Stacked Epicenter 2017 regional qualifiers
Stacked Epicenter 2017 regional qualifiers
Epic Esports Events revealed teams who will participate in the closed regional qualifiers for one of the biggest CS:GO tournaments of this fall – EPICENTER 2017.
It’s slightly more than one month until the LAN-finals of EPICENTER 2017 start in St. Petersburg, Russia, but the regional closed qualifiers kick of today with many big names within the list of participants!
The regional qualifiers are held in four regions: America, Europe, CIS and China, and decide the faith of two last slots at the LAN-event. The group stage of the qualifiers is held in GSL style, top two teams of each group make it to the playoffs. The winner of the playoffs in each region will advance to the Wild Card stage, which will take place on October 23. Two best teams will join the other 6 teams who got direct invites earlier (including Astralis, G2 Esports, Gambit Esports, North, SK Gaming, Virtus.pro) and fight for the $500,000 prize pool in Yubileyny Sports Palace.
CIS closed qualifier (September 12-30)
Group A | Group B |
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Na`Vi | FlipSid3 |
Spirit | AVANGAR |
Quantum Bellator Fire | Vega Squadron |
forZe | Spirit Academy |
American closed qualifier (September 15 – November 3)
Group A | Group B |
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Immortals | Cloud9 |
Liquid | Misfits |
Luminosity | NRG |
CLG | OpTic |
Europe closed qualifier (September 17 – November 1)
Group A | Group B |
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FaZe | Fnatic |
NiP | HellRaisers |
Space Soldiers | Heroic |
BIG | mouz |
Heroic and mousesports received invites to the closed qualifiers despite losing in the open qualifiers, which is questionable and surprised both viewers and some of the professional players. Dates and participants of the Chinese qualifiers are yet to be announced.