EU, NA DreamHack Winter open qualifiers reach end

The open qualifiers for this year's DreamHack Winter event have come to an end, with eight teams progressing to the closed brackets.

The biggest talking point in the European qualifier was the elimination of Vitality in the last round by CIS team Syman despite a strong individual performance from star player Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut.

LeftOut, who are fielding Haakon "⁠Radifaction⁠" Tholo after Fabien "⁠kioShiMa⁠" Fiey was confirmed as a Cloud9 stand-in for BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen, were one of the top four finishers following a run that included victories over Monolith and x-kom.

The other two teams to make it through the open qualifier in Europe hail from Sweden: Red Reserve, who officially announced William "⁠draken⁠" Sundin as a permanent member on Friday, and x6tence Galaxy.

ScreaM's LeftOut through to the closed qualifier

Meanwhile in North America, the biggest shock was the forfeit defeat of third seed Singularity in the Round of 16 after seemingly arriving late for their match against Whatever It Takes.

The quarter-final stage of the tournament featured a mouth-watering Brazilian derby between FURIA and INTZ, with João "⁠horvy⁠" Horvath's side overcoming a 10-5 deficit to win the match and book a spot in the closed qualifier alongside TeamOne, Bravado and Vireo.pro.

The eight qualified sides will be joined by eight invitees in the closed qualifiers, which will be played out on Sunday, October 28. Both tournaments will feature a single-elimination, best-of-three bracket, with the winners earning spots at the DreamHack tournament.

Below you can find the match-ups for the first round of the qualifiers:

Europe:

ex-Space Soldiers vs. Syman
AGO vs. Red Reserve
LDLC vs, x6tence Galaxy
Fragsters vs. LeftOut

North America:

eUnited vs. Vireo.pro
Spacestation vs. INTZ
Luminosity vs. Bravado
Rogue vs. TeamOne

João 'horvy' Horvath Age: 20 Team: INTZ Rating 1.0: 0.95 Maps played: 118 KPR: 0.64 DPR: 0.67 Syman Maksim 't0rick' ZaikinSanjar 'SANJI' KulievSanzhar 'neaLaN' IskhakovArtem 'iDISBALANCE' EgorovIlya 'Perfecto' Zalutskiy AGO #29 Grzegorz 'SZPERO' DziamałekDamian 'Furlan' KislowskiDominik 'GruBy' SwiderskiTomasz 'phr' WójcikKacper 'kaper' Słoma Rogue #35 Spencer 'Hiko' MartinKevin 'kRYSTAL' AmendRicardo 'Rickeh' MulhollandHunter 'SicK' MimsDaniel 'vice' Kim Singularity #61 Victor 'food' WongRyan 'ryann' WelshAnthony 'vanity' MalaspinaCameron 'cam' KernJosh 'oSee' Ohm Whatever It Takes #181 Jasper 'sfX' KoMyke 'btk' KwartengJosh 'iRONMAN' MonroeBryce 'PureR' LovellShervin 'sherv' Akhavan Cloud9 #28 Robin 'flusha' RönnquistWilliam 'RUSH' WierzbaTimothy 'autimatic' TaMaikil 'Golden' Selim Luminosity #36 Lucas 'steel' LopesHenrique 'HEN1' TelesLucas 'LUCAS1' TelesGabriel 'NEKIZ' SchenatoGustavo 'yel' Knittel x6tence Galaxy #96 André 'BARBARR' MöllerLinus 'Bååten' AnderssonGustav 'ZINKEN' BjörkTim 'nawwk' JonassonNicolas 'Plopski' Gonzalez Zamora Spacestation #63 David 'DAVEY' StaffordChad 'Oderus' MillerRyan 'Snakes' AmannMichael 'Grim' WinceGage 'Infinite' Green Haakon 'Radifaction' Tholo Age: 19 Team: Red Reserve Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 172 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.70 Vitality #41 Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittCédric 'RpK' GuipouyDan 'apEX' MadesclaireVincent 'Happy' SchopenhauerMathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut Fabien 'kioShiMa' Fiey Age: 24 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 1126 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.64 LeftOut Vireo.pro #80 Donovan 'zNf' FroidRicky 'floppy' KemeryBrenden 'stellar' McGrathRobert 'robby' BrownJosh 'PwnAlone' Pigue TeamOne #64 Bruno 'BIT' Fukuda LimaPedro 'Maluk3' CamposNicolas 'NikoM' MiozziVictor 'iDk' TorracaAlencar 'trk' Rossato x-kom #299 Oskar 'oskarish' StenborowskiMichał 'mono' GabszewiczDaniel 'STOMP' PłomińskiGrzegorz 'jedqr' JędrasKrzysztof 'Goofy' Górski William 'draken' Sundin Age: 23 Team: Red Reserve Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 676 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.64 FURIA #85 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoKaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoRinaldo 'ableJ' Moda Junior Fragsters #25 Lucas 'Bubzkji' AndersenIsmail 'refrezh' AliJacob 'dragonfly' LundNicolai 'torben' AmorimMartin 'stavn' Lund Bravado #49 Dimitri 'Detrony' HadjipaschaliRuan 'ELUSIVE' van WykAran 'Sonic' GroesbeekRhys 'Fadey' ArmstrongJohnny 'JT' Theodosiou Red Reserve #39 William 'draken' SundinJoakim 'disco doplan' GidetunFredrik 'freddieb' BuöHampus 'hampus' Poser LDLC #26 Antoine 'to1nou' PirardAlex 'ALEX' McMeekinFrançois 'amanek' DelaunayDavid 'devoduvek' DobrosavljevicLogan 'LOGAN' Corti Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut Age: 17 Team: Vitality Rating 1.0: 1.32 Maps played: 231 KPR: 0.91 DPR: 0.67 Monolith #93 Alexander 'spiker' IvanovAleksei 'NickelBack' TrofimovAleksei 'El1an' GusevArtyom 'malik' ArhipovDmitriy 'propleh' Senigov ex-Space Soldiers #20 Engin 'MAJ3R' KüpeliIsmailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşBuğra 'Calyx' ArkınAhmet 'paz' KarahocaEngin 'ngiN' Kor eUnited #32 Pujan 'FNS' MehtaSkyler 'Relyks' WeaverWill 'dazzLe' LoafmanMichael 'dapr' GulinoKaleb 'moose' Jayne INTZ #48 Vito 'kNgV-' GiuseppeAlexandre 'xand' ZiziJoão 'felps' VasconcellosMarcelo 'chelo' CespedesJoão 'horvy' Horvath