ESL have released the initial details regarding the Asian and Oceanic qualifiers for IEM Sydney 2018, with six spots on offer to the main event. Last year's edition witnessed Chiefs and ViCi earning their place to the Australian tournament as the best surviving teams from the Oceanic and Chinese qualifiers, respectively. Recently, defending champion SK and runner-up FaZe has been confirmed for the $250,000 tournament so far. Changes have been made again, with increased slots to the Sydney event and the rest of Asia being included in the qualifiers held in March. Three teams from each region (Asia and Oceania) will be given the opportunity to qualify for the largest esports tournament in Australia to date (May 1-6). The Asian and Oceanic qualifiers will feature two parts - open and closed stage. Six notable teams from each region have been invited to the closed qualifiers, featuring a best-of-three, double-elimination format. Two more teams (per region) will advance to the closed stage from the two open qualifiers held separately on March 10 and March 11. Registrations are now open for teams in the Asia-Pacific region interested in competing, by clicking the hyperlinks below. Here are the invites to the ANZ closed qualifier, scheduled to take place on March 17-18, March 24-25, April 3 and April 9: While the Asian closed qualifier will be held on online Singaporean servers from March 23-26, consisting of the following teams: ESL has confirmed eight out of the sixteen competing teams at IEM Sydney will come from the qualifiers, which mathematically suggests six more teams will be invited to the main event, and the remaining qualifiers for Europe and North America will be receiving one slot each. The organization will be publishing more details about it soon. Announcing the Asia & Oceania qualifier details for #IEM Sydney 2018! Athletico
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Bin 'Savage' Liu
BingYuan 'tb' Li
Zhen 'HZ' Huang
WeiJie 'zhokiNg' Zhong
WingHei 'Freeman' Cheung
Flash #75
YuLun 'Summer' Cai
YuanZhang 'Attacker' Sheng
Andrew 'kaze' Khong
WeiJia 'INNOPY' Guo
Zhe 'Ayeon' Yang
MVP PK #31
Keun-Chul 'solo' Kang
Min-Soo 'glow' Kim
Min-Seok 'zeff' Park
Hyun-Pyo 'XigN' Lee
Hae-Sung 'HSK' Kim
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Yaman 'yam' Ergenekon
Ryan 'zewsy' Palmer
Chris 'ofnu' Hanley
Connor 'chuch' Morgan
Joshua 'INS' Potter
Chiefs #65
Tyler 'tucks' Reilly
Peter 'pecks' Nguyen
Liam 'malta' Schembri
Matthew 'Texta' O'Rourke
Euan 'sterling' Moore
Grayhound #46
Christopher 'dexter' Nong
Callum 'BURNRUOk' Henderson
Sean 'Gratisfaction' Kaiwai
Erdenetsogt 'erkaSt' Gantulga
Ollie 'DickStacy' Tierney
SK #2
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo
Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga
Ricardo 'boltz' Prass
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Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo
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Finn 'karrigan' Andersen
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard
TYLOO #22
Ke 'captainMo' Liu
Hui 'DD' Wu
Hansel 'BnTeT' Ferdinand
HaoWen 'somebody' Xu
Kevin 'xccurate' Susanto
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Nevin 'splashske' Aw
Benedict 'Benkai' Tan
Benjamin 'moxie' Kou
Anthony 'ImpressioN' Lim
Kumaresan 'Tommy' Ramani
ORDER #58
Chris 'emagine' Rowlands
Simon 'Sico' Williams
Jay 'Liazz' Tregillgas
Alistair 'aliStair' Johnston
Jordan 'Hatz' Bajic
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Tsog 'Tsogoo' Mashbat
Bold 'ncl' Batsuh
Telmen 'cazze' Nyamdorj
Unudelger 'cTrl' Baasanjargal
Ganbileg 'Noks' Erdenebold
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Mark 'deStiny' Kagan
Gareth 'gazR' Lynn
Nikhil 'NikkeZ' Victor
Sam 'flickz' Jones
Mitchell 'Sync' Dale
Corvidae #108
Anthony 'Ar3syK' Christou
Daniel 'rbz' Urbani
Daniel 'DANZ' Whitfield
Jordan 'krudeN' Hill
Iyengaran 'IyeN' Raju
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Patiphan 'CigaretteS' Posri
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