This year, the distribution of the TI invites was punctuated by a frenzied intensity.
Between incredibly close points and results and adiscrepancy in point reporting, things have finally settled down.
Here are six surprising teams that need to participate in the regionals.
Western Europe
Team Secret
Team Secret had a difficult go of things this year.
Secret found their stride only towards the end of the league.
Team Liquid
Team Liquid had an impressive run through all three tours of the DPC 2021-22 Season.
This is a fully stacked team overflowing with raw talent and charisma.
But then again, the same can be said about the WEU qualifiers.
Only one will land the official spot, two more will head to Singapore for the Last Chance Qualifiers.
Their disqualification gave a second chance toMind Games, which Outsiders initially defeated.
Things didn’t get much better for the Outsiders or the region at PGL Arlington Major.
All thanks to Math.
Valve is rounding their numbers up and down.
Which when their site was officially updated changed things.
Perhaps if the team hadn’t needed to be disqualified this wouldn’t have been an issue at all.
Hindsight is always 20-20.
North America
Soniqs
Soniqs (formerly Quincy Crew) started out the DPC 2021-22 season strong.
However, in the regional finals, they took a disappointing third place, earning no additional points.
In the second tour, they narrowly missed out on attending the Stockholm Major.
Soniqs managed to repeat their first season feat and finish 6-1 in the league.
But something just didn’t work for them there.
The team came in last in their group.
The result meant an 18th-place overall finish for the DPC season and not enough points to secure an invite.
This gave them a whopping 250 points to kick off the season.
It was here, that they took a disappointing fourth place and failed to secure more points.
Hu “kaka” Liangzhi wasofficially welcomedto the team as a replacement.
They were unable to secure any additional points and ended the season in rank 15th overall.
The region is hungry for a TI win and every team wants to be the one to claim it.
The International 2022 qualifiers
The remaining spots will be decided through regional qualifiers September 3-18th.
As in the previous season, there will not be any Open Qualifiers.
