eUnited receives the invite after Cloud9 pulled out of the qualifier due to conflicting times with their boot camp in Copenhagen prior to the Major. eUnited is expected to play the qualifier from Canada - as the North American squad is set to participate at DreamHack Open Montreal.
With all six teams confirmed in the NA closed qualifier, the single-elimination best-of-three bracket will begin with BlackOut taking on the South Africans of Bravado, while the Open Qual #1 rematch will feature FURIA and Ryan "freakazoid" Abadir's Swole Patrol.

ELUSIVE and co. will battle for a spot in the Wild Card qualifier
The two invites, eUnited and NRG, who will be using former Cloud9 veteran Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert as a stand-in, will await their opponents in the semifinals.
The EPICENTER closed qualifier is set to start September 8th and will have one slot up for grabs at the tournament's Wild Card Qualifier, which will be held October 23rd.
Below you can find the initial matchups for the EPICENTER North America:

BlackOut

FURIA

NRG

eUnited vs.

Bravado
vs.

Swole Patrol
vs. BlackOut/Bravado winner
vs. FURIA/Swole Patrol winner


Swole Patrol #39


Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadir

Braxton 'swag' Pierce

Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado

Jordan 'Zellsis' Montemurro

Austin 'Cooper' Abadir


Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadir

Age: 25 Team: Swole Patrol Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 631 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.70


FURIA #73


Guilherme 'spacca' Spacca

Andrei 'arT' Piovezan

Yuri 'yuurih' Santos

Vinicius 'VINI' Figueiredo

Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato


Bravado #62


Dimitri 'Detrony' Hadjipaschali

Ruan 'ELUSIVE' van Wyk

Aran 'Sonic' Groesbeek

Rhys 'Fadey' Armstrong

Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou


eUnited #34


Skyler 'Relyks' Weaver

Will 'dazzLe' Loafman

Michael 'dapr' Gulino

Kaleb 'moose' Jayne

Brandon 'Ace' Winn


Cloud9 #21


Martin 'STYKO' Styk

Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham

William 'RUSH' Wierzba

Timothy 'autimatic' Ta

Maikil 'Golden' Selim

Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert

Age: 27 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 731 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.67



NRG #9



Damian 'daps' Steele

Jacob 'FugLy' Medina

Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte

Ethan 'Ethan' Arnold

Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov


BlackOut #46


Sebastian 'seb' Bucki

Connor 'CONNOR93' Glover

Collin 'wrath' McSweegan

Chad 'Oderus' Miller

Jonathan 'Jonji' Carey