles. This included the replacement of "Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne" with "", as well as the replacement of "Defense of the Ancients" with "Dota 2". Additionally, this event marked the first and only year in which "Counter-Strike: Source" was present. It was also the last year that would include "Counter-Strike 1.6", which was the main attraction of the tournament for many years, and the last remaining game that had been featured in the inaugural ESWC event.
Throughout the ESWC finals the medal tally is as follows (as of ESWC 2014):