Rise Nation win spot at DreamHack Open Winter
The final of the DreamHack Open Winter North America qualifier saw Rise Nation playing the former ESL Pro League side of Ghost, with the latter using Collin "wrath" McSweegan in place of player/coach Phong "bee" Nguyen.
On their march to victory, Rise Nation inarguably faced the toughest path of any team in the qualifier, playing Rogue, compLexity, and finally Ghost, in order to punch their tickets to Sweden. Ultimately, Ghost put up a good fight on the opening map of Train, but were swept aside on Nuke, which has become a speciality of Rise Nation.
GhostRise Nation| Ghost |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ronnie 'ryx' Bylicki |
36 - 35 | +1 | 87.0 | 67.4% | 1.08 |
 Connor 'CONNOR93' Glover |
31 - 36 | -5 | 72.3 | 65.2% | 0.94 |
| Sebastian 'seb' Bucki |
26 - 39 | -13 | 61.6 | 56.5% | 0.78 |
| Collin 'wrath' McSweegan |
21 - 38 | -17 | 54.8 | 60.9% | 0.69 |
| Matthew 'WARDELL' Yu |
22 - 37 | -15 | 54.1 | 45.7% | 0.65 |
| Rise Nation |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaleb 'moose' Jayne |
51 - 23 | +28 | 95.2 | 82.6% | 1.63 |
| Will 'dazzLe' Loafman |
42 - 30 | +12 | 101.2 | 78.3% | 1.38 |
| Andy 'vSa' Xu |
39 - 25 | +14 | 91.8 | 84.8% | 1.36 |
| Brandon 'Ace' Winn |
28 - 27 | +1 | 58.9 | 78.3% | 1.04 |
| Jonathan 'Jonji' Carey |
25 - 31 | -6 | 75.2 | 76.1% | 0.92 |
The team list for DreamHack Open Winter is now complete:
 EnVyUs |
 fnatic |
 Gambit |
 Heroic |
 mousesports |
 Natus Vincere |
| North Academy |
Rise Nation |
DreamHack Open Winter will run from December 1-3, in Jönköping, Sweden. Between now and attending the event, Rise Nation will have a busy schedule comprising both ESEA MDL and CEVO playoffs.
