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.  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 ViCiMAXEHOMEBTRGBTRG.IMBA Group B5POWERFlashCyberZenNew4Sparta To stay up-to-date with the event, you can keep track with the regional qualifier here.  ROAR #226 TianXiang 'Ethan' Wu Vadim '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' Liu Andrew 'kaze' Khong WingHei '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' Wu Hansel 'BnTeT' FerdinandHaoWen 'somebody' XuKevin 'xccurate' Susanto |
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