Eight North American teams competed in the DH Tours NA closed qualifier for the last spot at the LAN tournament in France. Four of these teams were invited and the other four came through the open qualifier. The single-elimination bracket kicked off with invited teams facing qualified teams and all the invited teams (NRG, eUnited, Luminosity, Misfits) came on top.  seang@res' team are through to the LAN
In the semi-finals NRG crushed eUnited, letting their opponents get twelve rounds on two maps. Misfits had a much closer affair with the Brazilians of Luminosity as the series went to three maps. Misfits won the last map Inferno 16-14 with Shahzeb "ShahZaM" Khan's 100.9 ADR and 1.72 rating performance. Misfits, who used Ryan "ichibaNNN" Colucci as a stand-in, kicked off the grand final with an 11-4 CT-side on Mirage which secured them the first map (16-7). NRG put up a fight in the first half on Cache, winning it 8-7, but Misfits came alive on the T-side to win the map 16-12, winning the grand final 2-0 and qualifying for DreamHack Open Tours. DreamHack Open Tours 2017 North America Closed QualifierBest of 3  NRG Matchpage 0 2 3rd April 2017  Misfits 7Mirage 16 12Cache 16
Skyler 'Relyks' WeaverRelyks | 47 - 34 | +13 | 102.5 | 1.46 | Shahzeb 'ShahZaM' KhanShahZaM | 48 - 29 | +19 | 90.6 | 1.40 | Hunter 'SicK' MimsSicK | 41 - 30 | +11 | 82.6 | 1.24 | Sean 'seang@res' Garesseang@res | 29 - 30 | -1 | 72.7 | 1.04 | Ryan 'ichibaNNN' ColucciichibaNNN | 30 - 34 | -4 | 59.9 | 0.86 |
Peter 'ptr' Gurneyptr | 42 - 37 | +5 | 95.1 | 1.29 | Jacob 'FugLy' MedinaFugLy | 39 - 40 | -1 | 84.6 | 1.07 | Edgar 'MarKE' MaldonadoMarKE | 26 - 41 | -15 | 67.5 | 0.80 | Vincent 'Brehze' CayonteBrehze | 24 - 38 | -14 | 52.0 | 0.71 | Damian 'daps' Steeledaps | 26 - 39 | -13 | 50.8 | 0.70 |
Here is the full team list for DH Open Tours 2017 which will take place in Tours, France from May 6-8 with a $100,000 prize pool: MOUZ | Natus Vincere | HEROIC | Envy | Gambit | G2 | HellRaisers | Misfits |
BenjaCS is a staff writer at HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter.  eUnited #45  David 'DAVEY' Stafford Michael 'MAiNLiNE' Jaber Mitch 'mitch' Semago Joel 'jcrueL' Cruel Jonathan 'Jonji' Carey  Shahzeb 'ShahZaM' Khan Age: 23 Team: Misfits Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 458 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.66  HellRaisers #15  Kirill 'ANGE1' Karasiow Vladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchuk Martin 'STYKO' Styk Patrik 'Zero' Žúdel Bence 'DeadFox' Böröcz   HEROIC #8   Andreas 'MODDII' Fridh Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer Jakob 'JUGi' Hansen Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså Nikolaj 'niko' Kristensen  Luminosity #25  Vinicios 'PKL' Coelho Gustavo 'SHOOWTiME' Gonçalves Lucas 'destiny' Bullo Gustavo 'yel' Knittel Bruno 'shz' Martinelli  Natus Vincere #6  Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács Denis 'seized' Kostin Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev Ryan 'ichibaNNN' Colucci Age: 22 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.95 Maps played: 63 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.71  G2 #16  Richard 'shox' Papillon Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro  Gambit #10  Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko Mihail 'Dosia' Stolyarov Rustem 'mou' Telepov Abay 'HObbit' Khassenov  MOUZ #14  Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastný Chris 'chrisJ' de Jong Christian 'loWel' Garcia Antoran Timo 'Spiidi' Richter Denis 'denis' Howell  Misfits #28  Sean 'seang@res' Gares Shahzeb 'ShahZaM' Khan Skyler 'Relyks' Weaver Hunter 'SicK' Mims Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken   NRG #23   Damian 'daps' Steele Jacob 'FugLy' Medina Peter 'ptr' Gurney Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado   Envy #24   Christophe 'SIXER' Xia Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy Adil 'ScreaM' Benrlitom Vincent 'Happy' Schopenhauer Alexandre 'xms' Forté |