Perfect World announce Americas RMR and CQ Invites

This morning Perfect World announced the provisional list of invites for the Perfect World Shanghai Major Americas RMR and the Closed Qualifier, with the list matching those Dust2.us and HLTV determined via the final Valve Ranking System update on August 6th ahead of the cutoff on August 7th.

As expected, FlyQuest RED and TSM Shimmer did not receive invites due to Valve's Conflict of Interest rules. Despite a spirited protest from the FlyQuest organization in particular, it is worth noting that Valve has been pretty firm in their policy of not allowing organizations to host multiple teams for Valve-sponsored events. There was some suggestion that the policy would be slightly relaxed for this Major with changes in the language for how Valve defines a COI, however the policy was never changed, with any suggestion that it was being pure speculation.

Another area of note is that ex-Limitless are not included in Perfect World's graphic, potentially being overlooked as the team have been disbanded since mid-June. It is still possible for Brennan "grape" Greer and co. to garner an invite however as Perfect World do note that the list is provisional and depends on teams accepting or declining their invites.

Should ex-Limitless not accept an invite, the next eligible team would likely be MIGHT and beyond that the spot may very well become an open qualifier spot, however this remains to be seen.

Perfect World's provisional list of invites is as follows:

RMR Invites:

1. Liquid

2. FURIA

3. Complexity

4. 9z

5. paiN

6. MIBR

7. M80

8. Imperial