Almost 90 teams took part in the NA open qualifier bracket, through which Chaos, Gen.G, INTZ, and Triumph emerged victorious in order to earn spots in the closed portion of the event, set to play out on Sunday.
The quartet of qualified teams will be joined by the invited sides of Cloud9, Complexity, eUnited, and Singularity in the closed portion of the tournament, with Johnny "JT" Theodosiou and company looking to secure qualification to their second offline event after earning a spot at IEM Katowice 2020 earlier this week.

Cloud9 will look to earn a spot at another offline event on Sunday
Complexity, meanwhile. will look to claim revenge against the newly signed North American roster for their defeat in the upper bracket finals of the very same qualifier, while Hunter "SicK" Mims will play his final event as a stand-in for Gen.G before Hansel "BnTeT" Ferdinand arrives in North America to begin practicing with his new team. Additionally, Chaos will face their first true test following the addition of Owen "smooya" Butterfield on Friday.
The first-round match-ups for the closed qualifier are as follows:
Cloud9 vs.
Triumph
Singularity vs.
Complexity
Gen.G vs.
INTZ
eUnited vs.
Chaos
Only one team from North America will earn qualification to the event in Germany, set to run from January 24-26, while the top two teams from the European qualifier will secure the final spots on offer. The team list for the event currently consists of Renegades, North, Virtus.pro, BIG, and Sprout, with the remaining three spots set to be determined following the conclusion of play on Sunday.


Sprout #28


Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastný

Timo 'Spiidi' Richter

Denis 'denis' Howell

Josef 'faveN' Baumann

Paweł 'dycha' Dycha


INTZ #32


Ricardo 'boltz' Prass

Alexandre 'xand' Zizi

Gustavo 'yel' Knittel

Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedes

Bruno 'shz' Martinelli


Owen 'smooya' Butterfield

Age: 20 Team: Chaos Rating 1.0: 1.14 Maps played: 484 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.65


Cloud9 #18


Aran 'Sonic' Groesbeek

Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou

Ricky 'floppy' Kemery

Ian 'motm' Hardy

Josh 'oSee' Ohm



Complexity



William 'RUSH' Wierzba

Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke

Valentin 'poizon' Vasilev

Owen 'oBo' Schlatter

Benjamin 'blameF' Bremer

Hunter 'SicK' Mims

Age: 21 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 756 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.68


Singularity #45


Sebastian 'seb' Bucki

Skyler 'Relyks' Weaver

Will 'dazzLe' Loafman

Michael 'dapr' Gulino

Jordan 'Zellsis' Montemurro


Virtus.pro #17


Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev

Sanjar 'SANJI' Kuliev

Timur 'buster' Tulepov

Alexey 'Qikert' Golubev

Dzhami 'Jame' Ali


Renegades #24


Simon 'Sico' Williams

Christopher 'dexter' Nong

Joshua 'INS' Potter

Liam 'malta' Schembri


Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou

Age: 20 Team: Cloud9 Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 527 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.67


Chaos #56


Joshua 'steel' Nissan

Owen 'smooya' Butterfield

Cameron 'cam' Kern

Ben 'ben1337' Smith

Maxim 'wippie' Shepelev



BIG #46



Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz

Tizian 'tiziaN' Feldbusch

Florian 'syrsoN' Rische

Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş

Nils 'k1to' Gruhne



Gen.G #50



Hansel 'BnTeT' Ferdinand

Damian 'daps' Steele

Timothy 'autimatic' Ta

Kenneth 'koosta' Suen

Sam 's0m' Oh


eUnited #40


Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadir

Victor 'food' Wong

Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado

Kaleb 'moose' Jayne

Austin 'Cooper' Abadir


Triumph #90


Jack 'xCeeD' Holiman

Logan 'Voltage' Long

Ryan 'Snakes' Amann

Michael 'Grim' Wince

Gabe 'Spongey' Greiner



Hansel 'BnTeT' Ferdinand

Age: 24 Team: Gen.G Rating 1.0: 1.19 Maps played: 755 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.61



North #20



René 'cajunb' Borg

Philip 'aizy' Aistrup

Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye

Jakob 'JUGi' Hansen

Nicklas 'gade' Gade



Gen.G #50



Damian 'daps' Steele

Timothy 'autimatic' Ta

Kenneth 'koosta' Suen

Sam 's0m' Oh

Hunter 'SicK' Mims