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Huomao has announced the direct invitation list for EPICENTER 2018 China closed qualifier, which is set to take place from September 18-20.

On Weibo, the organiser revealed that ten teams have been confirmed for the online Chinese competition, with a slot to the Wild Card qualifier on the line.

According to 5EPlay, TYLOO was originally invited, but due to schedule clashes with the squad competing at FACEIT Major, they were replaced by Sparta, formerly known as ROAR.

kaze will make his ViCi debut at the EPICENTER closed qualifier

The teams have been separated into two groups of five, featuring a BO1 round-robin format. Following two days of group play, the top two teams from each group will advance to the BO3 single-elimination playoffs.

The groups can be found below:

Group A
ViCi
MAX
EHOME
BTRG
BTRG.IMBA Group B
5POWER
Flash
CyberZen
New4
Sparta

To stay up-to-date with the event, you can keep track with the regional qualifier here.

ROAR #226 TianXiang 'Ethan' WuVadim 'V4D1M' PanchukFedor 'fed9' VasilyevZhiHeng 'W1nd' QiuQingHui 'FIOURN' Kong Sparta New4 #338 Nan 'Jewelry' WangFei 'jackhan' HanYang 'Mr.six' ChengZhiTao 'Drea3er' Zhang ViCi Zhuo 'advent' LiangWeiJie 'zhokiNg' ZhongZhiHong 'aumaN' LiuAndrew 'kaze' KhongWingHei 'Freeman' Cheung Flash #86 YuLun 'Summer' CaiYuanZhang 'Attacker' ShengKunHua 'LOVEYY' BaiYangYang 'ayaya' Zheng 5POWER #77 Gan-Erdene 'dobu' BatboldBat-Enkh 'kabal' BatbayarZhiHai 'QKA' FuPeng 'xiaosaGe' SongWei 'shuadapai' Wang BTRG MAX #199 Hao 's550' WanMing 'dmm' DaiZiLi 'yzl1' YangMingWei 'Lamplight' HuPeiqi 'flying' Song CyberZen #95 Bin 'Savage' LiuBingYuan 'tb' LiZhen 'HZ' HuangQingYu 'Monster' DengLifan 'Viva' Ran EHOME #121 Tzu-Chi 'Marek' HuangQiFang 'Karsa' SuZiHao 'Insane' HanHeng 'expro' YangKelun 'SLOWLY' Sun TYLOO #12 Ke 'captainMo' LiuHui 'DD' WuHansel 'BnTeT' FerdinandHaoWen 'somebody' XuKevin 'xccurate' Susanto