Old Guys Club, Test Takers through to Americas Minor closed qualifier

Old Guys Club and Test Takers are the last two teams confirmed in the Americas Minor closed qualifier after placing top two in the fourth open qualifier.

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' HadjipaschaliRuan 'ELUSIVE' van WykAran 'Sonic' GroesbeekRhys 'Fadey' ArmstrongJohnny 'JT' Theodosiou Luminosity #23 Lucas 'steel' LopesHenrique 'HEN1' TelesLucas 'LUCAS1' TelesGabriel 'NEKIZ' SchenatoGustavo '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' GilbertSean 'seang@res' GaresYazan 'clowN' AmmariSamuel 'SileNt' PortilloSam 's0m' Oh iNTACT #72 Michael 'Turismo' HaasWilliam 'will' ChengGabe 'Spongey' GreinerAlan 'Shakezullah' HardemanChristopher 'Swahn' Swahn eUnited #27 Pujan 'FNS' MehtaSkyler 'Relyks' WeaverMichael 'dapr' GulinoKaleb 'moose' JayneAustin 'Cooper' Abadir Rogue #36 Spencer 'Hiko' MartinMathias 'MSL' LauridsenRicardo 'Rickeh' MulhollandHunter 'SicK' MimsDaniel 'vice' Kim Envy #62 Stephen 'reltuC' CutlerJosh 'jdm64' MarzanoNoah 'Nifty' FrancisTaylor 'Drone' JohnsonMatt 'Pollo' Wilson Test Takers #105 Peter 'ptr' GurneyJosh 'shinobi' AbastadoDylan 'RIKO' Sabin-ArnceJeff 'RZU' NgoTyson 'TenZ' Ngo Mythic #73 Eric 'adreN' HoagTodd 'anger' WilliamsJames 'hazed' CobbErik 'fl0m' FlomAdam '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 LimaPedro 'Maluk3' CamposNicolas 'NikoM' MiozziVictor 'iDk' TorracaAlencar 'trk' Rossato the boyz Dogs of War Singularity #47 Victor 'food' WongRyan 'ryann' WelshAnthony 'vanity' MalaspinaCameron 'cam' KernJosh 'oSee' Ohm FURIA #70 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoKaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoRinaldo 'ableJ' Moda Junior LiViD #132 Anthony 'gMd' GuimondDanny 'huynh' HuynhMichael 'miLLe' St-PierreMichael 'MkaeL' De LucaYannick 'KOLER' Blanchette Hysteria Swole Patrol #38 Braxton 'swag' PierceRyan 'freakazoid' AbadirEdgar 'MarKE' MaldonadoJordan 'Zellsis' MontemurroBrandon 'Ace' Winn Grizzlys #135 Mathieu 'INCRED' BergeronFrancis 'NANO' TremblayCedric 'Melio' PerraultSamuel 'Kizy' Leclerc-DulongDavid 'J0LZ' Jolin Spacestation #56 David 'DAVEY' StaffordChad 'Oderus' MillerRyan 'Snakes' AmannMichael 'Grim' WinceGage 'Infinite' Green Ghost #21 Joshua 'steel' NissanKenneth 'koosta' SuenYassine 'Subroza' TaoufikMatthew 'WARDELL' YuJason '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' SteeleJacob 'FugLy' MedinaVincent 'Brehze' CayonteEthan 'Ethan' ArnoldTsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov