IEM China home team to be decided in LAN qualifier

27-10-2023 20:46

Four teams will go head-to-head in Shanghai for a spot at the $250,000 Big Event.

advent and co. will make their LAN debut under the TYLOO banner

Wings Up and Steel Helmet will attend the IEM China closed qualifier on LAN in Shanghai after progressing out of the Chinese open qualifiers. They will be joined there by two top 30 sides in TYLOO and Lynn Vision.

The in-person qualifier will run on November 3-4 and grant one spot at IEM China slated to take place in April 2024. ESL has not yet announced where in China the main event will take place, or whether the closed qualifier is replacing the 'Local Hero' invite traditionally used at IEM events.

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Steel Helmet, where ex-TYLOO IGL Ke "⁠captainMo⁠" Liu has been plying his trade since 2021, won over international projects Rare Atom and Wings Up in the first open qualifier.

The squad has recently added another iconic figure from the Chinese scene in the form of Hui "⁠DD⁠" Wu, and the organization will now go to a HLTV-official LAN for only the second time.

Wings Up stood tallest in the second qualifier, meaning that Rasmus "⁠kreaz⁠" Johansson and Dominik "⁠Blogg1s⁠" Janita will make their offline debuts for the Chinese organization. It is the second good result for the Sino-European mix, after they also found success in the ESL Challenger Jönköping Open Qualifier.

Love "⁠phzy⁠" Smidebrant and Kornél "⁠kory⁠" Szedlár's Rare Atom will have to wait, however, after being defeated by Wings Up and Noobs But Diligent respectively in the two open qualifiers.

The final team list is as follows:

Gl teams

2023-10-27 20:47

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5yclone where

2023-10-27 20:53

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Signed by tyloo

2023-10-27 20:55

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oh yea I forgot, jamyoung pog

2023-10-27 21:20

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JamYoung master class)

2023-10-27 21:23

LAN qualifier? Thats pretty rare nowadays.

needs to happen far more often.

2023-10-27 21:05

2023-10-28 04:03

Now make asian qualifier lan too and onlynn vision frauds can't qualify

2023-10-28 05:08

Always good to see asian CS. Hopefully the winning team doesn’t bomb out in last place :P

2023-10-27 20:48

because we all know what it means if its online qual

2023-10-27 20:49

I'm pretty sure this qualifier and the IEM itself will be test events organized before the actual chinese major in late 2024.

2023-10-27 20:57

Nice

No need, give spot to TYLOO

would be dumb if they only had 1 chinese team when sydney got to have 2 aussie teams

2023-10-27 20:56

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There'll probably still be an Asian/Chinese invite and an Asian qualified

2023-10-28 00:44

if either TYLOO or LVG make it and then either TYLOO or LVG lose, they'll probably invite the loser between the two since they're China's biggest names and best teams in CS right now.

2023-10-28 02:57