The Kiev Major slot details have been revealed. Valve has released information regarding how many invites per regional qualifiers will be distributed as well as how many slots are allocated for the Kiev Major per region. Six regions have been designated this time around – SEA, CN, EU, NA, SA and CIS. Eight teams total will be directly invited to the main event. Eight teams will earn their place via qualifiers. Southeast Asia and China will send two delegated, Europe, North America, South America and CIS will be sending only one each. Direct invites will be announced at 16:00 CET, Friday March 3rd.
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Valve has revealed the Kiev Major slot details.
The final eight teams will be determined in the crucible of the Qualifiers. While China and SEA each retain two Qualifier slots as in the past, the European Qualifiers have been split into EU and CIS Qualifiers, and the Americas Qualifiers have similarly changed to NA and SA Qualifiers, with one tournament spot up for grabs in each eligible region.
With the addition of the two new regions, CIS and Europe will now need to split their usually allocated slots just as North America and South America will need to.
As of March 3, only 31 teams had registered from North America for the open qualifiers. As the region has four slots available for teams coming from the open qualifiers the odds are stacked FOR teams this time around.
South America will see a whopping eight teams advance from the open qualifiers into the regionals.
The most exciting part of the reveal? The direct and regional invites for the Kiev Major will be released soon – March 3rd at 16:00 CET.
Fans can watch the direct invite reveal through their battle pass compendium or through the tracker HERE.
The Kiev Major Slot Details
- Six regions total
- Eight teams total will advance to the Kiev Major
- China and Southeast Asia have two slots for the Kiev Major
- Europe, CIS, South America, North America have one slot each for the Kiev Major
- Eight teams from South America Open Qualifiers will advance to the regional qualifiers
- Four teams from the North America Open Qualifiers will advance to the regional qualifiers
- Two teams from Europe, CIS, China and Southeast Asia Open Qualifiers will advance to the regional qualifiers
The Kiev Major Open Qualifiers
The Kiev Major Open Qualifiers registration process has begun. There will be TWO opportunities for up to 1024 teams per region to contend for spots in the Regional Qualifiers. This time around, there are 6 regions – South America and CIS have been added to SEA, China, Europe and North America.
Participants will be held to the 3 out of 5 player rule as criteria to register for a region. Teams physically residing in a location will be permitted to participate in that region.
The winning teams will advance to participate in the Regional Qualifiers, which will take place between March 10-13th. Two teams total – one from each qualifier of NA, EU, CIS, SEA will advance. Eight teams total from South America will move forward.
In addition one team from EU, SEA and NA will have a chance to take a spot in the regional qualifiers through the Champions Cup.
The Kiev Major teams
As part of the Major system, the roster lock was reinstated and teams were required to complete their roster registration by January 9th, in order to be eligible for the direct invites or Regional Qualifier invites.
The teams that will be directly invited to the Kiev Major and its Regional Qualifiers are expected to be revealed only one or two days prior to the Open Qualifiers. The Regional Qualifiers will occur between March 10-13th.
Kiev Major
The Kiev Major is scheduled to take place between April 27-30th at the National Palace of Arts, in Kiev, Ukraine. National Palace of Arts is one of the main theater venues in Kiev, Ukraine. It was opened in 1970 with a seating capacity of almost 4,000 in the main concert hall – approximately the same size as Wang Theater where the Boston Major was held this last fall.
In the past, StarLadder i-League StarSeries Season 2 hosted CS:GO at the event successfully.
The event will be hosted by PGL and will be the last Major ore-TI7.
Kiev Major dates
- The Kiev Major group stage will take place starting April TBA.
- The Kiev Major main event will take place between April 27-30th at the National Palace of Arts, in Kiev, Ukraine.
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