After NRG, eUnited, FURIA, and Envy punched their tickets through the upper bracket on Wednesday, twelve teams remained battling through the lower bracket to secure the last two slots at the Minor.
TeamOne kicked off their run against Old Guys Club. In that match, Sean "seang@res" Gares' men were up 1-0 in the series and had a 15-13 lead on Cache, but were unable to field a fifth as Mike "shroud" Grzesiek had other obligations and they had to forfeit the match to the Brazilians.
The Brazilians were then matched up against Rogue, where they kicked off a contested series on their map pick, Inferno, before closing things out in the second half of Train to meet Swole Patrol in the lower bracket semi-final.
Bravado are one of the two teams to qualify through the lower bracket Bruno "BIT" Fukuda Lima and his men kicked off the series against Ryan "freakazoid" Abadir & co. in dominating fashion, taking control of both first halves' across Inferno and Train with an 11-4 scoreline, before closing both games 16-9 and 16-11, respectively, earning them a spot in the Americas Minor.
The next team in line to secure their spot at the Minor were the South Africans of Bravado. Aran "Sonic" Groesbeek and his team began their lower bracket run against Luminosity, who saw Henrique "HEN1" Teles return to the lineup, but Lucas "LUCAS1" Teles' twin was not enough to spark life back into the team, as the Brazilians fell short, 16-12, on Dust2 and Mirage.
Singularity was the South Africans' next opponent, where a highly-contested battle across two maps saw Bravado reach the lower bracket semi-final. After surprisingly defeating Ghost in two maps, Test Takers went up against the South Africans, who cruised through the opener on Inferno with a 16-1 map victory. The North Americans turned things around on Dust2, forcing the decider, Train, but Bravado fired on all cylinders to close out the series 2-1 and stamp their place at the Americas Minor.
All eight teams are now confirmed at the Americas Minor in Katowice, Poland, which is slated to run on January 22-26 with $50,000 in prizes and two slots at the Katowice Major on the line.
The complete eight-team list competing at the Minor is:
NRG
eUnited
INTZ
TeamOne
Envy
FURIA
Imperial
Bravado 
Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadir
Age: 26 Team: Swole Patrol Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 695 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.70 
Bravado #28 
Dimitri 'Detrony' Hadjipaschali
Ruan 'ELUSIVE' van Wyk
Aran 'Sonic' Groesbeek
Rhys 'Fadey' Armstrong
Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou 
Imperial #96 
Caio 'zqkS' Fonseca
Gustavo 'SHOOWTiME' Gonçalves
Thiago 'tifa' França
Denis 'dzt' Fischer
Bruno 'shz' Martinelli 
Old Guys Club #88 
Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert
Sean 'seang@res' Gares
Yazan 'clowN' Ammari
Samuel 'SileNt' Portillo
Sam 's0m' Oh 
Aran 'Sonic' Groesbeek
Age: 20 Team: Bravado Rating 1.0: 1.19 Maps played: 333 KPR: 0.80 DPR: 0.62 
eUnited #33 
Pujan 'FNS' Mehta
Skyler 'Relyks' Weaver
Michael 'dapr' Gulino
Kaleb 'moose' Jayne
Austin 'Cooper' Abadir 
Rogue #39 
Spencer 'Hiko' Martin
Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen
Ricardo 'Rickeh' Mulholland
Hunter 'SicK' Mims
Daniel 'vice' Kim 

Envy #54 

Stephen 'reltuC' Cutler
Josh 'jdm64' Marzano
Noah 'Nifty' Francis
Taylor 'Drone' Johnson
Matt 'Pollo' Wilson 
Bruno 'BIT' Fukuda Lima
Age: 28 Team: TeamOne Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 316 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.65 
TeamOne #62 
Bruno 'BIT' Fukuda Lima
Pedro 'Maluk3' Campos
Nicolas 'NikoM' Miozzi
Victor 'iDk' Torraca
Alencar 'trk' Rossato 
Luminosity #21 
Lucas 'steel' Lopes
Henrique 'HEN1' Teles
Lucas 'LUCAS1' Teles
Ricardo 'boltz' Prass
Gabriel 'NEKIZ' Schenato 
Singularity #40 
Victor 'food' Wong
Ryan 'ryann' Welsh
Anthony 'vanity' Malaspina
Cameron 'cam' Kern
Josh 'oSee' Ohm 
FURIA #68 
Andrei 'arT' Piovezan
Yuri 'yuurih' Santos
Vinicius 'VINI' Figueiredo
Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato
Rinaldo 'ableJ' Moda Junior 
Henrique 'HEN1' Teles
Age: 23 Team: Luminosity Rating 1.0: 1.13 Maps played: 630 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.58 
Lucas 'LUCAS1' Teles
Age: 23 Team: Luminosity Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 629 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.67 
Swole Patrol #42 
Braxton 'swag' Pierce
Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadir
Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado
Jordan 'Zellsis' Montemurro
Brandon 'Ace' Winn 
INTZ #37 
Vito 'kNgV-' Giuseppe
Alexandre 'xand' Zizi
João 'felps' Vasconcellos
Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedes
João 'horvy' Horvath 
Test Takers #95 
Peter 'ptr' Gurney
Josh 'shinobi' Abastado
Mitch 'mitch' Semago
Jeff 'RZU' Ngo
Tyson 'TenZ' Ngo 
Ghost #18 
Joshua 'steel' Nissan
Kenneth 'koosta' Suen
Yassine 'Subroza' Taoufik
Matthew 'WARDELL' Yu
Jason 'neptune' Tran 
Sean 'seang@res' Gares
Age: 30 Team: Old Guys Club Rating 1.0: 0.88 Maps played: 692 KPR: 0.59 DPR: 0.68 

NRG #8 

Damian 'daps' Steele
Jacob 'FugLy' Medina
Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte
Ethan 'Ethan' Arnold
Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov
Mike 'shroud' Grzesiek
Age: 24 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 676 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.65