Photo courtesy of PGL
Mineski is the sixth team added to the lineup for the ESL One Katowice 2018 Major next month.
Next in line of the Pro Circuit Points ranking system, Mineski has accumulated 720 TI8 qualifying points for their second place finish at StarLadder Invitational Season 3 Minor and their championship title victory at PGL Bucharest Minor. Unfortunately, the team did have to opt out of Dota Pit League Minor at the last moments due to personal circumstances for one of the players and ended in a disappointing 7-8th place finish at Perfect World Masters.
Starting off the new year, the SEA team hopes to make a dramatic re-entry into the circuit with their participation in the Captains Draft Minor this week, followed by their participation in Galaxy Battles II Major afterwards in mid January and ending the month in Malaysia at ESL One Genting Minor before heading to Poland in February.
ESL One Katowice Major
Registration for ESL One Katowice Major Open Qualifiers for North America, South America, Europe, CIS and SEA is HERE with competition taking place starting this weekend, January 6-7th. The closed qualifiers will follow next week, taking place between January 9-12th.
The event will take place from February 20-25 at the Spodek Arena in Katowice, Poland. Spodek Arena can seat 11,500 fans and previously hosted the Intel Extreme Masters World Championships. Only the last two days of the events will take place on the main stage in front of the live audience. Although tickets are available to purchase from ticketmaster, fans can opt for the free entry which will be opened up as waiting lines two hours after the ticket buyers. In addition, no signing sessions with players and teams are available for fans entering through the free option.
As with all of the Pro Circuit Majors, ESL One Katowice will feature a $1,000,000 prize pool and 1,500 qualifier points. Sixteen teams total will compete, ten being directly invited and six qualifying from the various regions.
ESL One Katowice Major teams so far:
Virtus.pro
Team Secret
Team Liquid
Evil Geniuses
Mineski
