Half of the closed qualifier teams have just been revealed, as arguably the eight best teams playing in the North American region have received invites. Understandably teams such as Cloud9, Liquid, CLG and OpTic are amongst the invitees, joined by Renegades, Enemy and SPLYCE.  SPUNJ's Renegades receive an invite for the closed qualifier
The last spot went to Tempo Storm, who have found quite a lot of success in the region in the last few weeks, as they came out on top of the IEM Katowice qualifier, as well as RGN Winter Classic II. The team list is following: Cloud9 | CLG | Liquid | OpTic | Tempo Storm | Renegades | Enemy | Splyce |
A total of 16 teams will battle in the closed qualifier, which will have three DreamHack Masters Malmö spots on offer, with the other eight coming from the open qualifier. The open qualifier will take place tomorrow, on February 20th, followed up by the closed qualifier the day after.  Splyce  Arya 'arya' Hekmat Abraham 'abE' Fazli David 'DAVEY' Stafford Jason 'jasonR' Ruchelski Andrew 'Professor_Chaos' Heintz  OpTic #18  William 'RUSH' Wierzba Shahzeb 'ShahZaM' Khan Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz Keith 'NAF' Markovic Damian 'daps' Steele  Liquid #16  Spencer 'Hiko' Martin Eric 'adreN' Hoag Nick 'nitr0' Cannella Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski  Enemy  Richard 'Lucky' Vasconcelos Skyler 'Relyks' Weaver Michael 'MAiNLiNE' Jaber Michael 'Uber' Stapells Kenneth 'koosta' Suen  Tempo Storm #20  Henrique 'HEN1' Teles Lucas 'LUCAS1' Teles Ricardo 'boltz' Prass João 'felps' Vasconcellos Gustavo 'SHOOWTiME' Gonçalves  CLG #13  Stephen 'reltuC' Cutler Josh 'jdm64' Marzano James 'hazed' Cobb Jacob 'FugLy' Medina Tarik 'tarik' Celik  Cloud9 #12  Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadir Mike 'shroud' Grzesiek Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip  Renegades  Yaman 'yam' Ergenekon Justin 'jks' Savage Aaron 'AZR' Ward Chad 'SPUNJ' Burchill Karlo 'USTILO' Pivac |