The final open qualifier saw 99 participants battle their way through the single-elimination bracket, where four teams met in the best-of-three deciders for a chance to join likes of NRG, Ghost and eUnited. Old Guys Club were the first to make it through with Sean "seang@res" Gares leading his squad of retired legendary pros, easing past Hysteria 16-5 before defeating LiViD in two maps, with Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert posting a 1.44 rating in the series. seang@res' Old Guys Club reach the closed qualifier On the other side of the bracket, Peter "ptr" Gurney's Test Takers squad cruised through their opponents, only dropping seven rounds between Dogs of War & Grizzlys, before reaching the BO3 decider against the boyz, where a close two map series earned them a closed qualifier spot. The 16 team closed qualifier is set to kick off December 12-14, where six spots at the Americas Minor in Katowice, Poland will be up for grabs. The full team list looks as follows: Envy
Ghost
Luminosity
NRG
Singularity
Mythic
iNTACT
Old Guys Club Rogue
Spacestation
Swole Patrol
eUnited
FURIA
TeamOne
Bravado
Test Takers  Bravado #49  Dimitri 'Detrony' Hadjipaschali Ruan 'ELUSIVE' van Wyk Aran 'Sonic' Groesbeek Rhys 'Fadey' Armstrong Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou  Luminosity #23  Lucas 'steel' Lopes Henrique 'HEN1' Teles Lucas 'LUCAS1' Teles Gabriel 'NEKIZ' Schenato Gustavo 'yel' Knittel  Peter 'ptr' Gurney Age: 28 Team: Test Takers Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 698 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.62  Old Guys Club #94  Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert Sean 'seang@res' Gares Yazan 'clowN' Ammari Samuel 'SileNt' Portillo Sam 's0m' Oh  iNTACT #72  Michael 'Turismo' Haas William 'will' Cheng Gabe 'Spongey' Greiner Alan 'Shakezullah' Hardeman Christopher 'Swahn' Swahn  eUnited #27  Pujan 'FNS' Mehta Skyler 'Relyks' Weaver Michael 'dapr' Gulino Kaleb 'moose' Jayne Austin 'Cooper' Abadir  Rogue #36  Spencer 'Hiko' Martin Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen Ricardo 'Rickeh' Mulholland Hunter 'SicK' Mims Daniel 'vice' Kim   Envy #62   Stephen 'reltuC' Cutler Josh 'jdm64' Marzano Noah 'Nifty' Francis Taylor 'Drone' Johnson Matt 'Pollo' Wilson  Test Takers #105  Peter 'ptr' Gurney Josh 'shinobi' Abastado Dylan 'RIKO' Sabin-Arnce Jeff 'RZU' Ngo Tyson 'TenZ' Ngo  Mythic #73  Eric 'adreN' Hoag Todd 'anger' Williams James 'hazed' Cobb Erik 'fl0m' Flom Adam 'Polen' Polen  Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert Age: 28 Team: Old Guys Club Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 751 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.67  TeamOne #55  Bruno 'BIT' Fukuda Lima Pedro 'Maluk3' Campos Nicolas 'NikoM' Miozzi Victor 'iDk' Torraca Alencar 'trk' Rossato  the boyz   Dogs of War   Singularity #47  Victor 'food' Wong Ryan 'ryann' Welsh Anthony 'vanity' Malaspina Cameron 'cam' Kern Josh 'oSee' Ohm  FURIA #70  Andrei 'arT' Piovezan Yuri 'yuurih' Santos Vinicius 'VINI' Figueiredo Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato Rinaldo 'ableJ' Moda Junior  LiViD #132  Anthony 'gMd' Guimond Danny 'huynh' Huynh Michael 'miLLe' St-Pierre Michael 'MkaeL' De Luca Yannick 'KOLER' Blanchette  Hysteria   Swole Patrol #38  Braxton 'swag' Pierce Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadir Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado Jordan 'Zellsis' Montemurro Brandon 'Ace' Winn  Grizzlys #135  Mathieu 'INCRED' Bergeron Francis 'NANO' Tremblay Cedric 'Melio' Perrault Samuel 'Kizy' Leclerc-Dulong David 'J0LZ' Jolin  Spacestation #56  David 'DAVEY' Stafford Chad 'Oderus' Miller Ryan 'Snakes' Amann Michael 'Grim' Wince Gage 'Infinite' Green  Ghost #21  Joshua 'steel' Nissan Kenneth 'koosta' Suen Yassine 'Subroza' Taoufik Matthew 'WARDELL' Yu Jason 'neptune' Tran  Sean 'seang@res' Gares Age: 30 Team: Old Guys Club Rating 1.0: 0.88 Maps played: 688 KPR: 0.59 DPR: 0.68   NRG #8   Damian 'daps' Steele Jacob 'FugLy' Medina Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte Ethan 'Ethan' Arnold Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov |