ESL unveils Minor Closed Qualifier invites

31-1-2020 18:47

Teams that were awarded spots in the closed qualifiers for all regions of the Minors leading up to the ESL One Rio Major have been announced.

Teams such as Ninjas in Pyjamas, fnatic, FURIA, and FORZE have therefore been confirmed as participants of their respective regions' closed qualifiers. In the announcement, it was made clear that teams were invited mainly based on the ESL rankings, but also "additional factors such as other rankings, and recent results".

kioShiMa's Heretics are amongst the teams invited to the Europe Closed Qualifier

The resulting team lists include some names that might come as a surprise, such as Heretics, who are currently placed #65 in our rankings, and OG, who have played just one offline event and failed to make it past the IEM Katowice Open Qualifier earlier this month.

You can find the Closed Qualifier teams below:

Europe:

North America:

CIS:

South America:

Oceania:

East Asia:

China:

SEA:

Middle East:

The first European Open Qualifier has just kicked off, with the live coverage and teams participating in it available in our news post here.

syman still able to play major's even though they are banned by esic

2020-01-31 18:49

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pau no cu do first

2020-01-31 18:48

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q isso tio

2020-01-31 18:51

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kdaikfdiojdj ta tirando cuzao

2020-01-31 19:01

Fala zezé

2020-01-31 19:14

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hey man I cant understand what you saying please speak in english xdddd

2020-01-31 19:16

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Bom dia cara

2020-01-31 19:17

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what man por favor speak english I dont know o que you are falando

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sorry mas i não understand oque are você talking também

2020-01-31 19:20

fala zezé

2020-02-01 02:55

why are they banned? Is there some news?

2020-02-01 08:26

322

2020-02-01 12:37

what's that?

2020-02-01 21:17

reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/36zzm..

2020-02-01 21:35

thx!

2020-02-01 21:48

okay

heretics and movistar LUL

Heretics - #65 place in HLTV Ranking Illuminar - #34 place in HLTV Ranking Heretics with invite, Illuminar have to play open quali ITS A JOKE

2020-01-31 23:01

they invite teams based on ESL ranking XD it's rly stupid

2020-02-01 08:25

Lucky and kio played ESL tournies in 2019

2020-02-01 11:04

MOVISTAR LUL

swedes and danes group A

It's not divided in groups yet

2020-02-01 01:45

EZ FOR OG

3 Spanish teams

orgs*

2020-01-31 18:55

kekw

first

Let's go BIG TIME REGAL GAMING! ez for superstar xccurate

big time rush?

2020-01-31 22:13

Anyone else not see Dignitas

Heretics? Og? Movistar Riders? Lol!

Riders top 30 deserved, Heretics top 65 isn't deserved

2020-01-31 18:50

2020-01-31 19:03

Nice! Heretics tho lul

Heretics RLY????

Heretics and movistar riders? hello?

Movistar is the 7th Europe team (Not qualified to the major) in ESL and also in HLTV rank. So don't know why are u stranged. Heretics is totally wasted spot

2020-01-31 18:54

Movistar is the 9th team to not be qualified for the major in Europe based on rankings, not 7th

2020-02-01 12:36

Do you think the invites were made yesterday or what ? even so it would be BIG, who was smashed x3 by Movistar Riders LAN and online, who would replace Heretics.

2020-01-31 19:04

new big>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>movistar riders

2020-01-31 19:29

not proved and invites weren't made yesterday, also big should replace heretics, not Riders

2020-01-31 19:35

hahaha movistar and heretics XDDDDDDD

ESL Ranking = Clown. And INTZ and Sharks in SA = stolen slots.

2020-01-31 18:52

+111111111111111111111111111

2020-02-01 02:53

Movistar is the 7th Europe team (Not qualified to the major) in ESL and also in HLTV rank. So don't know why are u stranged. Heretics is totally wasted spot.

movistar too wasted spot xd

2020-01-31 18:59

I support every Spanish and Portuguese team cause I want the Iberia scene to grow, but movistar riders would struggle allot to qualify via the normal qualifiers, I doubt they could do it. I saw them playing against sAw, for a IEM Katowice qualifier, they lost, and sAw is going through hell on the minor qualifiers. I don't like invites on a Major tournament, I understand the Legend status, but don't agree with invites.

