The bottom eight from MLG Columbus, North America's first Major CS:GO tournament, will join regional champions and runner-ups at this year's ESL One Cologne's offline qualifier.

The qualifier will run between June 9-12 in Katowice, Poland at ESL's studios. Fourteen of the16 teams have been confirmed, and the remaining two slots will be determined after the America Minor ends on May 22.

The regional champions and runner-ups participating in the offline qualifier are:

CIS Minor Asia Minor EU Minor America Minor Winner FLuffy Gangsters TyLoo Team Dignitas TBD (May 19-22) Runner-up Team Empire Renegades HellRaisers TBD (May 19-22)

Team EnVyUs, FaZe Clan, G2 Esports, mousesports, Splyce, Gambit Gaming, FlipSid3 Tactics, and Cloud9, placed in the bottom eight teams at MLG Columbus in April and have received a direct invite to the offline qualifier.

Because of their performance last year, eight teams have already received direct invites to the Major, ESL One Cologne 2016. Those teams are: Luminosity Gaming, Natus Vincere, Astralis, Team Liquid, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Fnatic, Counter Logic Gaming and Virtus.pro.

This year's ESL Cologne will run from July 5-10 and feature a $1-million prize pool.

Will Alcopra is a news editor for theScore esports. You can follow him on Twitter.