Here are the invited teams to Dota 2 Kiev Major

Dota 2 developer and publisher Valve revealed the list of teams that will be competing at Ukraine, Kiev next month in the first Major of the year

The eight teams invited to the event, which is set to take place between April 20 to 27: Valve Major champions OG, as well as Evil Geniuses, Team Liquid, Wings Gaming, Ad Finem, Digital Chaos, Newbee and VG. J. eight more will try and make their way towards the Kiev Major through five sets of regional qualifiers, which will be taking place between March 6 to 10. In total, one team will be advancing from the North American, South American, European, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) qualifiers, while the Chinese and South East Asian qualifiers will see two teams advance to the main event.

The odd one out seems to be VG. J, which is despite not being well known outside it looks like the strongest team from China in 2017, with impressive performances against domestic competition. They placed second at the StarLadder i-League Season 3 finals on Feb. 26.