Rise Nation won the final match of the North American qualifier for DreamHack Winter, 2-0, against Ghost, and claim the last spot at the tournament in Sweden.

Ghost was the first team to make it to the DreamHack Winter North America Qualifier final winning one map of the best of three semifinal, as they had forfeited the first due to internet issues and GX forfeited the decider to play an ESEA MDL match.

The second team to make the grand final was Rise Nation who took out Complexity in-extremis by winning the last five rounds of the decider map in a row in their semifinal for a 16-14 victory in the third map.

Jonji & co. will compete at Elmia this December

Rise Nation jumped quick out of the gate with an early lead on Train and a dominant start to the best-of-three, although Ghost, on the attacking side, didn’t let the Canadian side run away with the half, trailing by just one at the half.

Ghost took the second pistol round, but it was in vain as Rise Nation stomped their opposition on the terrorist side and took the half without a hitch to pocket the first map of the series, 16-10.

Nuke started out with Rise Nation once again taking a big lead early on in the CT side, which they kept all the way to the half, giving up but two rounds before the switch. After winning the second pistol round, Rise Nation gave up the anti-eco, losing a couple rounds, but ultimately closed the map out 16-4 to qualify for DreamHack Winter.

DreamHack Open Winter 2017 North America Closed QualifierBest of 3 GhostMatchpage 0 2 13th November 2017 Rise Nation 10Train 16 4Nuke 16

Ghost	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Ronnie 'ryx' Bylickiryx	36 - 35	+1	87.0	1.08
Connor 'CONNOR93' GloverCONNOR93	31 - 36	-5	72.3	0.94
Sebastian 'seb' Buckiseb	26 - 39	-13	61.6	0.78
Collin 'wrath' McSweeganwrath	21 - 38	-17	54.8	0.69
Matthew 'WARDELL' YuWARDELL	22 - 37	-15	54.1	0.65

Rise Nation	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Kaleb 'moose' Jaynemoose	51 - 23	+28	95.2	1.63
Will 'dazzLe' LoafmandazzLe	42 - 30	+12	101.2	1.38
Andy 'vSa' XuvSa	39 - 25	+14	91.8	1.36
Brandon 'Ace' WinnAce	28 - 27	+1	58.9	1.04
Jonathan 'Jonji' CareyJonji	25 - 31	-6	75.2	0.92

With this result, the team lists for DreamHack Winter is:

Envy	Gambit
HEROIC	MOUZ
Natus Vincere	BIG
North Academy	Rise Nation

North Academy #52 Nicklas 'gade' GadeDennis 'sycrone' NielsenDaniel 'mertz' MertzJohannes 'b0RUP' BorupFrederik 'acoR' Gyldstrand HEROIC #14 Andreas 'MODDII' FridhMarco 'Snappi' PfeifferPatrick 'es3tag' HansenJakob 'JUGi' HansenNikolaj 'niko' Kristensen MOUZ #12 Tomáš 'oskar' ŠťastnýChris 'chrisJ' de JongMiikka 'suNny' KemppiMartin 'STYKO' StykRobin 'ropz' Kool Ghost #62 Sebastian 'seb' BuckiRonnie 'ryx' BylickiConnor 'CONNOR93' GloverPhong 'bee' NguyenMatthew 'WARDELL' Yu GX #99 Braxton 'swag' PierceKeven 'AZK' LariviereShawn 'witmer' TaylorMatt 'Pollo' WilsonMichael 'dapr' Gulino BIG #18 Fatih 'gob b' DayikNikola 'LEGIJA' NinićJohannes 'tabseN' WodarzKevin 'keev' BartholomäusJohannes 'nex' Maget Complexity #36 Rory 'dephh' JacksonJaccob 'yay' WhiteakerPeter 'ptr' GurneyAlec 'Slemmy' WhiteBradley 'ANDROID' Fodor Envy #13 Christophe 'SIXER' XiaCédric 'RpK' GuipouyAdil 'ScreaM' BenrlitomVincent 'Happy' SchopenhauerAlexandre 'xms' Forté Gambit #10 Dauren 'AdreN' KystaubayevMihail 'Dosia' StolyarovRustem 'mou' TelepovAbay 'HObbit' KhassenovBektiyar 'fitch' Bahytov Rise Nation #44 Andy 'vSa' XuWill 'dazzLe' LoafmanJonathan 'Jonji' CareyKaleb 'moose' JayneBrandon 'Ace' Winn Natus Vincere #15 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievDanylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoEgor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' Sharipov