The first qualifier of First Strike: North America has come to an end. Envy Envy Inactive Marved Jimmy Nguyen Victor Victor Wong crashies Austin Roberts FiNESSE Pujan Mehta yay Jaccob Whiteaker came out on top over 100 Thieves 100 Thieves North America Rank #7 zander Alexander Dituri Cryocells Matthew Panganiban eeiu Daniel Vucenovic Boostio Kelden Pupello Asuna Peter Mazuryk 3-0 in the grand finals.
The qualifier, hosted by Nerd Street Gamers, began with a 128 team single-elimination bracket. The top 16 teams of that bracket went on to play in a closed qualifier this week that determined the first four teams to play in the main event next month.
The teams that qualified are as follows:
- Envy Envy Inactive Marved Jimmy Nguyen Victor Victor Wong crashies Austin Roberts FiNESSE Pujan Mehta yay Jaccob Whiteaker
- 100 Thieves 100 Thieves North America Rank #7 zander Alexander Dituri Cryocells Matthew Panganiban eeiu Daniel Vucenovic Boostio Kelden Pupello Asuna Peter Mazuryk
- Renegades Renegades Inactive
- Sentinels Sentinels North America Rank #4 N4RRATE Marshall Massey bang Sean Bezerra Zellsis Jordan Montemurro zekken Zachary Patrone johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid
Those four teams will be joined by four others who will come from the second qualifier hosted by UMG. That qualifier, like this one, will begin with an open bracket next week and finalize the four qualified teams with a closed bracket in the following week.
The other four teams in the top eight of the NSG qualifier will go straight to the closed qualifier for the UMG event. Those teams are as follows:
- Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #8 Xeppaa Erick Bach Rossy Daniel Abedrabbo v1c Victor Truong moose Kaleb Jayne OXY Francis Hoang
- Complexity Complexity Inactive RetrQ Alex Kadan trial Governor Peter No truo Robert Pham jcrueL Joel Cruel agM Michael Abood
- T1 T1 Korea Rank #3 stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Meteor Kim Tae-O (김태오) Sylvan Ko Young-sub (고영섭) BuZz Yu Byung-chul (유병철) iZu Ham Woo-ju (함우주)
- TSM TSM North America Rank #10 seven Johann Hernandez gMd Anthony Guimond sym Tyler Porter tdawgg Travis Regan XXiF Damion Cook
They will be joined by the top 12 teams in the upcoming open qualifier.