IEM Katowice closed qualifier invites revealed

19-10-2018 19:00

IEM Katowice's open qualifiers are ready to kick off on October 22, starting the road to the IEM Katowice 2019 Major. Here are the invited teams to the closed qualifiers around the world.

Another Major cycle begins, with teams around the world signing up to play the open qualifiers. The eight best teams in Europe, North America, and CIS will then face-off against the eight teams invited in each region in a closed qualifier.

In Latin America, Oceania, China, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and The Middle East, the teams that will make it through to the closed portion of the qualifiers will be four.

mouz will be one of the teams fighting in the European closed qualifier

Two teams from each open qualifier will move on to the closed qualifier, from which several teams, between two and eight depending on the region, will move on to the Minors. All of the information concerning the open and closed qualifiers to the Minors can be read here.

The invited teams to the different closed qualifiers so far are:

Europe

North America

CIS

Brazil

Oceania

China

Southeast Asia

TBD

East Asia

Middle East

TBD

wow stacked af The NA an CIS qualifiers are pathetic compared to the EU qualifier.

2018-10-19 19:02

5 replies

nice

2 replies

:thinking:

2018-10-19 19:15

1 reply

:curious:

ez for OPtic India also someone tell me why uinque stars dropped out of esea

2018-10-19 19:05

Ez for OPCHEAT India the CHEAT wall

2018-10-19 19:16

Shame no forsaken :(

2018-10-19 19:00

yeah thats such a shame

XDDDDDD. this is fucking minor qualifiers

woooow, soooo smart. How do you know that

2018-10-19 19:11

ez4ence

2018-10-19 19:01

Nt Prokda

2018-10-20 10:07

Im not prokda wtf

2018-10-20 12:45

Feels mouz man

no forsaken no watch

wat doink alo

Not Vitality)%

Shitality no one cares they had only 1 chance from miniors

2018-10-19 19:03

Like people about VP lmao

2018-10-19 20:59

how can SP play if swag is in it?

they will field a stand-in

so steel is unbanned from valve major also?

4 replies

No he is not

They will most likely use their coach JamezIRL as their stand-in

probably stand in. like seangares

Dont forget Swole Patrol with brax

Ez for EX-S

if they play descent they should win the other teams ez

2018-10-20 11:28

ghost?

7 replies

Yeah?

6 replies

steel unbanned?

No?

fak

#27

seriousli

2018-10-19 19:04

nooooo

Rip optic india

lol

LuL

Virtus Pro. How sad is that. ESL fuck off

20 replies

Name one better Eu team than them who are not already on major?

15 replies

Optic India

Hahahahah maybe if they play woth forsaken

3 replies

why shouldn't they? did they kick him? lmao

Yes they kicked him

2018-10-19 19:06

xaxaxa

2018-10-19 19:43

Vitality

Vitality hasnt won single game yet

They have actually, under the name of waterboys. But it was against random t3-4 teams

Yeah maybe thats why no invites for them

2018-10-19 19:08

LDLC, Imperial

Ldlc onliners just like imperial

at least they're good somewhere unlike VP

Ldlc actually have not showed anything lately Imperial choke team

2018-10-19 19:10

Ldlc just won a small Esl tournament

2018-10-19 19:44

Ago, Imperial, LDLC and fragsters

2018-10-19 20:36

Guess you didnt read 'Katowice'

I did, its the major and the best teams should be invited.

2018-10-19 20:37

Yes but organisers need $$$ and the polish crowd goes crazy over pasha

2018-10-19 20:50

Yes, but for the major it should be the very best who competes. This is why EU needs more major spots too compared to Asia for example

2018-10-19 20:52

WHERE THE FUCK IS IMPERIAL ???

LOL

ranking #31 VP #30 :D:D. Actually there would be others who had it worse xD

Oh okayh

Where is optic india

Optic India needs a chance come on esl

Luminosity in north America and more Brazil wtf

why is lumminosity in NA not BR?

EZ4ENCE

Ghost?

2018-10-19 19:07

Where is Imperial lol

2018-10-19 19:09

lol ranked #31, why would they get it

Winstrike doesn't even have a team, and they got an invite

I do believe winstrike has automatic invite cuz they played main stage of major and got 0-3 like mouz :)

now they have only 2 players from their previous roster tho

well they have still others on bench, if they play 3 of them it is fine? But yea, maybe it is simply wildcard type of solution and they can play whoever cuz not like VP invite makes sense either xD...

2018-10-19 19:18

in Brazil qualifier

2018-10-19 19:14

rofl :)

IDK how they got invite to VP, must not be based on HLTV ranking at least :D:D:D, wildcard maby?

Poland

2018-10-19 19:19

hmm makes sense I guess...

2018-10-19 19:20

Why is valve so retarded? EU should get 3 spots at least.

ez for vp

2018-10-19 19:12

Where is optic india? Major of cheating winners :D

Brazil Imperial Hmmm

intz on brazil and lg on NA wtf free spot to intz anyways, ghost with steel and swole with swag? wtf lul

Invite VP don't invite Windigo Ok

Eu needs to have 4 spaces

INTZ players are on the USA, why are they on the LA qualifier!?

2018-10-19 19:21

stop with this regional minors and make 1 minor for all regions please... eu teams fked as always

2018-10-19 19:25

PLEASE VP OR KINGUIN OR AGO MAKE IT

fnatic > all

2018-10-19 19:26

why no TyLoo?

2018-10-19 19:29

0/8

2018-10-19 19:39

no for real tho im lost here lmao, why no Tyloo?

2018-10-19 19:46

ohh forget it i just realize lul

That is a good question. Maybe they refused because they have to play something else in the meantime? Edit: They already qualified. This is major.

2018-10-19 20:20

Ez for mongolian force a nature Storm Rider

2018-10-19 19:37

EZ FOR THE ISRAELI BOIS

2018-10-19 19:47

no opponent to MVP PK.. can I dream MVP stickers?

2018-10-19 20:01

2 Stickers spots should be between Renegades, MVP, VICI, Cyberzen and 5POWER. Other teams have no chance

2018-10-20 01:41

thx bro I can dream

2018-10-20 05:56

So they're allowing steel to play in the major qualifiers? ok

2018-10-19 21:10

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2018-10-20 02:48

Europe not stacked at all

2018-10-20 10:03

Still the same number of spots for EU as for CIS, Asia and NA Just feck off Volvo

2018-10-20 13:45

All eu teams better then any others region

2018-10-20 14:59

VP invited to closed quali bhuhbuhbuhb they just be get eleminated in open quali in early RO248 RO128 stage

2018-10-20 20:29

North America luminosity gaming?

2018-10-20 20:31

fuck me dead can the asian teams play in one fucking qualifier, so many australian teams would gutter fuck those regions but they just get so many spots

2018-10-21 12:11

Ez for ss

2018-10-21 14:09

but you guys know that it's based on esl ranking not hltv ranking? That's why we can see VP there and not Fragsters. VP didn't got invite coz of a polish crowd, they got invited coz they are the last spot from esl ranking. eslgaming.com/worldranking/csgo#/ When faceit was organizing last major, they looked up to hltv ranking, but when now esl is doing major, they are looking and their ranking and not hltv .

2018-10-21 15:48

EZ 4 Isurus.

2018-10-23 09:30

Let's go isurus :D

2018-10-25 01:30