Eight invitees for the DreamHack Masters: Malmö North American closed qualifier have been announced. 

DreamHack have officially announced the eight North American representatives that will be participating at the closed qualifier for DreamHack Master: Malmö. The teams will be joined by a further eight teams from the open qualifier, and the sixteen NA squads will butt heads in a bid to secure one of the three available spots for the main event. The qualifiers will be played out during this weekend, with the open qualifier starting tomorrow, 20th February and the closed commencing on the 21st. Teams interested in singing up for one of the 512 open qualifier spots for the event may do so here.

Said North American teams are:

 Cloud9 Counter Logic Gaming Team Liquid Renegades Tempo Storm OpTic Gaming Enemy SPLYCE


The schedule for the upcoming weekend is as follows, all times are CET (GMT+1):

Saturday, 20th February (Open qualifier) - All Bo1, single-elimination
19:00 - Start

Sunday, 21st February (Closed qualifier) - All Bo3, single-elimination
19:00 - Round of 16
22:00 - Quarter-finals
01:00 - Semi-finals
04:00 - Third spot decider

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