MIBR and Vitality claim invites to IEM Chicago

ESL have announced the next two invites to IEM Chicago, with MIBR and Vitality claiming spots in the tournament.

Also read: Liquid and ENCE secure first two invites to IEM Chicago

MIBR, who are currently ranked sixth in the world according to HLTV will be attending IEM Chicago looking to improve off of their 9th-12th place finish last year. As for French team Vitality, they missed IEM Chicago last year after falling to LDLC in the Closed Qualifier. Vitality have been on the upswing lately, and now sit at fifth on the HLTV rankings after scoring best-of-three wins against Liquid and ENCE at cs_summit 4.

Also read: IEM Chicago 2019 announced

The team list for IEM Chicago 2019 is now:

ENCE	Liquid
Vitality	MIBR
EU Invite	NA Invite
GG.Bet Chicago Invitational	NA Qualifier

Also read: Liquid outlast Fnatic to take IEM Sydney; Twistzz named MVP

In other news, ESL have moved the date for the first IEM New York qualifier by two weeks in order to avoid conflict with the third StarLadder Berlin Open Qualifier. 

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