With the final Regional Major Ranking tournament of the region on the line, teams have stepped up their game to gain points before the race to PGL Major Stockholm starts. Triumph and ATK book the last two spots in the closed qualifiers for IEM Fall North America by winning the Open qualifiers for the event.
The closed qualifiers are set to take place on September 18-19 where the North American and South African sides would now join Bad News Bears, RBG, GODSENT, Strife, paiN, and TeamOne and be among the top six that would advance ahead to the main RMR tournament and get the chance to play alongside Liquid, Evil Geniuses, and FURIA. The upcoming closed qualifiers would be played in a best-of-three double-elimination bracket format.