M80, Voca claim invites to BLAST Open Porto NA Closed Qualifier

Circuit X have announced the full team list for the BLAST Open Porto NA Closed Qualifier, seeing M80, Voca, Marsborne, and LAG claim VRS invites to the qualifier. Based on the invites, we can infer that Wildcard, Liquid, NRG, and Chicken Coop declined invites to the Closed Qualifier.

Going down the list, Wildcard's manager Jeremy "Jeremy9000" Gray told Dust2.us that the team are set to leave for Europe tomorrow for Stake Ranked Episode 3, NRG are set to play FRAG St. Clair this weekend, and Chicken Coop's Jared "jared" Habib said his team are unavailable this weekend due to personal commitments. As for Liquid, while unconfirmed, rumors swirling about potential roster changes may leave the team unable to play until their new roster is sorted out.

Due to Marsborne and LAG previously claiming spots via the Open Qualifiers, they have been replaced by the team they beat in the finals of their respective qualifiers. Marsborne's spot has gone to regain while LAG's spot has been given to Jason "jasonR" Ruchelski and Austin "Cooper" Abadir's WINNERS mixteam.

The team list for the BLAST Open Porto NA Closed Qualifier consists of:

The BLAST Open Porto NA Closed Qualifier will kick off tomorrow on July 9th.