Heroic and Singularity will take part in the closed qualification of IEM Katowice

The European teams managed to make it into the closed elimination round with the help of the open qualification.

See also: zEVES, cromen, and jkaem joined Noreg

They will join such collectives as BIG, Team EnVyUs, Fnatic, Gambit eSports, HellRaisers, mousesports, Natus Vincere, и North which received the direct invitations to the closed qualifiers.

At the moment we know 8 participants of LAN-final. Also, such teams as Astralis, Cloud9, FaZe Clan, G2 Esports, Ninjas in Pyjamas, SK Gaming and Virtus.pro received the direct invitations. TyLoo has made it into the final stage with the help of the Asian qualification.

Intel Extreme Masters XII World Championship Katowice will take place from 27 February till 4 March in Katowice. The place of holding the tournaments is Spodek Arena and the total prize fund is $500,000.