UPDATE: This article has been updated to reflect the latest announcement of an invited team.

Red Bull Home Ground, one of the biggest OFF//SEASON events of 2022, is back again this year. The tournament will take place between November 3-5 and will be held at the historic Sumo arena Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan.

The first invited team is 100 Thieves 100 Thieves North America Unranked Cryocells Matthew Panganiban Asuna Peter Mazuryk vora Jordan Pulwer Timotino Timothée Lavigne Dupont bang Sean Bezerra , who won the event last year in Manchester after beating the likes of Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Unranked Xeppaa Erick Bach v1c Victor Truong Zellsis Jordan Montemurro penny Erik Penny OXY Francis Hoang , KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Unranked saadhak Matias Delipetro mwzera Leonardo Serrati silentzz Caio Morita Less Felipe de Loyola Basso Dantedeu5 Jesús Federico Larrosa , and Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Unranked Jamppi Elias Olkkonen PROFEK Dawid Święć Derke Nikita Sirmitev Chronicle Timofey Khromov Sayonara Ștefan Mîtcu . 100 Thieves won the event without dropping a single series, only losing two maps in the group stage overall.

ZETA DIVISION ZETA DIVISION Japan Unranked Absol Kazuki Fujinoki SyouTa Shota Aoki SugarZ3ro Shota Watanabe eKo Yeom Wang-ryong (염왕룡) Xdll Yuto Mizomori have also been invited, marking the second OFF//SEASON tournament the Japanese roster has been invited to. Their first and only participation was in last year's Gwangju Esports Series Asia, where the team finished third under DRX DRX Korea Unranked Flicker Kim Tae-hee (김태희) Flashback Cho Min-hyuk (조민혁) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) free1ng No Ha-jun (노하준) HYUNMIN Song Hyun-min (송현민) BeYN Kang Ha-bin (강하빈) and TALON TALON Inactive Killua Tanate Teerasawad thyy Anupong Preamsak Crws Thanamethk Mahatthananuyut JitBoyS Jittana Nokngam primmie Papaphat Sriprapha .

The third invite has been handed out to Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Unranked Xeppaa Erick Bach v1c Victor Truong Zellsis Jordan Montemurro penny Erik Penny OXY Francis Hoang , who were last year's runners-up. After a strong groups run that only featured a loss to FOKUS FOKUS Europe Unranked , they defeated KRÜ in the semifinals but were struck down by 100T 3-0 in the grand final. The fourth Home Ground will be Cloud9's return to an international LAN for the first time since LOCK//IN, nearly 260 days later.

100T lift the RBHG3 trophy 100 Thieves will look to defend their trophy this year. (Photo by Joe Brady/Red Bull Content Pool)

SCARZ SCARZ Japan Unranked Art Koki Kagami Gwangboong Kim Gwang-won (김광원) muto BRIAN Medusa An Min-cheol (안민철) were the fourth squad added to the list after a formidable year in Japan's Challengers League. After placing third in Split 1, the team shuffled players around and climbed to a near-flawless run in Split 2, claiming the Japanese championship with just two losses on record. SCARZ attended the Pacific Ascension tournament, which they finished second to BLEED BLEED Inactive .

The penultimate invite was handed out to DRX DRX Korea Unranked Flicker Kim Tae-hee (김태희) Flashback Cho Min-hyuk (조민혁) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) free1ng No Ha-jun (노하준) HYUNMIN Song Hyun-min (송현민) BeYN Kang Ha-bin (강하빈) . The Korean titans have been one of the most consistent squads internationally, reaching every but one of the international VCT LANs. After a good run at LOCK//IN and VCT Pacific, DRX have struggled to make waves abroad, most recently placing top six at Champions 2023.

FNATIC FNATIC Europe Unranked crashies Austin Roberts Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski Veqaj Sylvain Pattyn Alfajer Emir Ali Beder received the final invite for Home Ground, coming off of a stellar year. The team has lost a total of three matches this year, two of them at Valorant Champions 2023 to LOUD LOUD Brazil Unranked lukxo Lucca Travaioli Darker Sebastián Castro Cicuamia Virtyy Leandro Moreno pANcada Bryan Luna cauanzin Cauan Pereira . FNATIC have already beat three of the invited teams on this list, and will return to Tokyo in chase of a second trophy after flawlessly conquering Masters earlier this year.

Last year, Red Bull held qualifiers for EMEA and Turkey while this year, open and closed qualifiers will be held in EMEA and Japan. The two winning teams will join six invited teams from across the world at the Red Bull Home Ground finals in Japan.

The team list for Home Ground 4 is currently: