Envy have announced that they will take part in the North American closed qualifier for IEM Sydney with Finn "karrigan" Andersen as a stand-in. The Danish tactician will continue playing for Envy on loan from FaZe after debuting for the team last week in Katowice. Envy finished in third place at the Americas Minor, behind NRG and FURIA, and went out last at the Minor Play-in after recording losses to Winstrike and North, with karrigan averaging a team-low 0.82 rating.  The North American side are one of the four teams invited to the closed qualifier for IEM Sydney, alongside Ghost, Luminosity and Complexity. This quartet will be joined by the finalists of two open qualifiers, running from January 30 through February 3. Envy will compete in the closed qualifier, from February 6-8, with:
  Winstrike #38 Georgi 'WorldEdit' YaskinJan 'wayLander' Rahkonen Aurimas 'Kvik' KvakšysKirill 'Boombl4' MikhailovDavid 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan    Stephen 'reltuC' Cutler  Age: 30 Team: Envy Rating 1.0: 0.97 Maps played: 823 KPR: 0.65 DPR: 0.66 Taylor 'Drone' Johnson  Age: 21 Team: Envy Rating 1.0: 0.98 Maps played: 397 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.70 Envy #37  Finn 'karrigan' AndersenStephen 'reltuC' CutlerJosh 'jdm64' MarzanoNoah 'Nifty' FrancisTaylor 'Drone' Johnson Noah 'Nifty' Francis  Age: 21 Team: Envy Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 686 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.66 Finn 'karrigan' Andersen  Age: 28 Team: Envy Rating 1.0: 0.94 Maps played: 1389 KPR: 0.64 DPR: 0.68    Complexity #36 Jordan 'n0thing' GilbertShahzeb 'ShahZaM' Khan Rory 'dephh' Jackson Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz Ricardo 'Rickeh' Mulholland   Luminosity #30 Lucas 'steel' LopesHenrique 'HEN1' TelesLucas 'LUCAS1' TelesRicardo 'boltz' PrassGabriel 'NEKIZ' Schenato  Ghost #15 Joshua 'steel' NissanRyan 'freakazoid' AbadirKenneth 'koosta' SuenMatthew 'WARDELL' YuJason 'neptune' Tran  FURIA #25 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoKaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoRinaldo 'ableJ' Moda Junior Josh 'jdm64' Marzano  Age: 28 Team: Envy Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 787 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.65   FaZe #4  Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač Håvard 'rain' Nygaard   NRG #7 Damian 'daps' SteeleJacob 'FugLy' MedinaVincent 'Brehze' CayonteEthan 'Ethan' Arnold Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov   North #12 Casper 'cadiaN' MøllerPhilip 'aizy' AistrupMarkus 'Kjaerbye' KjærbyeNicklas 'gade' GadeValdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså |