But how does that make sense? They have to auto qualify than for open qualies cause otherwise it's giga unfair to those who finish 7-8th whichever teams they are...
It doesn't really matter how big or small the teams are really.. These teams are at the time of the qualifiers being finished still in qualifiers 1... So can't blame them for not having signed up yet :/ So it's just unfair to have them completely out, that just is a busted system
from what ive heard even the teams that lost at the last stages of open qualifiers didn't get a spot because they were too late, hope they fix it somehow
top 2 of closed quals stage 1 go to EMEA challengers, top 3-6 are invited to stage 2 closed quals, 7-8 have to play stage 2 open quals with all 256 teams.
I heard G2 were on the waiting list for stage 2 registration but idk what's happening now