MIBR invited to CAC 2025 as Perfect World updates slot allocation again

11-8-2025 13:25

The tournament's Additional Information has changed once more, with only two months left until the event starts.

MIBR will play at CAC 2025 as Perfect World adds a tenth invite slot

Perfect World has released an updated team list for the CS Asia Championships 2025, with MIBR receiving the tenth and final invitation after the tournament organizer reverted to the original slot allocation

This is the second time that Perfect World has updated the tournament's Additional Information since CAC 2025 was announced in April. For tier-2 events, the "Invite Date must follow the announcement of Additional Information by no fewer than 30 days," per Valve's Tournament Operating Requirements rulebook.

Perfect World announce CAC 2025 invites in violation of TOR rulebook

Earlier this month, Perfect World revealed the names of nine teams invited to the tournament, based on the July VRS. Although FaZe were ineligible for an invite due to their VRS rank (CAC 2025 is a tier-2 event), they were included in the lineup following an exception approved by Valve, allowing Perfect World a Wildcard invite for a former CAC champion.

According to the tournament's new Additional Information, China has gone from having two qualifier slots to none. One of those spots will go to MIBR, while the other will go to an Asian qualifier with four sub-regions: China, East Asia, Oceania, and Others.

On X, Complexity General Manager Graham "⁠messioso⁠" Pitt has criticized Perfect World for once again changing the slot allocation without updating the VRS invite date.

"With more slot changes, they should now be on the September VRS," he wrote.

"Your complete inaction is concerning. The precedent being set is even more so."

CAC 2025 will take place between October 14-19 in Shanghai, with $1 million in prizes ($400,000 for teams and $600,000 for organizations). The updated team list for the event is as follows:

EU Qualifier

Americas Qualifier

EU Qualifier

Asia Qualifier

Made In China

2025-08-11 13:25

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Calls an asian cs championship but in Asia, only qualifier is in China , am i missing something here or China thinks whole asian continent belongs to them only?

2025-08-11 13:43

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2025-08-11 13:46

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what?

2025-08-11 13:47

Actually these clowns changed that as well First it was 2 Asian quals, then 2 Chinese quals and now it's a 1 Asian qual lmfao

2025-08-11 15:25

Well US citizens call themselves Americans. So there is much more to do for China to reach that level of ego.

2025-08-11 15:33

it's infuriating how Valve is being complacent with all this gimmicks. Oil money, gambling and now chinese dictatorship staining the scene 😡

2025-08-11 13:55

FaZe CAC merchants just like spirit with betboom lol

2025-08-11 14:03

MICN

2025-08-11 19:15

wasted spot

sacrificial lamb

2025-08-11 14:22

mibr doesn't deserve this

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But Insani does

2025-08-12 08:27

they deserved it for kicking Falcons out of the major

2025-08-13 13:00

Again? alright, save insani first

2025-08-11 13:26

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i had a teacher in high school called herr vreden and my mom was born in vreden youre welcome

2025-08-11 14:04

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hah

2025-08-11 15:21

hah hah hah hah i teyyk my shawt of n al de ho stahp bree

2025-08-11 15:22

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I wish you a swift recovery.

2025-08-11 15:23

breee breee tink da bih no bree

hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah

take some meds

2025-08-11 16:27

NA stays fked but that's ok Asia qualifier win win

2025-08-11 13:27

Cute

How a out inviting asian team, the event called asia championship for christ sake

2025-08-11 13:28

There is an important asian diaspora in Brazil.

2025-08-11 15:34

Great rule VOLVO HOLY, no consistency in anything

CAC

WTF ARE VALVE DOING ALLOWING THEM TO HOST AN EVENT CAC are breaking valve's rules again!

2025-08-11 13:32

They give valve money valve happy

2025-08-11 13:37

Perfect World runs steam in china, gotta keep them happy.

2025-08-11 17:22

Too many EU qualifiers should go to Asia and America for 1 more slot

2025-08-11 13:31

qualifier already happening cant really retconn one of the eu spots for asia. at least the chinese qualifier turned to asia qualifier thats something. also not mentioned is the americas qualifier being hosted in SA so rip NA but thats ok.

2025-08-11 13:38

yes,Asia qualifiers is too limited

2025-08-11 13:39

I'm positive slots have to do with performance. So no.

