The European closed qualifier for DreamHack Masters Las Vegas has been brought to an end with fnatic, mousesports, Gambit and FaZe securing spots at the tournament which will take place this February.

The closed qualifier consisted of eight invited and eight open qualifier teams battling in a best-of-three single-elimination bracket. Even though most of the opening matches were won by the invited teams easily, mousesports had a tough time closing out their series against BIG, and GODSENT ended up losing to the Poles of PRIDE.



Both rain and dennis will be attending DH Masters Las Vegas with their teams

fnatic - G2 was the first deciding match of the qualifier and it seemed like the Swedes were determined to end their job for the night as soon as possible.

On their map pick, Cache, the whole team put up a good performance and won 16-4, but on Dust2 it was all about Dennis "⁠dennis⁠" Edman - the #20 player of 2016 picked up 31 kills in 25 rounds to win the map 16-9, and the series 2-0.

fnatic K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Dennis 'dennis' Edmandennis 45 - 29 +16 100.5 1.58 Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjerolofmeister 42 - 24 +18 96.5 1.56 Simon 'twist' Eliassontwist 35 - 30 +5 93.4 1.25 Freddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonKRIMZ 31 - 23 +8 76.0 1.25 Joakim 'disco doplan' Gidetundisco doplan 29 - 22 +7 71.2 1.15 G2 K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Adil 'ScreaM' BenrlitomScreaM 32 - 36 -4 70.8 0.85 Richard 'shox' Papillonshox 27 - 34 -7 71.0 0.80 Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianarobodyy 26 - 37 -11 56.9 0.75 Edouard 'SmithZz' DubourdeauxSmithZz 23 - 37 -14 62.4 0.72 Cédric 'RpK' GuipouyRpK 20 - 38 -18 61.9 0.62

Despite their struggles against their old in-game leader Fatih "⁠gob b⁠" Dayik and his new team BIG, mousesports were in great shape in the deciding match against HellRaisers.

With Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač and Chris "⁠chrisJ⁠" de Jong both firing on all cylinders, mousesports took down the Eastern-European mixture with ease on both Cobblestone (16-9) and Mirage (16-7).

HellRaisers K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Martin 'STYKO' StykSTYKO 35 - 35 0 77.3 1.09 Vladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchukbondik 33 - 36 -3 76.0 1.02 Patrik 'Zero' ŽúdelZero 29 - 39 -10 64.5 0.77 Bence 'DeadFox' BöröczDeadFox 25 - 40 -15 58.7 0.74 Kirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowANGE1 24 - 41 -17 68.9 0.67 mousesports K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Nikola 'NiKo' KovačNiKo 48 - 31 +17 108.5 1.61 Chris 'chrisJ' de JongchrisJ 41 - 25 +16 87.8 1.41 Denis 'denis' Howelldenis 41 - 34 +7 90.1 1.34 Timo 'Spiidi' RichterSpiidi 35 - 24 +11 78.1 1.24 Christian 'loWel' Garcia AntoranloWel 26 - 32 -6 60.0 0.92

Gambit and PRIDE met in a matchup that most CS fans weren't expecting to see in this qualifier. The CIS side lead by the veteran Danylo "⁠Zeus⁠" Teslenko easily took the first map, Cobblestone 16-5, but were edged out by the Poles on Overpass (16-14) to make the series go to three maps.

On the decider, Dust2, it was once again pretty straighforward for Mihail "⁠Dosia⁠" Stolyarov and co - 16-6 to secure a spot at DreamHack Las Vegas.

Gambit K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Rustem 'mou' Telepovmou 61 - 38 +23 89.6 1.40 Dauren 'AdreN' KystaubayevAdreN 55 - 40 +15 91.1 1.39 Mihail 'Dosia' StolyarovDosia 64 - 42 +22 89.2 1.39 Abay 'Hobbit' KhasenovHobbit 59 - 45 +14 84.1 1.29 Danylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoZeus 40 - 42 -2 58.4 0.94 PRIDE K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Konrad 'EXUS' JeńczeńEXUS 48 - 55 -7 71.8 0.97 Paweł 'reatz' Jańczakreatz 55 - 57 -2 79.1 0.96 Piotr 'morelz' Taterkamorelz 39 - 58 -19 66.1 0.76 Kamil 'kamil' Kamińskikamil 36 - 54 -18 51.5 0.74 Karol 'repo' Cybulskirepo 29 - 56 -27 51.2 0.64

The final spot was decided between FlipSid3 and FaZe. Thanks to a perfect Terrorist side, Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen's team managed to secure Overpass with a convincing result. However, they weren't able to close it out on their own map pick - Mirage - as the CIS team put up a lockdown CT side.

The series came down Train, on which FaZe ran away with the first half, but took a lot of time to close out the map 16-11.

FaZe K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Fabien 'kioShiMa' FieykioShiMa 60 - 47 +13 83.9 1.19 Aleksi 'allu' Jalliallu 64 - 52 +12 75.3 1.15 Philip 'aizy' Aistrupaizy 53 - 47 +6 74.1 1.11 Finn 'karrigan' Andersenkarrigan 51 - 47 +4 79.6 1.11 Håvard 'rain' Nygaardrain 53 - 55 -2 76.9 1.02 FlipSid3 K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Denis 'electronic' Sharipovelectronic 56 - 49 +7 71.8 1.11 Georgi 'WorldEdit' YaskinWorldEdit 56 - 55 +1 75.5 1.07 Jan 'wayLander' RahkonenwayLander 49 - 62 -13 77.4 0.88 Andrey 'B1ad3' GorodenskiyB1ad3 43 - 58 -15 60.8 0.84 Yegor 'markeloff' Markelovmarkeloff 44 - 57 -13 69.6 0.84

With the EU closed qualifier done, the three remaining spots DreamHack Masters Las Vegas spots will be decided through the NA qualifier:

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