The event will grant one North America-based team a spot at BLAST Premier Spring Showdown.

The North American BLAST Premier Spring Showdown qualifier, VENN Invitational Spring, is set to take place on March 26-28, with $25,000 on the line for the winner as well as a spot at the aforementioned BLAST event.

Eight teams have been seeded into two best-of-one GSL groups, from which the top two in each group will head to a single elimination bracket that will decide who takes the grand prize and the chance to play the Spring Showdown.

Three of the teams that will compete at the event made it to the VENN Invitational Spring through open qualifiers, namely RBG, Rebirth and Levitate, while five teams were directly invited to participate at the event.

The invites were handed out to the DreamHack Open March North America champions, Extra Salt, as well as the runners-up, paiN, with the other three going to Recon 5, High Coast and Triumph.

The VENN Invitational Spring Groups are: