NAVI and Vitality may miss out IEM Dallas: The organizers have announced the invited teams

Let's note that the list of invited teams does not include NAVI, Vitality, and BIG. One of the direct invitations will be given to a team from the top of the ESL ranking. According to this principle, invitations were received by FaZe, Outsiders, and MOUZ. Although NAVI and Vitality ended up in the top, they were not directly invited. Meanwhile, Fnatic and Spirit will participate in the regional closed qualifiers.

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Participants of closed regional qualifiers

Europe

• Cloud9
• Fnatic
• Spirit
• OG
• 4 teams from open qualifiers (March 11-12, March 22-23).

North America

• Nouns
• Strife
• 2 teams from open qualifiers (February 28 - March 1, March 2-3).

South America

• 9z
• 00NATION
• 2 teams from open qualifiers (March 16-17, March 26-27).

Oceania

• Rooster
• Grayhound
• 2 teams from open qualifiers (March 20-21, March 22-23).

Intel Extreme Masters Dallas 2023 will take place from May 29 to June 4. 16 teams will compete not only for a prize pool of $250,000, but also for a spot at IEM Cologne in the second half of the summer.