First Asia Minor invites revealed

6-10-2017 14:51

The first six invites for the Asia Minor Championship have been determined, according to CSGO2ASIA.

The event will run from October 26-29 in Seoul, South Korea, and, unlike the other Minors, will feature only invited teams - a decision that has been heavily criticised in the community.

Renegades, TYLOO and The MongolZ are among the first six invited teams invited to compete at the event, with the final two sides due to be revealed soon. HLTV.org has learned that the last two spots are expected to be filled by Oceanic teams.

TyLoo invited to the Asia Minor

Aside from the $50,000 prize pool, the Asia Minor will reward the top two teams with spots at the offline qualifier for ELEAGUE Major: Boston, running from January 12-15 in Atlanta.

Below you can find the first six teams invited to the Asia Minor:

Renegades	TYLOO
The MongolZ	ViCi
Flash	MVP PK

nice

2017-10-06 14:52

6 replies

yws

2017-10-06 14:53

ezy fr mvp

2017-10-06 15:14

3 replies

ez for Tyloo

2017-10-06 16:32

2 replies

ez for renegades

2017-10-06 18:58

1 reply

ez 4 tyloo

2017-10-06 19:04

ez for IEM Oakland champs

2017-10-06 19:57

LUL

cool

First

-1

ez for c9

stupid

boots where?

11 replies

2 more teams are going to get invited, Probably BOOT / Recca for 1st spot and other spot Kings / Grayhound

2017-10-06 15:30

10 replies

HLTV.org has learned that the last two spots are expected to be filled by Oceanic teams.

2017-10-06 16:20

9 replies

Hahaha rip. Retarded koreans. It is not that teams from south east asia suck but they are not even given a chance to qualify. Fuck the koreans with their tiny dicks.

2017-10-06 16:25

7 replies

What the fuck makes u thing this decision is made by korea lmao Korea is gonna run Asia minor thats the only thing that related to minor Mr arrogant

2017-10-06 16:39

wiki.teamliquid.net/counterstrike/Minor_.. nigga vsl is a korean organisation. Them incompetent fucks not capable of running open qualifers then rely on invites. Go shove a kimchi up your ass while shouting your anyonhaseyo kamsahamida. Korea pricks.

2017-10-06 19:02

Oof, cya in a week or so.

2017-10-06 20:00

There is no in the hell way They didnt have conversation between valve and vsl. even if they didnt, valve should have handled the situation. Valve announced way too late. Vsl could have prepared if they made a statement or something. Valve should be the one to blame

2017-10-07 11:23

Cis minor organised by pgl which happens at the same time as asia minor has open qualifer. How are you going to explain this?

2017-10-07 12:16

Mvp pk gonna suck typical tiny 3cm korean dicks.

2017-10-06 19:03

Dude calm down. It's not decided by the host of the minor. Either way Asia has not big teams even able to compete with EU or NA CS. It's sure Renegades will make it to the minor on the second one probably will be Tyloo.

2017-10-06 20:01

Not sure how I missed that, Kings and Grayhound

2017-10-06 21:59

bad

renegades gonna win this, come on boys!

Fuck you for not inviting dignitas to eu minor :(

2017-10-06 14:55

ez for GODBnTeT

2017-10-06 14:56

ezzzzzzzzzzzzz

Ez for kings and chiefs tbqh

chiefs got raped by mongolz in iem quail fuck is you talking bout ez? only kings has chance

2017-10-07 16:05

Massive joke that there isn't an open qualifier. There are some decent OCE/ASIA teams that can compete with this bunch that will miss out.

2017-10-06 14:58

True, its sure that we wont see BootDS, Nasr, Recca and three out of Athletico/Grayhound/TM/Kings/Chiefsalthough they could compete against the other teams

2017-10-06 14:59

mvp pk > boot lmao nt

Solo to major please

2017-10-06 15:00

w8 y volvo still gives asia 2 spots

Two spots to go to another qualifier lol

2017-10-06 15:38

invited teams only? smh. LET'S GO FLASH

ez for my boys

2017-10-06 15:01

Ez MongolZ

2017-10-06 15:02

Asia minor means anatolia... hltv fix pls

Excepted.The next one must be BOOT.ds.It's hard to guess who is the last one.

