Each region's qualifying process will begin with an open stage on April 27-28, which will see the top four teams make it to the closed qualifier, where they'll join four invited sides. In Europe, four teams who are currently ranked 19th-24th have been invited, as GODSENT, Imperial, AGO, and Fragsters will battle on Sunday, April 29 for a single spot at the $100,000 tournament. GODSENT will fight for a spot at DreamHack Open Summer on Sunday
The North American closed qualifier will see Complexity, Rogue, Ghost, and eUnited in action alongside four teams from the open stage. The DreamHack Open Summer qualifiers will still feature Cobblestone in the map pool, with the new Dust2 replacing Cobblestone from DreamHack Open Valencia qualifiers (May 4-6) on. Here are the invited teams in each region: Europe | North America | GODSENT | Complexity | Imperial | Rogue | AGO | Ghost | Fragsters | eUnited | | |
 eUnited #39  Skyler 'Relyks' Weaver Will 'dazzLe' Loafman Michael 'dapr' Gulino Kaleb 'moose' Jayne Brandon 'Ace' Winn   Complexity #38   Rory 'dephh' Jackson Jaccob 'yay' Whiteaker Peter 'ptr' Gurney Alec 'Slemmy' White Bradley 'ANDROID' Fodor  AGO #23  Damian 'Furlan' Kislowski Dominik 'GruBy' Swiderski Michał 'snatchie' Rudzki Mateusz 'TOAO' Zawistowski Tomasz 'phr' Wójcik  Imperial #21  Jesper 'TENZKI' Plougmann Asger 'AcilioN' Larsen Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković Rokas 'EspiranTo' Milasauskas Žygimantas 'nukkye' Chmieliauskas  GODSENT #19  Simon 'twist' Eliasson Joakim 'disco doplan' Gidetun Fredrik 'freddieb' Buö Hampus 'hampus' Poser Ludvig 'Brollan' Brolin  Ghost #60  Sebastian 'seb' Bucki Andy 'vSa' Xu Yassine 'Subroza' Taoufik Matthew 'WARDELL' Yu Tramaine 'stan1ey' Stanley  Rogue #34  Spencer 'Hiko' Martin Casper 'cadiaN' Møller Hunter 'SicK' Mims Daniel 'vice' Kim Anthony 'gMd' Guimond  Fragsters #24  Lucas 'Bubzkji' Andersen Ismail 'refrezh' Ali Jacob 'dragonfly' Lund Nicolai 'torben' Amorim Martin 'stavn' Lund |