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.
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 
Ghost
Matchpage 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' Šťastný
Chris 'chrisJ' de Jong
Miikka 'suNny' Kemppi
Martin 'STYKO' Styk
Robin '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' Guipouy
Adil 'ScreaM' BenrlitomVincent 'Happy' SchopenhauerAlexandre 'xms' Forté 
Gambit #10 Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev
Mihail '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 (责任编辑：skinhub)
