VRL Spain: Rising's closed qualifier has ended. Case Esports Case Esports Inactive won the grand final and have conquered the final available spot in the regional league.
VRL Spain: Rising occupied three countries: Portugal, Spain and Italy. In spite of this, most of the teams participating in the open qualifier were Spanish or Italian. By the time the final round of the single-elimination qualifier rolled around, 5exNations 5exNations Inactive Kentrax darknesspho Daniele Valdez dere Matteo Bergamin were the only Italian team still in contention. They lost their final match 2-0 to Retired Flavour Retired Flavour Inactive BulGameR Ivan Tsvetelinov Lalov doAm Cristian Ribeiro sek1g Jonatán López scarx Carlos Sanchez , who managed to reach the closed qualifier alongside dATHITANS dATHITANS Inactive Lewy wOwEr Valkorini zeet , Firepowerless Firepowerless Inactive and Eye of the Tiger Eye of the Tiger Inactive .
The closed qualifier was a simple eight-team single-elimination Bo3 bracket. The four qualified teams joined the invited Case Esports, 19esports 19esports Inactive , Boavista FC Boavista FC Inactive oliveey Tiago Oliveira VhS Nuno Paulino Hotshot Daniel Baptista Reggie André Regedor , and CyberGround Gaming CyberGround Gaming Inactive Braso forwardp1 TH3PUN1SH3R squads in the fight for the single available slot. The first two squads hailed from Spain, while Portugal and Italy were respectively represented in the final two teams.
There were no upsets in the quarterfinals and semifinals of this closed qualifier. Boavista FC and CyberGround Gaming were swept in the opening rounds, swiftly ending Portugal and Italy's representation in the closed qualifier. Case Esports and 19esports came up strong in the closed qualifier, winning both their quarterfinals and semifinals matches. Both played the grand final to decide the final slot.
The Bo5 grand final was comfortably controlled by Case Esports, who took a 3-0 clean sweep win to secure the final VRL Spain slot.
VRL Spain: Rising is scheduled to start on February 15. Out of the ten participating teams, six will advance to the playoffs. The full team list is:
- UCAM Esports Club UCAM Esports Club Europe Rank #15 Flickless Karel Maeckelbergh Polvi Niko Polvinen bucher Maximilian Bucher Quick Fabián Pereira YuNo Eloy García
- Movistar Riders Movistar Riders Inactive Nixerino Nicolás Canellas Colocho YuNo Eloy García Vorwenn Tomas Baldrich Blastinho Miquel llombart Pando
- Team Queso Team Queso Inactive mezoky Boom Daniel Jiménez
- KOI KOI Europe Rank #40 grubinho Grzegorz Ryczko sheydos Bogdan Naumov Filu Dawid Czarnecki flyuh Xavier Carlson soulcas Dom Sulcas
- BISONS ECLUB BISONS ECLUB Inactive krysyS Tomás Molina meisoN Juan Carlos Chacón xikii Victor Garcia
- Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #1 MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius
- Rebels Gaming Rebels Gaming Inactive
- Giants Gaming Giants Gaming Inactive Redgar Igor Vlasov Fit1nho Adolfo Gallego nukkye Žygimantas Chmieliauskas hoody Aaro Peltokangas Cloud Kirill Nehozhin
- Arctic Arctic Inactive
- Case Esports Case Esports Inactive