After last week games, the first 8 teams qualified to ESL Pro League Season 9 have been revealed. Those eight teams are coming for the European and American divisions of the league and will be fighting for the $750.000 prize pool in June.

So, which teams have been qualified so far? Let’s take a look!

The Brazilian duo: Luminosity and DETONA

Surprisingly enough, two Brazilian teams have qualified already, and there’s no MiBR amongst them. Luminosity is coming from the American Group C that featured Cloud9, MiBR and EnVy. DETONA had to face Infinity, Isurus and Denial.

Luminosity’s group was really disputed, though and the team barely managed to grab this spot. After all, Cloud9, MiBR and Luminosity all had 6 points, but the last had an advantage in the map difference.

More even surprising is the fact that Luminosity wasn’t even supposed to be on EPL this season. The team was guaranteed a spot after Rogue lost their squad and forfeit theirs. Overall, Luminosity qualifying for the finals surely wasn’t expected by many.

Then there’s DETONA. Qualifying from group D, the Brazilians won all their games and only lost one map in the group. While their group hadn’t any real challenge, and DETONA themselves will have a hard time in the Finals, they still played great and deserved it.

Overall, the two Brazilian squads aren’t the most threatening teams going for the Finals. While Luminosity can be a dark horse and end punishing teams that underestimate them, is hard to make a case for DETONA.

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The Best Teams from North America

Qualifying from groups A and B we have the best teams from North America. NRG and Liquid already booked their spot to the finals, and they are definitely worthy of their spots.

NRG qualified just like Luminosity did. Coming from Group A which also featured Renegades, eUnited and INTZ. Other than INTZ, all teams there had 6 points. ‘daps’ roster, however, had the better map difference.

Liquid had a less stacked group and won all their matches there. compLexity and Ghost will have another chance to qualify while Lazarus is off the competition there.

So, NRG still is looking a bit shaky as we could see in their match against Renegades where they lost. For some reason, CerQ isn’t performing to what fans know that he’s able to, and daps leadership is taking a toll in his fragging performances.

Liquid in the other hand is going to EPL S9 Finals as one of the favorites to win the event. Of course, they still have to deal with their issues to perform in grand-finals, but they absolutely are capable of reaching top four, at the very least.

All things considered, NRG and Liquid are both teams that are expected to be on the playoffs for the main event in June.

The European Mix Clubs

Now, coming from the European division, we have the winners of groups A and B. Mousesports and FaZe, respectively, topped out their groups and already got their spots in the June event.

Mousesports had to face the Danish barrage of OpTic and North, along the Turkish squad which once represented Space Soldiers. Mouz new roster won all their matches and is certainly looking forward the big stage.

FaZe Clan which is also in a good phase after their victory in BLAST Pro Series Miami didn’t lost a single match. Their group had Heroic, devils.one and NiP, and other than in their match against first, FaZe didn’t lose a single map.

Both squads have a meaningful chance of winning the whole tournament. While Astralis and Liquid are the top favorites, Mouz and FaZe can pack quite surprises for them. Mouz’ new lineup, especially, is looking really hot.

Astralis and G2 representing their home countries

Coming from groups C and D is G2 and Astralis. The Frenchmen managed to surprise everyone’s expectation, while Astralis lived up to their position of best team in the world.

G2’s group was really stacked. Natus Vincere, also a squad capable of lifting the trophy was there. Along them, FNATIC and Windigo, both teams that could trap higher ranked rosters were there. Even then, G2 didn’t lost a single match in their group.

Astralis had a way weaker group and they were clearly the superior team there. BIG and HellRaisers managed to survive to try qualifying in the next stage of the European division, while the ex-players of 3DMAX finished last place.

G2 is the big question mark coming from Europe. Managing to beat Na’Vi and FNATIC was no small feat, however the team also lost to OpTic in another tournament just after qualifying for EPL Finals. Their inconsistency will be their biggest opponents here.

Astralis will be coming to defend their title, but now the competition is way dangerous than it was back last year. BIG, for example, almost upset them last week. Astralis’ rivals have even more clues of how to beat them.

More teams will be joining EPL Season 9 Finals soon

While the first eight teams to the Finals are set in stone, more squads will be joining soon. Four teams from Europe, two from Americas and two from Asia will be also taking part of the June event.

Which teams can take the remaining spots? Make sure to follow our predictions page to check previews and detailed stats for upcoming matches!