2020-02-05 14:39

-Heretics +BIG

2020-01-31 20:00

Ez Ridersss

How can they fuck Havu so bad?? What a disgrace

you mean havu that loses to subtop german teams in open qualifiers?

2020-01-31 19:31

I mean HAVU that played in ESEA MDL Season 32 Europe Finals and earned a ESL Pro League Season 10 Pre-Relegation spot. They would have got the spot in EPL fairly easy against some shitty INTZ or Sharks

2020-01-31 20:39

Which they wouldn't have played in the relegation retard.

2020-01-31 22:45

HAHAHHA MOVISTAR AND HERETICS LOL

Deserved for Riders!

true true

2020-01-31 20:40

F U C K E S L R A N K I N G

EZ Minor 4 4ZE

OG should be in the open qualifiers they do t deserve that spot

2020-01-31 19:26

Ok i can understand movistar, but Heretics??? Excuse me but wtf?

omegalul for chaos

Heretics? Really HAHAHAHAHAH. Good joke.

chaos? steel is still banned right? theyre using a standin then?

2020-01-31 18:53

Yes, that is why they signed vanity, who is an igl, because steel can't participate in majors but they still need someone who can call and knows the structure of the team

2020-01-31 22:48

Heretics and movistar riders over BIG and Dig because of "additional factors such as other rankings, and recent result" lul

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dig havent played a single game how can they be invited? based on what

ESL rankings. Don't ask me how they are 24th in there but they just are.

2020-01-31 18:58

Movistar has smashed BIG the last 3 times they played

2020-01-31 19:07

The new big roster is way better then moviestar riders But for me their invite is ok Just -heretics +big

2020-02-01 07:56

Yeah, but understand there hasnt been enough time to invite them. I would have invited HAVU or Sprout instead of heretics, they are mcuh better ranked and definetely, deserve it more

2020-02-01 12:11

You didnt see the last matches BIGjoke vs MRS

2020-01-31 23:30

They invite Heretics and Movistar Riders but not BIG...

Cry is free jerman

2020-01-31 19:06

Movistar riders not even top30 lol

hltv.org/matches/2338694/big-vs-movistar.. hltv.org/matches/2338248/movistar-riders.. xddd

2020-01-31 19:10

#66

2020-01-31 19:21

-Heretics +DavidBigP

fnatic in minor xd

Heretics wtf?

Fnatic clearly favorite in EU Minors, FURIA or Cloud9 on NA, forZe in CIS, Others don't care. For me: EU: Fnatic, OG NA: FURIA, Cloud9 CIS: forZe, Gambit Youngsters And put here Renegades, i liked them at Dreamhack Leipzig.

2020-01-31 18:56

POG

2020-01-31 18:57

Where is bug clan guys ?

Where’s complexity

Complexity is in the European qualifier. They are allowed to participate na qualifiers for every event except majors in which they have to qualify through the EU minor

2020-01-31 22:51

Heretics??????? wtf what a waste of spot. they should be paid for this unless its impossible

BIG, coL > Heretics ESL Ranking OMEGALUL

LOL @EU invites, ESL drunk again .. srsly, what's wrong with them :D

2020-01-31 19:02

Heretics ??????? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT A JOKE !!!!!!!!!!! the team did literally NOTHING !!!!!!!!! -Heretics +BIG

+111111111111

2020-01-31 20:01

wtf, if the criteria its the esl rank, they invited the wrong teams in the europe -movistar -heretics +BIG +Dignitas

Dignitas haven't played a single game

i know, but if they used the rank who they created like criteria, thats the right thing to do, but im happy about movistar invite, they deserved but not about heretics

2020-01-31 19:08

What's the point about inviting a team that hasn't played any game?

What about BIG? They are better in the rank than Heretics and they played recently

2020-01-31 21:34

Yeah it will be better If: -Heretics. +BiG.

2020-01-31 22:19

VSM will be able to play???

HAHA LUL BIG???

OG?!!! MR??? GODSENT???? HERETICS?????? WHAT THE HELL THEY HAVE DONE????

