ESL has revealed the first-round matchups of the Americas Minor North American closed qualifier. While in Europe there are eight spots at the Minor on offer in the closed qualifier, the North American counterpart will only offer spots to the six best teams out of the 16 attendees, as the remaining two will come from South America.  The closed qualifier will run the same format, a double-elimination, best-of-three bracket, which will be played out until the second round of the upper bracket and the third round of the lower bracket to find the top six teams. The NA closed qualifier will take place on December 12-14, with the first-round matchups looking as follows:
  Bravado #49 Dimitri 'Detrony' HadjipaschaliRuan 'ELUSIVE' van WykAran 'Sonic' GroesbeekRhys 'Fadey' ArmstrongJohnny 'JT' Theodosiou   Luminosity #23 Lucas 'steel' LopesHenrique 'HEN1' TelesLucas 'LUCAS1' TelesGabriel 'NEKIZ' SchenatoGustavo 'yel' Knittel   Old Guys Club #94 Jordan 'n0thing' GilbertSean 'seang@res' GaresYazan 'clowN' AmmariSamuel 'SileNt' PortilloSam 's0m' Oh  iNTACT #72 Michael 'Turismo' Haas William 'will' ChengGabe 'Spongey' GreinerAlan 'Shakezullah' HardemanChristopher 'Swahn' Swahn  eUnited #27 Pujan 'FNS' MehtaSkyler 'Relyks' WeaverMichael 'dapr' GulinoKaleb 'moose' JayneAustin 'Cooper' Abadir   Envy #62 Stephen 'reltuC' CutlerJosh 'jdm64' MarzanoNoah 'Nifty' FrancisTaylor 'Drone' JohnsonMatt 'Pollo' Wilson  Rogue #36 Spencer 'Hiko' Martin Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen Ricardo 'Rickeh' MulhollandHunter 'SicK' MimsDaniel 'vice' Kim  Test Takers #105 Peter 'ptr' GurneyJosh 'shinobi' AbastadoDylan 'RIKO' Sabin-ArnceJeff 'RZU' NgoTyson 'TenZ' Ngo  Mythic #73 Eric 'adreN' HoagTodd 'anger' WilliamsJames 'hazed' CobbErik 'fl0m' FlomAdam 'Polen' Polen  TeamOne #55 Bruno 'BIT' Fukuda LimaPedro 'Maluk3' Campos Nicolas 'NikoM' MiozziVictor 'iDk' TorracaAlencar 'trk' Rossato  Singularity #47 Victor 'food' WongRyan 'ryann' WelshAnthony 'vanity' MalaspinaCameron 'cam' KernJosh 'oSee' Ohm  Spacestation #56 David 'DAVEY' StaffordChad 'Oderus' MillerRyan 'Snakes' AmannMichael 'Grim' Wince  FURIA #70 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoKaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoRinaldo 'ableJ' Moda Junior  Swole Patrol #38 Braxton 'swag' PierceRyan 'freakazoid' Abadir Edgar 'MarKE' MaldonadoJordan 'Zellsis' MontemurroBrandon 'Ace' Winn  Ghost #21 Joshua 'steel' NissanKenneth 'koosta' SuenYassine 'Subroza' TaoufikMatthew 'WARDELL' YuJason 'neptune' Tran   NRG #8 Damian 'daps' SteeleJacob 'FugLy' MedinaVincent 'Brehze' CayonteEthan 'Ethan' Arnold Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov |
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