The first qualifier of First Strike: North America has come to an end. ENVY ENVY North America Rank #1 canezerra Alex Banyasz Eggsterr Inspire Hunter Schline P0PPIN Matteo Weber ion2x Ayan Rastogi came out on top over 100 Thieves 100 Thieves North America Rank #5 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:

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:

They will be joined by the top 12 teams in the upcoming open qualifier.