The female tournament held alongside IEM Katowice will return once again, with eight teams set to compete for a $50,000 prize pool this year.

The fourth edition of the Intel Challenge Katowice 2018 will be held during the IEM EXPO and will take place on February 23-24—a week before the IEM Katowice CS:GO tournament.

Eight female teams will compete at the event, with three already receiving invites: RES, Dignitas fe and ARES fe.

Intel Challenge will the first event zAAz and co. will attend as RES

The remaining five slots will be filled out through qualifiers, with two being reserved for Europe, while Asia, North America and Brazil each have one spot.

Intel Challenge Katowice 2018's team list will, therefore, look like this:

RES	Dignitas fe
ARES fe	EU Qual #1
EU Qual #2	NA Qual
BR Qual	Asian Qual

Find the schedule and signup links for the qualifiers below:

January 29 - EU qualifier #1 
January 30 - Asia qualifier 
January 31 - NA qualifier
January 31 - BR qualifier 
February 1 - EU qualifier #2

RES #293 Ksenia 'vilga' KluenkovaZainab 'zAAz' TurkieChristine 'potter' ChiJulia 'juliano' KiranAnna 'Ant1ka' Ananikova Dignitas fe Emmalee 'EMUHLEET' GarridoAmanda 'rain' SmithCarolyn 'artStar' NoquezMounira 'GooseBreeder' DobieKiara 'm1lky' Makua ARES fe Tatyana 'Sindi' GrachevaAlexandra 'Riley' KsenzikDarya 'dshq' MishutinaTanya 't4tty' Vorontsova