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The main qualifiers will take place from the 25th of May to the 1st of June. The main qualifiers will take place from the 25th of May to the 1st of June.

European open qualifier: Balkan Bears, 4CL and M5 fall short

Wagamama commenting on the loss of his team, 4 Clovers & Lepricon

Blitz's team Turtle Masters were the ones to take down Balkan Bears.

American open qualifier: Summer's Rift and the Unknown winners

Summer's Rift at Red Bull BG (with ixMike standin) - image courtesy liquiddota.com Summer's Rift at Red Bull BG (with ixMike standin) - image courtesy liquiddota.com

Chinese open qualifier: Newbee denied a third team as Wings fly above

Three Newbee squads, one in the main event, one in the main

qualifiers and one in the open qualifiers. Three Newbee squads, one in the main event, one in the mainqualifiers and one in the open qualifiers.

South East Asia open qualifier: the Invasion of TI main qualifiers

The winners of the open qualifiers The winners of the open qualifiers

All matches played were a single elimination BO1, except for the semi-finals and the final, which followed a BO3 format. Yellow Submarine were the team to take first place in Europe. The team had recently won first place in the Go4Dota2 cup, and had narrowly come second to Basically Unknown* in the GIGABYTE Challenge #13. Whilst there were upsets in the European qualifier, such as The Balkan Bears* losing out to Turtle Masters* , there were some notable absences. Neither Mamas Boys* or Moscow Five* managed to find their way into the final 64. Basically Unknown also lost out 1 Game 1 Dream* in the early stages of the competition.Saaadfaces now! We got knocked out, bo1 is harsh!Our run ended against Drow Dusa Beast Venge Phoenix, GG wp!— WagaGaming (@WagaGaming) May 16, 2015made it to top 16 in eu quals lolz. think were gunna lose now but yolo got to play with my friends— William 'Blitz' Lee (@Blitz_DotA) May 17, 2015The American qualifier was a particularly controversial one. Champions of Summer's Rift* had secured themselves a spot at the main qualifier, until a roster change resulted in their disqualification Team eHug* were chosen to take their place, whilst Rift were able to compete through the open qualifiers. However, that risk seemed to take a turn when they lost a semi-final BO3 series to Unknown.xiu, who went on to win the American qualifier. Not to be confused with Basically Unknown, Unknown.xiu are a peruvian stack, who are also the subject to controvesy. Some of the players of Unknown.xiu are former players of Union Gaming, who were were accused of stream sniping during a competetive match.Beyond this, notable teams not to qualify include Isurus Gaming* andThe Chinese qualifier was the calmest of them all. Immortal Magneto* lost out in the semi-finals, losing to Newbee.Miracle . The other semi-final participants were an unheard of team known as GameStuff, who lost 2-1 to the eventual winners, Team Random* . Newbee were denied a third team to participate, as Newbee.Miracle fell short of winning, losing 2-0 to Wings in the final.The semi-finals of the SEA bracket saw Invasion eSports* take out Nvidia Aces* in a 2-1 series. On the other side, a dominant Execration took 2 straight games from Insidious Idol* to secure their spot in the final. Despite their strong performance, Invasion took the series 2-0 to secure their place at the main qualifiers.