Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Rank #7 GSR Ognjen Bondžić kamo Kamil Frąckowiak have clinched the final EMEA slot for Masters Bangkok, rounding out the list for the first LAN of the year.

Trace Esports Trace Esports China Rank #13 LuoK1ng Zhang Zhanpeng (张展鹏) Kai Lu Zhinan (卢智楠) FengF Song Xuefeng (宋学锋) FKEY Ke Chen deLb Delbert Tanoto is one of the unexpected names on the list, having traced a near-perfect path through China Kickoff. Most notably, they took down EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #4 ZmjjKK Zheng Yongkang (郑永康) nobody Wang Senxu (王森旭) CHICHOO Wan Shunzhi (万顺治) Jieni7 Zhang Juntai (张君泰) stew Park Young-chan (박영찬) and Bilibili Gaming Bilibili Gaming China Rank #8 whzy Wang Haozhe (王昊哲) rushia Wang Xiaojie (王晓杰) nephh Marcus Tan yilai Gu Yiming (顾依铭) Knight Liu Yuxiang (刘宇翔) bud Yang Renyu (杨韧余) FT Yan Shuaibo (闫帅博) on their way to the grand final. EDG bounced back from that loss, and qualified for Bangkok via the lower bracket.

G2 Esports G2 Esports North America Rank #4 trent Trent Cairns leaf Nathan Orf , who are in their last year in the VCT, took no prisoners in the Americas. Without dropping a map, they took down Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #13 FireBallOps Cameron Tomaselli GLYPH Conner Garcia alym Torogul Baidyldaev Derrek Derrek Ha nightz Christian Smith , LEVIATÁN LEVIATÁN North America Rank #3 spike Rodrigo Lombardi blowz Guilherme Oliviera Neon Bruno Rodríguez Sato Eduardo Kenzo Nagahama Sato kiNgg Francisco Aravena , and Sentinels Sentinels North America Rank #10 OXY Francis Hoang brawk Brock Somerhalder canezerra Alex Banyasz johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid to qualify for Masters. Sentinels crushed MIBR MIBR Brazil Rank #2 's dream of a full lower bracket run with a 3-1 in the lower final, which booked the red outfit's ticket to Thailand.

In the Pacific, KIWOOM DRX KIWOOM DRX Korea Rank #5 Flicker Kim Tae-hee (김태희) appeared to have newfound form, taking wiffins over Nongshim RedForce Nongshim RedForce Korea Rank #1 WoohyuN Moon Woo-hyun (문우현) Xross Jeonghwan (정환) UdoTan Go Kyung-won (고경원) Rb Goo Sang-min (구상민) Francis Kim Mu-bin (김무빈) Ivy Park Sung-hyeon (박성현) , as well as top contenders Gen.G Gen.G Korea Rank #3 Xiesta Jung Si-hwan (정시환) Karon Kim Won-tae (김원태) t3xture Kim Na-ra (김나라) Raxcal Kim Min-seok (김민석) Dambi Lee Hyuk-kyu (이혁규) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) and T1 T1 Korea Rank #2 stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) BuZz Yu Byeong-cheol (유병철) iZu Ham Woo-ju (함우주) crashies Austin Roberts . The last two names then matched in the lower bracket final to decide the final slot of the region, where the champions faltered in a tight five-mapper, opening the path for T1 to take the second Pacific spot.

Trace and EDG on stage at Champions 2024 Trace and EDG are running it back. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)

EMEA was the final region to select its teams. Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #1 Jamppi Elias Olkkonen PROFEK Dawid Święć Chronicle Timofey Khromov Sayonara Ștefan Mîtcu was the first one to go through, with wins over Karmine Corp Karmine Corp Europe Rank #4 dos9 Zhumagali Dastan LewN Burak Alkan Avez Hazem Khaled SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin N4RRATE Marshall Massey , FUT Esports FUT Esports Europe Rank #10 yetujey Eray Budak KROSTALY Okan Alaçam Wo0t Mert Alkan and Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #9 RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish qualifying the bees for their first Masters ever. Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Rank #7 GSR Ognjen Bondžić kamo Kamil Frąckowiak maintained an incredible form throughout the lower bracket, qualifying with a 3-0 over Heretics in what was their fifth straight win.

Once the regional champions are decided, these eight teams will now go on a break for about two weeks. Masters Bangkok competition kicks off on February 20 and will last through to March 2. The rosters will be placed into an eight-team swiss stage, from where the four best teams will move to a double-elimination playoffs bracket.

The matches for the opening round of the Swiss stage will be drawn tomorrow, Feb. 9, after the conclusion of the EMEA Kickoff grand final between Team Vitality and Liquid.

The full teams list is: