Nearly 1,000 teams competed in the European qualifying round to win 6 competitions.

BC.Game is among the teams that pass the European qualifier.

After 2 days of intense competition, IEM Dallas's open qualifiers ended with 12 teams from Europe, Asia and the Americas that won the right to Closed Stages.

The rounds of HLTV reported - Round 16 teams in Europe and South America, quarterfinals in North America and Asia - had VRS Points (Valve ranking score) as a reward, detrimental to those who want to improve. Ranking position but stop early in round 32 or round 16 in their regional qualifying round.

BC.Game, the team has just rebuilt Bleed's core squad by supplementing the "⁠Cypher⁠" Watson and Nemanja "⁠Nexa⁠" Isaković, which is one of the teams who have overcome the qualifying round when defeating Ninjas in Pyjamas, Aurora, Partizan and Zero Tenacity.

Zero Tenacity then recovered and won tickets to go through 5-6 matches, along with OG, Nevermore, TNL and Hesta.

Complexity, due to the schedule of competition at PGL Cluj-Napoca with Closed Stages North America, could not receive an invitation and had to play in the European opening qualifier. They stopped in round 32, but may not be much affected by the ratings due to early elimination.

Fnatic, Ninjas in Pyjamas and B8 are other notable names that can not participate in the official round in Europe, while Ence reached the 16th round but the heavy defeat against Zero Tenacity.

In the Americas, Imperial, Legacy, Marsborne and Party Astronauts have won the right to Closed Stages, while Tyloo and The Huns have passed the Asian qualifiers. Notably, the M80 missed the opportunity in North America after losing a team from the Advanced level tournament.

Closed Stages in Europe will take place from 10-12 February, awarded 5 stages of IEM Dallas, while the qualifiers of the Americas and Asia will take place from 11-12, each area The area has a capacity to the main event.

Full list of teams participating in Closed Stages area can be found below: