The North American closed qualifier for the ELEAGUE is set to start, with 16 teams battling for the four spots that lead to the televised league.

With the second season of ELEAGUE around the corner, the time has come to find out the last four team that will compete in the league.

In the following two days, 16 teams based in North America will compete in a single elimination best-of-three bracket - meaning only two victories are needed to secure a spot in the main league.

SK will need to qualify for ELEAGUE Season 2 due to changing organizations

The teams in the qualifier are split into Season 1 teams such as Liquid, OpTic and SK and open qualifier teams such as Immortals and Splyce.

Due to a large number of North American teams failing to get out of groups in Season 1, the NA Preliminary features only five open qualifier teams, while the EU Preliminary featured 13.

The full list of teams is as follows:

The matches will take place from September 14-15, with the action being streamed on ELEAGUE's Twitch channel.