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