2017-10-06 15:04

HLTV.org has learned that the last two spots are expected to be filled by Oceanic teams. nt

2017-10-06 15:06

Last one either Kings or Grayhound

2017-10-06 15:31

okay...that's my bad.I hadn't read the details. :(

2017-10-06 15:40

Ez4AU

first finally i have done it

ez for tyloo and bondik

i'm gonna play in next version of asian minor for sure

Let‘s go ViCi！

2017-10-06 15:07

TyLoo will win, no doubt

2017-10-06 15:11

gl mvp pk

RNG vs. Tyloo....we all know what happened last time, sick em Nifty!

2017-10-06 15:13

lol how is rng even considered for this? give the slot to another top au team that's based in au, stupid cunts. fucking morons taking away the chance for a lesser known team to be exposed smh

2017-10-06 15:17

Because Renegades is 10 times better than any Australian team

2017-10-06 15:29

To be exposed? IN A FUCKING MINOR FOR A MAJOR? You are so fucking retarded, Of course the best Australian team (Renegades) is going to be invited to play in the minor you fucking moron, There are still 2 slots left and 1 slot will be Kings or Grayhound so stfu and cry more

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They should have been invited to the Americas major honestly. They do not play in Asia.

2017-10-06 15:39

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They have 3 Australian players so no they HAVE to play in the Asia minor, They don't get a choice, It's from were you are born not what region you play in

2017-10-06 15:44

So SK, Immortals and LG players were secretly born in NA?

2017-10-06 16:12

No brazil minor obviously

2017-10-06 16:49

Yeah, but they could have played in NA still. However, it seems that Renegades were top 2 on the last asian major, so they were automatically invited.

2017-10-06 20:15

the top two teams that won the last minor get invited, moron

2017-10-06 15:41

You might wanna reconsider being on HLTV because you're fucking stupid mate

2017-10-06 20:26

apparently Asia means china,korea,and mongolia only ok

2017-10-06 15:18

RIP

2017-10-06 21:05

SKT will win

2017-10-06 15:19

it should be 1 asia qualifer 1 cis qualifer 2 america qualifer 4 europe qualifer

2017-10-06 15:20

what is this rigged shit?

2017-10-06 15:24

So retarded that this isn’t an open qualifier feelsbadman for a shit ton of teams that can compete against these “invited” teams

2017-10-06 15:25

t3 eu teams stomp those 3 invited china teams,any day of the week,,,

2017-10-06 15:53

Tyloo number uno

rip SEA?

2017-10-06 15:34

RIP [*] boots

2017-10-06 21:08

RIP boot ds, recca, signature

2017-10-08 09:23

Surely the open qualifier element was the whole point of the minor system. Lots of teams in good form the last few months will be left out and have to wait another 6-7 months for a chance to prove their worth.

2017-10-06 15:36

lul October 26-29, this whole thing is a scam Asian Minors should always be played first due to visa issues. who wants to bet that they say the Asian teams wont get visa and replaced by some low EU and NA team

2017-10-06 15:50

Like it happened to Mongolz at the mög columbus qual? Mongolz qualified for the main qual but their visa got denied thrice....

2017-10-06 16:11

Eleague major? Worst major ever...politics in minors as well now....

2017-10-06 15:52

Where is SKT T1. Tier 999 tourneeyy

2017-10-06 15:55

what?

2017-10-06 16:05

Let's go MVP.PK

Ez Mongolz

2017-10-06 16:09

TyLoo w/ Bond1k + practice in EU , its seems like not ez

2017-10-07 07:18

I gotta stay positive. :D First real big lan since the last Minor

2017-10-07 10:44

No chance for up and coming teams...sad Esports slowly becoming a monopoly of invites where new teams can't break through because they don't have connections with tournament organizers

2017-10-06 16:10

1. TyLoo 2. Flash 3. ViCi

2017-10-06 16:13

no open qual is just shit, for those new teams don't even have chance to fight for a step closer to major, and how can you expect asian cs to improve?? but tbh i'm glad to see 3 chinese top teams in minor, since there used to be 2, while each of them can compete in a great level in asia.

well actually its difficult to allocate the slots to different region for asia is too big, so china always just have 2 and it cant be more while there are 3 top teams. maybe they should consider a 12-slot minor.

