The second open qualifier for the Europe Minor reached it's last-eight stage last night, with several prominent teams still in the race for a spot.

The first open qualifier came to an end last Tuesday with Sprout and Fragsters surviving a 250+-team single-elimination bracket to earn spots in the closed qualifier.

Among the teams still in the running for a chance to earn a spot from the second qualifiers are teams like Red Reserve, Imperial and Oscar "⁠mixwell⁠" Cañellas's Movistar Riders.

The last eight squads of the second EU Minor open qualifier are:

DreamHack Winter qualifier winners x6tence Galaxy, French duo LDLC and Vitality, and Polish side AGO were some of the other big-name sides trying their luck in the second open bracket, but were all eliminated along the way.

Below is our full coverage of the second open qualifier for the European Minor for Katowice 2019 as it went down:

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23:15 - All Round of 32 matches over

We are now down to the final 16 teams of the qualifier as all the Round of 32 matches have been played. You can now follow all the action on our match page as all of the clashes will be covered individually.

The top 16 teams of the qualifier are:

22:34 - Round of 16 about to start

The first Round of 16 matches are about to start. Follow all the action live by going here.

22:30 - Vitality stunned by Tempo Storm

Vitality, one of the favourites to reach the final, failed to make it to the Round of 16 after being defeated by Tempo Storm 7-16 on Inferno in a one-sided affair.

22:20 - LeftOut lose battle of the mixes

Adil "⁠ScreaM⁠" Benrlitom's LeftOut are out of the qualifier in the Round of 64 after losing to cats, Nikola "⁠Lobanjica⁠" Mijomanović's team, 17-19 on Cache.

21:30 - Round of 32 kicks off

The fifth round of the qualifier, the last one that we will be covering in this live post, has already started, with some mouth-watering clashes being played, which you can find below:

Red Reserve 16-1 Momentum
Imperial 16-5 Nordavind
Tempo Storm 16-7 Vitality
expert 16-13 Endpoint
Windigo 16-9 unknown
LDLC 16-7 Stifmeister
Movistar Riders 16-7 Izako Boars

20:54 - Notable match-ups

Round 4
cats19-17 LeftOut
pieuwpieuw 16-5 Giants
Windigo 16-8 MAXISAUCISSE
Valiance 16-11 Codewise Unicorns
Vitality 16-4 dogsh*t

Round 3
x6tence Galaxy 18-22 Defusekids

20:27 - AGO eliminated

AGO are the first big-name side to be eliminated from the qualifier after losing to Fierce 9-16 on Dust2.

20:00 - Most favorites are prevailing, AGO in trouble

The favorites are on the right track in the second qualifier, as everyone who has finished their matches has made it to round three at the very least, with Valiance, Giants, Tempo Storm already through to round four.

However, AGO are in trouble in round two, as they're currently down 5-10 against Fierce on Dust2.

18:59 - Notable round 2 match-ups; fox out

Tempo Storm 16-7 Berzerk
LDLC 16-5 Heretics

Ricardo "⁠fox⁠" Pacheco has announced he won't be playing with Giants in the qualifier, the team is playing with the coach, Ricardo "⁠AIm⁠" Almeida, instead.

18:04 - bracket drawn, Chaos and x-kom out

The bracket has been drawn. Chaos and x-kom have supposedly not checked in, as they're not included in the bracket. The teams highlighted above have all received default wins in the first round.

17:11 - a mix of leftovers enters

A mix-team consisting of various free agents will also take part in the qualifier under the name "cats":

Krzysztof "⁠stark⁠" Lewandrowski
Kristjan "⁠fejtZ⁠" Allsaar
Nikola "⁠Lobanjica⁠" Mijomanović
Juho "⁠juho⁠" Lampinen
Eimantas "⁠pounh⁠" Lazickas

16:28 - Bpro to play with BrN

Emiliyan "⁠spyleadeR⁠" Dimitrov has taken to Twitter to announce Bpro will be playing the second qualifier with Branislav "⁠BrN⁠" Panov following the team's loss of Valentin "⁠poizon⁠" Vasilev.

15:08 - LeftOut to play with kRYSTAL

Former Rogue player Kevin "⁠kRYSTAL⁠" Amend will be leading the LeftOut mix, which will feature five players from five different countries. The German has replaced Alexandre "⁠xms⁠" Forté, with whom LeftOut had played previously, which makes the full roster following:

Adil "⁠ScreaM⁠" Benrlitom
Mikail "⁠Maikelele⁠" Bill
Žygimantas "⁠nukkye⁠" Chmieliauskas
Haakon "⁠Radifaction⁠" Tholo
Kevin "⁠kRYSTAL⁠" Amend