The North American closed qualifier for DreamHack Masters Malmö will be played out today, as we'll get to see 16 teams battling it out for three spots at the Swedish event.
Initially eight teams have been invited for the closed qualifier, arguably eight of the best playing in the North American region, including Cloud9, Liquid, CLG, Renegades and more.
Those will be joined by eight coming from the open qualifier, which saw teams such as TSM, Echo Fox and NRG advance. Interestingly, neither of compLexity and Winterfox registered for the qualifier, the latter seemingly due a conflict in their schedule.
gob b's NRG have a tall mountain to climb
The fully-best-of-three closed qualifier is scheduled to be played out today, with the schedule and initial matchups following:
| 19:00 |  Cloud9 | vs. Random Five |
| 19:00 | Splyce | vs. NRG |
| 19:00 |  Tempo Storm | vs. Echo Fox |
| 19:00 |  OpTic | vs. Torment |
| 19:00 | Liquid | vs. ex-Astral Authority |
| 19:00 |  Renegades | vs. TSM |
| 19:00 | Enemy | vs. AGG |
| 19:00 | CLG | vs. Just Make It Fast |
| 22:00 | Quarter-finals | |
| 01:00 | Semi-finals | |
| 04:00 | Third place decider | |
You can see the whole bracket here.
Keep in mind that three spots for the $250,000 DreamHack Masters Malmö tournament, whose date has been set to April 12-17, are up for grabs in this qualifier.
The top three teams will be joining eight invited teams, four from the European qualifier and one from the Asian qualifier.
Liquid #16 Spencer 'Hiko' MartinEric 'adreN' HoagNick 'nitr0' Cannella
Oleksandr 's1mple' KostylievJonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski 
Torment 
Tempo Storm #20 Henrique 'HEN1' TelesLucas 'LUCAS1' TelesRicardo 'boltz' PrassJoão 'felps' VasconcellosGustavo 'SHOOWTiME' Gonçalves 
Echo Fox Sean 'seang@res' GaresMohamad 'mOE' AssadArmeen 'a2z' ToussiRonnie 'ryx' BylickiTrey 'tck' Martin 
Cloud9 #12 Jordan 'n0thing' GilbertTyler 'Skadoodle' LathamRyan 'freakazoid' AbadirMike 'shroud' GrzesiekJake 'Stewie2K' Yip 
CLG #13 Stephen 'reltuC' CutlerJosh 'jdm64' MarzanoJames 'hazed' CobbJacob 'FugLy' MedinaTarik 'tarik' Celik 
OpTic #18 William 'RUSH' WierzbaShahzeb 'ShahZaM' KhanPeter 'stanislaw' JarguzKeith 'NAF' MarkovicDamian 'daps' Steele 
TSM Kory 'SEMPHIS' FriesenPujan 'FNS' MehtaTimothy 'autimatic' TaHunter 'SicK' MimsDaniel 'vice' Kim 
Enemy Richard 'Lucky' VasconcelosSkyler 'Relyks' WeaverMichael 'MAiNLiNE' JaberMichael 'Uber' StapellsKenneth 'koosta' Suen 
Renegades Yaman 'yam' ErgenekonJustin 'jks' SavageAaron 'AZR' WardChad 'SPUNJ' BurchillKarlo 'USTILO' Pivac 
Splyce Arya 'arya' HekmatAbraham 'abE' FazliDavid 'DAVEY' StaffordJason 'jasonR' RuchelskiAndrew 'Professor_Chaos' Heintz Time is adjusted to your selected timezone 
AGG Ellis 'els' ClayKyle 'OCEAN' O'BrienDavid 'inVert' MonroeSteven 'rooRoooo' HerrellRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken 
NRG 
Fatih 'gob b' DayikNikola 'LEGIJA' NinićPeter 'ptr' GurneyJustin 'just9n' OrtizSamuel 'SileNt' Portillo (责任编辑：keydrop cs)