2025-08-11 14:10

can HLTV stop quoting messioso tweets every time? He is not the voice of the people. Why is HLTV keep trying to make him relevant as if he has any support behind him cringe. He tweets when it only doesn't benefits his org/region

2025-08-11 13:42

buddy they reduced asia invites all in all. they had 2 asia invites in start they changed it to 2 china invites "Asian teams have been left out altogether as PW has now announced the regional qualifier as a China qualifier." [source: hltv.org/news/42365/perfect-world-announ..] then they changed it to 1 asia invite. "China has gone from having two qualifier slots to none. One of those spots will go to MIBR, while the other will go to an Asian qualifier with four sub-regions: China, East Asia, Oceania, and Others." [source: just scroll up] "He tweets when it only doesn't benefits his org/region" this is just false. he is a brit living in denmark, he is not even american. don't try to discredit someone just becuase you are are not the sharpest tool in the shed.

2025-08-11 14:00

"he is a brit living in denmark, he is not even american." That won't take away that CoL it's a NA org

2025-08-11 14:11

"CoL it's a NA org" true. you get his sentiment, I am very sure he thinks messioso is an american, but his point is still baseless. "He tweets when it only doesn't benefits his org/region" (said by Tmjay) Now. Let's go through his tweets and see how many are about him complaining only for NA related situations. I will skip the tweets which are not about complaining. 1) x.com/messioso/status/195484092780717705.. CAC breaking many rules (affects everyone) 2) x.com/messioso/status/195428471501773631.. StarLadder changed Global invites to EU invites. (affects everyone) And used wrong VRS for the invites. 3) x.com/messioso/status/195308532599713430.. StarLadder missed all the additional info deadlines for StarSeries May 2026 4) x.com/messioso/status/195307396281391141.. StarLadder changed Global invites to EU invites. (affects everyone) And missed deadlines for StarLadder Budapest (not the major but this event hltv.org/events/8539/starladder-starseri.. ) 5) x.com/messioso/status/195209325404169832.. Valve hadn't announced the regional distribution for invites of the upcoming major yet (affects everyone) (they have done it now) 6) x.com/messioso/status/195139352687451390.. finally something that directly involves his team. So making a baseless claim that he is biased is worthless. And I won't stand by it.

2025-08-11 14:32

Thank you for this compilation, I'll be keeping the receipts as well!

2025-08-11 15:31

You didn't require all this to me. All I said is that you can't use his nationalolity and place of living as an argument against someone saying "He tweets when it only doesn't benefits his org/region" because they're irrelevant to the point in contention.

2025-08-11 16:50

stfu, he's the only one standing for justice!

2025-08-11 13:57

Legacy will farm these teams

2025-08-11 13:40

If you would’ve told me this 1 year ago (with current rosters) i’d 0/8 you. Crazy how this is real life now😪

2025-08-11 14:01

My goat dumau bout to get his first MVP

2025-08-11 16:15

Insani 1v9 again

2025-08-11 13:53

thank you for the invite

2025-08-11 14:06

This tournament it's going to fuck VRS. I'm positive most of the top 12 teams planned to attend it. I don't want to be that guy, but it's almost as if they fuck things up in purpose to make it a T2 event and help Tyloo/Lynn Vision with their ranking.

2025-08-11 14:14

If so they're soooo fucking dumb. This kind of event would help the Chinese scene way more: hltv.org/events/8587/hero-esports-asian-.. They must be really stupid, because Faze, Legacy, MIBR (EU teams from closed) >>>>> Tyloo, LV. This plan will backfire and both teams will go down the ranking...

2025-08-11 15:42

Trash liquid still here

2025-08-11 14:16

Liquid would destroy mibr 26-0

2025-08-11 22:21

Wasted spot

Yeah 4 china spots thats how we ball lil boy

2025-08-11 14:44

Am I crazy? Chinese tournament is getting trash talked with open qualifiers, helping unranked teams to get points no matter the qualifier stage they reach while every other EU tournament is invitation only without a single open qualifier no matter the tournament tier... just fk this VRS crap already... BIG is losing everything all year and they are still top 30.. VP gets multiple chances to play tier 1 sht while losing first rounds all year till one random win to be back invited to tier 1... whole bunch of crap is this VRS without proper penalties for losing and boosts for important wins..

2025-08-11 14:46

This 😞

The circuit is closed even more than before lol

2025-08-11 15:57

this is exactly the reason why i still think it would be better if valve just stayed out of regulating the competitive scene besides majors. they clearly don't have an interest in actually running things and having a half-assed attempt causes more harm than good

2025-08-11 14:50

Lol, this is a rise up my rank, mommy China, for Tyloo and Lynn Vision.

2025-08-11 14:54

For Tyloo and Lynn Vision?? How? They were invited through Global VRS, that's not the issue here. This event was scheduled since last year when neither Tyloo or LV would have been invited...

2025-08-11 15:36