The International 2015 Qualifiers Begin

[Omnomnick]

With less than 12 hours before the Qualifiers for The International 2015 Dota 2 tournament begin, we feel like now is a pretty good time to recap the information you'll need to know if you want to keep up with all the action (that is, unless you're reading this two weeks from now -- because then you're screwed).

As with previous years, the Qualifiers have been split up into four separate events, with each representing different international regions. These include the Chinese, American, European, and Southeast Asian Qualifiers, all of which will see 10 different teams of varying skill and pedigree battle it out for the six final slots in the main tournament set to take place from August 3rd through the 8th. The winner team from each Qualifier will progress straight to The International 2015 main event, while runner-up teams from each will need to battle it out for the two remaining "Wild Card" slots prior to the start of TI5.

Check out the spoiler tags below to learn more about each of the Qualifier events and the teams taking part.

Chinese Qualifier - May 25th - 28th (Starts 02:00 GMT)

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Participating Teams:
EHOME
Energy Pacemaker
Newbee Young
TongFu WanZhou
Old Boys
CDEC Gaming
Vici Gaming Potential
TongFu
HyperGloryTeam
Wings Gaming (Open Qualifier Winner)

Americas Qualifier - May 25th - 28th (Starts 17:00 GMT)

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Participating Teams:
Not Today
Void Boys
Wheel Whreck While Whistling
North American Rejects
Team Leviathan
ROOT Gaming
compLexity Gaming
eHug
mousesports
Unknown.xiu (Open Qualifier Winner)

Southeast Asia Qualifier - May 29th - June 1st (Starts 02:00 GMT)

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Participating Teams:
5eva
Mineski
G-Guard
MVP.Hot6
TnC Gaming
MVP.Phoenix
Signature.Trust
Can't Say Wips
Rave
Invasion eSports (Open Qualifier Winner)

European Qualifier - May 29th - June 1st (Starts 10:00 GMT)

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Participating Teams:
4 Anchors + Sea Captain
Burden United
Alliance (The International 2013 Winners)
Power Rangers
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Natus Vincere (The International 2011 Winners)
London Conspiracy
Vega Squadron
HellRaisers
Yellow Submarine (Open Qualifier Winner)

Now you're up to speed on all of the different Qualifiers and when they will be taking place, you're probably (and hopefully) wondering "But where can I check out the events?". Well -- good question Hypothetical Reader, as a wide number of English and Russian streams will be covering every game of every event live over on TwitchTV, while Chinese viewers can check out the games over on Perfect World's Dota 2 website.

The place to be to check out live coverage of the Qualifiers is undoubtedly going to be The International 2015 Qualifier Hub, which will act as a spiritual successor to the extremely popular EU and NA Hubs hosted last year by The GD Studio and Beyond The Summit, respectively. The Qualifier Hub, which begins tomorrow (Monday 25th 2015) will see 35 different personalities, casters, hosts, players, and analysts from the Dota 2 scene gather together in Bucharest to provide entertaining content across four individual streams, including three for game commentary and one relaxed "Lounge" stream. The long list of guests set to arrive at the Hub over the next week include Purge, Blitz, TobiWan, 2GD, ODPixel, Godz, LD, Ayesee, PyrionFlax, Wagamama, and many more, all of which you can read more about over on the Reddit announcement page.

That's basically everything there is to say about the Qualifiers for now - Will you be tuning in?