posted by Malystryx.GDS,
As we predicted these are the six invites for The International 7
If you read our article earlier this week news of the six invites should not come as a surprise as the six teams we tipped to receive a direct invite, actually did. Newbee who were the only possible question mark finished 1st at Galaxy Battles on the weekend and VP who had a rough season so far but finished 2nd at the Kiev Major were winners of the Summit 7 last night.
No Wild Card this year but EIGHTEEEN teams will play in the main event
Another suggestion we hinted at in our article was that Valve might consider giving EU and NA one more invite slot due to both regions losing one slot after the creation of CIS and SA Regionals. This is something Valve has actually done for the upcoming TI7 Regionals, as well as increasing the number of invites for SEA and China from 2 to 3, which brings up the number of teams at TI7 to 18!
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With an extra slot going to EU, NA, China and SEA it sadly means there will be no Wild Card stage this year. In previous years the runners-up in each of the four regions would all travel to Seattle to compete on LAN for 2 slots at the main event. This means that the Regionals are each team's one and only shot at a place at TI7 but that for the first time ever there will be 18 teams at The International for the groupstage.
How do you feel about the Wild Card stage being scrapped?
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