IEM Katowice Asia & Oceania closed qualifiers set to start

The Asian and Oceanic closed qualifiers for IEM Katowice 2018 is set to commence from today onwards, with each qualifier handing one spot to the $500,000 event in Poland.

After determining the winners of the open qualifiers during the past two weeks, the next stage for the Asian and Oceanic regions is ready to go. ESL invited four notable teams from each region for the closed qualifiers, who will be joined by two more teams (for each region) via the open qualifiers.

The Asian closed qualifier will kick off earlier than their Oceanic counterpart, taking place online on the Singapore servers from January 19-22. The Australian and New Zealand closed qualifier will run on Sydney servers from January 20-25.

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For the Asian closed qualifier, the team list can be found below:

Invited
TYLOO	Flash
BOOT-d[S]	The MongolZ
Open Qualifier #1	Open Qualifier #2
MVP PK	Signature

The participants for the Oceanic region's closed qualifier consists of:

Invited
Chiefs	Grayhound
Tainted Minds	ORDER
Open Qualifier #1	Open Qualifier #2
Athletico	Corvidae

The closed qualifiers will use a best-of-three double-elimination format, with the grand final being a best-of-five, assisted by a 1-0 map advantage for the upper bracket final's winner.

Here are the opening match-ups for Asia:

Friday, January 19th
08:00	MVP PK	vs. Flash	BO3
08:00	BOOT-d[S]	vs. Signature	BO3
11:00	TYLOO	vs. MVP PK/Flash winner	BO3
11:00	The MongolZ	vs. B.O.O.T-d[S]/Signature winner	BO3

Followed by the opening match-ups for Oceania:

Saturday, January 20th
02:00	ORDER	vs. Athletico	BO3
05:00	Tainted Minds	vs. Corvidae	BO3
Sunday, January 21st
02:00	Grayhound	vs. ORDER/Athletico winner	BO3
05:00	Chiefs	vs. Tainted Minds/Corvidae winner	BO3

For the rest of the schedule, and other information, refer to our event pages for the Asian closed qualifier or Oceanic closed qualifier.

Flash #57 YuLun 'Summer' CaiYuanZhang 'Attacker' ShengAndrew 'kaze' KhongWeiJia 'INNOPY' GuoZhe 'Ayeon' Yang Tainted Minds #61 Yaman 'yam' ErgenekonRyan 'zewsy' PalmerChris 'ofnu' HanleyConnor 'chuch' MorganJoshua 'INS' Potter MVP PK #48 Keun-Chul 'solo' KangMin-Soo 'glow' KimMin-Seok 'zeff' ParkHyun-Pyo 'XigN' LeeHae-Sung 'HSK' Kim Chiefs #43 Tyler 'tucks' ReillyPeter 'pecks' NguyenAlistair 'aliStair' JohnstonLiam 'malta' SchembriMatthew 'Texta' O'Rourke Grayhound #34 Christopher 'dexter' NongCallum 'BURNRUOk' HendersonSean 'Gratisfaction' KaiwaiErdenetsogt 'erkaSt' GantulgaOllie 'DickStacy' Tierney The MongolZ #144 Tsog 'Tsogoo' MashbatEnkhtaivan 'Machinegun' LkhagvaBold 'ncl' BatsuhTelmen 'cazze' NyamdorjUnudelger 'cTrl' Baasanjargal TYLOO #33 Ke 'captainMo' LiuHui 'DD' WuHansel 'BnTeT' FerdinandHaoWen 'somebody' XuKevin 'xccurate' Susanto ORDER #69 Chris 'emagine' RowlandsSimon 'Sico' WilliamsJay 'Liazz' TregillgasJordan 'Hatz' Bajic Athletico #71 Mohammed 'MoeycQ' TizaniNikhil 'NikkeZ' VictorJesse 'InfrequeNt' BarkerSam 'flickz' JonesMitchell 'Sync' Dale BOOT-d[S] #56 Nevin 'splashske' AwBenedict 'Benkai' TanBenjamin 'moxie' KouAnthony 'ImpressioN' LimKumaresan 'Tommy' Ramani Corvidae #147 Anthony 'Ar3syK' ChristouDaniel 'rbz' UrbaniDaniel 'DANZ' WhitfieldJordan 'krudeN' HillIyengaran 'IyeN' Raju Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Signature #102 Phoomphat 'qqGOD' PhodjanatWarittorn 'RoLEX' KalanukarnPatiphan 'CigaretteS' PosriKritthee 'Geniuss' SawatmuangManutsawat 'Reality' Sangphadung