Grayhound beat Rooster to qualify for IEM Dallas

The Australian giants did not drop a single map en route to qualification.

Grayhound return to Dallas for the second year in a row

The Oceania closed qualifier for IEM Dallas 2024 has come to a close, with Grayhound setting aside Rooster 2-0 to secure their place at the American LAN event. Christopher "⁠dexter⁠" Nong's charges join a slew of invited squads as the first qualified team for the event, with four more qualifying spots still up for grabs..

After making their way through the first open qualifier with ease, Grayhound continued to make light work of their opponents in the closed qualifier. They beat Bad News Kangaroos and Rooster (twice) without dropping a map to claim their place at IEM Dallas.

Date Matches
IEM Dallas 2024 Oceania Closed Qualifier
22/02/2024
Finished
2:0
Match
22/02/2024
Finished
2:0
Match
23/02/2024
Finished
2:0
Match

Grayhound have booked tickets to a number of top events in the coming months, with their IEM Dallas qualification coming just a month after their victory in IEM Chengdu 2024's Oceania closed qualifier. Meanwhile, their win at ESL Australia & NZ Championship Season 17 towards the end of 2023 also earned the squad a place in ESL Pro League Season 19.

While Grayhound will be looking forward to those events, their focus is no doubt set on the impending PGL Major Copenhagen Asia RMR, slated to begin in just a matter of days on February 26. Here, the Australian side will be tussling with the likes of The MongolZ, Lynn Vision, and TYLOO for just two places at PGL Major Copenhagen.

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PGL Asia RMR opening round schedule revealed

The list of squads attending IEM Dallas 2024 is now:

IEM Dallas 2024 will take place from May 27 through June 2 and will count towards Intel Grand Slam Season 5, with six teams currently involved in the race for the $1 million prize.

Australia Christopher 'dexter' Nong
Christopher 'dexter' Nong
Age:
29
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.06
Maps played:
1205
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.67
back to bombing out at last place
2024-02-24 01:12
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#3
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Poland NaKii
Those oceania qualifiers are just wasted spots farms
2024-02-24 01:13
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4 replies
I want to kiss you
2024-02-24 02:18
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#19
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Westmelon | 
United States dogdatbeast
+1 honestly SA too
2024-02-24 03:43
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Oceania spot>asian btw
2024-02-24 08:47
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last time i checked gh did more damage at paris major than mongols
2024-02-24 11:57
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#43
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Romania OMW
Sounds just like NA, or NA gets out in 11th-14th,
2024-02-24 13:10
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rip rooster #fearthecock
2024-02-24 01:13
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all to be eliminated first day
2024-02-24 01:16
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1 reply
well at least they get some Texas BBQ before they go!
2024-02-24 01:17
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#7
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Poland NaKii
I cant understand why oceania gets their own cq. Just give it to asia and let Oceanian teams compete there? I honestly wouldnt be so mad if they beat all the promising asian teams to get there, but they are literally farming silvers, whats the point?
2024-02-24 01:21
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6 replies
ping problems
2024-02-24 01:27
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3 replies
#11
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Poland NaKii
I see australian teams compete in asian quallies in other games, i think we could solve it somehow.
2024-02-24 01:30
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2 replies
because they probs pay for them to fly out of Australia? there was an event hosted online in guam that had decent ping for all of asia including Australia but i dont see the industry adopting that anytime soon hltv.org/events/7691/lpl-oneqode-frontie..
2024-02-24 01:33
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Mb bcs are they located in Asia and not in Oceania? Its the same thing that say furia is eu team, bcs they play here. And not because they just have a bootcamp here
2024-02-24 08:49
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I wouldn't mind if they used the Guam servers.
2024-02-24 04:10
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#35
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Australia Pennings
AUS currently unbeaten on guam servers LOL
2024-02-24 10:37
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is the org paying for the flights and accommodation etc? if so I wouldn't even attend, pointless time and money waste for these guys.
2024-02-24 01:28
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#10
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Europe Putin69
The event organizer is paying iirc
2024-02-24 01:29
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bigger TOs pay for flights and accommodation
2024-02-24 04:05
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Why is everybody I see talking about Grayhound so certain they are a waste of time? People used to be at least a little hopeful before and now they've got dexter as the igl and erkast as the coach.
2024-02-24 02:11
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#22
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Reunion caMsTar_^
+1
2024-02-24 04:07
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CS players love talking about how they want to see more teams outside America, EU and CIS, but cry as soon as they qualify... like them being able to qualify is an indicator of their skills, if the Asian or OCE teams didn't qualify then the last team to go out instead would just get the same insults as them. Big deal if the OCE teams don't always win, at least they made it to a S-tier TO unlike the haters
2024-02-24 04:17
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2 replies
+1
2024-02-24 08:52
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#36
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Australia Pennings
I have never seen someone say something so brave and so true.
2024-02-24 10:38
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lets gooo sexter
2024-02-24 02:24
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#17
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Ukraine rexyyCSGO
lul
2024-02-24 03:10
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SEXTER
2024-02-24 03:35
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What’s the point of having Asian/Australian teams if they will get BTFOd in a 2-0 fashion at any international tournament? Wasted spots for EU teams.
2024-02-24 03:52
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4 replies
Still riding the success of renegades 2019
2024-02-24 04:28
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It's almost like countries exist outside of Europe. Whole cultures and corporate markets. Crazy right?
2024-02-24 05:23
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1 reply
+1
2024-02-24 09:58
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So that they can improve
2024-02-24 07:38
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vexite ezzz
2024-02-24 09:31
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Yeah the fucking bois I hope we take some skulls to silence these morons saying "wasted spot"
2024-02-24 10:21
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2 replies
#38
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Ukraine Xe0m
+1
2024-02-24 11:47
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#40
Faceit level 10  | 
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United Kingdom eyre
+1
2024-02-24 12:10
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Expected
2024-02-24 11:34
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nice
2024-02-24 12:16
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#42
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Australia _Nemesis
CS players love talking about how they want to see more teams outside America, EU and CIS, but cry as soon as they qualify... like them being able to qualify is an indicator of their skills, if the Asian or OCE teams didn't qualify then the last team to go out instead would just get the same insults as them. Big deal if the OCE teams don't always win, at least they made it to a S-tier TO unlike the haters
2024-02-24 12:43
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#44
Faceit level 10  | 
L.K.S | 
Belgium BradleyTD
free 0-3
2024-02-24 13:53
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2 replies
Fuck yo pickems. ;)
2024-02-24 16:41
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1 reply
Aussie gigachads didn't come to win they just came to fuck your pickems up.
2024-02-24 20:46
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Expected.
2024-02-24 19:46
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