ESL has revealed that it will not be issuing invites to teams to compete at the Minors leading to the IEM Katowice Major.

In a statement, ESL explained that it wants to make the format of the Minors "completely inclusive", with all teams required to qualify online.

When compared to the qualifying process for the FACEIT Major, the Asia Minor is the only one affected by this decision as none of the other three regional tournaments had invite slots.

Winstrike and mousesports, the bottom two sides of the FACEIT Major London's New Legends Stage, will be invited to the closed qualifiers for the CIS and the Europe Minors, respectively.

mousesports will need to qualify for the Europe Minor online

In all regional closed qualifiers, the spot will be split equally between invites and open qualifier places. The official rulebook of the qualifiers will be released by ESL next week along with the registration links for each tournament.

Below you can find the schedule for the online qualifiers for the Minors:

Europe Minor

Open Qualifier #1 - October 22-23

Open Qualifier #2 - October 29-30

Open Qualifier #3 - November 10-12

Open Qualifier #4 - November 24-25

Closed Qualifier - December 12-13

CIS Minor

Open Qualifier #1 - October 24-25

Open Qualifier #2 - November 2-3

Open Qualifier #3 - November 6-7

Open Qualifier #4 - November 11-12

Closed Qualifier - November 17-18

Americas Minor

South America (two spots):

Open Qualifier #1 - October 24-25

Open Qualifier #2 - November 3-4

Closed Qualifier - November 17-18

North America (six spots):

Open Qualifier #1 - October 22-23

Open Qualifier #2 - October 29-30

Open Qualifier #3 - November 10-11

Open Qualifier #4 - November 26-27

Closed Qualifier - December 12-14

Asia Minor

Oceania (two spots):

Oceania Open Qualifier #1 - November 2

Oceania Open Qualifier #2 - November 13

Oceania Closed Qualifier - November 18-19

China (two spots):

China Open Qualifier #1 - November 1

China Open Qualifier #2 - November 6

China Closed Qualifier - November 15-16

Southeast Asia (one spot):

SEA Open Qualifier #1 - November 1

SEA Open Qualifier #2 - November 6

SEA Closed Qualifier - November 15-16

East Asia (two spots):

East Asia Open Qualifier #1 - November 1

East Asia Open Qualifier #2 - November 6

East Asia Closed Qualifier - November 15-16

Middle East (one spot):

Middle East Open Qualifier #1 - November 2

Middle East Open Qualifier #2 - November 8

Middle East Closed Qualifier - November 15-16

Note: ESL has announced slight changes to the dates of the closed qualifiers in Europe, North America and Oceania.