After announcing the European pre-qualifiers, DreamHack also revealed the qualifier system for the Asian region, which will hand out a single spot for DreamHack Open Stockholm.
As we've highlighted in the previous article concering the European pre-qualifiers, DreamHack Open Stockholm will serve as the offline qualifier for the next major, DreamHack Cluj-Napoca.
Eight spots in Stockholm are already decided, as the bottom eight from ESL One Cologne received a direct invite, five more will come through the two European pre-qualifiers, one will come in from Asia and the remaining two will be handed to North America.
zhonG's QeeYou will get another chance to qualify for a major
DreamHack have now announced the qualifiying system for Asia, which will once again feature a best-of-one open stage for 256 teams. From there four advance to the best-of-three closed stage, joining four invited teams, as shown in the table below:
Sep. 5-6 - 1 spot to Stockholm
Sep. 5
07:00
Open Stage
256 teams
Sep. 6
08:00
Closed Stage
4 teams from open stage + 4 invited teams
The four invited for the closed stage are top sides from China, South Korea, Vietnam and Malaysia:
QeeYou
myRevenge
Skyred
MVP.Karnal
The pre-qualifier will be hosted by FACEIT, teams interested in taking part in the open stage can register here.