IEM Katowice qual. invites revealed

21-1-2017 17:09

ESL have announced the invited teams for the European and North American closed qualifiers where the last four teams for IEM Katowice will be determined.

The $250,000 contest which will be hosted in Katowice, Poland from March 1-5 will hand out a total of $250,000 prize money to twelve squads. Eight of these teams have already been determined as the likes of Virtus.pro, SK, and Astralis were invited.

G2, Envy, Natus Vincere, MOUZ, and fnatic have received invites to compete in the closed European qualifier. Joining them are GODSENT and HEROIC who triumphed in the first open qualifier.

The European qualifier will feature heavy hitters such as fnatic

The second European open qualifier will take place from February 1-2 and four more teams will qualify for the closed qualifier. The aforementioned seven teams and four teams from the second open qualifier will fight for three spots at IEM Katowice in the closed qualifier taking place from February 4-5.

Here is the team list for the closed European qualifier:

Envy	Natus Vincere	G2
MOUZ	fnatic	GODSENT
HEROIC	Slot for open qual.	Slot for open qual.
Slot for open qual.	Slot for open qual.

The North American closed qualifier will feature Liquid and Immortals, who were both invited, and they will be joined by two teams from the open qualifier which will run from January 21-22. On the fourth and fifth of February, four teams will clash for the last spot at IEM Katowice:

Below are the teams that will participate the closed NA qualifier:

Liquid	Immortals
Slot for open qual.	Slot for open qual.

If you wish to attend IEM Katowice, click here and buy your ticket.

BenjaCS is a staff writer at HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter.

NICE!!!

2017-01-21 17:09

10 replies

"heavyhitters" -> fnatic haha xddd

2017-01-21 17:15

9 replies

SHUT UP

"heavyhitters" -> navi,mouz,heroic,godsent,g2 XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

2017-01-21 17:18

6 replies

navi mouz godsent g2 are acceptable but fnatic and herioc i arent think that

2017-01-21 18:24

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You srsly think godsent is better than fnatic these days? and mouz is better than fnatic? Mouz is hardly better than heroic ._.

2017-01-21 19:05

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ecatly why mouz made it to the major with 3-1 and herioc didint even qualify right?

2017-01-21 19:20

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W/e. "in memory of cyx" says it all. I am a fan of mouz as well, but you have to stay realistic.

2017-01-21 22:38

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im actually a fan of BIG and cyx died while he was great player and if he went on to cs go i'd assume he's one of the best atm

2017-01-22 13:22

Why do ppl always keep regarding G2 as a good team when they never put up any results. Got totally spanked by Fnatic some week ago. Worlds most overrated team with worlds most overrated players (Shox and scream).

2017-01-21 21:46

lmao hltv get your shit together

2017-01-21 19:35

why is hltv lagging?? ....

ez4fnatic

nice

11 teams wtf how do you want to play that?

2017-01-21 17:14

u dont

2017-01-21 17:31

strange why not 12 would make more sense !!!

2017-01-21 18:32

It is 12 teams. 3 from Europe, and one from NA It only shows the eu spots tho, not sure why.

2017-01-21 21:56

cool

ez 4 navi and fnatic

Haha nice

2017-01-21 17:10

navi in qualifier xd

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Yeah wtf, navi, a team from last year's semis, and fnatic, a whole event's winner, gets only to qualifier?

2017-01-21 20:08

You get invites based on current ranking and form

2017-01-21 21:00

Well nip got destroyed in major qualifier...

2017-01-22 00:26

C9 has been shit since pro leauge but they got invited LMAOOOO ESL

2017-02-02 01:15

heroic not kinguin idiotsss

woo

no Kinguin? :(

AYY LMAO NAVI NV FNATIC GODSENT G2 ON QUALIFIERS LMFAOOOOOOO

Let's go BRAZIL, we can do it! #LGLOYAL and #IMTWIN We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! <3 Kreygasm

No C9 or Optic invited?

OpTic already invited 0/8 bad b8

2017-01-21 17:11

Too easy for Immortals.

Nip invited over Navi lmfao ESL are a joke

dont know if you're baiting or not, but NiP are the defending IEM champions while Na'Vi just go out in group stages nowadays

2017-01-21 17:26

As the ppl above said, but even disregarding that, what has navi shown that would put them over nip?

2017-01-21 21:48

kek

Ez for french superteam!

navi fnatic enyvus ez

lul fnatic won last iem katowice xd

2017-01-21 17:12

no nip, no good tounament

2017-01-21 17:13

nip already invited deal with it

I don't understand. Tournament is in Poland. Virtus.pro is already in the game but Kinguin is not. Why they didn't invite Kinguin for closed quali? Why they have to play i open quali? I doesn't make sense. After good performance in WESG they should be invited.

Even if the tournament is in Poland people would rathrr watch old school teams. It's all about money, they have to consider twitch spectators which would be higher than watching kinguin

2017-01-21 17:28

I'm not saying that they should invite them to main tournament. But they deserve to be intited to closed quali.

2017-01-21 20:26

I know your point. They can still get through open qualifier.

2017-01-21 21:01

Who should they remove for kinguin? All qualifier invites are much better and more respected teams. And since VP is in, they don't need more pull to get the polish fanboy to come.

2017-01-21 21:50

WESG is tier3 tournament and Kinguin doesn't deserve this spot. Even NaVi wasn't invited

2017-01-22 03:26

inv Space Soldiers come on

God no.

easy for fnatic flusha

its harder to qualify for katowice then win wesg :O

2017-01-21 17:19

interestink what lineup fnatic and godsent will bring =D

2017-01-21 17:21

NaVi and fnatic in the qualifier LMAO

2017-01-21 17:27

nV and G2? W? T? F?

anyone have the qualifier link

2017-01-21 17:29

Imagine if one year ago someone said that fnatic, Na`Vi and nV will be playing qualifiers

2017-01-21 17:36

Why C9,Faze got invite over Fnatic.Faze hasn't won anything yet and C9 only won a single tournament last year.Fnatic won # tournaments last year and were 2015,2016 Katowice Champions

2017-01-21 17:38