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+11 where is big

DH win was too late

2020-02-01 08:09

Only undeserving team there is Heretics tbh

they suck Valve

2020-01-31 19:57

Godsent won a DH The other idk

DH summer which was from Jun 16th - Jun 18th 2018 ... lol i mean i love to see krystal and maikelele playing on such a level agaion but its undeserved still

2020-02-01 08:53

For BIG as well. Invites were made before DH Leipzig obv. Godsent had two 3-4 place at the end of the year DH 2019 Sevilla and winter. So they did more for the recent ranks than big

2020-02-01 09:58

Ez 4 Riders Bug didn't deserve it

It is an invite to a qualifier that u will lose anyway.

2020-02-01 08:10

Heretics excuse me wrf

movistar excuseme wtf

hltv.org/matches/2339009/avez-vs-movista..

2020-01-31 19:15

Complexity???

FREEVSM ????????

In Chaos team steel doesnt apper because he is banned, and in Detona v$m appear with his name in the team... heres the doubt V$M WAS BANNED OR NOT?

2020-01-31 19:11

VSM unbanned HLTV confirmed

2020-01-31 19:18

EZ 4 MOVIE STARS RIDERS

2020-01-31 19:13

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah Riderssssss :D

Why not bug?

Where's complexity?

EU Open Qualifier #1 hltv.org/news/28943/live-first-matches-u..

its a joke… why some teams must play boi1 matches and some dont have to...

MR definitely deserved it rather than Dignitas but Heretics over BIG?

2020-01-31 19:22

Free vsm

2020-01-31 19:25

Yea we're gonna see a lot more of those weird invites in the future i guess. Money does the job.

Esl what the hell are you doing??

2020-01-31 19:30

why are intz and sharks in the SA qualifier?

2020-01-31 19:52

No col and no big. Meanwhile they invited teams like heretics and triumph, lmao.

2020-01-31 20:03

Heretics? What the actual F*CK?

2020-01-31 20:14

Alpha Red best players 👍👍👍👍👍👍

2020-01-31 20:30

heretics + movistar xd esl rankings for you. Shit company burn in hell

2020-01-31 20:31

the amount of salty poles is enormous around here, it's esl rankings bruh

static.hltv.org/images/bigflags/30x20/ES.. checks out. U know movistar is shit and don't deserve but u won't admit it :)

2020-01-31 20:54

Lul, cry is free polska

2020-01-31 22:59

check out flag. expected reply. nothing new to see. cya.

2020-01-31 23:27

Polish team won’t qualify don’t worry

2020-02-01 01:30

OG? Are you kidding? All they ever did was win a couple BO1s in invite-only tournament

2020-01-31 20:35

heretics XDDDDD good joke esl

How are godsent 25th in the world?

2020-01-31 21:33

wait what am i mistaken or do we have heretics, movistar etc instead of faze?

2020-01-31 21:39

Bruh faze is already in the challengers stage

2020-01-31 23:52

Nów i know theres sth wrong with me

2020-01-31 23:56

Nah, Major was six months ago, people tend to forget

2020-02-01 00:55

Yep but i thought that ive seen Faze in hltv's news about teams competing in open qual and i was 100% sure that they were there

2020-02-01 10:38

They confused the name FAZE with FATE lul

2020-02-02 01:48

OG???? FOR WHAT???

2020-01-31 21:57

ez for Absolute

2020-01-31 22:20

loooool movistar in the minor yeeeeeeees

2020-01-31 22:43

heretics hasnt showed any potential so far imo. only thing they got going for them was the big names in the team. but surely they wouldnt be invited just because of that??

I am pretty sure they got invite cuz esl rankings, too bad those rankings are shit, so they only got in cuz lucky and kio had some points. For instance if some astralis player would get kicked and joined to danish no name team with 0 points they would be in top 15 :D Also Dignitas could have been in instead I guess had they announced their team a bit earlier.

2020-02-01 02:11

OG WHAT A JOKE

2020-02-01 00:37

Why this trash from heretics or Movistar is invited ? They won’t qualify from a regular qualifiers lmao

2020-02-01 01:29

esl ranking is wack xddd, heretics as team got 0 points but cuz lucky and kio have some points when they played G2 they can be in qualifier. I wish they used HLTV ranking instead tbh.

2020-02-01 02:08