Heroic will attend the Toyota Master 2018 tournament in Bangkok, while the European teams for the Kuala Lumpur Major have been revealed.
Heroic to attend TOYOTA Master Bangkok 2018
HLTV reported earlier today that Heroic has received an invitation to the TOYOTA Master Bangkok 2018 CS:GO tournament. So far, Heroic is the third team to join the event lineup, with seven other teams still to be announced. The other two teams are TYLOO and Renegades and there is still one invitation slot left. The rest of the competing teams will be decided with regional qualifier tournaments.
The TOYOTA Master Bangkok 2018 event will take begin on 21 November and will run until 25 November. For five days, the ten competing teams will be battling out for a piece of the $100,000 prize pool.
European teams revealed for the Dota 2 Kuala Lumpur Major
With the Kuala Lumpur Major Europe Qualifier coming to a close today, the Finals are being played out as this article is being typed. The top three European teams from the Qualifier will gain a spot at the Main Tournament in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Finals are yet to conclude, but the results will not have any significant effect on the seeding. In third place, we have Alliance who were beaten by the finalists. In the match currently being played out, we have Team Secret and Ninjas in Pyjamas, competing for first place in the Qualifier rankings.
These three teams will take the three European slots in the Kuala Lumpur Major Main Tournament, scheduled to begin on 9 November later this year. The event will run for nine more days and will end on 18 November. The prize pool for the tournament is an astounding $1,000,000, of which $350,000 will go to the first place winner.
The other teams have already been announced, save one. They include:
- Team Secret – Europe
- Ninjas in Pyjamas – Europe
- Alliance – Europe
- Virtus.pro – CIS
- ferzee – CIS
- PSG.LGD – China
- Vici Gaming – China
- Team Aster – China
- Fnatic – Southeast Asia
- TNC Predator – Southeast Asia
- Evil Geniuses – North America
- Forward Gaming – North America
- MarchOutOfArmy – North America
- paiN Gaming – South America
- paiN X – South America
- NOT DETERMINED – DreamLeague S10 Winter
The last team to be announced for the Kuala Lumpur Major will be seeded from the DreamLeague Season 10 Winter tournament, which will begin on 29 October. So far, not much is known about this event and the teams have not even been announced.