Americas Minor NA closed qualifier first

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 favorites of the qualifier, NRG, will first take on iNTACT

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:

NRG vs. iNTACT
Spacestation vs. Singularity
Ghost vs. TeamOne
Old Guys Club vs. eUnited
Rogue vs. Test Takers
Mythic vs. Envy
Swole Patrol vs. Bravado
FURIA vs. Luminosity

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' HaasWilliam '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' MartinMathias 'MSL' LauridsenRicardo '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' CamposNicolas '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' AbadirEdgar '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' ArnoldTsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov