IEM Dallas qualifiers reach closed stage

Nearly 1,000 teams did battle in the European qualifier over six spots.

BC.Game were among the teams to advance in Europe

After two days of action, the IEM Dallas open qualifiers concluded with 12 teams across Europe, Asia, and the Americas advancing to the closed stages.

The HLTV-covered rounds of play — Round of 16 in Europe and South America, quarter-finals in North America and Asia — had VRS points on the line, playing to the misfortune of those looking to climb the rankings that fell just short in the Round of 32 or Round of 16 in their respective qualifiers.

BC.Game, who recently recreated the former BLEED core by adding Cai "⁠CYPHER⁠" Watson and Nemanja "⁠nexa⁠" Isaković, were one of the teams to make it through and defeated Ninjas in Pyjamas, Aurora, Partizan, and Zero Tenacity en route.

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BC.Game bench CacaNito, Lekr0 to recreate BLEED core with CYPHER, nexa

The latter recovered and advanced through the 5-6th decider matches to join OG, NEVERMORE, TNL, and Hesta on the team list.

Complexity, who couldn't accept an invite for the NA closed qualifier because the dates clashed with their travel to PGL Cluj-Napoca and played in the Europe open qualifier instead, fell in the Round of 32 but may not have their points impacted because of the early exit.

fnatic, Ninjas in Pyjamas, and B8 were among the names who also missed out on the covered stage in Europe, while ENCE made it to the Round of 16 but fell to Zero Tenacity in a one-sided defeat.

Imperial, Legacy, Marsborne, and Party Astronauts advanced in the Americas while TYLOO and The Huns made it through the Asia qualifier, with M80 notably missing out in NA after losing to an Advanced team.

The Europe closed qualifier will run from February 10-12 and award five spots at IEM Dallas, while qualifiers in the Americas and Asia will run from February 11-12 with one spot on offer each.

You can find the complete team list for the regional closed qualifiers below:

Europe

Asia

United Kingdom Cai 'CYPHER' Watson
Cai 'CYPHER' Watson
Age:
22
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.99
Maps played:
887
KPR:
0.69
DPR:
0.71
Serbia Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković
Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković
Age:
27
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.03
Maps played:
1609
KPR:
0.68
DPR:
0.64
#2
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United States sziasztok
no M80, no col :(((
2025-02-09 07:34
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#14
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Comoros Zerua
Idk why but col played in eu quals.
2025-02-09 09:20
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6 replies
Because they are in europe for pgl cluj i think
2025-02-09 09:44
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#18
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Europe alkahzane
VRS made them EU core aswell due to K1to
2025-02-09 10:31
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#36
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Demho | 
Italy Pipa27
Bit coL? I guess they did european qual due to location
2025-02-09 14:32
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#38
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United States scratchboy
Wrong team
2025-02-09 14:37
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#48
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United States sziasztok
M80 played in the NA qual. and they used reck faceit.com/en/cs2/room/1-04d2b2c2-9310-4..
2025-02-09 18:17
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Maybe read the article?
2025-02-09 19:29
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#41
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Brazil X4nd1n
Idk
2025-02-09 16:03
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#3
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Estonia rovermedia
botonexa
2025-02-09 07:48
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#4
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Latvia AnywayWho
frontales goated
2025-02-09 07:50
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#5
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n0rb3r7 | 
Belgium daerius
Hesta radar abusers
2025-02-09 07:56
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#6
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China HouGuoYu
lets go GL
2025-02-09 07:58
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TNL, Hesta when they are disqualified ?
2025-02-09 07:58
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3 replies
can't forget Zero Tenacity, the unholy trinity of radar teams
2025-02-09 08:01
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#11
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n0rb3r7 | 
Belgium daerius
this has happened in the past, where teams that they defeated would get thrown into a different bracket. hopefully this is the case here
2025-02-09 08:30
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#28
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Poland BAN_ANIME
for what
2025-02-09 12:39
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ez 4 nexa
2025-02-09 08:17
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rip nip tier 3
2025-02-09 08:25
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no liquid col or m80 we will NOT be there
2025-02-09 08:47
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5 replies
You won't be there for closed qualifier? That's a shame
2025-02-09 11:04
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1 reply
+1 hater, nice placement bro
2025-02-09 12:25
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Liquid’s at the main event already, no qualifier
2025-02-09 14:14
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#39
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United States btm2243
NRG will be nice to see maybe they can start going to more events
2025-02-09 14:49
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1 reply
br0 will farm his way to IEM Dallas
2025-02-09 16:51
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Ez4nexa dallas champ
2025-02-09 09:19
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#15
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Sweden matte90
Lets go Metiz.
2025-02-09 09:39
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#17
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Lithuania K0RNe
good, we will be cheering for marsborne
2025-02-09 10:11
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#19
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Europe alkahzane
Lucid next goat coach inc?
2025-02-09 10:42
0
Cool
2025-02-09 10:47
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Interesting how Eastern Europe teams always qualify easily online for tournaments but offline always struggle
2025-02-09 11:42
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#23
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nexa | 
Germany donaCS
let’s go nexa!:)
2025-02-09 12:07
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#27
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Germany Dr_Prof_HLTV
nt nexa
2025-02-09 12:37
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1 reply
#54
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nexa | 
Germany donaCS
haha :P
2025-02-10 20:00
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#26
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Russia formaldehyde
Lets go BetBoombl4
2025-02-09 12:36
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#29
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Sweden Vrede
vibes team is back
2025-02-09 13:04
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#31
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United Arab Emirates PepegaPls
who is hesta?
2025-02-09 13:10
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2 replies
hesta la vista
2025-02-09 13:55
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#40
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Cuba Dyabolic
This is so bad but it’s even worse that I laughed. Lol
2025-02-09 15:08
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Romania Nickname90
Nexus shouldn't be there
2025-02-09 13:45
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these "gauntlet of death" qualifiers are bad instead of teams people want to see we get some random ass nonamers
2025-02-09 13:56
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None of these teams are what people want to see. An unranked team like Hesta making it through is more interesting than fnatic. Like passion UA before
2025-02-09 16:50
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1 reply
none of these teams will make it through, they're just not good enough
2025-02-09 17:52
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This is nice. Yours truly.
2025-02-09 16:10
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I hope it reaches Nexus as far as possible
2025-02-09 17:50
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#49
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United Kingdom w1cked
It's good for CS2 to have some less known teams in the Quals
2025-02-09 19:25
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nevermore TNL and hesta suuurely played clean right? anyone seen them play and can give us their opinion?
2025-02-09 20:30
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