EG back stateside for final IEM Brazil Open Qualifier

Ahead of their debut in ESL Pro League Season 17 on February 22nd, Evil Geniuses have swung the plane around to North America for the second, final IEM Brazil Open Qualifier, which is set to begin today in short order. Sanzhar "neaLaN" Iskhakov and co. will look to clinch the last spot for a chance to head to Brazil and will also look to unwind against some NA teams after a disappointing European excursion.

The addition of Evil Geniuses to the open qualifier raises the level of competition in the stacked qualifier even higher as Vendetta winning the first qualifier created something of a bottleneck for top-level ECL teams. Alongside Evil Geniuses, ATK, Nouns, and MIBR are all teams that could realistically snatch the spot under the right circumstances.

The winner of this second open qualifier will join Vendetta and the two invited squads, Complexity and paiN, will fight to join FURIA as the sole representatives from the Western Hemisphere. For Complexity and especially Evil Geniuses, potentially being the big cheese of NA down in Brazil would be an enticing opportunity as they are usually relegated to Liquid's shadow internationally.

The IEM Brazil Closed Qualifiers currently consists of:

The qualifier will start today at 06:00PM.