Extra Salt and Triumph both picked up a win in their first DreamHack Open March clash, where they beat paiN and High Coast and move ahead in the tournament to the winners' matches. Johnny "JT" Theodosiou caught the attention of many with his 1.41 rating performance that lead them to 2-0 win over the Brazilians. On the other hand Triumph pulled off a reverse-sweep to secure a win over Ben "ben1337" Smith's troops. Alan "Shakezullah" Hardeman's men would now head towards Group A’s winner match and take on Liquid next and Extra Salt would be taking on Bad News Bears for the fourth time in 2021.
Josh "oSee" Ohm and JT worked together to give Extra Salt the lead over paiN at Nuke and continued the momentum at Vertigo as well. While High Coast took a lead at first at Inferno and took a lead but Triumph made a comeback at Train with a great defense work and took the Dust2 decider in hands as well.