2017-10-06 16:18

they should just name change it to the Chinese minor

2017-10-06 16:24

ez for BnTeT gg

2017-10-06 16:30

this one ez for tyloo with bondik

2017-10-06 16:42

Minor hosted in Korea with 3 Chinese teams and only 1 Korean team. so unfair.

What do you mean unfair? I feel like they would receive even more criticism if they favored Korean teams and too many of them

2017-10-06 17:03

You mean like the last closed qualifier? Hosted by kespa in korea and what happened. 2 korean teams got invited who never ever had the slightest chance of a win

2017-10-07 10:46

lol nice go mvp alway rekt by mongolz to get spot now u guys have a chance guys

2017-10-06 17:15

Yea tyloo and renegades in the major qualifier again.

2017-10-06 17:24

feel bad for boot boot need get 1 spot +boot +kings

2017-10-06 17:26

Tyloo to Major

2017-10-06 17:29

finally something rng can win

2017-10-06 17:45

ez renegades, they're gonna rip through the BOTs

2017-10-06 18:21

The only reason why Renegades is keeping ustilo in the team xD

2017-10-06 18:23

LoL. Gonna be ez for Renegades...

2017-10-06 18:26

Is there any more team except these?

2017-10-06 18:45

Tainted Minds and Kings just got announced

2017-10-07 08:47

ez Mongolz

2017-10-06 18:49

#RunMongolz

2017-10-06 19:18

Ez Renegades. RIP Tyloo.

2017-10-06 20:34

At least Renegades can play the EPL finals too if they qualify.

2017-10-06 20:41

kindly invite team VRN from pakistani Too these boyz can easily compete with these asian teams

2017-10-06 21:30

2017-10-07 16:11

TyLuL

2017-10-06 21:32

Lets go Mongolz

2017-10-06 22:57

Ez for my brother BnGodTeT and his fellow brother Bonking <3

2017-10-07 01:03

2 Aussie teams to major again just like 2015? ;)

2017-10-07 02:15

That happened because they did not have to face American or European opposition. Immunity and Vox Eminor(or maybe it was their 1st Major as Renegades) only had to win the Asia or AU Minor. It's like when Bravado Gaming qualified to DH Winter 2014.

2017-10-07 09:39

Yeah the addition of the main qualifier was definitely the right decision.

2017-10-07 10:50

Damn...there were 2 spots for the AU qualifier?

2017-10-07 11:57

Yes

2017-10-07 12:04

no one cares about Asia ffs

2017-10-07 02:33

If SK werent there nobody would even consider Brazil m8. 3rd world stays 3rd world

2017-10-07 10:51

+1, the other brazillian teams became good/ decent because of the rise and the success of LG/ SK. I'm pretty sure it could happen to another region (China for example) if a big team actually shows up and starts winning shit. these regions need kind of a model to rely on, and that's what brazil got with LG/ SK.

2017-10-07 12:44

True. But i also feel like we need an asian pro league and sa pro league having the same finals with na epl and eu epl. Thats how it should be imo

2017-10-07 12:47

It will happen bro, but not yet. People already talk about how easier it is for NA teams to qualify compared to EU teams, if you add even more regions, they're would be even more people complaining about it. If those regions reach at least the NA level, then why not, but adding pro league in regions that are really inferior right now would be a waste, I really don't wanna see Team one or fucking MVP PK going in a LAN finals and being put in a group with faze and c9 ya know

2017-10-07 12:50

I get it, but how are they going to improve then if they cant play against better teams. And yeah asia/oceania has the zen pro league but thats not the same. Its a pro league but the finals secluded from the epl one

2017-10-07 12:53

Asian only plays LOL and Dota

2017-10-07 20:12

lol if u only knew.

2017-10-07 20:52

zzz

2017-10-07 07:42

no qualifier RIP

2017-10-07 08:18

wow,3 china teams.

2017-10-07 09:23

+BOOT +Kings

2017-10-07 09:36

rip sea

2017-10-07 10:48

Mongolz qualified for IEM Oakland. Maybe its time for them to qualify again for the Main Qualifier. Altho visa will still be a real issue. Even more so now with fakin trump