eUnited invited to EPICENTER NA closed qualifier; bracket released

EPICENTER has revealed eUnited as the final invite to the North America closed qualifier as well as the full bracket.

eUnited receives the invite after Cloud9 pulled out of the qualifier due to conflicting times with their boot camp in Copenhagen prior to the Major. eUnited is expected to play the qualifier from Canada - as the North American squad is set to participate at DreamHack Open Montreal.

With all six teams confirmed in the NA closed qualifier, the single-elimination best-of-three bracket will begin with BlackOut taking on the South Africans of Bravado, while the Open Qual #1 rematch will feature FURIA and Ryan "⁠freakazoid⁠" Abadir's Swole Patrol.

ELUSIVE and co. will battle for a spot in the Wild Card qualifier

The two invites, eUnited and NRG, who will be using former Cloud9 veteran Jordan "⁠n0thing⁠" Gilbert as a stand-in, will await their opponents in the semifinals.

The EPICENTER closed qualifier is set to start September 8th and will have one slot up for grabs at the tournament's Wild Card Qualifier, which will be held October 23rd.

Below you can find the initial matchups for the EPICENTER North America:

BlackOut
FURIA
NRG
eUnited vs. Bravado
vs. Swole Patrol
vs. BlackOut/Bravado winner
vs. FURIA/Swole Patrol winner Swole Patrol #39 Ryan 'freakazoid' AbadirBraxton 'swag' PierceEdgar 'MarKE' MaldonadoJordan 'Zellsis' MontemurroAustin 'Cooper' Abadir Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadir Age: 25 Team: Swole Patrol Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 631 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.70 FURIA #73 Guilherme 'spacca' SpaccaAndrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoKaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato Bravado #62 Dimitri 'Detrony' HadjipaschaliRuan 'ELUSIVE' van WykAran 'Sonic' GroesbeekRhys 'Fadey' ArmstrongJohnny 'JT' Theodosiou eUnited #34 Skyler 'Relyks' WeaverWill 'dazzLe' LoafmanMichael 'dapr' GulinoKaleb 'moose' JayneBrandon 'Ace' Winn Cloud9 #21 Martin 'STYKO' StykTyler 'Skadoodle' LathamWilliam 'RUSH' WierzbaTimothy 'autimatic' TaMaikil 'Golden' Selim Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert Age: 27 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 731 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.67 NRG #9 Damian 'daps' SteeleJacob 'FugLy' MedinaVincent 'Brehze' CayonteEthan 'Ethan' ArnoldTsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov BlackOut #46 Sebastian 'seb' BuckiConnor 'CONNOR93' GloverCollin 'wrath' McSweeganChad 'Oderus' MillerJonathan 'Jonji' Carey