The ESL has announced the 11 invited teams who will definitely be in attendance at the IEM China event when it is held between April 8-14. The tournament will offer a $250,000 prize pool, as well as a slate of BLAST Premier points and direct qualification to IEM Cologne 2024 for the victor.
The confirmed teams are as follows:
- FaZe Clan
- G2 Esports
- Furia Esports
- Heroic
- Astralis
- Mouz
- Complexity
- Monte
- Cloud9
- Virtus.pro
- Lynn Vision
Five more slots are still available for the event, but these will be distributed to winners of the regional closed qualifiers. These matches will be held in early February, and while the full list of teams that will compete in these qualifiers is currently incomplete, we do know that Team Falcons, BIG, Bet Boom Team, and Eternal Fire will be fighting for the European slot.
