IEM Dallas invited teams announced

12-4-2022 01:39

The first ten participants in the $250,000 tournament have been revealed.

ESL have announced the teams that have been directly invited to IEM Dallas, which is set to take place from May 30 - June 5. The list comprises the ten highest-ranked squads based on the ESL World Ranking, which include the likes of FaZe, Natus Vincere, and G2.

The rest of the invitees are mainstays at Big Events, such as Players, Ninjas in Pyjamas, HEROIC, and recently-concluded ESL Pro League grand finalists, ENCE. Rounding off the list are FURIA, Vitality, and Astralis, while notable exclusions from the group includes Liquid and Outsiders, both of whom fell just short from the No. 10 spot in the rankings.

Can ESL Pro League champions FaZe win again in Dallas?

Apart from those that are directly placed into the group stage of the main event, ESL have also announced the closed qualifier invitees for Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania, with the first two regions being allocated two qualifying spots apiece, and the latter two each granted one.

Included among the names invited to the closed qualifiers are the above mentioned ones who only narrowly missed out on receiving direct invites ⁠— Liquid and Outsiders ⁠— as well as the likes of Movistar Riders, fnatic, Complexity, and Imperial.

A notable exclusion from the list is Renegades, who despite winning every domestic tournament in Oceania, missed out on an invite to the region's closed qualifier as they are not ranked on the ESL World Ranking at all, with Looking For Org and ORDER instead taking the two spots.

The teams invited to the closed qualifiers are:

Europe

North America

South America

Oceania

And with the invites for the main event announced, the team list for IEM Dallas looks as follows:

Europe Qualifier

NA Qualifier

SA Qualifier

Europe Qualifier

NA Qualifier

OCE Qualifier

EZ 4 ENCE

2022-04-12 01:41

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2022-04-16 12:04

Pogger

v neat

Nice

really hope NA teams show up

2022-04-12 01:42

EF robbed again!

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KEKW #42

2022-04-12 02:04

They are not playing any tournament since long time

2022-04-12 09:03

2022-04-12 02:36

If liquid complexity or EG don't win in home country GG for NA cs

2022-04-12 01:43

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Well, NA teams usually perform a lot better in front of their very loud home crowd. But looking at the team list it could very well be the case that no NA teams will be in the playoffs. Which would mean dead crowd.

2022-04-12 02:07

Twistzz is an NA player, playing for the best team in the world, I think faze will be crowd favorites alongside liquid, complexity and EG are most likely not even making it to the real event, since liquid is surely getting the first spot and godsent is better than either of the NA teams, now that they signed HEN1

2022-04-12 05:22

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Godsent is dog

2022-04-12 06:17

Yes but coL and EG are way worse

2022-04-12 07:43

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Not really, at least for Col

2022-04-12 15:16

nah

2022-04-12 18:49

I'm glad Imperial was invited to the qualifier :)

2022-04-12 01:44

Ez4fnx Brazil goat

2022-04-12 05:23

Are Russian nationals gonna be able to enter us soil?

2022-04-12 01:45

2022-04-12 01:46

hopefully the Russian players be able to get a visa to the USA?

2022-04-12 01:47

Yeah WTF how electronic perfecto boombl4 go to America while Biden banned Russian

2022-04-12 05:26

i hope they have some replacements on the line already..

2022-04-12 01:49

Leets gooo Rideeers

2022-04-12 01:50

GO FURIA

I really want to go to this because the final falls on my birthday, but I don't think it would be worth the $1000+ for the flights, ticket and hotel in Dallas. Guess I'm going to have to wait for something a bit closer to Canada for my first tier 1 tournament

2022-04-12 01:51

Dallas is lit, you should go

2022-04-12 01:56

I'm looking at deals now, the cheapest one I could find for a decent hotel is around $1100 Canadian. It would be a great birthday present, but I feel like I'd rather try and go to an event in Europe and make a whole Europe trip out of it. (Dallas does seem cool though, more left-leaning than other parts of the states)

2022-04-12 02:08

No good airbnbs?

2022-04-12 16:25

I was looking for packages with hotels and flights from Expedia, usually easier to figure out

2022-04-12 16:55

Ahhhh alright

2022-04-12 17:01

Idk how it works in NA but intracontinental flights here are generally cheaper than overseas flights, even for the same distance. Is that not the case in NA?

2022-04-16 06:07

EG XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

2022-04-12 01:54

No renegades in closed qual? Pshh

2022-04-12 02:01

It's because it's based on ESL rankings, which Renegades isn't even ranked on for some reason

2022-04-12 05:19

pumped ill be there

2022-04-12 02:02

No asian invite No asian qualifier NICE ESL 🤬🤬🤬

2022-04-12 02:11

Fr racist esl

2022-04-12 02:50

Stacked AF tournament. Gonna be interesting..

Twistzz miss his hometown <3

hes canadian though? what are you trying to say

2022-04-12 03:35

Go furiaaaaaaa

2022-04-12 02:05

No Mouz? Wtf

2022-04-12 02:15

Not inviting Renegades 🥴

2022-04-12 02:16

VAMOS RIDERS

LFO and Order get an invite and Renegades miss out? Whoever did the invitations is a dumbass.

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its a colossal fuck up, invites are based on ranking and according to the ESL Rankings Renegades dont exist. 10 OCE teams on the rankings list and Renegades aren't one of them so either ESL believes Renegades are worse then all those 10 teams or they fucked up big time

2022-04-12 07:29

Surely along the way someone thought. Hang on a minute, the best OCE team by a country mile isn't ranked highly in OCE. Maybe this isn't how we should do the invitations. That's like inviting HEET over Vitality.

2022-04-12 10:04

apparently the reason was because renegades were in the EU competing in IEM Kato at the time there was regional events. RNG recieved 0 ranking points for competing in Kato while teams in OCE recieved points for competing in regional events. its a really bad flaw in there system to punish teams for competing in ESL events outside there own region

2022-04-12 10:46

ESL's ranking system has been known to be cynically engineered to promote their own events. What's confusing though is why Kato scores lower than regional online events though.

2022-04-16 06:09

LFO also recieved 0 ranking points for ESL pro league

2022-04-16 12:01

I hope its arena LAN. Im going if it is

It is. Tickets have been on sale for quite a while now.

2022-04-12 03:44

sheesh. Im late to the party then

2022-04-12 13:29

EG?????????? LOL they must be really happy that someone actually invite this team somewhere lol, if they were EU based team they are gone gone

2022-04-12 02:37

They didn't even get invited to the main event. In fact, no NA team got directly invited to an event in Dallas, which is a bit of a joke. What happened to the Louvre agreement?

2022-04-16 06:11

Renegades actually robbed wtf?

2022-04-12 02:49

No Renegades?

2022-04-12 03:03

Guess we'll have only one NA team here then? Can't imagine EG or Complexity winning over Godsent tbh

2022-04-12 03:04

EG KEKW

2022-04-12 03:14

first event i'm hyped

2022-04-12 03:15

imagine being 0-3 in RMR and invited to a IEM

2022-04-12 03:16

no Renegades wtf

2022-04-12 03:25

Faze wont win this. Tarik Law.

2022-04-12 03:34

2 NA qualifier spots, just give it to Asia (to give them a chance in the circuit) or give one more to EU/CIS, if you want a more competitive tournament.

2022-04-12 04:25