Today ESL revealed three more teams that will be attending IEM Katowice PUBG Invitational as well as the eight teams for the NA and the eight teams for the EU closed qualifiers who will each go up against eight teams from the open qualifiers.
Method took seventh place and won $10,000 at IEM Oakland 2017 with their current roster after RaptorDaRaptor left to Tiger Mafia in November to be replaced my LaytoN from the United Kingdom. This roster has also got 7th at the Auzom Premier League Season 1 and November 2017 Curse Trials in Group B.
Anssi 'AndyPyro' Huovinen
Ludvik 'Aitzy' Jahnsen
Mathias 'EnergeticTurtle' Nielsen
Harry 'LaytoN' Layton
The Americans Viss and SmaK started this team in May, with the final pieces falling into place with BreaK and aimPR joining in June and July. Since then they placed 3rd in the Auzom Premier League Season 1 and 6th in at the last IEM tournament, IEM Oakland 2017.
Colton 'Viss' Visser- Austin 'SmaK' Haggett
- Gary 'BreaK' Marshall
Marius 'aimPR' Ionita
Tempo Storm has had mixed results last year; qualifying from Group C of the November 2017 Curse Trials only to place 11th and then fail to qualify for the December 2017 Curse Trials, but they did place second and net themselves $45,000 from IEM Oakland.
- Keane 'Valliate' Alonso
- Diondre 'YaBoiDre' Bond
Luke 'Meluke' Laing- Samu 'Sambtyy' Kauppinen
- Randy 'Randingo' Joiner (Substitute)
On Sunday the 28th of January, these eight invited teams will take on the top eight teams from the Open Qualifier from the North American region.
eUnited
FlyQuest
OpTic Gaming
Team Totality
Team EnVyUs
Cloud9
Corn Shuckers
Gambino
On the same day the top eight from the European region Open Qualifier will gear up to take on the following eight teams who ESL have directly invited to the Closed Qualifier.
Digital Chaos
Team Liquid
Team Kinguin
Pittsburgh Knights
Alliance
HAVU Gaming
Penta Sports
