All CS:GO Teams Invited for IEM Brazil 2023

A wave of top class contenders.

Aditya Singh Rawat
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All CS:GO Teams Directly Invited For IEM Brazil&nbsp;2023

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ESL recently announced all the 11 directly invited teams for the upcoming IEM Brazil 2023.
Five more teams will join them later from four different regions by qualifying through various qualifiers.
FURIA Esports has been invited for the tournament as the favorites from the hosting country.

ESL, the biggest CS:GO tournament organizer globally, has already planned out in advance almost its entire event schedule for the ongoing 2023 competitive season.

ESL is all set to kick off the year with its first tournament, IEM Katowice 2023, scheduled to take place from 1st to 12th February. However, preparations for its second event have already begun with direct invites being locked in for IEM Brazil 2023, featuring a total prize pool of $250,000 USD (INR 2,03,67,125).

Out of the 16 teams that are set to compete in this tournament, 11 of them have been revealed while the remaining five will be selected through multiple regional qualifiers being held for Europe, North America, South America, and Asia.

Here are all the CS:GO teams that have been invited for IEM Brazil 2023

One of the best CS:GO Major tournaments of all time was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in November last year. The global esports scene was rattled to see the kind of response this particular event received from the local crowd in attendance.

Building up on the immense success, the organizers of that particular Major have returned back to the country with another CS:GO tournament, IEM Brazil 2023, scheduled to take place in the first half of the year from 17th to 23rd April.

Recently, ESL revealed the 11 direct invites for the tournament based on different criteria, these teams are as follows,

  1. NAVI | Partnered Team

  2. FaZe Clan | Partnered Team

  3. Team Vitality | Partnered Team

  4. NIP | Partnered Team

  5. MOUZ | Partnered Team

  6. Fnatic | Partnered Team

  7. FURIA Esports | Local Hero Invite

  8. Heroic | ESL World Ranking Global

  9. Outsiders | ESL World Ranking Global

  10. Cloud9 | ESL World Ranking Global

  11. OG | ESL World Ranking Global

Apart from these, five more teams will be in attendance from different regions around the world, taking the tally up to a total of 16 participants.

  1. Europen Qualifier Winner

  2. European Qualifier Runner-up

  3. North American Qualifier Winner

  4. South American Qualifier Winner

  5. Asian Qualifier Winner

All CSGO Team Invited For IEM Brazil 2023

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There is still plenty of time before IEM Brazil 2023 is upon us. With the CS:GO action about to go live in Katowice next week onwards, all eyes will be on the 24 best teams from around the world, fighting it out for a total prize pool of $1,000,000 USD at the iconic Spodek Arena to crown the first champion of the season.

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Aditya is the in-house CS:GO writer at AFK Gaming. While his understanding of the esports space is not restricted by geographical borders, his current focus lies in the Asian region. Understands and follows almost all major esport titles.
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