The Bucharest Major 2018: Everything you need to know before the Play-offs

The Participating Teams

Ten Teams received direct invites to The Bucharest Major while 6 more had to go through qualification to be able to participate in the tournament.

The 10 teams that received direct invites are as follows:

Team Liquid

Newbee

Evil Geniuses

Natus Vincere

Mineski

CompLexity

Vici Gaming

LGD.Forever Young

Virtus.Pro

Team Secret

The other 6 teams that qualified through offline qualifiers are:

Orgless Gaming or Team OG as they are more popularly known as, had to go through the European Qualifications to qualify for the major. OG are a staggering 4 time Major Champions. The fact which makes this feat exceptional is there has been only 5 majors.

Vega Squadron won the CIS qualifier to win the right to represent Russia in the Bucharest Major.

VGJ.Thunder won the Chinese Qualifiers and became the 4th Chinese team in the Major.

TNC Pro Team, the Filipino powerhouse won the South East Asian qualifiers.

OpTic Gaming won the North American qualifiers.

PaiN Gaming won the South American qualifiers to complete the 16 teams of the major.